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Carbon monoxide poisoning endocrine damageCarbon monoxide poisoning can cause damage which impacts cellular functioning throughout the brain and body. It deprives cells of oxygen and has a toxic effect. The brain, nervous, and endocrine systems are especially sensitive to oxygen deprivation and toxic exposure. The endocrine system is a system of glands throughout the brain and body that regulate mood, growth, sexual function, reproductive processes and metabolic activity. The endocrine system includes the pituitary gland, thyroid, parathyroids, adrenal glands, pancreas, ovaries (in women) and testes (in men). The brain and endocrine system are tightly linked together. Brain functioning relies on endocrine functioning. Endocrine functioning relies on brain functioning. They are connected and depend on one another. Even a mild brain injury can impact the brain and endocrine system. A large percentage of people with mild brain injury are unaware that they have had a brain injury and that it is impacting them. This is especially true of carbon monoxide survivors. As carbon monoxide poisoning starves the entire brain of oxygen and also has a toxic impact, it can damage and [subtley] impact a wide range of brain functioning. If the brain and endocrine system aren't functioning properly then the endocrine system can have problems producing or secreting the appropriate hormone, or the appropriate amount of hormone, or at the appropriate time. Disruption of the endocrine system can in turn cause problems with energy levels, moods, blood sugar levels, body temperature, sleep, sexual function, digestion, appetite, weight, and much more.
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I now take handfuls of endocrine supporting supplements to function because nothing works as it should and I have never recovered from this poisoning. The thyroid medicine and supplements have kept me alive but only work for a few hours at a time.
My body temperature dropped to 92 degrees. I had flu like symptoms, strange head aches, muscle weakness, fibromyalgia, chemical sensitivity and more.
I later found out that he had purposely vented the gas to come back in the house in small amounts so my family and everyone in the house was exposed to carbon monoxide at low levels.
In addition he exposed me to carbon monoxide at his office by failing to replace a faulty heater. He was in the HVAC business so he knew what he was doing. I didn't find out till he had taken my home, broke in changed the locks, stole my last possessions and furniture then when I was so ill I could not work he took my home and left me with huge piles of debts and now Doctor Bills on top of it as none of the Doctors figured out the root cause of my illness.
It's been 9 years or so now and I finally found the reason and cause of my devastating illness not to mention my Daughter who was also diagnosed with a severe thyroid problem. I lost everything and I lost almost 10 years of my life.
I finally found a Doctor that would treat me and knew what to do. She put me on Armour Thyroid. Today was the first time I ever reached a normal 98.6 degrees. I just now opened all those bills and now I am wondering what if anything I can do to put this criminal behind bars and what I can do to prove my case relating to carbon monoxide poisoning.
After being given the oxygen, we were released, told we'd probably have headaches for weeks or months, and that was it.
Years later, after seeing several doctors because I have symptoms of diabetes, but no diabetes, and I have symptoms of hypothyroidism, but my TSH numbers are normal, and after having early onset menopause but my FSH tests seem normal, a doctor had an MRI done of my brain, to see if there was anything wrong with my pituitary gland. There was nothing wrong with it, but they found problems in the white matter that a neurologist attributed to carbon monoxide poisoning.
I sat with the neurologist and he explained what was wrong in my brain and how it probably happened. He explained that I should expect that many of my headaches and short term memory problems are due to the poisoning. I was satisfied with that information.
However, I come to your site and read about how it can effect the endocrine system, and I begin to wonder, could this be my problem? If so, how do I find out? If it was effecting my endocrine system, would it show up on an MRI of the brain?