Recurring Hives. Racing Heart. Dizziness. Shortness of Breath.

It's POTS & MCAS time!

One of the most common things I hear is:

"My thyroid labs are normal, but I still feel exhausted."

Or...

"I've been on thyroid medication for years, but I still don't feel like myself."

So let's talk thyroid function...

A low ferritin result often sends your traditional or even functional prodider sending you an iron recommend.  OR, many people put "ferritin: iron storage" together with "take iron" and head straight to the supplement aisle.

Take iron.

More iron.
Higher dose.
Different form.

…Maybe experience some constipation.
Repeat labs.

Sometimes that's exactly what's needed.

But not always. And not often in our chronic clients!

Bless you.  What's that?  You didn't sneeze?  Well, let's pretend you did.  While your lungs and nose were involved, it was your immune system telling the nervous system to make a sneeze happen: air intake, lungs contract with force, throat open, yada..yada…. The immune system sensed a possible invader or cell/pathogen/mucous that needed expelled from the body and ordered up a sneeze that the nervous system made happen.