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whoah what the hell, I've found myself in the same exact situation so many times before, but I just don't have any background in genetics / science to know what the steps invovled are and how to interpret both the posted genetic abnormalities and comapre them with my own data.

What's so frustrating, which you've experienced very acutely here, is that nobody cares about your health as much as you do, and for any reasonably sharp people, you have more time to research and think through your particular issues than a specialist with hundreds of patients.

I've been thinking that there needs to be a forum or subreddit or something to gather all these "Direct medicine" tips. Do you have any other things you've done? I've personally gone the route of ordering the thyroid test. For something so rediculously cheap as $8 to run them at a quest diagonstics center to get answers in 12hours vs the usual rigamarole is a no brainer.

Another one I've done when I needed to see a specialist asap and couldn't wait the 6 months in the US was to use this app called doctoralia and schedule an appointment with a mexican doctor. $75, got an appointment in 2 days, they seemed very knowledgeable and was involved with the Mayo clinic. Again, no brainer.



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