Posted by Joel Maxuel on January 26, 2003, at 15:58:44
In reply to CORTISOL TESTS are in: Results - surprising......., posted by jerrympls on January 24, 2003, at 18:49:07
> Cortisol - LOW
After reading Readers Digest (an article for the September 1977 edition), I learned that this is a good thing. Usually when someone is depressed, the body produces _massive_ amounts of cortisol. I was going to ask my pdoc about the results of this test if he ever done it (however my depression wasn't really ever a priority, the pchizophrenia was/is), but never got around to it. I didn't think they still did those tests.
> Testosterone - LOW
My pdoc was going to give me this test, never found out why he never. The results here would be interesting since I'm partially castrated (1/2)
> Thyriod - LOW
My pdoc doesn';t really tell me anything, so I'd usually have to ask for the results even if he went through the bother of getting these tests done. I'm going to another pdoc sometime in the near future.
> Hemoglobin - LOW
He did tell me that this was low. My sister there when he told me, so my sis put bok choy on the shopping list (better then iron supplements)
> So, he ordered another round of ultra blood tests and I go in for an adrenal function test next week. He said: "We'll most likely never know if these low levels were the cause or result of my depression....we may put you on a trial of hormone replacement and cortisol and if it doesn't hurt and you feel better - then good."
Does anybody know what excessive sleep points to? I slept from about 6:00pm yesterday, to 4:00 this afternoon. I am off effexor, I thought that's what was causing it. It seems to me that I have too much serotonin, and not enough norepinephrine. I asked my pdoc about MHPG levels, and he says its sometimes done, but rarely (i never got the test done.)
also, a bit of trivia: effexor prevents reuptakes of both serotonin and what? I read somewhere (likle on some cardex) that its noradrenaline, someplace else (might have been cps) that its norepinephrine. Anybody know this for sure?
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