Posts made by LucyJ

@Corngold thanks for this info. I just had a look, seems hard to get bufferin where I am and a few nasty ingredient but figure I could make my own version with quick eze and small dose aspirin and see if that helps

@sneedful I keep reading this and perhaps I’ve gone too fast but the anxiety I get (physiological ) when my upper gi is irritated has made this hard. Perhaps I should try baby aspirin once a week and see how that goes, thank you

@sneedful @Brunus
Yes I’m one of those super sensitive to a lot of supps types. Celiac and stomach ulcer history. I can’t tolerate collagen peptides but fine and helped by home made ox tail gelatin broth.

Gut super sensitive is probably from still high levels of cortisol and persistent helico. Improving but job stress doesn’t help. Famotidine helps.

Orange juice also irritates my gut.

I can semi handle one aspirin if I take it with bicarb and broth (and yep fully dissolved) for one day but still notice my gut is irritated slightly and could not do a second day .

Hence looking for other ways to get the benefits of aspirin!

I can’t yet tolerate aspirin orally due to stomach irritation. Has anyone used it topically or even rectally? If so, what’s the best way to do so.

I want to use it for pain management currently.

@sneedful I don't think I can get that in Australia anyway unfortunately but the calcium carbonate seems to still be working thank fully!

I don't yet tolerate the fibre in the carrot salad - major increase in anxiety and agitation every time I eat it and lol no I have not tried painting naked people

@cs3000 Thank you.

Okay so yesterday I tried quick eze (800mg of calcium carbonate, a bit of magnesium and probably some nasty fillers) but the pain and excess cortisol subsided within 20 minutes and I slept deeply for the first time in 5 days. I think I need to give a calcium carbonate supplement a proper go. I just have to figure out how to dose it and time it. Funny that even lactose free dairy gives me a cortisol reaction but calcium carbonate helps. I figure my gut is sooo sensitive the whey in milk sets it off as did powdered egg shells. Fingers crossed all I need is some calcium carbonate and I can expand my diet more to get healing on a deeper level

I have realised that so much of my issue with cortisol is when my stomach is irritated. For example I drank orange juice recently and had stomach ulcer pain then I was having cortisol surges every time I would eat and so much trouble sleeping. The cortisol makes me feel absolutely awful.

I have tried cypro and famotidine and they don't always help. Minocycline sometimes helps but then also increases inflammation a day later. p5p makes it worse. L-theanine helps a little.

Toxaprevent sachets help a bit (I figure the calcium carbonate perhaps)

Basically when my stomach is this inflamed I am reacting and having a cortisol response to everything.

I do home made ox tail gelatin everyday - usually 2 cups. I am trying to eat 2000 calories a day - hard when the pain and reflux is so intense. No starch , no fibre

I am wondering if it's worth trying bromocriptine to break this cycle (I read a study on it helping stomach ulcers) or if anyone has any ideas of what else might help?

@SummerPeach I think my issue is cortisol. Things that up regulate my glutamate and cause head agitation and tension = slow my gut. Now that's calmed down my gut is better but I will try the enzymes as I am prone to constipation (currently K2 seems to be causing some issues), thank you

@mostlylurking
I’ve done a bit of digging and I think I’ve got a glutamate issue. That the thiamine is causing agitation and insomnia because it’s up regulating my glutamate receptor. It’s really uncomfortable and the thought of taking any more makes me feel sick so I’m not sure I should keep taking it

@mostlylurking thank you. The TTFD made me feel weird and I think caused the insomnia.

I have Intra muscular thiamine injections here I think but I feel like thiamine makes me feel a bit agitated as does too much cascara.

It’s weird that the bloating and discomfort have stopped from the diet but so has the motility. I also had bad jaw pain last night which is my gut usually so I don’t know what’s going on.

I think I’ll try slowly increase the thiamine hcl. I have the no-shot sublingual one so I thought it would have done more. I’ve read you recommend having it on an empty stomach so I’ll try that

I’ve removed fibre and starch from my diet which really helps a lot of things. Following dr Sydney v haas type diet for celiac (cooked bananas, curds, ground meat, gelatin, fruit juice) but I’m struggling really badly with gastro paresis.

I tried taking thiamine yesterday but then struggled to fall asleep and had a restless night. And it only slightly helped (200mg hcl and 100mg Thiamax)

My appetite is now really poor. Cascara doesn’t seem to be budging much but I’m only taking a small amount.

I take 1/2 grain armour am and pm but worry I’m not getting enough calories in now that it’s causing a slight stress response

Would the next step be trying antibiotics? I crash hard from all die off so would have to be worth it. I have most antibiotics at my disposal - considering minocylcine because I have gastritis too and erythromycin hasn’t helped heaps in the past…

Does anyone have any other ideas?

So I've figured out that went I cannot tolerate things sometimes it's that it's lowering my blood sugar and increasing adrenaline (progest-e and carrot salad do this).

Is this because my liver is not working great? Even when I try and eat enough sugar whilst taking one drop of progest-e, I wake in the night with blood sugar issues. I think starch also does this in me.

Does anyone know any way to help this? I am trying to eat every 2 hours but it seems I can't keep up when I add progest-e in. (When I don't take it I sleep okay)

Looks like chromogenic bacteria with calculus build up. Dental clean should remove it but might need to change the oral flora to stop it building up again

@BioEclectic
I will try red potatoes and cook them for longer but I think I just need to ease up on starch as it really seems to coincide with increased cellulite along with the histamine things so I think it's my body telling me it's not the time!

@NotShanalotte interesting. I always use the normal potatoes so I will try red ones and see if its any better, thank you!

@wrl Yes I peel and boil them then bake them. I think its gut bacteria reaction somehow

What causes the major histamine issues I get from starch, particulary well cooked white potato? And why is it worse in the luteal (2nd half) of my cycle??

I also get histamine reactions to eg clarithromycin.

I take cypro if I have to but it makes me feel really slow and heavy even on 0.5mg and it makes me want to binge starch the next day so are there any other suggestions to help handle starch better or just avoid it? I crave it but I can just stick to fruit juice

Every few weeks I will crash. Like suddenly I get absolutely exhausted and I fall into a heavy sleep like I’m sick for 2 hours. I can’t move and often wake up feeling hungover. It takes a few hours to feel not groggy and slow.

This used to happen as a reaction to antimicrobials so I think it’s endotoxin related but is it likely histamine causing this or Sulfur? Or is it more likely estrogen?

Has anyone experienced anything like this?

I’m normally a high histamine wired person and this feels the exact opposite of that.

Currently it’s happened around ovulation and my gut is more irritated than usual…

@Peatly @Mulloch94
Thanks, yep my liver area is often uncomfortable and eyes jaundice looking (improving). I don't think I eat enough to tolerate K2 yet.

I do think I have RFS so I will try go slower and I think I tolerate thiamine hcl so I could do that support only.

I'm avoid starch mostly and trying to do more gelatin and fruit juice slowly. I am sure fruit fibre sets me off - watermelon does, cooked fruit is semi okay. The lactate building up would explain my very tight calves all the time and feet pain.

Sounds like I just need to go slow

@dan-dominic added in carbs like fruit juice and white sugar, tried starch but bad endotoxin reaction, started eating protein with fruit juice 3 x a day making sure to get at least 20g of protein per meal. Reduced fat as I was high fat despite too little calories. Added in dairy as had been DF except for butter for years.

Started taking np thyroid 1/2 grain.

I react to all supps even aspirin as my gut is still sensitive