I'd just clarify that the metabolic system as a whole consists of the thyroid, mitochondria and liver. I don't think it's necessarily over or underactive thyroid. If you read my replies to Justlookingforinfo you'll see I explained this.
Ok, so what tests could I get done? And wouldn't this kind of thing already have showed up on a routine blood test or some other test a doctor did at one point?
See, what's getting me annoyed isn't that you are saying this
might be possible, because it truly
might be. What's bothering me is you seem to be saying you are
positive that this is the case and disregarding the things I'm telling you. I mean isn't that your stance?
Cause I don't think any doctor or person with real medical experience would dare to diagnose someone so confidently with this kind of thing just from reading a few of their posts online.
I'll admit, I'm more annoyed than usual cause I'm in Kratom WD, but I mean like yesterday I come on here at the end of a long day and see these back and forths with you giving all these reasons about why you are absolutely positive I have these "metabolic issues," and it's pretty damn annoying. I think you'd find it annoying yourself.
I mean IF you were in fact right it would quite possibly be a great thing cause maybe I just go get some pill for whatever issue I have and suddenly I feel much better. But I know myself and my body pretty well and have had some of my current doctors and psychiatrists for YEARS, and no one ever suggested this kind of thing, so it's pretty bold and presumptuous of you to declare this so aggressively.
All kinds of symptoms can look like certain things. You
could be right, but I think chances are I'd have been diagnosed by now. It's very easy to go online and look at a few posts someone writes and say they have X,Y or Z because of certain symptoms when, in fact, those symptoms are caused by something entirely different.
And my point about the origins of my mental issues remains: first diagnosis in my life was my learning disability as a little kid, 2nd at 14 was social anxiety/ocd, and only when I started drinking too much coffee and then got on Klonopin at age 23 did I later develop some of these issues like fatigue and depression.
Since I did not have depression or fatigue when I first started drinking too much caffeine, isn't it unlikely I was self medicating for symptoms that I didn't even have yet??
Seriously, you can respond to that. Please do.
Cause then
years later after being on Klonopin for years and when certain things in my life started going worse as I got into my late 20s and 30s, thats kind of when the depression and fatigue really started setting in. You don't start using caffeine for a "metabolic problem" relating to fatigue and depression
before you have ever experienced those symptoms. That doesn't make sense.
I think Klonopin is part of the reason for my fatigue, as does my psychiatrist. But hey, I'd prefer it if you were right and I could just get this taken care of quickly and easily. It's just not really appropriate IMO to go online and confidently diagnose someone you don't know with a specific health problem, especially since I doubt you are a doctor.
