JayCS’s Fibro Blog

2021-09-17, Friday - whoops, forgot to better get up for earlier work… :face_with_monocle: More tryptophan for sleep didn’t make a difference. Serrapeptase for work & tiredness. “Breakdown” at 19:00

Triggers & resulting Symptoms

SLEEP: 7h30, up 4x (47') ➔ Feeling 90% well, Ache 1 of 7 ✅. Forgot I need to go to bed earlier on Thursdays (best generally).

FCS p1 23:20-
1:40 3’ 90%/1 p0 st1 drink fw1’ + 600mg GABA & 400mg L-glutamine & 1x289mg passiflora.
3:02 3’ 90%/1 p0 st1 drink fw1’ "300"mg theanine - Where’s the 2nd tryptophan capsule gone?
3:54 uh-oh! 14’ 90%/1 st1 drink hot flush → FCS#2 & cold standing / fw5’
4:24 27’ 90%/1 st1 fw1’ 6. Tryptophan didn’t change anything. Must have taken 2x, don’t know when on of the times, but must’ve been before. Melatonin next?
-7:38
Sum: 40+7h38+(3+3+14+27=)47’=8h18, up 4x (47’)=7h30

ACTIVITIES➔ACHE: Commuting & work with some loud mask-talking ➔ 90%/1, just tired, same after acupressure: feverish-tired. TT dead easy, despite tiredness, so not too long ➔ 90%/1, but 'breakdown' quickly after it to something like 60%/4 plus tiredness, cdnt sit or stand much, my wife's sending me to bed at 21:00

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 ✅, standing OK-ish ✅/🧐, loins ✅, sitting ✅, arms up OK-ish ✅/🧐, stiffness after poses ✅, fast cycling: ✅, bladder ✅, GI good first, despite 2x tryptophan (encapsulated) ✅, but some inexplicable gut pressure after 17:00 might be due to that ❌ (warm fennel tea helped, if need be HWB), 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: 1h ✅, fibro-work (fw) 20'

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

fw: Night: 10’ + 10’*

THERAPIES: More supple after, but not nec. more energy. Still have a stab in my pelvis after, yesterday, but even now 17:20 after acupressure... Very tired in and after it.

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

Supps to KEEP UP: PAIN (ACHE; stiffness?) ✅: Serrapeptase before loud mask-talking at work worked, but not for tiredness. SLEEP: 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 & probably then the "400"mg tryptophan
22:50 600mg GABA & "400"mg tryptophan
1:40 600mg GABA & ?400mg L-glutamine & 289mg passiflora
3:00 "300"mg theanine
7:40 400 GABA + 300mg theanine …
Serrapeptase: 9:00 before loud-mask talking worked.

Supps UP NEXT: 2x400mg tryptophan, praps at bedtime & +4h? Increasing added tryptophan from 1x to ↗2x"400mg" is a big jump, driven by trying to get the increased racing thoughts at night down, due to work being a bit more stressful (but rewarding in the process) at the mo. I'll have to watch out for GI sfx & see if it helps at all, might be an overdose once again.... 1x400mg encapsulated was no problem. It will increase serotonin, not dopamine, so if at all I might need to balance it out with a bit more glutamine, which could then improve stiffness.... who knows... No sfx, but also no fx with 2x400, so now ➔ 1x800 at 21:00? Or were the GI problems after 17:00 a late consequence? 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:

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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:

I spose sharing this doesn’t nec. need to be “help” at all… :face_with_monocle: Just let it be… :hugs:

Highlights week 6th to 11th.

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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