Hi, my name is Mike nad I need your assistance

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HI,

My name is Mike. I am 30 years old, and have been suffering from

persistent complicated migraines and autonomic dysfunction for the

past several years (actually, probably longer than that, but it only

becamse really bad recently). When I was 14, I suffered a

hemipeligic migraine attack, and these kind of attacks run on my

mothers side of the family. While I have been tentatviely diagnosed

with a rare disease known as mastocytosis (a disease where too many

allergy cells are created), treatment for this disorder has not

improved my condition, and the diagnosis is being seriously

questioned for other reasons as well. The neurologists are now

looking deeper and are investigating mitochondrial disease. I

recently did a lactate/pyruvate test at rest and after running up 10

or so flights of stairs (which nearly killed me, Wow, that was

tough). Here are the results:

AT REST:

LACTATE 1.00 normal=0.60-2.40 mmol/L

PYRUCATE 0.09 normal=0.03-0.10 mmol/L

LACTATE/PYRUVATE 11 normal=10-20

AFTER 10 FLIGHTS OF STAIRS:

LACTATE 8.93 normal=0.60-2.40 mmol/L

PYRUCATE 0.36 normal=0.03-0.10 mmol/L

LACTATE/PYRUVATE 25 normal=10-20

At first glance, when I saw the resting lactate/pyruvate levels, I

felt reassured, becasue they looked normal, but my neurologist feels

that the results are abnormal and wants me to see a metabolic

disease specialist. I don't know what to think. Will seeing a

metabolic disease guy be barking up the wrong tree, or are these

labs truly suggestive of something amiss in terms of a mitochondrial

disorder? I defer to your expertise. I am not looking for medical

advice, I just want to know if these numbers will be taken seriously

by the mittochondrial disease expert, or expect to be told that the

labs are fine.

Your assistance is greatly appreciated.

Thanks,

Mike