My symptom & trigger hunt daily, for preventing & alleviating, can be generalized.
2021-10-30, Saturday - forced rest from gastroenteritis, otherwise good in all areas
Triggers & resulting Symptoms
SLEEP (click for details): 9h31, up 44' (5x), then: gastroenteritis from my grandchild... ➔ feeling 90% well, Ache 1 of 7 (fibrowise) ✅, cos not too much ache (resting).
No fw!
FCS p1 22:50-
23:51 21’ 90%/1 2xp0 st1 drink fw15’ PF#3 GABA#2, glu#2, SRP#1 (HWB fell, socks wet…)
1:46 5’ 90%/1 p0-1 st1 drink fw3’ PF#4
3:15 5’ 90%/1 p0 st1 drink fw3’ 2xmumijo
4:50 9’ 90%/1 p0 st1 drink fw3’ SRP#2+3
6:40 4’ 90%/1 p0 st1 drink fw3’
-8:25 throat a bit sore at night, forehead aching more, nauseous, feverish, but not fever… gastroenteritis: carrots, fennel tea, HWB, psyllium (nux vomica D12?; not activated (char)coal/carbon).
Sum: 1h50+8h25-(21+5+5+9+4=)44’=10h15-44’=9h31, up 44’ (5x), then nauseous, void vomiting, gastroenteritis.
ACTIVITIES ➔ ACHE: Cold symptoms (forehead pain, bit sore throat), nauseous, feverish (no fever), void vomiting (no diarrhea): gastroenteritis ❌, otherwise good ➔ 90%/1 ✅
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 in bed was too painful, cos I always need to do something on my laptop for fun/distraction, and I can't get comfy there, so after a time I got up and sat leant twisted on my sofa, as ever, the rest of the day. Movement little more than necessary. But no pains, incl. plantar. ✅
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Plantar fasciitis? Lying , standing , loins , sitting , arms up , neck stiffness 90° , stiffness after poses , walking , fast cycling , bladder 0xp1-2 , GI , talking , mask-talking "
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
Supps TAKEN TODAY (click for details): After no problems at night I drank fennel tea and took nux vomica D12 (altho correcter'dve been arsenicum album D12, which my pharmacy had to order) and umckaloabo for immune system/cold symptoms. Then after feeling it could be time a gluten-free muesli ('porridge'-type with berries, blueberries are sposed to be good too), and then it started getting better. After that in the early afternoon Gastritol for my stomach & S. boulardii for my gut in case diarrhea comes up (it's solid!) and if it comes later: psyllium with little water. No early morning supps due to void vomiting, but carried on in the early afternoon. ginkgo today? Sleep: PF#3+4? Theanine? Mumijo! 4 PF, P5P, Se, 2 Rho, 1.7g (3) GABA, 0.9g (2) glutamine, 2 thea, 1x.5g NAC, 4 SRP, 2 ALC, 0 NADH, 0 ginkgo (total tally)
/21:25 PF#1 P5P, Se, 2 rhodiola
/22:20 PF#2 !0.6g GABA#1, 0.6g glutamine
/23:55 PF#3 !0.5 GABA#2, 0.3g glu#2 (not thea.), SRP#1 .
/01:50 PF#4
/03:15 mumijo#1#2 alone
/04:55 SRP#2+3
no SRP, zinc.
/14:55 0.6g GABA#3, thea#2, ALC#1, glyc#1, but no NAC#1 and gingko#1 yet.
no gingko#1
/18:50 NAC#1 ALC#2 .2g GABA#4 & .4g glu#3 (OR thea#3) SRP#4
x19:50 ALC#3 (too late for ginkgo#2), .9mg NAC
Daytime: NAC, malate/glycinate, SRP (e.g. 11h, 15h) . tea tree oil/calendula/myrrh, NADH (meals?). alerter: ALC? 1/4 tsp. Ribose: GI? mumijo (meals/meds?)
Supps (click for reference details) to KEEP UP (4): NIGHTS: 1.2g PF, 1.5g GABA (& rhodiola & P5P), 0.6g+ glutamine, ?1❌?+2 theanine ✅, ALC, ginkgo for FATS! WATCH (10): 0.4g GABA & 0.3g glutamine for pee pain ✅✅ 2 theanine in the mornings OK ✅ Mumijo (praps helping at night?) 2-3h from other meds (e.g. around 11:00), and that and SRP 30' before or 2-3h after meals, both for inflammation (JAW!!), same for NADH if poss (Best all 3 "to go") 🧐. GUM: a) Calendula, b) Umckaloabo, c) Tea tree & d) Myrrh. DAYS: Mg mal. & gly. (< 6: GI), NAC, NADH. ALC 🧐. Ribose ↘<1g , using a 100mg spoon "to go" 🧐. EVES: P5P: 20:00 50mg, with meals? (with Mg? For GABA). ↗2-3x rose root (). RE-CHECK: The seeming SAM-e sfx (on Oct 9th/10th) may have come from 1.8g GABA, or praps changing the theanine to 0.1g capsules: less? UP NEXT: BLOOD FATS: ORDER: 1) niacin (NADH differs), 2) lecithin, 3) Phytosterols. LDL). Picamilon?? not more omega3 (reduces Triglyc. slightly increases. LDN: GP?
SLEEP: !GABA with glutamine and !1 !theanine, !Passiflora, ?P5P (eve), ?SRP, not Mg gly
Passiflora 4x289mg: drowsier, but not too much, deeper, shorter breaks. 18th: Starting earlier.
GABA 2x600mg: deeper, 10 areas in daytime. (Remember Rhodiola increases serotonin & decreases the BBB! as does P5P)
theanine relaxation & alertness, so effective and shorter sleep.
glutamine 1x500mg: GABA antagonist. (Day: stiffness??)
P5P (serotonin/GABA)
( SRP serrapeptase 2x10.000IU before sleep (but 2h after last meal!))
melatonin 1mcg at 22, 1mcg at 2 - but not nice.
INFLAMMATION: SRP, Zn, Rhodiola, mumijo, NAC
5:30 serrapeptase 2x10.000IU (more?)
5:30 zinc
more: tea tree oil on gums
20:00 Rhodiola/rose root 2-3x200mg (ehm, 3 is too much!) (serotonin (like P5P), BBB & bp, so with GABA; anti-inflamm.!)
4:00 mumijo (shihalit): anti-infl., pain & GI: Mumijo attenuates chemically induced inflammatory pain in mice - PubMed (2015), Anti-ulcer activity: Ulcer healing activity of Mumijo aqueous extract against acetic acid induced gastric ulcer in rats - PubMed (2015)
German link: https://www.zentrum-der-gesundheit.de/ernaehrung/nahrungsergaenzung/heilpflanzen/mumijo: When ill, 2-3x200-300mg/d 30’ before eating for 20-30d. Then 10d without, then another 20-30d.
2h after meals SAM-e 
0x100mg (max. !): pain, stiffness, sfx: GI, bladder!, dry mouth!, sleep!, serotonin-seizures! SAMe/SAM-e - #2 by Anne. Or was this GABA?
WAKE/FOG: GABA/theanine, 2xMg, NAC, ALC
8:00 GABA & theanine
/ Mg glycinate & malate <6x!
/ NAC seems to work, try without gly or ALC
/ ALC worked well instead of NAC Oct 26th, try without gly or NAC
ACHE: !NADH, ?SRP
!NADH. Oct 26th even during TT.
Serrapeptase up to 8x or more?
ENERGY/FATIGUE: !Ribose, !NADH, NAC, ?ALC
Ribose up to 6x2.5g muscle fatigue, ATP; GI-sfx, <500mg per serving?! No sugar allowed - #7 by Lynne etc.
NAC -2400mg: NAC = N-acetylcysteine fatigue, anti-infl.
NADH/NAD+: Serrapeptase & NADH/NAD+ - enzymes - #4 by JayCS B3-coenzyme for energy (ATP) & post exertional malaise: 2.5mg, watch out for overstimulation & jitteriness. best 30’ before meals, says sourcenaturals…
/ Acetyl L-Carnitine (ALC)?: LC first? Alert brain, dose: 2x750mg, for no sfx keep under 3000. Question about kinds of pain | Page 2 | Fibromyalgia Forum.
// glycine? Alertness
STIFFNESS: !GABA
Glutamine?: Low Dopamine in Fibromyalgia and CFS. Didn’t work
NOSTRILS CLOTTED at night
tea tree oil (lavender not enough). “Breathe well” oils OK.
EVERYTHING: B12? Schüssler 2, 4 & 7
Vitamin B12: injections again?
// Schüssler 2, 4, & 7 (need 3-6 months sez my acupressurist).
ACID: !almonds
?Mumijo isn’t working: Still same heartburn, plus hungriness at 5/6.
Bentonite?: Medicinal clay never stopped my gastric acidity in my twens, but is bentonite - or am I - different now? (= 95% Montmorillonite; zeolithe is OK too. IBSD & -C; not together with other supps… (ZdG))
RAYNAUD’S: Menthol locally, arginin (amino acid): sfx mainly skin, praps gut, overdose: fog.
BLOOD FATS: 1) niacin (NADH differs!), 2) lecithin, 3) Phytosterols. (4) Picamilon?), checking arginin I saw that helps blood flow as well as blood pressure.
“agents that modulate … serotonin” (serotonergic) can help IBS (several studies).
SELF-PHYSIO (click for details): 49' ✅, considering ill.
AuTr 10’, hunchback-pillow 10’, cold shower (10’), HWB 3’, RR 3x2’, plantar/calf stretch 4’, loins 3’, foot on knee 3’…
Timing, palpate 1’, belly 3’, back 7’, neck 1+ 4’, neck 2 10’, twist-stretch 10’, yoga 5’, gums 2x30’’, V ‘, marionette-hang 1’, mirror 2’, shaking dance 1’, breath-hold 11’, workout 7’, jolt-jump 1’
THERAPIES: The gastroenteritis may explain the wind in my gut in the sonography yesterday. My grandchild had had her's a week before, but as oversensitive as I am, and besides she suddenly gave me a goodbye kiss and I was too negligent to disinfect my mouth immediately....
Acupressure / Therapy, Doc/Diagnoses ? Acupressure 2h Tues & 2h Fri:
Development:
Research-search today: Well yesterday: Raynaud’s
Lessons in self-care #105 Put off all meetings of course, and work at least on Monday’ll, cos of the GI.
Reasons to be cheerful #110 No big problem, altho it started with a bang. The discomfort is well bearable.
Reasons to be cheerful #111 Well able to do nice things on my laptop, like make music & fibro-work.
- Maybe I’ll try doing “highlights for October” as I’m disabled a bit by the gastroenteritis…
- My “How to symptom track & trigger hunt”
- Next up: Finishing off the treatment list & spreading that.
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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