Yes!
Also-- just in case this applies, diabetes insipidus is a risk factor for people who have been treated with lithium and can come on very suddenly. So even if you've been stable for a long while and don't think it's relevant, if you're on lithium this needs to be checked. Of course, if you are on lithium, your doc should be checking your kidney function regularly.

Good luck with this.

I feel more horrible by the day even with a balanced diet....I may have to seek a private endo. I feel the serotonin in my brain has been depleted.

I just wanted to come to a forum like this to see what kind of advise or information I could get, seeing maybe if this is something that's happened before to other users or low carbers here.

Of course, that's a reasonable thing to do, see if your symptoms are at all common. They really aren't, you do see milder cases of dehydration or symptoms of electrolyte imbalances, but I've never seen anybody describe something that goes as far as what you're experiencing.

https://authoritynutrition.com/low-...omens-hormones/

Yes this is an article for women but it should apply to men as well

This. No one can give you an answer here, we are not there, we are not doctors, you need to see an appropriate specialist, without delay, if you are this ill.

If you take a person who's been on a 24 hour fast, and give their glucocorticoid/cortisol levels to a person whose been eating a high carb diet all day--that's an unhealthy hormonal profile, it's inappropriate to the current needs of the body. High cortisol with replete liver glycogen and high insulin and you just ate a bag of chips is a very different story from high cortisol, depleted glycogen and low insulin. Even human growth hormone with a high insulin state is a bad idea, you've got hormones working at cross-purposes.

What we have are studies looking at higher cortisol in people on low carb diets, and wondering, "does it matter." Against this--on this board, we have people reversing their type II diabetes (or at least all symptoms, unless they return to high carb), reversing their obesity. Elevated stress? I have bipolar and social anxiety. I have to admit that standard low carb doesn't do much for these (although it did early on, I think, when I had more weight to lose)--but pushing things further, a more ketogenic diet, even stricter with the carbohydrate and also careful not to overdo it on the protein--does. Is my cortisol elevated? I don't know--but I know I'm less stressed out. I'm currently happy with whatever it is my hormones are up to.

I just read the article and it is sensible. It is clear that for some women, they do better if they eat MORE carbs. And for others, they do better if they eat FEWER carbs.

While male and female hormone profiles are obviously different, I think you could also assume that some men do better with MORE carbs (and others do better with FEWER).

If you are convinced from your reading that some people do better with MORE carbs, and you seem to think you might be one of them, then why don't you eat MORE carbs? Perhaps a ketogenic is not the best way to eat for YOU. Everyone should make their own decision on how best to eat. That decision should be based on research and n=1 experiments.

On the other hand, your symptoms sound extreme and not at all like other experiences we commonly see around here - I agree with others who urge you to consult a true expert.

Thank you all for the suggestions. Yes I'm currently trying to get a referral for an endo (hate how the health care system works).

I'm currently eating more carbs than fat or protein in my diet. I truly believe I messed up my HPA/HPT signaling and it's causing these crippling symptoms that keep progressing.

I'm seriously surprised that no one else here has heard of anyone messing up their thyroid from this diet? I literally can't be the only one when there's studies all over about it. Hopefully it doesn't effect anyone here because this has turned my life completely upside down in every way possible.

Of course we've heard about people messing up their thyroid from this diet. Speaking for myself--I just don't believe it. The studies at Authority Nutrition do not show that low carb messes up your thyroid--they show that there's a different hormonal response to low carb than to high carb. That's all they show. More rigorous studies are needed to see whether there's anything to all this speculation. In the meantime, low carb=crappy hormonal status is very poorly supported. I'm speaking in generalities here, there are specific hormonal/genetic backgrounds that might not do well on low carb, there's no reason to believe that hormonal dysregulation is the norm.

Carbs are not essential..I doubt you could have messed up your system from eating low carb, especially not that quickly. There is an adjustment period from removing all that sugar from your system, but not in a bad way. That being said this WOE isn't for everyone. Your health issues are probably something other than diet related. It's best to get that checked out by a doctor.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3564212/

This is one of the studies used at Authority Nutrition to support that low carb diets can have an adverse effect hormonally. This is from a study showing less of a metabolic slowdown in maintenance after weight loss with the low carb diet than with a low glycemic index diet or with a low fat, higher carbohydrate diet. A t3 of 108 vs. a t3 of 121 in a low carb diet vs. a high carb diet is not hypothyroid. A 24 hour urine cortisol of 71 vs. 51 in a low carb vs. a high carb diet is not hypercortisol. (Normal range is 10-100). TSH is also a little higher in high carb than in low carb, a move in the "wrong" direction, the low carb diet did "better"--but not really big enough to worry about.

Again at the Authority Nutrition article, here's the claim;


A Moderate Carb Intake May Be Better for Some Women



And here's the support, reference 14;



An 800 calorie diet. Based on this, the recommendation



is made, even though all it took to avoid significant changes to thyroid in the study was about 50 grams. If there's a basis for the recommendation, it's not to be found in the reference. Besides this--you can't look at thyroid changes on 800 calories a day, and say that the same would be true at say 1600 calories a day. Also--as I've said before, there's a difference between inappropriate hormone levels, and hormone levels that are simply appropriate to the diet (or lack of diet in the case of fasting).

Understand that I'm not trying to sell you personally on a low carb diet, if a poor outcome coincided with you eating that diet, it makes sense for you to avoid anything new you were doing when you had that outcome. But a lot of people need this bridge, there's no point in burning it down for them, too, without much better evidence.

Bro I was eating 20-30g carbs on a 2500 calorie a day diet

I said, I am not talking about you. It's entirely possible that your individual metabolism responds poorly to a low carb diet, going in, I would never rule out this possibility. See an endo. Don't think that you can use your n=1 plus a bunch of possibly unrelated "evidence" to debunk low carb on a more general level.