Hi Skimoridegirl,

I am not too familiar with the tests you've had so cannot offer much insight regarding those, except it's fair to say you have obvious neurotransmitter deficiencies.
I wish i could be more helpful how to address these - there are many routes, and usually what works for one does not work for another....as the route cause is generally different.

Karl Pfeiffer used 'amino acid therapy' for neurotransmitter deficiencies/toxicities - a.k.a 'Orthomolecular Medicine.' You might find info on that interesting.

Low serotonin can easily be caused through digestive problems/ gut dysbiosis as much of serotonin produced is in the gut...so if you have digestive issues then try to include good probiotics into your regime and perhaps try some mini Bowel Cleanses to see if that improves serotonin production and affects how you feel.

What's interesting is you mention you have relief from feeling disconnected when your period starts. At this time progesterone and Estrogen both drop to induce bleeding. Perhaps you have hormonal imbalance which you get relief from when the hormones drop before your period? Estrogen helps neurotransmitter synthesis and signalling. If you have deficiencies of either hormone, or a dominance of estrogen or progesterone, that imbalance can also cause varying 'mood related' symptoms.

To complete the whole profile of your neuro/hormonal balance it would be useful to have the specific adrenal and 'sex' hormone saliva test results. Hormones and neurotransmitter are so inter-connected that one or two either being too high and low can affect the balance of others. So it's essential to try to find out the route cause of imbalance.
Low norepineprine and epineprine could be indicative of either a perpetual high cortisol state or very dysfunctional low cortisol adrenal function - without specific testing of adrenal function it's hard to guess by symptoms alone.
I thought i was extremely hyper cortisol adrenal function (from symptoms alone) until symptoms progressed and tests showed very low adrenal function/ low cortisol.
Canaryclub.org is the cheapest place online that i found to do a FULL female saliva hormone panel, they use ZRT Labs.

I can relate to your driving a car experiences. I experience exactly the same symptoms. I can no longer drive and haven't been able to for over 18 months. It's a strange thing to experience as i used to race cars, loved driving...would drive any type of vehicle...very confident driver. The i got night-time visual sensitivity of other cars headlights. It caused migraines. Then daytime driving was like experiencing sea-sickness...i couldn't judge speed of cars, everything seemed to be moving so fast. Like you say, all the information is 'too much' to process. Something i never ever experienced before adrenal/hormonal dysfunction.
I live in the middle of nowhere so to not be able to drive is like having my legs cut off.

I'm not sure about serotonin and vision, but certainly vitamin A is essential for vision and i experienced a slight lessening in eye 'floaters' when i was taking Vit A (retinol, not carotene).
Also Vitamin A is essential for the synthesis of adrenal hormones so it's possible to have adrenal issues, with visual issues is there is a chronic Vit A deficiency.

I hope some of this is helpful...health-self-navigating is a hard road but the answers do come with time, instinct, learning and diagnostic help...don't give up! :-)

Any luck with 5htp, the precursor to serotonin? You might want to take magnesium with it.

Was this a urine test? If so, doe the test results suggest that you are retaining the amino acid or that your body levels are low?

I hope you will continue to work closely with your doctor. That surely is a disturbing and unusual list of symptoms.

ATB

Joe

The eyes and adrenal need and use the most vitamin C.

A simple test to see if you have enough vitamin C for health is to take vitamin C until a saturation state exists and results in voluntary diarrhea. If you go beyond 20 grams a day, and there is no over flow of vitamin C, it is being used up faster than it is being replaced. You are advised to see a health care professional. If a low level virus is the problem, care must be taken not to stop the vitamin C. If drugs or Antibiotics are introduced and the vitamin C is discontinued, the virus could migrate to the brain and death may result.
This is a very touchy area few doctors understand. That maybe why Dr Klenner, Dr Levy and other naturopathic doctor Practitioners would go to massive doses of vitamin C by injection and/or IV. in 24 hours.
Do the research. One place is: ‘doctoryourself.com’ for information.