As part of the nutrition certification program I am doing we had to run a Biohealth 205 (adrenal hormone test) on ourselves. I'm feeling pretty okay most of the time these days but when I spit in my tubes for the 205 I was in a pretty good low, feeling really incredibly beat. My assumption was it would impact the results. I received them via email this morning and it basically said I have barely enough cortisol to keep me upright. I exaggerate of course but it was shockingly low (morning, noon and afternoon) and that's after months and months of supplementing and taking it easy. WTF! I have a 2 hour meeting with my mentor on Friday to go over a plan but she already emailed me a draft and it's everything I'm already doing and to be honest she knows nothing about SIBO so not sure how beneficial it will be. One recommendation was BioMatrix Support Mucosa, no way in hell I'm taking anything that is going to increase mucus production until my bugs are long gone. We ran the Biohealth 101 as well which looks at Urinary Indican and a couple of liver measures. My Indican was positive, don't need a test to tell you that would be the case, since positive = gut dysfunction. My Urinary Bile Acid sulfates were elevated. Again, duh, gut dysfunction + 18 months of on and off (mostly on) various kill protocols. Poor liver just can't keep up. Recommend testing for intestinal permeability. Ya, no thanks, I can tell you my gut is permeable without testing based on multiple food reactions and occasional itchiness still if I get into something I shouldn't. She is also recommending another stool test and breath test. Um, had 2 stool tests, last one clean so I'm not sure that's necessary and as for the breath test I'm trying to get my hands on one. I think it may be pricier to do it through my nutrition program because I have to go through the medical director and I don't think they use Quintron which is what all my other tests have been through.
Oh, and my husband's vehicle was stolen from the front of our house Sunday night. Interesting to wake up to a missing car on Monday morning. What a way to start the week! We had to laugh because really what else can you do, and it was just a falling apart 20 year old vehicle. Everyone in the neighborhood have been really apologetic. I'm thinking, jeez it's not like we were carjacked. That would be terrible and scary. But to sleep peacefully through a crime. That's a blessing really. Truly bad things happen to truly good people all the time, just tune into the world news. This was nothing in comparison to what others are going through.
All this typing to avoid taking my guar and bedtime supps. I increased again, so I'm now at 3/4 tsp in 8 oz of water. It's really going to be hard to get down. A straw makes it easier but damn it's thick. I thought for the morning I would mix it in my hot chocolate but I think it would be pretty undrinkable at the thickness it would make it. Still might give it a try. Haven't noticed any bloating or other SIBO weirdness yet.
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