2021-09-16, Thursday - revisited tryptophan (less & encapsulated)…: OK… 
Quite good day, considering, need to relax more tho.
Triggers & resulting Symptoms
SLEEP: 8h, up 4x (51') minus 30'? doze, first tryptophan try. ➔ Feeling 90% well, Ache 1 of 7 ✅
FCS p1 23:00-
2:00 8’ 90%/1 p0 st1 drink fw1’ + 600mg GABA & 400mg L-glutamine & 1x289mg passiflora. heartburn → almonds
2:23 10’ FCS#2 90%/1 p0 st1 drink fw1’ wk4’ + 2:33 "300"mg theanine
2:55 5’+25’=30’ 90%/1 "400"mg tryptophan encapsulated st1 drink fw1’ 6. → 30’ doze.
5:30 3’ 90%/1 st1 fw1’
3’ ?90%/1 p0-1 st1 drink fw2’
-7:50 9’ p0
Sum: 1h+7h50-(8+10+30+3=)51’= 8h, up 4x (51’) minus 30’? doze, first tryptophan try.
ACTIVITIES➔ACHE: Actually ➔85-90%/1 all day, despite again 5h work, might've stressful for others, wasn't for me, cycling pretty fast, TT dead easy, lots of talking & mask-talking, but not loud. Socializing in the evening
Ache = also Exhaustion/Tired 
➔ ?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 ✅, standing ✅, loins ✅, sitting ✅, arms up ✅, stiffness after poses ✅, fast cycling ✅, bladder: none in the daytime (2x pain at night) ✅, GI: despite "400mg" tryptophan ✅, talking work & evening ✅, quite a bit of mask-talking at work, without too much repercussion ✅
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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: 1h30 ✅, fibro-work (fw) 1h
Timing, AuTr 10’, hunchback-pillow 10’, cold shower 2x(10’), palpate 1’, belly 3’, back 7’, neck 1+ 9’, neck 2 10’, twist-stretch 10’, loins 5’, yoga 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? + 5’ + 5’ +10 +30’*
THERAPIES: Neck & loins still OK, but I have to keep up the exercises now, not to forget!
Acupressure / Therapy, Doc/Diagnoses ? Acupressure 2h Tues & 2h Fri:
Supps to KEEP UP: Tryptophan at 3:00 for the first time. Starting to feel more natural. PAIN (ACHE; stiffness?) ✅: Serrapeptase not nec. today, no real feverishness, despite praps overdoing it a little bit. SLEEP: Sleep disturbed a bit 🧐 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: 0) +8h theanine 300 + GABA 400 ✅
For heartburn: Almonds first. (Bentonite, medicinal clay, mumijo?).
21:30 3x289 passiflora, selene, rosewort/magnesium carbonate/B1 at meal
22:30 600mg GABA
2:00 600mg GABA & ?400mg L-glutamine & 289mg passiflora
2:33 "300"mg theanine
2:55 "400"mg trytophan
7:55 400 GABA + 300mg theanine …
Serrapeptase:
Supps UP NEXT: Try serrapeptase for overdoing-feverishness +WAKE/FOG: 0) ginkgo 1) SAMe 2) Ribose 3) NADH/NAD+ 4) ALC (I have LC: orally or injected?) 5) glycine. +STIFFNESS: +glutamine balanced with GABA at daytime? 🧐 +SLEEP: Keep tryptophan up 🧐, or melatonin, levodopa. NAC?. A) Schüssler B) SUPPS C) MEDS Info:
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: Am I helping anyone apart from myself?
- Still on the plateau, adding tryptophan isn’t throwing me out of balance, serrapeptase not necessary yet, increasing work is OK, but I’m only managing a little bit of forum work.
- I’m however starting to question where/how/whether I’m helping anyone else. I get quite some positive feedback on only one other forum, with minimal effort, which makes it very effective and easy to keep up. The few active people on the new German forum I’ve been on don’t seem at all interested in my development. The only thing thing to try there is to translate all my reference lists and put them up there, since there are occasionally many viewers there, praps there are quite a few people who want to read, but not write.
- What I’m still surprised at is there are still no treatment lists and no lists of causes/triggers of fibro anywhere apart from mine. There may be symptom lists, but as I keep saying I think symptom lists are irrelevant. What is relevant in my eyes however would be to be able to look up treatment ideas for a certain symptom, and I would want to stick to those on my symptom list, as they seem to be to be the main ones relevant to people with the FM-diagnosis. So I’ll be completing & perfecting those, even if only for my own satisfaction. Haven’t checked on the views there for quite some time: 300 views since Aug 2nd means 300 in 6 weeks, that’s 50 per week, 7 per day, altho I still haven’t had time to add much yet, altho I have so many treatment possibilites to add, i.e. there are readers who really are using it as a reference or at least hoping it will help them. Is that a lot? Is it worth it? No idea. Would it help more people if I carried on with it?
- The good feedback that encourages me is stably “getting” 15-35 views per day here on this blog and personal encouragement by all the mods here (not elsewhere), so I’d like to thank all of you who read this, even if you don’t manage to comment.
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 “
” 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…),
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.
“V” for loins = lie on back, legs up and let legs fall to sides;
twist-stretching more for the loins
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