2021-06-06, Sunday - passive table tennis stress…
FEELING Well % / Pain 0-7 
DOING
Sleep: 90%/1 9h35, up 5x (1h20) (
) Creativity kept me awake. (
)
Activities: 90-60%/1-4 1h10 (cycling 30’ + table tennis 2:2, 40’, passive stress)
Treatment: 90%/1 1h (self) (fw = 4h25)
Effects of 750mg+ GABA, 50mg levodopa+25%benserazide, 2x290mg passiflora:
When I reduced GABA to 200+, I added levodopa at the same time, both doc-recommended (JayCS’s Fibro Blog - #350 by JayCS). What I’ve been doing now a few days is GABA 750 plus levodopa, which is new. Now I’m staying there but trying out taking one whole capsule at once before bed. Which is 2 things at once: Full amount, plus capsule-protected. So I will wait and won’t increase levodopa yet. And when I do so I may have to decrease GABA again and also watch for: hypertension, nausea, GI bleeding, disorientation, anxiety, libido, vivid dreams, insomnia, hallucinations, narcolepsy, acc. to wp.
9:00 OK, GI was OK, but isn’t great/normal (stomach upon waking), and I was awake 5x, far too often and long once again: Taking all the 750mg at once didn’t improve either. I’d hope l-dopa can improve at least one…
In the afternoon I’ve been getting more tired than I have been the last days, and I think it may be more due to taking the whole GABA early rather than my sleep having gone down to about 9h instead of around 10h before the night going on to Thursday… That’d be a reason to continue splitting the doses or even trying GABA at daytime, e.g. a small additional dose after midday…
Also just thought if it makes sense trying a 3rdx290mg passiflora at about 1:00.
I've discarded the suggestion of trying a fitbit watch to monitor sleep...:
The used price seems OK. I’m not sure how precise they are. It may help analyze a bit, but even 2 sleep lab nights didn’t really get me further, so why shd knowing how much of my sleep was light… So I’m not going to bother to find out how well they work. And they of course won’t hint any reasons or treatments. So I’m going to continue to keep my sleep diary/blog (of course), even tho sometimes I write too long at night… 
, and adjust my supps further.
Feeling/Action-details: Creativity/earworm kept me awake, passive table tennis stress caused pain, due to 2 club players playing fast & hard next to us
(Well in % / Pain incl. Gut 0-10) (Sleep, Fibro-‘Work’, Work Digi & Live, Activity, Treatment)
IBSD problems in the evening - from what, too much carrots with apple at midday??
Sleep
750mg-capsule GABA at 21:40
22:05-
0:20p drink
2:05p: 20’ drink Gastricumeel as I feel a bit of some sort of acidity coming up. Earworm due to working on my new arrangement in the late afternoon, too late. fw: 10’
3:00: 25’ after dozing due esp. to earworm, and staying awake (fw) too long, plus hot flush due to room warming up again, seems to call for a cold shower… (slight calf cramp) Darn, started fw again, intrigued by fitbit watch…
4:15: 25’ 6
7:15p restorative slp
-9:00 restorative slp
1h55+9h-5-20-25-25-5=10h55-1h20=9h35, up 5x (1h20).
Cycling 30’, plus 5+5, table tennis late, 2:2. Yes, I was a bit tired all afternoon. But it was the stress, cortisol that made pain came up fiercely after 2-3 club table tennis players came to the (outdoor) table next to ours whilst we were playing the third game. Their fast playing and talking directly next to us pushed my cortisol/adrenaline, so I played a really hard fast 3rd game, and trying to regulate it down cdnt play well at all in the 4th. This was worse than the 2 games the other day against 2 others, which were only to 11, not 21, so shorter, I won both and it was earlier in the day. I’ll shower cold when I’ve finished blogging, to get it back down.
Self-treatments:
cold shower 2x(10’), hunchback-hard-cushion 15’, AuTr 10’, palpate 2’, belly 4’, back 6’, neck 1 2’, loins 2’. = 61’
Timing, workout ', neck 2 ', yoga ', marionette-hang ', breath-hold ', shaking dance ’
Fibro-work: 2:10:10’ 3:10:15’ 9:00:65’ 11:30:1h 12:50:10’ 14:55:20’ 17:10:?40’ 20:10: 45’ = 4h25
References: Fibromyalgia References: Symptoms, triggers, treatments (to be intertwined) (adding quite a few titbits everywhere) 
idea: I’ll put my titbits in the (fairly new) post “updates”, so people who are only looking for new things can have a look at what I’m adding/filing. Only ordered as to causes / symptoms / treatments.
Abbreviations
’ = mins = minutes, ‘’ = secs = seconds, h is hours as time length, 3h is 3 hours long, 3:00 is 3am, 15:00 is 3pm. 18:10:40’ means 40 minutes, starting at 18:10, = 10 minutes past 6pm up to 10 to 7pm
AuTr = Autogenic Training (usually to actively get - back - to sleep, so counting it as sleep and AuTr…), cold/FCS = Flash Cold Shower (20’’) , ex = exercises, HWB = Hot water bottle, breath-hold/WHM-B-H = Wim Hof Method Breath-Holding, slp = sleep.
Reasons for getting up w = (a)wake, lbu: lower back unrest (‘RLS’?), p: pee, i: ideas. PsA = Psoriatic Arthritis-suspicion
fw = fibro-work
Pain 7 = crying (/out) point
TT = table tennis, 5:1 = score, usually showing how well I’m feeling: energy, relaxedness & alertness if the first number is much higher than the second.
Cold showering itself only takes 20’’+40’’=1’, but I now count it as 10’.
Neck 1 is stretching in the various directions, neck 2 is pressing my head against my hand “without moving”.
loins = loins/groin = stretching the ligaments there.