2023-08-24 Thursday - recovery? praps very slightly better. RR: too high 4-5, too low at night. No/hardly statin pain any more. Guinea pig worries…
What … worked / went wrong … today: ?
Getting up early, so sleeping a lot less, still multi-tasking ;), but only some of the time, and only two things at a time, which is relaxing and something else. Not listening to music any more. Shortening everything
How was I today?: Feeling 65-75-50%-ish (
), energy today (), sleep Wednesday night (
), sleep Thursday night (), nausea 0(-10)% (), fog 10% (), Bite 17:10 thru stockings () but no itch after putting oils on, vertigo 10% 10% of the time ().
20’ grocery shop (not doing anything) , 25’ birthday invite, talking 3x short ().
Blood pressure normal in the daytime except 16:00-17:00 140-150 from “bio weather”, and didn’t check 12:00-16:00 
and 17:00-19:00 , so need to keep a closer watch on that. 
Blood pressure at night sickeningly low.
Neck has stiffened a little again, without pain, but still annoying.
I’ll probably be using the term bio weather regularly, so to explain:
Don’t you all have a “bio weather” report together with the normal ones, in papers and everywhere? Looking for the English translation of Biowetter, I just came across an article in thelocal.de called Bio weather: Cloudy with a chance of kidney stones? by Kristen Allen. The site thelocal describes “a country” from an outside view. This article “smiles” about the “quirkiness” of Germans finding it important to mention that the weather influences health in a certain way.
This is cos my wife keeps telling me in the paper it said today will be bad for rheumatism, and (since my mysterious vertigo/blood pressure attack) that yesterday would be bad for high blood pressure.
And it did go up to 140-150 between 4 and 5 definitely, when it was more humid.
(But the bp still went down again at night, to 97 re. 55, at the same time dizzy/woozy/balance, “shaky tissue” (anyone know what I mean or describe that better?), later nauseous sinus headache.)
Today, I’ll be measuring it more to try to unravel this new symptom, and also see if I need the blood pressure med (additionally to my many blood pressure/relaxing supps) or something else. It was too high in the vertigo attack and the first day in the clinic, but after that OK to low most of the time. If I do need it for the daytime, I need something to increase bp at night! Apparently it doesn’t work immediately, only over time, 2-4 weeks, so it’s no use taking it in the mornings (which I do anyway).
I actually find the measuring calming by making me mono-task/relax/rest, stopping everything else I’m doing, slowing me down.
Today working mainly on … recovery, RR vs. increasing/tolerating blood meds, energy, vertigo.
RR:
11:28 128/75 (66) after grocery shop with wife, feeling sick. 12:10 132/79 (67)
Sinus burning and slight pee pain.
16:05 140/76 (74)
16:42-48 143/82 (71) 141/84 (64) 146/84 (63) 149/81 (65) 139/77 (66) but headache, bio-weather bad for blood pressure it says in the paper.
19:25-29 140/79 (58) 135/74 (59) 19:57 139/78 (63)
22:10 125/66 (65) before sleep.
23:55 112/66 (54) after pee.
1:05 103/57! (58) dizzy/woozy/balance 50%
2:30 110/55! (54) same (+ “arrhythmia”)
3:45 114/79 (62) before loo, same, 3:54 after loo !97/66 (52) A7
5:52 112/63 (52) same with “shaky tissue”, slight nausea.20%
-6:33 102/65 (58) same.
6:55 120/60 (59)
Taking blood pressure is for me good for relaxing!
Got to check this blood pressure variability.
And fill in the blanks. A24BPM can measure every 15’, I could try that today.
11:00 20’ in grocery shop with wife - she did almost everything alone, I just told her things, but I felt so sick.
18:00 25’ at birthday invite, twist-stretched sitting, speaking 3x. I’m getting used to finding the limit
1) Since Aug 9th BALANCING PEM VS. PPA: post exertional malaise (doing things, quickly severe, muscles) ❌ vs. post postural ache (rest) ❌ is the only possible adjustment now, stiffness OK ✅: no TT, gardening/moving only very slow ➔ 80%/4 ❌, talking 5' ➔ 80%/4 (❌). White lips60-80% (❌). Can't do much more for exhaustibility/Energy and Sleep than keep track of triggers see 2), click for details:
EXHAUSTIBILITY today: “92%". Changed on Aug 23rd: Energy was up to 18-20(-24)% (TT 5:1, workout possible) since June 21st 2023 (and new symptoms better) from new circadian rhythm, but kept going down to 10% (TT 0-2 games) from monthly triggers, see #3 Triggers. Today's ENERGY profile extremely slow, with "15h rest"), 1h very slow, 0h slow/medium/quick
SLEEP (click for details): 7h27, up 5x (46'), all deep. 60-70-50%/2/5% p0 st2 deep/ air2x -A8 drymouth40% sore throat5% tongue25% (❌), everything else OK ✅, but getting up nausea20% sinuses20% dizzy 10% from the low blood pressure 102/65 ❌ ➔ getting up: 80%/2 ✅.
GABA A2/+A3/ A3:0 A4:0 teeth✅ p0 FCS#1✅? (3rd # is lower back unrest)
Sleep 22:20-
23:55 8’ 112/66 (54) after pee. 70%/2/5% p0 st2 fw3’ fl0’ deep/ air/ -A4 drymouth30% sore throat10% tongue25% nostril/s0-5%
1:05 7’ 103/57! (58) like 23:55 A5 mouth40% throat5% dizzy/woozy/balance 50%
2:30 10’ 110/55! (54) like 1:05. A6
3:45 14’ 114/79 (62) with pee urge and arrhythmia (at 2:30 too) 3:54 after loo 87/66 (52) A7
5:52 7* 112/63 (52) like 1:05 with “shaky tissue”. A8, slight nausea.20%
-6:33 102/65 (58) like 5:52 but dizzy 10, sinuses 20%.
Sum: 1h40+6h33-(8+7+10+14+7=)46’ = 8h13-46’ =
2) Watching TRIGGERS (updated Aug 23rd 2023) at least once a month with additional symptoms and continually bringing energy down from 20% to 10%, Histamine/MCAS symptoms: Nauseous sinus burning headache: (20%) (✅), tongue burning: 10% day, 20% night ✅. Excitement (= stress) ✅: Shop 20' was too much, talking with neighbours 25' was OK. Click for list...."
(1) JAB#3 (on Nov 7th 2022) caused MCAS / histamine problems like the first 2 till around July. Esp. ENERGY DOWN further to (10-)15-20% (max.), but more slow energy. Each jab -5%.
(2) Jan: TCM recommendations for a few weeks
(3) Feb: ~3% of levothyroxine pill Feb 24th till Mar 23rd: more energy, but lost appetite and weight and sleep, antihistamine back up to 10mg to curb T4-insomnia & histaminey symptoms (stopped cos causing nauseous sinus headaches & painfully dry mouth).
(4) Mar: inkling of Covid, negative, but cough, appetite, night sweats…
(5) Apr: cancer checking ending with weird onco,
(6) May 20th… 17 stress triggers, till end of May: 8-12%, seizures May-June every 10d.
June 21st: circadian rhythm Better to 18(-24)% a few days, but mostly back down to ~10%:
(7) July 19th-24th: 3 garden bird deaths
(8) July 31st-Aug 6th uro exam and methylene blue trial.
(9) Aug 9th… severe vertigo, checking, back to minimal blood meds.
3) DOCS: Last update (simplified 18th and 23rd): VERTIGO: Aug 9th-14th: No cause of the severe vertigo & wonky gait on the 9th found in stroke/neuro. 20th: Need to take blood pressure and lipids more seriously now, adding meds to all the supps, even if the association with vertigo is unclear. ONCO/URO: Onco Apr 24th was useless up to now. Bladder exam Sep 4th mainly cos of bladder problems (finger exam July 31st, bloods Aug 7th). Click for details.
Starting Feb/March with “B symptoms” (GP Mar 29th: night sweats, cough plus appetite & weight loss), mamila swelling, PSA high Apr 20th. Mar 30th: So lung X-ray OK, Apr 6th: mamilla OK. Sweats OK Apr 9th, appetite OK-ish by June, weight OK-ish too, but down again after vertigo. Apr 24th: Weird, 20’ onco appointment, feedback STILL pending, incl. onco blood results (just others on July 20th). So now uro at least. Feb-bloods: Ω3 needs increasing, much too low.
4) UNDER CONTROL: attention necessary ✅/(✅): pee pain (✅), dry mouth/thirst 40% ❌
1) GI, pee, local pains, weather, dry mouth well under control: Details...
except GI: stools loose0% , appetite , pee pain: 0p1-2 , lower back unrest . Jaw: 2 new fillings June 23rd were enough, solved for the time being, but keep spaces free. Weather: SUN / WIND , dry mouth (day and) at night at least not hurting/sticky ().
2) Seizures and esophagus blocks fairly under control - click for details on SEIZURES: GABA better up (also for pee pain). Aug 1st, July 25th + 7th were only seizure-ish 4-5x, increase in May-June was stress/histamine/less GABA: LAST Aug 9th: 2x. July 17th (2), Jun 23rd (4) & 16th & 6th (2), May 25th (2) &14th/13th, Apr 16th/15th. Last ESOPHAGUS BLOCKS: Aug 8th, July 23rd & 16th, May 31st (all 3 cos distracted), before that Apr 4th ✅.
Last focal seizures: Aug 9th: 13:42 & 15:40 (after vertigo). Aug 1st: 4-5x seizure-ish. July 25th: seizure-ish 3-4x. July 17th: 18:30 19:55 after thunderstorm. July 7th seizur-ish 4x. Jun 23rd: 11:30 12:15 14:00 15:06, 2 before, 2 after antihistamine, maybe from the confused night, taking sleep meds too late and more?? Jun 16th 20:05, June 6th 13:45 & 14:35. May 25th 17:40 & 21:00, maybe from higher histamine and not enough GABA lately, May 14th 9:00 and May 13th 20:00 from stress I think, but I have also reduced the night time GABA praps too much. Apr 16th 13:25, Apr 15th 22:00 (GABA too late plus cold type symptoms = histamine), Mar 31st 19:00 (too little GABA, too strenuous meeting), Jan 15th 10:40 (from a pee urge, only 2nd “wave”). Jan 14th 23:58 (no trigger, praps missing out on .6g GABA Friday). Jan 5th (after being scolded for being hyper). Dec 11th: 1x. Nov 21st: 2x.
Last esophagus blocks: Generally, mindfulness to be extremely careful and stop eating, spread supps & meal (length up to 2h), whenever there’s the slightest pressure. Aug 8th: carrot, then chocolate. July 23rd cos distracted by the Kami stress. July 16th I was concentrating on testing if hazelnuts increase my nicotinic acid flush with my 3rd meal, and disregarded a slight throat pressure, which went totally wrong, was the last straw for an esophagus block, so had to get it out, lots came out, incl. supps, and needed to wait quite a bit afterwards. (June 6th narrowly avoided.) May 31st, argument made me forget to concentrate on a small carrot. Apr 4th: Carrot, got it out quick. Mar 26th just the supps. Mar 23rd: Tiny bit of parsnip I think it was, had to get it out, had no patience to massage longer than 5-6’. Mar 13th (roughly) same as: Feb 26th: midday: block not waiting long enough with muesli after supps. Feb 20th eve: block from I think carrots resolved with massager. Feb 5th: From C-supps. Jan 19th: Sometimes do use massager a while to make sure. Jan 17th: I can take my B supps and then go to bed again atm. Jan 8th: Block after evening supps, maybe from twisting. Jan 7th: Testing if twisting before, while & after pills & food increases esophagus blocks Jan 6th: Slight blocks. Jan 5th: Medium block in evening. About 5x small blocks from pills around end of the year. Dec (20th, 15th) 11th (9th,) 1st, Nov 30th 2x, 29th 2x, (28th,) 24th, 22nd, 20th. Powder blocks in funnel if it’s too much in one go…
SELF-TREATMENT & SUPPS optimal, stable, but necessary - Aug 6th: 40 supps, 435€/m +20€/m cps. Last changes see before Aug 22nd. Next: LDN?
SELF-PHYSIO: Always OK, see before Aug 22nd what I now always do when needed. Next: jaw-joint?
Supps Aug 6th: 40 supps (was 42), costs 435€/m (was 470) +20€/m cps. Last changes see before Aug 22nd next: theanine divided up into 2x0.1g, maybe LDN, probably not creatine, colostrum or ATP again. For details on the lists, with dosing batches by times and tubs see before Aug 22nd:
No ‘research’ today
Quality of life: 85%, but “Feeling well”: 60-75%
Lessons in self-care: My wife’s close to a nervous breakdown, having had to replace her week holiday trip with my vertigo clinic stay and with one of our 2 guinea pigs with severe tooth problems that now has to be fed up after an op. I have to help with that when she’s at work from tomorrow on, but it’s one hell of a strain. Similar to when I first got fibro where we lost two guineas after having fed them up for 3 months each, day and night - and it was me that had to do the nights, cos I was up anyway, but of course it wasn’t helping me. Maybe put on an NSDR audio?
Reasons to be cheerful: I’ve identified more plants, the birds are back a bit more, blackbird sang a very quiet song for me.
Simplified: Filling in the templates of these entries is now much simpler. It took a while to simplify them, and was only ‘possible’ cos I’ve stably improved many symptom areas.
Foggies: OK-ish by mono-tasking/relaxing.
Development: Look before Aug 22nd for more details. Click for links to "biggest successes" (after June 18th 2023), "summary" (on June 14th 2023), jab side effects, foods, blog references, e.g. abbreviations, & guideline for symptom tracking & trigger hunting
Entry changes (after June 19th 2023)
Biggest successes (after June 18th 2023)
Summary of fibro 2020-2021, jabs 2022 and first half of 2023
- 8 weeks after jab#3: stabilized
- 1st Jab-sfx-summary, last edit: Feb 7th.
- My food 2023.
- My blog references, e.g. abbreviations, supp chart/overview
- My “How to symptom track & trigger hunt”
- Next up…: Summaries
- Research ToDo: supps webinar on Dec 2nd, fibro webinar transcripts, the MCAS summit, read