2023-09-17 Sunday - recovery?: nah, not today. RR/supp changes? Stabilizing, maybe.
What … worked / went wrong … today:
Quite satisfied today, but only cos I’m sooo careful.
Habit encouragement… :
Time (= stress) management:
Keep blog time up: 
Keep forum time down:
Jump out of hamster wheels: () - did get caught up trying to find out why a “cherry laurel” isn’t called “laurel cherry” in English for the “cheerful” entries below. Instead I was playing on doing more for work.
Self-treatments:
Wall sits:
Balance exercises:
Prepare supps by 15:00: 14:00
Back exercises by 16:00: (
) 21:00
Encapsulating by 17:00: 18:00 ()
How was I today?: Feeling 75-85%-ish (), energy today () - compared, sleep Saturday night , sleep Sunday night (4h without break!? So less GABA intake, watch it!), nausea 0% , fog 10% (), 0 bites , vertigo 0%, 100% of the time ().
Today working mainly on … time management, self-treatments RR, energy.
RR: HIGH BP PERIODS: Sep 12th: No more spike periods after stopping eleuthero on 10th. 13th: A few spikes and not enough dip at night will have been from the "flu". 14th: Not brilliant, not diligent at daytime, but at night. 15th: When >150 that will always have been after doing something and it always went down <140 soon after. 110 at night, better than <100. 16th: Day same, night <100 with nauseous sinus headache and cold. 17th Day same, up at night in 2 hamster wheels ended on 130, slept 4h and then another 2h without breaks!
|14:16:00|150|80|72||
|14:17:00|140|74|72||
|14:18:00|139|80|74||
|17:07:00|137|83|70||
|17:09:00|134|87|66||
|17:15:00|126|79|62||
|22:33:00|144|84|70||
|00:10:00|116|70|68||
|01:33:00|146|87|63||
|01:34:00|133|91|59||
|01:37:00|131|84|56||
|01:38:00|141|81|57||
|01:39:00|137|82|55||
|01:40:00|130|81|54|So surprised! Cos screen time etc.|
|05:23:00|110|74|63|arrh|
|07:39:00|127|80|76||
|07:40:00|122|80|71||
|08:13:00|132|75|66||
1) Since Aug 9th BALANCING PEM VS. PPA: post exertional malaise (✅) vs. post postural ache ✅. Stiffness ✅. No TT gardening/moving ➔ 80%/3 (❌), cycling a bit faster, cos my wife was too ➔ 80%/4 ❌, talking 15' ➔ 80%/3 ❌. White lips60-80% (❌). Exhaustibility "89%" and sleep ✅✅ (only 2 breaks, altho one was 1h30 and ignored the screen curfew completely), click for details:
EXHAUSTIBILITY today: “89%". 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 moderately slow, with "12h rest"), 1h very slow, 2h slow, 1h medium/quick
SLEEP (click for details): 7h25, up 2x! ✅ (1h35 (❌)), all deep. ✅, everything OK! ✅✅ ➔ getting up: 80%/2 ✅.
Sleep 22:35-7:35 Sum: 1h25+7h35-(1h30+5)’ = 9h-1h35’ =
2) Watching "monthly" TRIGGERS, esp. of exhaustibility. Excitement (= stress) ✅?: 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.
Sep 12th: These have been stable for quite a time: Histamine/MCAS symptoms: Nauseous sinus burning headache: 0% , tongue burning: 10% day, 20% night . Watching “monthly” TRIGGERS (updated Aug 23rd 2023) that have brought up additional symptoms at least once a month and are continually bringing energy down from 20% to 10%.
3) DOCS: Last update Sep 12th: VERTIGO/BP: Reduce BP spikes. ONCO/URO: No uro cancer. Click for details.
Still no other explanation for the “B symptoms” Feb/March (Mar 29th: night sweats, cough plus appetite & weight loss) so back to T4 + CoV. feedback from onco appt. Apr 24th is STILL pending.
Hmm, didn’t I have an esophagus block Saturday night which was different than before, making me think about making a dilation appointment right away?
4) UNDER CONTROL ✅ (attention necessary (✅)):
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. Last SEIZURES: Aug 9th, vertigo day: (2). July 17th (2), Increase to 2-weekly in May-June was stress, histamine, and less GABA, before that monthly. Last ESOPHAGUS BLOCKS: Sep 11th. Aug 31st, 26th & 8th, July 23rd & 16th, May 31st, 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 seizure-ish 4x. Increase in May-June was stress, histamine, and less GABA: 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. Sep 11th: unusually eating a peach, which I thought’d be easy, wasn’t tho. Aug 31st supps again. Aug 26th: drinking supps with buttermilk instead of almond milk, 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 - NEW Sep 11th (started around 8th): Stopped eleuthero and reduced ginkgo to 2. Still NADH sometimes, lots of Ω3 (cos not enough from olive oil), plus passiflora, magnolia & 0.3g GABA at daytime instead of night. 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. Sep 11th (started around 8th): Stopping eleuthero and reducing ginkgo to 2 is reducing BP. Sep 1st: NADH, passiflora, magnolia and more GABA to daytime. 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:
‘Research’ today
Blood pressure and Raynauld?
Primary pulmonary hypertension is a type of high blood pressure that can also be linked to Raynaud’s.
Certain medications including beta blockers used to treat high blood pressure, migraine medications containing ergotamine or sumatriptan, medications for attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder, certain chemotherapy agents and other drugs that cause blood vessels to narrow have also been linked to Raynaud’s.
https://www.msdmanuals.com/home/heart-and-blood-vessel-disorders/peripheral-arterial-disease/raynaud-syndrome
Some people with Raynaud syndrome also have other disorders that occur when arteries are prone to constrict. These disorders include migraines, variant angina (chest pain that occurs while at rest), and high blood pressure in the lungs (pulmonary hypertension). The association of Raynaud syndrome with these disorders suggests that the cause of arterial constriction may be the same in all of them.
Only pulmonary hypertension:
https://www.myphteam.com/resources/raynauds-phenomenon-and-pulmonary-hypertension-whats-the-connection
Raynaud's phenomenon is correlated with elevated systolic pulmonary arterial pressure in patients with systemic lupus erythematosus - PubMed Raynaud’s phenomenon is correlated with elevated systolic pulmonary arterial pressure in patients with systemic lupus erythematosus
How are Raynauld and blood pressure connected?
Cos at night I easily get cold and blood pressure is down <100. But can’t find anything that can explain my white lips despite high pressure.
Quality of life: 85%, “Feeling well”: 80-85%.
Lessons in self-care: Well really lucky that ignoring the screen curfew Sunday night resulted in deep sleep. Shouldn’t get reckless now!
Reasons to be cheerful:
a) Heard a sparrowhawk in our “yard” (consisting of about 30 fenced off gardens), so thought when I heard a big scuffle in the laurel cherry, got my binoculars, but then couldn’t find anything except harmless birds chirping and tut-tutting me.
b) How joyfully guinea pig Harley squeaks when he can be back with his pardner in cage or running around my room.
Simplified: -
Foggies: -
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