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I've had multiple physicals and my vitamin D level checked. I'm in great health with a resting pulse close to 40. I would love to find a root cause here and add

I've had multiple physicals and my vitamin D level checked. I'm in great health with a resting pulse close to 40. I would love to find a root cause here and address it but I haven't found a doctor who has seen anything obvious. I'm with you otherwise. Any ideas?

cowmoo728 5y ago
Shot in the dark and I'm not a doctor but you could look into getting a genetic test for atypical cystic fibrosis. It's increasingly diagnosed into adulthood and recurrent pneumonia is one of the clues.
- DLTADragonHawk 5y ago
  Atypical would probably be an understatement. I'm not an expert of the disease, but having it along with family members having it, there are many more symptoms that would have appeared by now.
  - cowmoo728 5y ago
    There are milder / alternate forms of CF that are often diagnosed late in life. They're often mild enough that a doctor will immediately rule out CF. Example case studies: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7652023/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7652023/ https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/2054270420921003 https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/20542704209210...
seanhunter 5y ago
I was in this same boat (probably not as fit as you), but got sick a lot (pneumonia twice, bronchitis a couple of times, hospitalized with "mystery virus" twice including once leading to ICU, etc etc) no obvious signs of immune compromise, decent Vitamin D nothing showing up on physicals etc until I went to see a Rheumatologist for chronic pain. He diagnosed me with Ehlers-Danlos syndrome[1], which turns out to explain all sorts of other things that I thought were seperate and unrelated problems. It's worth drilling into these things further because there could be some underlying cause that joins all the dots together and (although there's no real treatment for EDS) you could get help. https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/ehlers-danlos-syndromes/ https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/ehlers-danlos-syndromes/

cowmoo728 5y ago

Shot in the dark and I'm not a doctor but you could look into getting a genetic test for atypical cystic fibrosis. It's increasingly diagnosed into adulthood and recurrent pneumonia is one of the clues.

DLTADragonHawk 5y ago
Atypical would probably be an understatement. I'm not an expert of the disease, but having it along with family members having it, there are many more symptoms that would have appeared by now.
- cowmoo728 5y ago
  There are milder / alternate forms of CF that are often diagnosed late in life. They're often mild enough that a doctor will immediately rule out CF. Example case studies: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7652023/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7652023/ https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/2054270420921003 https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/20542704209210...

seanhunter 5y ago

I was in this same boat (probably not as fit as you), but got sick a lot (pneumonia twice, bronchitis a couple of times, hospitalized with "mystery virus" twice including once leading to ICU, etc etc) no obvious signs of immune compromise, decent Vitamin D nothing showing up on physicals etc until I went to see a Rheumatologist for chronic pain. He diagnosed me with Ehlers-Danlos syndrome[1], which turns out to explain all sorts of other things that I thought were seperate and unrelated problems. It's worth drilling into these things further because there could be some underlying cause that joins all the dots together and (although there's no real treatment for EDS) you could get help. https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/ehlers-danlos-syndromes/ https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/ehlers-danlos-syndromes/