Posts made by irs

@mostlylurking awesome, thank you. I started taking thymine for post concussive symptoms and it's wild how much better i felt almost instantly

@JulofEnoch Also really great callout of not immediately jumping to an antibiotic. She has allegedly been taking oil of oregno for an extended period of time, wondering if that screwed up her gut flora, and with the gallbladder stuff it just seems like her digestive system is very tempermental right now and throwing an antibiotic at it might either really help or be way too extreme at the moment.

Baking soda seems like such an easy, cheap add as well with relatively nothing to lose

This is such wonderful advice, thank you so much! I've shared all of this with her. Interestingly enough she was on Armour Thyroid so this is all starting to add up.

She does have a pretty good doctor that looks at things from a functional perspective and my mom talked to her today and she said between the gallbladder and arthritis stuff/autoimmune stuff, wondering if she has SIBO.

So next steps are testing for that, hormone testing, potential antibiotic, then we can look at supplementing with progesterone, DHEA, vitamin K, baking soda (with the gallbladder stuff I don't know if she can handle it at the moment), vitamin E and whatever else has been mentioned, along with upping the BCFA (also finding a better endocrinologist - great suggestion calling up the pharmacists to reverse engineer finding a good one)

Thank you again for all of your help!

My mom was diagnosed w/ Rheumatoid arthritis today. She's had a number of weird auto immune type things happening over the past few years, which is wild because her entire life she was in perfect health. Over the past few years she's had shoulder surgery, knee surgery, and she's waiting to find out if she'll need her gallbladder removed this week. In addition, she's has allergic reactions to medications, food and environmental stuff that never bothered her before, one doctor said perhaps she has mast cell activation. It feels like she's at the emergency room once a month at this point with a different issue.

Worth mentioning she had her thyroid removed 30ish years ago. From what little I know about thyroid stuff, her body temp is always in the 97's, has thin brittle hair, hasn't been able to lose weight the past few years, so I feel like they've never really nailed her thyroid dosage.

I feel like her thyroid issues are playing a part in all of this, also feel like there has to be some kind of histamine connection or something else with all the allergy/auto immune stuff?

Where do we even begin with this?

Perhaps ashwagandha? Not sure if its peaty or not but I take the shoden version of it and chills me out very much

@TexugoDoMel Perfect, this is what I was looking for, thanks!

@izkrov awesome thank you

Some of these reactions could be related to contamination during the supplement manufacturing process.

None have ruined my health, but I took an Acetylcholine supplement that made me feel really dialed in and then that progressed to anxiety and very racey like I wanted to jump out of my own skin, along with weird sensations in my head. On the bright side, I was recovering from a TBI and it did give me sustained energy and the ability to do normal things that very same day.

Also around that same time I took a supplement that had lemon balm, GABA, and theanine in it. Felt like I took a Xanax, all baseline anxiety washed away and intrusive thoughts quieted (I have OCD). Within an hour after that it was like my body swung in the opposite direction and I felt decently anxious. Having said that, when I started feeling so good, I was googling why, and ended up on some subreddit where all these ppl were talking about horrible experiences with GABA so maybe that's what gave me the anxiety. Have been nervous to try again.

OCD can be because of too much glutamate, not enough GABA, having said that, GABA supplements aren't supposed to cross the blood brain barrier, although I heard it can if you have leaky gut (which I think I do). Been really curious to try it again but equally parts nervous

They're both NSAIDs so wondering what the difference is between the two. I had tooth issues the past 2 years and was taking Ibuprofen on and off, and after a little while it would bother my stomach

@AndrewPeatMatrix I had exercise intolerance after a brain injury, dysautonomia was a big part of the problem and sounds similar to what you're describing.

I've been focusing on increasing my heart rate variability, doing resonant breathing in between sets (kneeling or sitting on the ground and doing deep 4 second breaths in and out) and it seemed to help. Having said that, it took quite a while to get to that point. I wear a whoop strap which tracks my HRV though and have measured an increase over the past few months and don't feel terrible afterward.

Related to that, I've been laying on a biomat post-workout, doing Wim Hof breathing either pre or post workout, and also increasing my Vitamin B intake (thiamine deficiency can be implicated in dysautonomia)