2021-06-12, Saturday - I can drink lots of still water!!
Sleep: 9h20, up 4x (3h35) 
Feeling 90% well, pain 1 of 7 
but hyperactive
Sleep details: freedom/creativity probably prolonging breaks
20:15 passionflower 900mg
21:15 GABA 400mg
21:20-
23:45 10’ deep, long. fw 10’
1:05 1h30 fw 45’ GABA 350mg, passionflower another 600mg. Plus drinking a lot. 6.
2:55: 1h50 creative ideas (cf. development: Is it just freedom/self-discipline messing up sleep?).
Stomach burning: soy drink was OK. Dead tired, but highly strung, so cold shower is the only way out. Eat.
8:45! About time…
-10:15 (altho only dozing, ideas and pulse pumping)
Sum: 2h40+10h15-(10-1h30-1h50-5=)3h35=12h55-3h35 =9h20, up 4x (3h35)
Activities: 1h30
Feeling 80/70%% well, pain 1/3 of 7 (
during & after being in the wind)
Activity-details: cycling 1h10, shop 20'
Cycling 30+30+5+5=1h10, stopping at a restaurant for 1.5h, the wind killing me, plus the sun making me sweat and cool out more tho. On the way back I wore a mask just to keep the wind out of my face, and rainlegs.
0 TT
Treatment: 47’ (self), (fw 5h10)
Effects of 400+350mg GABA (!both in capsules), 3!!x290mg passiflora: increase GABA?
3x passiflora = 1g. See below. Didn’t help. Increase GABA instead?
Just been wondering if my jaw tension hasn’t improved from the GABA.
The water tolerance i.e. not having to pee is due to GABA, the test of drinking 0.75l of still water today succeeded perfectly.
Effects of Thursday's acupressure: loins still great (but still sore to touch)
Loins not perfect at night (23:55). But still great in the daytime till the evening, ongoing. The pressured areas are still sore to touch tho. The belly area (above my belly button) which was sore to touch last week is OK again, a bit taut, but less than before the treatment.
Physio-type self-treatments: 47', fibro-work 5h10
Timing 
(giving myself ‘time’-tokens to focus better) 10’?, cold shower (10’), AuTr 2’, hunchback-hard-cushion 10’, palpate 2’, belly 3’, back 5’, gums 4x30’’, thumbnail 6x30’’, = 47’…
, neck 1+ ', workout ', neck 2 ', yoga ', loins ', marionette-hang ', breath-hold ', shaking dance ', RR x
*Fibro-work: Night: 55’ 2:55: ?1h30 10:15: 1h 11:45: 10’ 20’ 10’ 20’ 20:10: 45’ = 5h10… *
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Gut: More wind the past few days may have come from expired chia oil I was drinking a bit of daily. Today I felt it stood in direct connection. And why should I drink old oil (
), bad enough drinking fresh stuff 
(not really, I’ve got used to drinking a gulp of chia or linseed oil out of the bottle to get lot of omega 3). Silly me. Ehrm, wait a minute - wind has got worse. - Passionflower lowers blood pressure, besides rose root as well, increasing may suffice. Didn’t realize that. Highest dose is 4-8g, 3x298 is only 1g. So I can increase and see what my wind does. Some pages say no side effects, but some say - apart from making you tired etc. - nausea, vomiting - which’d be gut - and heart problems, which I can see whilst measuring my blood pressure.
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Are the sleep problems at the weekend in reality more due to freedom to be creative & reduced self-discipline, rather than really the getting up early on Thursdays?
- Has jaw tension improved from the GABA? (Also mentioned by Trudy Scott.)
- Got to get Trudy Scott’s book on Amino Acids (The Antianxiety Food Solution). I’d be her (adapted from Julia Ross) mostly “Low GABA anxiety type* (physical anxiety, more stiff and tense muscles)”. https://www.everywomanover29.com/blog/anxiety-gaba-tryptophan-how-much/ i.e. I am not really anxious. But I do have stiff or tense muscles. I’m not sure if I am “Feeling stressed and burned-out” - I wasn’t before fibro. Sort of insomnia - but no problem falling asleep at first. I do have an “overactive brain”. I used to have a fear of heights. And I have visceral pain/belly pain with IBS. Low serotonin type also fits slightly: Hyperactivity, Digestive issues, Fibromyalgia, I did have jaw & pain issues (but not TMJ), I have “insomnia or disturbed sleep” but seldom difficulty getting to sleep. The few corresponding symptoms I have seem to *overlap tho, as both have GI & sleep, stiffness’d be GABA while hyperactivity & fibromyalgia’d be serotonin.
My Catecholamines, Endorphins and Blood Sugar seem perfect, no fitting symptoms there. -
Bladder: In the restaurant we were I drank 0,75 litre of still water. That’s the first time for a year, a test to see if I can now tolerate water better, without having to run off every 20 mins. I didn’t have to at all
- Progress once again 
- Gut: I also tried one physalis (size), not knowing if it’s OK for my gut. Can’t find it on the fly on the web, only that it is a nightshade, but not of the same genus as tomato. After an hour my belly started up a bit, but a bit just cos I was getting hungry.
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Abbreviations & explanations: a bit new and lots rearranged from 2021-06-10 on
Entries start with night meds & sleep, before activities & treatments, because the “night before” is vital. So Fri-day starts with Thursday night, the night before Friday.
Pain "7" = crying (/out) point; my 1 is others 2-3, and due to pacing/treatments
My wife says my 7 is other people’s 12. 1 is probably 2-3. Due to pacing, keeping work down to 25% (12h/wk) and all my treatments (acupressure, GABA) and physio self-treatments I manage to keep getting my pains & Ache down quickly. 3 usually means the Ache, not pains; these I address individually, often automatically and on the fly now, e.g. twist-stretching everything or something specific after getting up.
TIME DATA, e.g. ' = mins, h = hours, 18:10:40', date YYYY-MM-DD
’ = 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. The date is the logical digital standard: YYYY-MM-DD.
SLEEP: slp, w, lbu/LBU, RLS, p, i
slp = sleep; reasons for getting up: w = (a)wake, lbu/LBU: lower back unrest (‘RLS’?), p: pee, i: ideas.
ACTIVITIES: TT, e.g. "5:1"
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.
SELF-TREATMENTS (about everything else...)
The self-treatments listed are only things that I’m spotlighting & rewarding myself for at the mo by counting them; much of what I do at night is self-treatment to get back to sleep or alleviate (1-2h/d), certain regular movements at daytime, like twist-stretching (30’), writing this blog is self-treatment (30’-60’/d), and the further fibro-work is an indirect form.
Self treatments are usually preventative or always have the same positive effect (e.g. cold showering improves Ache and sleep) - at least I do them for that - and I use “” to show what I’m doing to alleviate something and mark it off in the details “/” whether it works well enough for a time or doesn’t’, e.g. Ache cold fast shower “”
fw = fibro-work, meaning reading and writing this blog, the reference base, on 4 fibro-forums and researching fibro-stuff on the web.
AuTr = Autogenic Training (usually to actively get - back - to sleep, so counting it as sleep and AuTr…),
cold/FCS = Flash Cold Shower (20’’-60’’) , I count it as 10’ tho.
breath-hold/WHM-B-H = Wim Hof Method Breath-Holding,
Neck 1 is stretching top right to bottom left, vice versa & sky/ground, neck “1+” is stretching far further diagonally downwards, neck 2 is pressing my head against my hand “without moving”, left right and front.
loins = loins/groin = stretching the ligaments there.
ex = exercises
HWB = Hot water bottle,
RR = bp = blood pressure (Riva Rocci), plus pulse. Used to be normal, plus sometimes white coat syndrome, went up since fibro, seems to have gone down again, but I’m still sort of on meds, candesartan 16mg, instead of 8mg plus lercanidipine, cos I saw that c. has less side effects.