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I done tests for Candida, Bacterial Overgrowth, Food Sensitivity and Leaky Gut
Hi all,
For the past year I have been suffering from some symptoms
I took a few rounds of antibiotics in the past few years, and also was under stress, I feel these may have compromised my immune system?
I really want to know how to fix this as it has really messed my life up
I hope my tests may be useful for those who are in similar boat
My symptoms:
- Coated tongue (which does not go away with brushing/scraping, mouthwash etc)
- Bad breath (which doesn't change significantly with brushing and mouthwash)
- Dehydration (drinking more water only causes me to pee more)
- Dandruff, and smelly scalp (scalp often smells of food)
- Food odor from body (I only sweat from my underarms, so it's not sweat related, however, I smell of food after eating it, and it stays on my clothes, this is literally within 10-20 mins or so)
My test results:
Blood test
- Liver and Kidney tests within range
- Diabetes tests normal
- No high levels of inflammation (CRP s <1mg/L)
- Testosterone in the low-normal range - bottom 30%, which is not good as I am a young guy
- DHEA Sulphate - very high, but still low testosterone?! - range is 6-14, mine was 18! (tested twice, both around the same result)
- Cortisol - slightly higher than upper limit - max was 507, mine was 512 - do I have adrenal fatigue?
- B12 extremely low (35pmol/l) normal : 50-200 pmol/l (I think the low limit is already low anyway, as read elsewhere it should be 100+)
- Thyroid stimulating hormone normal
Stool test
- Stool pH : 5.2 (normal range is 6.2-6.8)
- Candida Albicans: within normal range
- Geotrichium Candidium : slighly high
- Yeast: negative
- Tongue : no fungus (so must be bacterial?)
- H pylori : negative
- Secretory IgA : very low! 40 (normal range 500-2000
- Also have very low levels of Bifido bacteria and Bacteroides spec, and low Lactobacilli bacteria
I also did a food sensitivity test (IGG), from the Great Plains Lab (reliable?), and it said I am very sensitive to Wheat and Gluten, which I have cut down as much as possible (this was done a while before my stool test
Any help is really appreciated
Should I see a functional doctor? I am already poor from doing these tests, so I really want to solve this without spending more money
Happy if anyone wants to talk to me on skype - please PM me