In over a decade of medicating me with everything you can imagine and then wondering why I don't respond or how I'm still standing and talking a test was finally run that did not come back normal. All my physical problems, all my "psychiatric" problems (so they claimed and I always insisted had a physical cause) every test has been normal. On paper I am the healthiest person walking around. You know how hard that makes getting disability? :roll: I never know what to tell a doctor because I get labelled hypochondriac easy when I start mentioning everything big and small. It takes years to train a new doctor because I constantly have to present a new aspect of my health and then often prove it before moving on in order to not get written off as clueless and using too much google. So years of meds, monthly appointments, and questions later with my latest insomnia med dispenser (psychiatrist) the idea came up of testing lithium. It's not just a med name but a trace element that is not well understood except they have recognized more recently that it is necessary for normal function. It has mostly only been applied to bipolar and sometimes attempts at treating other depression because one of it's major affects is mood stabilizing, reduced inflammation, and improved thinking. It also impacts sodium and potassium levels leading to impacts on nervous system including pain issues, thyroid, immune system... numerous minor things no one has studied. I was leaning toward chronic fatigue syndrome or fibromyalgia but while I hate being wrong I will admit it is good this time. My lithium test is too low to measure. .6 is standard minimum with treatment often exceeding the standard maximum of 1.2 and I am less than .1. They don't measure a number lower than a tenth of a mmol/L. Surprisingly (or maybe not given my past) every related test done was normal. Some of them absolutely, perfectly in the middle of the standard levels. My body counters everything despite an element practically missing. It just couldn't maintain perfect response or normal response to sunlight, sleep, pain signals, and some cognitive function. I thought maybe it would be somewhat low but untestable is surprising. It will be the most interesting experiment yet. That's really all I feel. I have a debilitating deficiency and all I feel is finally something shows up as wrong and let's start dosing it to see what happens.