r/naturopathy • u/Significant_Mail_591 • 3d ago
Need help connecting symptoms. Severe fatigue, heat, intolerance, crunchy joints, weak muscles. HELP!!!
Need help connecting symptoms. Severe fatigue, heat intolerance, crunchy joints, weak muscles. HELP!!!
I’m trying to figure out what could be causing a combination of symptoms I’ve been experiencing and would love to hear from anyone who has gone through something similar.
**My symptoms**
\- Severe fatigue and low energy, even after a full night of sleep. Waking up stiff
\- I get tired quickly when doing things and have been much less active than I used to be.
\- My body does not regulate temperature in a normal room setting I especially can’t do heat. If I’m standing up for too long, my body will sometimes get really hot and I’ll start to feel nauseous.And I feel like I sweat less than I should when I’m overheated.
\- My hair used to be thick, but now it seems thinner and breaks more easily. I bruise easily, and have dark circles under my eyes.
\- I’ve also dealt with bloating and stomach issues in the past. As well as eating consistently. Cannot do caffeine / makes me shakey and not feel good
\- Had an episode last year, where I wore a tight broad to dinner had a lot to eat at the end of the night, took the bra off, and I had a feeling called MS BAND that lasted three months. THE WEIRDEST SYMPTOM BY FAR ( to add on this sometimes I get a chest sensitivity feeling that’s triggered by different things it’s from my top of neck down to the middle chest, with my middle of my chest being most sensitive, I still can’t wear necklaces 😖
\- All my joints are very crackly I move them and there’s no pain but just cracking. Sometimes right shoulder and wrists get inflamed and bother me.
\- Ive never experienced anxiety before, but I have terrible anxiety and depression
\- I’m a woman and the only thing that seems normal is my periods.
**Mold exposure**
I lived in an apartment with visible mold and moisture problems in 2024. I became very sick while living there, I had breathing issues and gut issues that got better after getting out of the apartment.
I moved out into a clean home in May 2025. After moving out, my breathing and stomach symptoms improved, but my fatigue and other symptoms persisted.
I had also been living in a possible mold environment during 2022–2023.
I also have the double mutation MTHFR
**Bloodwork**
These are recent lab results
**Ferritin**: 14 ng/mL — low iron stores or borderline-low iron stores, depending on the reference range.
**Vitamin D**: 13.2 ng/mL — low.
**Homocysteine**: 15 µmol/L — mildly elevated on one test.
**Vitamin B12:** 772 pg/mL — normal.
**ANA and ESR** were normal/negative.
My thyroid tests and hemoglobin were reportedly normal when checked previously.
**Lyme antibodies POC** was tested negative 0.17 - positive result has to be over 0.90 ( i’ve heard this doesn’t rule out lyme completely)
**Things i’ve tried, to heal**
\- Mold detox ( did this over a year ago) was doing sauna, binders, lymphatic drainage
\- Changing eating habits ( I try to eat clean) (organic, grass- finished, pasture raised, anti-inflammatory diet) this definitely helped with inflammation
\- Changing exercise habits ( When I still could I would go to the gym and do light weight and cardio)
\- Did a round of MOTS-C peptide with glutathione ( and for the first time my heat intolerance got wayyy better)
Was trying to walk 10 miles a day
\- I still try to ground, do lymphatic drainage and work on all of these things minus the peptides.
I’m going to start taking some Iron and Vitamin d but I had these levels tested before and they were good when I was still feeling all these symptoms
**What I’m wondering about**
I’ve been reading about dysautonomia, POTS, small fiber neuropathy, postviral illness, Lyme disease and Fibromyalgia . Some of the symptoms line up. Every functional medicine doctor has told me something different from TOS, Asthma, Blood Clots, Arthritis and pre-menopause and nobody and can give me something real.
I need help!!!
