2023-10-06 Friday - recovery?: Stable. RR/supp changes?: Why again high at 17:00? Annoying! VLDN?: stable.
What … worked / went wrong … today:
Generally, things worked quite well, I spose. Up and down with my feelings about my blood pressure, sometimes I think I’m getting somewhere, sometimes I think I have no choice but to take the med again.
Habit encouragement… :
Time (= stress) management: Blog earlier 
, forums less , jump off hamster wheels .
Self-treatments: Jaw , wall sits , balancing , supps by 15:00: , back by 16:00: , capsules by 17:00 .
How was I today?: Feeling 80-90%-ish (), energy today (, relatively), sleep Thursday night , sleep Friday night .
Today working mainly on … time management , better self-treatments , RR , energy, esp. via VLDN .
VLDN
Dosage: Oct 1st ~0.07mg, 1st 21:00: 2nd 22:30, from 3rd on ~20:00.
VLDN 
for:
- Energy up from 10% to 18%: for activities , walking: up from 5’ to 30’ , listening: up from 3’ to 15’ , stiffness , shorter recovery times , all constantly . But
: still yellow/white face and black eye rims. - Pain: overall Ache , local: lower back , less , hangover .
- Muscles: eyes = vision (), bladder: pee frequency & urge ()
- Sleep : feel better in breaks, waking up better, more awake
VLDN 
only what’s stayed:
- tenseness from energy change: improved (),
- GI sometimes, e.g. diarrhea 1x, belly ache 3x, heartburn 3x ().
RR: HIGH BP PERIODS after rest have seldom been proven longer than 5 or 10 mins (re-checked), 13th & 20th: FCS decreased work stress at night, 29th: 30'? at 17:00, better after TT (28th not sure if I wasn't moving), less night dip: 27th, first 2h of 29th, all of 30th. 30th: 9:30-9:50, 11:47-11:55 not sure what I was doing (✅)(❌?)(✅). 1st to 4th ✅✅, next implementing research, e.g. testing what difference it makes putting the cuff on the skin, made it spike to 229/131 for a few minutes, which showed me mine does go up:
|16:37:00|155|95|66|06.10.23|
|16:38:00|155|126|65||
|16:39:00|159|98|62|reading|
|16:41:00|147|88|60||
|16:42:00|139|90|64||
|16:43:00|147|89|60||
|16:44:00|148|85|62||
|16:45:00|150|90|64||
|16:46:00|154|88|63|Leaning against balcony, is it the tension waiting for kid’s call or sitting or what? Weather is good|
|16:48:00|152|88|59|It’s not low pulse either|
|16:49:00|147|92|59||
|16:51:00|153|93|62|139-159 (avg. 150), 16:37-51.|
|17:15:00|155|99|56|after walking & worrying|
|18:00:00|199|117|77|>1’ of wall sit|
|18:02:00|229|131|87|1’30‘‘ of wall sit|
|18:05:00|173|104|61||
|18:08:00|164|94|58||
|18:07:00|162|98|63||
|18:09:00|145|95|57||
|18:10:00|157|103|60||
|18:12:00|152|93|57|low pulse|
|18:13:00|155|92|56||
|18:20:00|167|102|62|pee urge|
|18:26:00|156|103|60|stairs and pee|
|18:27:00|165|103|64||
|20:42:00|159|97|57||
|20:43:00|150|91|54||
|20:45:00|134|87|54||
|20:46:00|144|94|57||
|20:48:00|137|90|56||
|22:07:00|149|89|66||
|04:30:00|113|74|61||
|06:04:00|124|80|65|over clothes|
|06:06:00|125|79|59|on skin|
|06:07:00|105|67|56|tight/skin|
|06:13:00|99|67|60|tight/skin after stairs!|
|07:12:00|134|96|67|tight/skin but pee urge|
|07:21:00|120|62|57||
|07:22:00|134|62|52||
|07:24:00|112|58|55||
1) Since Aug 9th BALANCING PEM VS. PPA: post exertional malaise (✅) vs. post postural ache ✅. Stiffness ✅. TT 3:1 (moving 30%, talking 30%, counting 0%) ➔ 80%/3 (✅), gardening/moving ➔ 80%/3 (✅), talking 15' ➔ 80%/3 ❌, music 3' ➔ 60%/4 ❌. White lips80% (❌). Exhaustibility "82%" ✅: 4h slow & 4h medium(&quick) energy, and sleep ✅ (6h34 a bit short, breaks again too long), click for details:
EXHAUSTIBILITY today: “82%". 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 "6h rest"), 2h very slow, 4h slow, 3h30 medium, 30' quick
SLEEP (click for details): 6h34, up 5x (89'), all deep, except last half hour deep dozing. ✅/❌, everything else OK ✅, 80%/2 ✅, ➔ getting up: 80%/2 ✅.
Sleep 22:35-
23:40 15’ fl10’ (slight 2nd pee urge)
0:56 66’ (fl45’ 6)
3:25 4’
4:25 4’ 113/74
6:08 7’ 125 over clothes 127 on skin 105 tight on skin. Thinking of naturadb before, thumping. 99 tight/skin after stairs! -6:15
-6:45
Sum: 1h25+6h45-(15+66+4+4+7=)96’ = 8h10-1h36’ =
2) Watching "monthly" TRIGGERS, esp. of exhaustibility. Excitement (= stress) ✅: OK. Click for list, incl. Sept summary added Oct 2nd...."
(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 (T4) 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%.
(10) Sept 4th bladder exam 3 days of ‘screaming’ while peeing (again 18th: seldom stabs few days), then a UTI and recurred for 3 days each, 22nd bladder pain and “2nd” UTI. 12th: CoV-type symptoms: fluey Ache, cough (recurred 18th a few days), belly discomfort, feverish, temperature till 16th, up 11x that first night, moving difficult. From before 20th: binge work stress. 21st: feverish, histaminey, 22nd: severe pain in right upper abdomen for a few days. 24th: felt ‘ill’ and realized I couldn’t hear music any more. (27th: New GP OK.). 18th: stopped CVD meds again for the time being. Oct 1st starting LDN…
3) DOCS: Last update Oct 9th: Need to phone all these! Oct 1st/2nd: Get uro for lump since bladder exam, get dentist for filling fallen out again on 30th, get liver bloods checked by cardio on 23rd, cos wife says my face is a bit yellow (B3 risk). Sep27th: Wife's GP will get me a cancer appt., ask about GI and recommend if special bloods should be done (by my cardio, cos she does my special ones). 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.
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: 1x/m - Sep 19th? (1). 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: 1-3x/m - Sep 30th, (25th,) 16th, 11th. Aug 31st, 26th & 8th, July 23rd & 16th, May 31st, Apr 4th.
Last focal seizures: Sep 19th?? 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: 1-3x/m. Generally, mindfulness to be extremely careful and stop eating, spread supps & meal (length up to 2h), whenever there’s the slightest pressure. Sep 30th: sweet potato. (Sep 25th: Sweet potato went down after 20-25’, not sure such a long wait with further eating is OK. But taking even more care with it on 26th was no problem. Also, taking a spoonful of omega 3 after the supps of the 2nd meal may have helped.) Sep 16th seemed scary. 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 Oct 1st: LDN! - starting 0.05mg. Increased ginkgo to 3 again pretty soon. 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.
SELF-PHYSIO: Always OK, see before Aug 22nd what I now always do when needed. Jaw-joint end of Sept.
Supps Aug 6th: 40 supps (was 42), costs 435€/m (was 470) +20€/m cps. Sep 27th: Starting around the 20th I brought ginkgo back up to 3, seems good, so I reckon the eleuthero was a problem. 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, 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
Just sharing first, before blood pressure stuff:
At last Bruce Gillis is hopefully getting into trouble for his FM/a “test” - scam!:
Astounding that Gillis had the cheekiness to re-invent the same test and say it’s now finding a new disease called IDD:
“EpicGenetics also allegedly markets an identical but differently named product, the 100Sure Test, as “100% accurate” in diagnosing “Immune Deficiency Disease,” or IDD. However, according to the complaint, that is not a medically recognized disease but rather a term created by EpicGenetics to fit the results its tests generate.
That is, EpicGenetics, having failed to create a test that accurately diagnoses FM (the FM/a Test), has now created a disease (the so-called IDD) that fits that test’s results, and released a rebranded version of the underlying test (the 100Sure Test) as a diagnosis for this manufactured disease,” in the words of the complaint.”
What’s important for measuring blood pressure is: Empty bladder, not having eaten, no physical activity 30’ before, arm at heart level, not crossing legs, not talking. What confuses me is that bloodpressureuk says don’t do sports that spike the blood pressure, but I’d read wall sits are perfect training, however mine spiked blood pressure. I think I just have to watch not to do them as long as I did, keep to 30’’ That I could trial.
Generally:
AMA: If the patient has a full bladder, that can lead to an error in systolic BP of up to 33 mm Hg, and the white-coat effect can have an error of up to 26 mm Hg… It is important for the patient to rest comfortably in a quiet environment for five minutes in a chair. The patient should also have an empty bladder and not have eaten, ingested caffeine, smoked or engaged in physical activity at least 30 minutes before the measurement … having the patient’s arm lower than heart level can lead to an error of 4 mm Hg up to 23 mm Hg. Procedure related error might also occur if the patient’s legs are crossed at the knees or if talking occurs during BP measurement. … Physician readings were also found to be higher than nurse readings, which is the white coat effect in action. (Hmm, I thought a study said the other way round…?)
a) during sports:
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7793423: It’s not certain how bad Exercise-Induced Hypertension is, but that’s >210 SBP, far higher than I’ve ever seemed to have, so not helpful. OK, let’s measure it: 18:00 during wall sit 199/117 (77), then repeating (>1’ of wall sit) 18:02 229/131 (87), but <150 inside of a few minutes.
https://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/Press_releases/2004/04_06a_04.html
… “exercise hypertension,” an abnormally high spike in blood pressure experienced by generally healthy people during a workout, is a known risk factor for permanent and serious high blood pressure at rest. … believe … rooted in the failure of cells that line the blood vessels to allow the arteries to expand to accommodate increased blood flow during exertion. … also is associated with aging, … high cholesterol… Hmm, not directly relevant either.
https://www.bloodpressureuk.org/your-blood-pressure/how-to-lower-your-blood-pressure/healthy-living/exercise-physical-activity: *140/90mmHg – 179/99 mmHg This is high blood pressure, but it should be safe to be more active to help lower it… Exercises to avoid: any exercise that is very intensive for short periods of time, such as sprinting or weightlifting. They raise your blood pressure very quickly and put too much strain on your heart and blood vessels."
https://www.ahajournals.org/doi/10.1161/JAHA.119.015554
This is only about too low blood pressure during and after exercise, so not relevant: Blood Pressure Drops After Exercise: What’s Normal, When to Be Concerned | livestrong
b) while talking,
The effects of talking on the blood pressure of hypertensive and normotensive individuals - PubMed Old one from 1981 says “In some hypertensive individuals increases blood pressure greater than 25-40% occurred within 30 sec after the initiation of human speech.” (This was the one cited by Channeling of Brain Towards Engaging Sensorimotor Tasks for Inducing Hedonic Pleasure to Alleviate Blood Pressure in Hypertension.)
c) while eating… - well, I’ve already cited that blood goes to the intestines, so I’ve understood the pressure goes down (?), and that’s the reason we shouldn’t have eaten the 30’ before…
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