I would start with Vitamin B12, folate, Ferritin levels as well as a full thyroid panel that can check for antibodies. Both commonly become more pronounced following a birth of a child. Your story sounds like so many I read, and have also experienced myself from a Vitamin B12 deficiency/ Pernicious Anemia. I also have Hashimotos Thyroid as well to complicate it more. Both are Autoimmune illness'
Things to look into or to rule out:
1. Pathogenic infections such as All Borrelia species- not just Borrelia Burgdoferi,Anaplasma phagocytophilum, Babesia microti, Babesia duncani,Bartonella henselae, Bartonella quintana, Coxiella burnetii, Ehrlichia chaffeensis,Francisella tularensis, Mycoplasma fermentans, Icognitus and other Mycoplasma species, Rickettsia rickettsii, viruses such as HHV-6,nematodes. These are extremely difficult to detect!!!
Do a search her in medhelp for Dr. Garth Nicolson who is an expert in this field and was a contributor here a while back.
To rule out these conditions.you need to find an LLMD and have
a complete Borellia, Mycoplamsa and Co-infections panel using IgeneX Labs.
2. HLA panel to verify the body's ability to fight biotoxins
3. Heavy metal toxicity.
4. Stool analysis for pathogenic bacteria, parasites, yeast, and levels of beneficial bacteria, as well as leaky gut syndrome.
5. CMV, EBV, HHV-6, HSV1 and HSV2 test with MDL labs
6. Hypothyroid type 1 & 2- just like diabetes, there's type 1 and type 2.
The vast majority of ENDOs do not look into type. Very common!
Ask for Free T3, Free T4 and Reverse T3
7. Deficiencies. Tissue magnesium-not blood magnesium!
Glutathione, Potassium, Neurotransmitters, B12 Methylocobalamin, Methylfolate, Vit. D3
8. Comprehensive metabolic profile for organ integrity evaluation as well as fluids and electrolytes.
9.SPECT (single photon emission computed tomography) brain scan
which shows blood flow and more. Offers much more dynamic imaging than MRIs, which are more static.
10. PTSD Any past traumas, recent or old, including childhood and not in memory.
Hypnotherapy is suggested to uncover any repressed memories brought to the surface and to have them processed & dealt with.
11. Complete hormonal panel. Adrenal fatigue must be ruled out.
Not recognized by conventional Endos.
FYI look into BioHealthLabs Functional Adrenal Stress Profile.
12. MTHFR gene mutation.
There are probably more tests that could be done and more things to rule out, however, this is what I came up, at present.
Please note that my suggestions and comments are not intended as replacement for medical advice.
Best wishes,
Niko
Hi. Sorry you are going through this. Have you had your ears checked out? Have you ever heard of Nystagmus? Definitely scary not knowing answers right now. Hopefully someone who knows more than me will chime in.