@Bluelilac I know what you mean, in Laura briden's book she suggests like *gentle carbs* before bed. If you have PCOS you absolutely should not eat any carbs before bed, Good Lord. I also don't like herbal supplements. I'm big on taking magnesium though and zinc....I think think it's actually helping me but herbal concoctions seem dangerous or placebos. Jmo but if someone's fasting insulin is high after lowcarbing like they need to just go on metformin. Yeah we're similar, I don't have the personality type to let myself gain weight. I just can't do it. To prove people wrong? LOL. now when I was younger before I busted my metabolism I could eat anything and still be thin but I absolutely believe that's not the case now. to complicate things I have a connective tissue disorder which means my collagen is like Swiss cheese. Hypermobile Ehlers danlos syndrome. And people who have that like don't have any muscle. It's definitely not associated with hair loss but we have weird cortisol issues sometimes and just general autonomic dysfunction.
I got my thyroid labs back today. the dermatologist didn't order ft3 but I'm shocked at how good the rest of them look. My tsh is a 2.3 and my ft4 is at 50%. In the past my TSH has gone up to a 4.5....and my ft3 is always at the bottom of the range, subclinical hypothyroidism. I'm going to order a test for myself on Lifeextensions and if my ft3 is above the 50% range I'll freak out in a good way. That means either metformin or zinc are helping. But yeah, you understand I can't tell anyone I'm on metformin. They'll think I have an ED. Absolutely look like I do but I don't care. Part of it is having no muscle tone. I also had an intestinal parasite, giardia for like 3 years... misdiagnosed as ibs-d. I understand bloating like completely. I never recovered from that completely. To this day I have trouble wearing denim sometimes because I don't like the little amount of pressure in my stomach
this leads to my next a little story. I think I've had high cortisol a few times...years ago. It would start out with me jolting awake in bed and feeling hyper-vigilant and like extra smart feeling. And then a few seconds later I would realize my resting pulse is elevated for literally no reason (100-120). so then God forbid I try to walk around and I feel like I'm going to just pass out, like I'm not breathing properly and there's something wrong with my heart. And it didn't go away for a few days. once during this time I tested my blood sugar. I ate carbs...french bread or a small sweet potato with cheese, I can't remember anyways my blood sugar went up to 172. And it hung out at like 140-150 for hours and hours and hours. I'm pretty sure I ate the exact same thing like a month later when my heart wasn't fucked up and I didn't spike nearly as high. I also experienced really bad pseudohypoglycemia and my chronic pain went way down too but I'd much rather be able to breathe, lol. When I was younger I had like actual hypoglycemia....but then I was a dumbass and tried to gain weight because of like stupid social pressure. And I'm convinced that's when I completely busted my metabolism. I should've listened to my body. My body likes being thin...my frame is small too. i'm tall but my bones are little so it makes sense tbh.
I need to research DUPA. nobody believes me because my hair was so thick growing up but my ponytail is so much lighter than it used to be. If my ft3 is normal then that means dupa or something else is even more likely. I get regular periods, heavy but regular and ovulate blah blah.
I'm really glad you had a CT scan. because a girl I worked with whose very small also in she college had all of the symptoms of an adrenal tumor. And she literally demanded doctors scan her because they kept blowing her off. So they did a scan and they found a *tiny* tumor. not worth operating on. But she forced them to do exploratory surgery. And it turns out the tumor was much much bigger than they thought and they had to operate.
Another girl I used to talk to, she has Ehlers danlos like me. I don't remember all of her issues but I definitely remember she had insulin resistance, hers would spike really high and then go very low. She read about dhea all the time. Hers was chronically low. I just remembered she as small but had a binge eating problem when she was younger? It doesn't look like she was ever overweight though. so crazy. were you by any chance a premature..underweight baby? i wasn't but i feel like the few girls i talked to with strange health problems were.
sorry I had to use voice recognition to type this up because of the pain in my hands so it's a little bit rambly