Val - Mother in bed for 12-20 hours - whcat tests to get run?

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My mother has been in bed for 10-20 hours now (don't know when she

went to sleep last night). This is highly unusual - she'll usually

manage to get up abut 8-10 and have her coffee to get the ACTH/

adrenals stared.. We drove back from Arkansas day before yesterday,

and she had a plant swap in another town yesterday, so nothing out of

the ordinary stress-wise (at least for stage-0 people).

My thoughts are either someting related to diabetes -

hyperglycemia (although I usually wake up from hyper-induced fatigue

eventually), hypoglycemia coupled with a I presume SERVERLY impaired

HPA thus not creating a normal waking response. Her breathing seems

normal in rate, which I wouldn't expect with either severe hypo or DKA.

Low cortisol/thyroid function is a possibility, as is high

estrogen binding thyroid. She is post-menopausal, so it would have

to be mostly (all?) adrenal estrogen. Autoimmune thyroiditis seems

unlikely as it would have to be extraordinarly fast - unless there is

such a thing as autoimmunity against the *conversion enzymes*, which

would shut the system down as soon as T3 was used up. RT3 dominance

could do the same thing, but would have to be quite severe, and quite

rapid to shut down enough of the T4->T3 processing.

FM I suppose is a possibility (here for completeness), but there

is *nothing* I know in the history that would support it, and it

seems more hypochondria-by-proxy on my part. CFS seems in the same

boat (too fast an onset), but I don't know (does anyone?) what causes

CFS, or whether it's similar to FM - although I'm sure Dr. Lowe is

finding out, based on whether CFS but not FM diagnoses respond to his

T3 protocol.

Could statins (Crestor) produce an effect like this? I know that

rhabdomyositis can start very quickly, and at any time.

I'm currently reading Pletchnor's Pets At Risk, and wonder if a

similar endocrine-immune defect (including the skewed Ig titers)

could occur in humans? Cortisol insufficiency certainly can, but has

anyone looked that the affect of the immune system? Anyway, how that

would create extreme fatigue I don't know.

Basically, what tests do I tell them to run? Or if this is

transient, should we just drive straight up to Linderman in PA? (The

natural hormone replacement specialized DAN! nurse in Indy would

probably be open to the proper tests as well). I still have my

Diagnos-Tech's box, although the paperwork indicates a 29-y.o. male,

not a 61-y.o. menopausal female. Should that be run pronto (she is

not on cortisol therapy, so that's not a problem..)

RT3 can be gotten from DirectLabs, but it wouldn't be the *same*

blood sample that DTI analyzed, although it could be drawn

consecutively.

Worried,

Jim