JayCS’s Fibro Blog

2021-09-11, Saturday - nothing special, pretty tired

Triggers & resulting Symptoms

SLEEP: 8h12, up 7x (44'), minus 21' doze. ➔ Feeling 90% well, Ache 1 of 7 ✅

No FCS, let’s see… 23:58-
2:27 5’ 90%/1 p0 st1 drink fw1’ teeth + 600mg GABA & 400mg L-glutamine & 1x289mg passiflora
2:33 10’ hot flash → FCS
3:55 3’ 90%/1 p0 st1 drink fw1’ + "300"mg theanine
5:20 3’ 90%/1 p0 st1 drink fw1’
6:53 10’ 90%/1 p0 st1 drink fw8’
7:12 10’ 6 90%/1 drink
8:30 3’ 90%/1 p0 st1 drink fw1’ dozing till fairly awake
-8:54
Sum: 8:56-(5+10+3+3+10+10+3=)44=8h12, up 7x (44’), minus 21’ doze.

ACTIVITIES➔ACHE: Good, but 70' power-TT ➔ 80%/3 at 13:30, I'll see how long it takes without serrapeptase. Pretty OK actually. Not strong at 15:00, but not hurting any more. Tired in the afternoon, Achey from a bit of power cycling ➔ 70%/3, serrapeptase at 19:00 maybe got it up a little.

Ache = also Exhaustion/Tired :white_check_mark: :x: :face_with_monocle: ➔ ?90%/1
Cycle➔ exhaustion, also as action➔pains;
TT = Table-Tennis➔ easy or effortless or strained or tough?
talk/meetings here (and actions➔pains?)
Grandchild➔
Work/Mask-talking➔
Socializing/Talking➔

ACTIONS➔ PAINS: Lying, except hot flush and a bit of lower back unrest for which stretching backward helped. ✅, ...... standing ✅, loins ✅/❌/🧐, sitting ✅, arms up ✅, stiffness after poses: not severe, but noticeable as soon as I stop moving. 🧐, fast cycling ✅, bladder: seems none at the mo? (2x at most.) ✅, GI: slight heartburn due to 2 small cookies/biscuits in the evening, stool influenced by serrapeptase, but not bad, just unusual ✅, talking ✅/❌/🧐, mask-talking ✅/❌/🧐

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Lie ➔ LBU = lower back unrest, hunchback, Neck, thighs, elbows, itch, cold/hot, nose stuffy
Stand ➔ Legs, back
Knees up ➔ right loin
Arms up ➔ pain
Sit ➔ Backside, lower back
Pose ➔ stiffness (Stiffness after holding a posture): Time 0-60’’, pain amount if faster.
Walk ➔ Elbows, feet, right knee
Cycle ➔ Feet, knees, backside, elbows, hands, neck
Drink ➔ Pee frequency, pain before peeing (p0-6).
Eat ➔ Esophagus block, stomach, gut, rectum, stool (IBSD?). GI for short
Talk➔Jaw (& Ache)
Mask-talk ➔ not sure how to describe it, just plain yucky.

Treatments

SELF-PHYSIO: 50...' ✅, fibro-work (fw) 3h20

:white_check_mark: AuTr 5’, hunchback-pillow 10’, cold shower (10’), palpate 1’, belly 3’, back 7’, twist-stretch 10’, neck 2 2’, yoga 2’.
:x: Timing, neck 1+ 4’, loins 5’, gums 2x30’’, thumbnails 10x30’’, V ‘, marionette-hang 1’,mirror 2’, shaking dance 1’, breath-hold 11’, RR x2’, HWB 3’, workout 7’

fw: Night: 5 + 30h - Registering with a German forum too, there are hardly any, and no one much is writing there, so I’ll see if I can help get them up to date a bit. Serrapeptase. 30’, 10’ 1h

THERAPIES:

Acupressure / Therapy, Doc/Diagnoses ? :white_check_mark: :x: :face_with_monocle: Acupressure 2h Tues & 2h Fri:

Supps to KEEP UP: PAIN (ACHE; stiffness?) ✅: serrapeptase as nec: Not yet. Knackered in the evening from a bit of power cycling, so tried 1x late again, 19:00, let's see if sleep is OK this time. ✅: SLEEP: Worked well, despite 2h later. FCS nec later, so praps still better before bed. 0) 21:00 3x289mg passiflora, selene, rosewort/Mg carbonate/B1; bedtime GABA 1x"450"; +2h GABA "600", 400 glutamine, 1x passiflora, ✅ +4h 300 theanine WAKE/FOG: Dozing a bit nec, but then awake, not needing ginkgo; with the help at 9:00 of 0) +8h theanine 300 + GABA 400 ✅

For heartburn: Almonds first. (Bentonite, medicinal clay, mumijo?). Worked for reflux tonight at 2:30.
21:40 3x289 passiflora, selene, rosewort/magnesium carbonate/B1 at meal
22:40 600mg GABA
2:25 600mg GABA & ?400mg L-glutamine & 289mg passiflora
3:55 "300"mg theanine
9:00 400 GABA + 300mg theanine …
Serrapeptase:

Supps UP NEXT: Adjust to get body feeling (esp. head/eyes/feverishness) more natural. +WAKE/FOG: 0) ginkgo 1) SAMe 2) Ribose 3) NADH/NAD+ 4) ALC (I have LC: orally or injected?) 5) glycine. +STIFFNESS: glutamine? 🧐 +SLEEP: Apparently no longer nec: specks of tryptophan, melatonin, levodopa. NAC?. A) Schüssler B) SUPPS C) MEDS Info:

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A Homeopathy: Schüssler 2, 4, & 7 (need 3-6 months sez my acupressurist).

B SUPPS: Amino acids, Enzymes, Minerals, Vitamins
Amino acids: +B6 (as P5P), +Zn, +lithium orotate, more glutamine?, SAMe, glycine
1+2 Balancing GABA & glutamine: 1 Healthfully B6, 2 Perkins: Lithium orotate, Zn, 3 Jockers strange doses!? 4 Levy: vitamin B6, as P-5'-P?

1.1 Healthfully: tyrosine, tryptophan, B6, high complex carb early, low protein late"]
1.2 Zn Cynthia Perkins:: Low (<50mg) carb paleo, high animal protein; (Mg) Zn <40mg, lithium orotate 125-200mg, glycine often excitatory; praps, or not: taurine, vit. B6, SAMe, NAC, theanine"]

Glutamine/dopamine for stiffness/gait?!?: Low Dopamine in Fibromyalgia and CFS
SAMe: 400-800mg in the mornings, as stimulating, not much research"]

NADH/NAD+ B3-coenzyme for energy & post exertional malaise.
Acetyl L-Carnitine (ALC)?: Drink as liquid… Or ask sleep lab psychiatrist to inject it? ALC’s helping Jemima feel alert, dose: 2x750mg, for no sfx keep under 3000. Needs to be Acetyl for the brain she sez. Question about kinds of pain | Page 2 | Fibromyalgia Forum.
D-Ribose: muscle fatigue, ATP; GI-sfx, so keep under 500mg; little evidence.
Zinc again (bloods are in the middle)? Watch out for the sfx!
Magnesium - glycinate yes or no? malate? “60mg” carbonate in the roseroot?
Increase rose root from 1x200mg to 2 or 3 for serotonin etc. as well as blood pressure (normal now)?
Vitamin B12 injections again?
Vitamin B6 as P5P?
Vitamin C ultra-high dose 7,5g, to be put in 250ml NaCl solution & injected - if I can ever find someone to inject it.

C MEDS repeat?: NAC, levodopa, blood fat meds, blood pressure
NAC sleep -2400mg, better or worse (med)

(N-acetylcysteine) as I wrote here (better liposomal) as glutamate antagonist and to help sleep is mentioned on the last link (CFS/ME, with fibromites there too) suggest 1800 or 2400 mg, whilst more causes - again - diarrhea. The last person on that page also says “I elevated my glutamate / GABA levels with excess taurine” and very importantly “Once elevated Glutamate seems to be slow to rebalance” - got to watch that!
levodopa: repeat 50mg (100mg seemed to increase LBU),
Ezetimibe+atorvastatin if blood fats don’t stay down - smaller dose if at all?
Candesartan if blood pressure doesn’t stay down.

D) RELAX: A bit more Yoga Nidra on youtube.
E) MERIDIANS: real Chinese-trained acupuncture? Pardon Our Interruption
F) DOC Fibro-doc 200km from here?
G) REPEAT? Again in specks/diluted: Melatonin, 10% CBD oil, 5-HTP, ashwagandha.

Development

Highlights week 29th to 5th.

Abbreviations & explanations

Entries start with night meds & sleep, before triggers/symptoms & 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, p2: pain 2 of 7 before peeing, 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.

SUPPS: supplements (as opposed to herbs & meds). Fx: Effects. Sfx: Side effects.

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 “:arrow_forward:” to show what I’m doing to alleviate something and mark it off in the details “:white_check_mark:/:x:” whether it works well enough for a time or doesn’t’, e.g. Ache :arrow_forward: cold fast shower “:white_check_mark:
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…),
FAT Flash/fast autogenic training: immediate image of dreamy floating in space or liquid from jaw to legs.
cold/FCS = Flash Cold Shower (20’’-60’’) , I count it as 10’ tho. At night with ear plugs & all lights off.
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 enough so I’ve not only stopped lercanidipine, but also candesartan and am checking RR regularly.
:new: “V” for loins = lie on back, legs up and let legs fall to sides;
:new: twist-stretching more for the loins
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