JayCS’s Fibro Blog

[JayCS]

2021-10-10, Sunday - wow: cycled 25-30 miles, 5.5h, and still OK, due to taking 1x NAC, Mg malate, Mg glycinate, Ribose every 1.5h and serrapeptase when not eating!

Triggers & resulting Symptoms

SLEEP: 8h33, up 5x (51') ➔ Feeling 90% well, Ache 1 of 7 ✅. Did delight in a bit of unreasonable fw in the middle of the night, but melatonin helped getting my thoughts back down. Let's see how sore my muscles are tomorrow.

No fw!: whoops: 36’.
FCS p1 22:18-
23:58 5’ 90%/1 p2 st3 drink fw3’ stiff, numbed, bladder, due to melatonin. !!600mg theanine & 600mg GABA & 3rd 1x289 passiflora (earlier!) Bit heartburn: 2nd mumijo.
1:35 34’ 90%/1 p1 st1 drink fw30’ Still sleep breaks, despite melatonin. And stiffer. Still heartburn, despite mumijo. Bored? Dozing quite a bit at first.
4:38 3’ 90%/1 p0 st2 drink fw1’
2:55 3’ 90%/1 p0 st1 drink fw1’ “4th” passiflora? Nope.
6:55 6’ 90%/1 p0 st1 drink fw1’ zinc 2xSRP
-7:42 bit tired, but not druggy. GABA+500mg theanine, 2 Mg glycinate.

Sum: 1h42+7h42-(5+34+3+3+6=)51’=9h24-51’=8h33, up 5x (51’)

ACTIVITIES ➔ ACHE: Well, considering to cycling 25-30 miles ➔ 90%/1. Of course not compared to what I used to be able to or what the others did. They walked in between for about 10 miles or more. That was too much for me, so I went back home on my home. Also I was talking a lot of the time, albeit with good nicest of friends.

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: Backside, hands and elbows hurt most from the cycling. First I could cycle quickly, but on my way back I had to rest or go slow. But this is all brilliant! ✅ Rested after, but did some music production standing up, so you could say: better than usual. ✅

➔
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

SELF-PHYSIO: 1h10 ✅

Timing, AuTr 10’, hunchback-pillow 10’, cold shower (10’), palpate 1’, belly 3’, back 7’, neck 1+ 6’, twist-stretch 10’, yoga 2’, RR 5x2’,
neck 2 10’, loins 5’, gums 2x30’’, V ‘, marionette-hang 1’, mirror 2’, shaking dance 1’, breath-hold 11’, HWB 3’, workout 7’

THERAPIES:

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

Development:

Lessons in self-care #89 Turned back not quite in time, but before I was starting to decompose.
Reasons to be cheerful #91 Just: WOW!

• Highlights week 20th to 26th.
• 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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[JayCS]

2021-10-11, Monday - no repercussions, keeping up the boosters

Triggers & resulting Symptoms

SLEEP: 8h56, up 5x (1h29) ➔ Feeling 90% well, Ache 1 of 7 ✅. 1mcg melatonin and 2 passiflora wasn't enough.

No fw!
FCS p0 22:15-
0:27 11’ 90%/1 p0 st1 drink fw1’ theanine GABA 2nd passiflora, 3rd mumijo. !2 SRP. Heartburn worse after these at mumijo, so stop mumijo at night. → drink.
2:21 3’ 90%/1 p0 st1 drink fw1’
3:46 3’ 90%/1 p0 st1 drink fw1’
4:05 64’ 6+fw20’ unrest awake → 3rd passiflora, 3’ 90%/1 p0 st1 drink fw1’ ⇰ 2nd melatonin nec.
6:27 8’ 90%/1 p0 st1 drink fw5’ hungry zinc, 2 SRP.
-8:40 (SRP?)
Sum: 1h45+8h40-(11+3+3+64+8=)1h29 = 10h25-1h29 = 8h56, up 5x (1h29)

ACTIVITIES ➔ ACHE: Work, with loud mask-talking and normal talking to 2 people outside for quite a time, cycling, table tennis, carrying on using the boosters NAC Mg and Ribose, partly serrapeptase, 1h walk, music production ➔ 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: None to speak of. ✅ Bit of GI on 1h walk, maybe Mg? 🧐

➔
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

SELF-PHYSIO: 35' ✅

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

THERAPIES: I've had another look at the fibro-doc 200km from here and seen it's a psychiatrist I'd found. Seeing as myf psychiatrist is the one doc I can talk with best, I'm going to wait what his successor is like and if that doesn't work out, I'll continue to work with him online. But I'll no longer pursue the other route. As to the Chinese-trained acupuncturist I'm thinking about trying (#3), I think I want to go by there personally rather than on the phone, I cycle past there almost every day. My wife thinks I'm mad for wanting to try it again, despite it having caused so much pain. But this time I will not tolerate that, I will complain or take the needles out myself. And I know I can cold shower at home, that will stop the pain immediately.

Acupressure / Therapy, Doc/Diagnoses ? Acupressure 2h Tues & 2h Fri:
Chinese-trained acupuncture? I’ll have a closer look, try to talk personally.

Supps to KEEP UP (3): passiflora, GABA, theanine ✅, to WATCH (10): glutamine, Mg malate & glycinate, 2x mumijo (not helping GI ❌, so only daytime), ↗5x NAC ✅, P5P, ↗6x Ribose ✅, ↗3x rose root, ↗?x SRP 🧐, to START/CHANGE (2-3): NADH, ALC (ordered) ✅/❌/🧐. Better with melatonin, but Oct 11th: 2nd melatonin at 2, & praps still 4x passiflora nec. Stopped SAMe (seizures & more).

SLEEP:
Passiflora 4x289mg: drowsier, but not too much, deeper, shorter breaks
GABA 2x600mg: deeper, 10 areas in daytime
theanine 1x300 relaxed, not too long
glutamine 1x500mg: GABA antagonist. But maybe more day than night?
melatonin 1mcg at 22, 1mcg at 2.
P5P (serotonin/GABA)
( SRP serrapeptase 2x10.000IU before sleep (but 2h after last meal!))
INFLAMMATION:
5:30 serrapeptase 2x10.000IU (more?)
zinc
tea tree oil on gums
rose root 20:00 2-3x200mg: serotonin & bp.
mumijo (shihalit) 20:00: 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: Mumijo – Das schwarze Naturheilmittel
2h after meals SAMe 0x100mg (max. !): pain, stiffness, sfx: GI, bladder!, dry mouth!, sleep!, serotonin-seizures! SAMe - #2 by Anne
WAKE/FOG:
8:00 GABA & theanine
Mg glycinate 2x400
NAC
Mg malate 0-1 for the time being , cos I’m running short. (2x500)
ACHE:
Serrapeptase up to 8x or more?
ENERGY/FATIGUE:
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 & post exertional malaise.
➲ // Acetyl L-Carnitine (ALC)?: LC first? A for Alert brain, dose: 2x750mg, for no sfx keep under 3000. Question about kinds of pain | Page 2 | Fibromyalgia Forum.
// glycine? Alertness
STIFFNESS:
Glutamine?: Low Dopamine in Fibromyalgia and CFS
NOSTRILS CLOTTED at night
tea tree oil (lavender not enough)
EVERYTHING:
Vitamin B12: injections again?
// Schüssler 2, 4, & 7 (need 3-6 months sez my acupressurist).
ACID:
Mumijo isn’t working: Still same heartburn, plus hungriness at 5/6.
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))

Supps TAKEN TODAY: (SRP not with meals).

/19:45 P5P, 1 Mumijo, 1x289 passiflora, selene, 2x rosewort/Mg carbonate/B1 at meal.
/21:35 600mg GABA & 500mg !glutamine, <0.1 melatonin (but SRP doesn’t seem to be helping?) Reduce passi at 22, 2-3 rosewort?
/00:27 !300mg theanine & !600mg GABA & 2nd 1x289 passiflora, Bit heartburn: 3rd mumijo. !2 serrapeptase (2h after meal!) Stop mumijo at night, as more after.
/4:05 “3rd” passiflora - too late.
no 4th passiflora
/6:32 zinc, 2 serrapeptase.
/8:40 600 GABA+500mg theanine, 2 Mg glycinate. tea tree oil
/13:50: 1x each of NAC, Ribose, glycinate, malate, SRP.
/17:45: NAC, Ribose, glycinate, malate, serrapeptase
Daytime: 5x NAC , 6x Ribose , ?x SRP , 2x2 malate , 2x2 glycinate

Development:

Lessons in self-care #90 Wary…
Reasons to be cheerful #92 No repercussions from yesterday

• Highlights week 20th to 26th.
• 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
➔ ⇄ ⇨➜ ➞ ➲ ↔:⇰↔ →:arrow_upper_right:

↯ ↛ ↺ ↮ ⇝ ⇾ ⟹ ⭆ ⤮:

[JayCS]

2021-10-12, Tuesday - still good, despite sort of smashed night: doesn’t matter, having the suiting boosters… as long as I don’t start reckoning with them.

The last 2 times I had long breaks at night were the night before last Tuesday, 5th (2h36), and Wednesday 22nd (7h43, up 4x (1h52), minus 5h12 seemingly dozing). Can’t really count Sunday 3rd (1h47), because it was the weekend and I slept 10h11-25 doze = 9h46. Twice Tuesday might be explained by not having to go to work and then Wednesday was likewise revenge bedtime procrastination…

Triggers & resulting Symptoms

SLEEP: 6h44, up 5x (3h41) ➔ Feeling 90% well, Ache 1 of 7 ✅

No fw!
Only a make-shift FCS, as the water pipes in our street are being flushed, and we’re not sposed to use any water 20:00-5:00. Cold standing in water, but no additional warmth nec.
p0 22:10-
23:35 6’+3’+3’ 90%/1 p0 st1 drink fw3’ unrest, so no longer postponing !300mg theanine & !600mg GABA & 2nd 1x289 passiflora !2 serrapeptase (2h after meal). Still unrest, missing the melatonin-druggedness, so not sure if the specks of it really were enough, so a 2nd.
0:36 2h06 Waiting dozing and thinking a bit about psychotherapy tomorrow fairly patiently, waiting for the 2nd speck of melatonin and 2nd passiflora to work. Still fairly awake, so am considering either trying to makeshift FCS#2 or 6. fw… now tired. 2:42 3rd passiflora. Dozing using AuTr. do something:
3:06 1h15 90%/1 etc. Don’t want to try the FCS#2, see if I can’t get melatonin to start working, so a 3rd speck now… seeing as I’d wanted to try if I can get melatonin alone to work… Maybe I shd start weighing the specks of it to control it better. Or is it sth else…?
5’52 8’ No melatonin alone is not enough: FCS2…
7:11 3’ tooth’s been hurting, p0/1, st1 drink mostly. fw: lots.
-8:35
Sum: 1h50+8h35-(5+2h05+1h15+8+3=)3h41=10h25-3h41=6h44, up 5x (3h41)

ACTIVITIES ➔ ACHE: Music production fun, psychotherapy slightly enlightening, acupressure helpful, table tennis easy, good talk, shop easy ➔ ?90%/1, despite tiredness

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: GI Monday evening continuing - hardly took ribose, 1-2x, so either from the ribose yesterday or it is like I thought the high amount of Mg - yesterday 4-6 cps today, at least 8 yesterday. I'd best reduce the Mg. Everything else good.

➔
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

SELF-PHYSIO: 52' ✅

RR 3x2’ (144/85 and 132/82 alternately…), 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’’, V ‘, marionette-hang 1’, mirror 2’, shaking dance 1’, breath-hold 11’, HWB 3’, workout 7’

THERAPIES: Psychotherapy slightly enlightening, acupressure pretty helpful, backside, thighs, but this time at last acupressure for elbows.

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

Max. dose of Mg: 420 mg, for sleep 500mg, probably the element, not the compound is meant, which’d mean around x9, so 4.5g of the compound, which I’d be above if I took the full 3x2 of the malate and 3x2 of the glycinate = 5.6g plus carbonate in the rose wort = 60mg of I think the element (=550 = 6.2g). Best stay down to 3x1 of each, 2.8g plus carbonate = 3.3.

Supps to KEEP UP (3): passiflora, GABA, theanine ✅, to WATCH (10): glutamine, Mg malate & glycinate, 2x mumijo (not helping GI ❌, so only daytime), ↗5x NAC ✅, P5P, ↗6x Ribose ✅, ↗3x rose root, ↗?x SRP 🧐, to START/CHANGE (2-3): NADH, ALC (ordered) ✅/❌/🧐. Better with melatonin, but Oct 11th: 2nd melatonin at 2, & praps still 4x passiflora nec. Increase to 3x melatonin? Not too much Mg.

SLEEP:
Passiflora 4x289mg: drowsier, but not too much, deeper, shorter breaks
GABA 2x600mg: deeper, 10 areas in daytime
theanine 1x300 relaxed, not too long
glutamine 1x500mg: GABA antagonist. But maybe more day than night?
melatonin 1mcg at 22, 1mcg at 2.
P5P (serotonin/GABA)
( SRP serrapeptase 2x10.000IU before sleep (but 2h after last meal!))
INFLAMMATION:
5:30 serrapeptase 2x10.000IU (more?)
zinc
tea tree oil on gums
rose root 20:00 2-3x200mg: serotonin & bp.
mumijo (shihalit) 20:00: 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: Mumijo – Das schwarze Naturheilmittel
2h after meals SAMe 0x100mg (max. !): pain, stiffness, sfx: GI, bladder!, dry mouth!, sleep!, serotonin-seizures! SAMe - #2 by Anne
WAKE/FOG:
8:00 GABA & theanine
Mg glycinate 2x400
NAC
Mg malate 0-1 for the time being , cos I’m running short. (2x500)
ACHE:
Serrapeptase up to 8x or more?
ENERGY/FATIGUE:
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 & post exertional malaise.
➲ // Acetyl L-Carnitine (ALC)?: LC first? A for Alert brain, dose: 2x750mg, for no sfx keep under 3000. Question about kinds of pain | Page 2 | Fibromyalgia Forum.
// glycine? Alertness
STIFFNESS:
Glutamine?: Low Dopamine in Fibromyalgia and CFS
NOSTRILS CLOTTED at night
tea tree oil (lavender not enough)
EVERYTHING:
Vitamin B12: injections again?
// Schüssler 2, 4, & 7 (need 3-6 months sez my acupressurist).
ACID:
Mumijo isn’t working: Still same heartburn, plus hungriness at 5/6.
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))

Supps TAKEN TODAY: 2x0.1 melatonin with only 2x passiflora wasn't enough, but not drowsy in the morning, so I could try increasing melatonin to 3x0.1, emulating the ER pill. Not that much NAC or Ribose, didn't seem nec: 2 NAC, 2 Ribose, 2 SRP.

/20:25 P5P, 1 Mumijo, 1x289 passiflora, selene, 1x rosewort/Mg carbonate/B1 at meal.
/21:25 600mg GABA & 500mg !glutamine, <0.1 melatonin (but SRP doesn’t seem to be helping?), 1x rosewort. Reduce passi at 22.
/23:35 !300mg theanine & !600mg GABA & 2nd 1x289 passiflora, !2 serrapeptase (2h after meal!). Stop mumijo at night, as more heartburn after. 00:00 2nd <0.1 melatonin! Leaving it in my mouth a bit.
no “3rd” passiflora - too late.
no 4th passiflora
/8:35 zinc, 2 serrapeptase. (late)
/9:25 600 GABA+500mg theanine, 1 Mg glycinate. 1 SRP by mistake? NAC Ribose
/15:50: NAC, Ribose
/17:15: serrapeptase
NAC, Ribose, glycinate, malate, SRP.
Daytime: 5x NAC , 6x Ribose , ?x SRP , 2x2 malate , 2x2 glycinate
ORDER MORE NAC! tea tree oil

Development:

Lessons in self-care #91 Keeping things toned down a bit, but energy etc. there, despite reduced supps.
Reasons to be cheerful #93 Still good day again, despite little sleep, tired!

• Highlights week 20th to 26th.
• 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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[JayCS]

2021-10-13, Wednesday - commuting stress

Triggers & resulting Symptoms

SLEEP: 11h, up 5x (24') ➔ Feeling 80% well, Ache 2 of 7 ✅. Really long sleep, but I didn't feel good with the 2x1mcg melatonin, altho I cd dream and sleep deeply. Feeling bad makes me go back in bed quickly. Watching that 🧐.

No fw!
FCS p1 21:30-
23:45 9’ 90%/1 p1 st1 drink fw1’ theanine GABA #2, passiflora #2, !2 SRP melatonin #2.
01:45 3’ 90%/1 p1 st1 drink fw1’ druggy. pass#3.
03:45 3’ 90%/1 p0-1 st2 drink fw1’ pass#4
5:30 3’ 90%/1 p0 st3 drink fw2’ hungry zinc & serrapeptase
6:30 1’ lavender (not getting up)
7:07 6’ 90%/1 p0 st3 drink fw2’ GABA theanine glycinate.
I don’t feel good in nights with melatonin, even after these 7:00 supps.
-8:52
Sum: 2h30+8h52-(9+3+3+3+6=)24’= 11h22-24’ = 11h, up 5x (24’)

ACTIVITIES ➔ ACHE: Melatonin-sick at night, but then getting under way ➔ 90%/1 ✅, train not coming & lack of information stressed; took 2h to get to work instead of 45' ➔ 70%/2 ✅ resting, supps etc. ➔ 85%/1-2

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: ✅, but after midday a bit of GI: bloaty ❌

➔
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

SELF-PHYSIO: 35' ✅

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

THERAPIES: Good talk with my wife about relationship/psycho-issues. ✅. Found info a visiting card with photo outside the Chinese acupuncturist's practice.

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

Supps to KEEP UP (3): passiflora, GABA, theanine ✅, to WATCH (10): glutamine, Mg malate & glycinate, 2-3x mumijo (not helping GI ❌, so only daytime), ↗5x NAC ✅, P5P, ↗6x Ribose (GI?) ✅, ↗2-3x rose root, ↗?x SRP 🧐, to START/CHANGE (2-3): NADH, ALC (ordered) ✅/❌/🧐. 2x1mcg Melatonin deepens sleep, but makes me feel achey-shakey-unwell. Keep overall Mg down (GI). Dry mouth after 5:00 (after zinc & serrapeptase, but neither are sposed to cause it), despite drinking more, so I'll start putting in dry mouth gel automatically directly after, and watch if I don't get it if I don't take them.

SLEEP:
Passiflora 4x289mg: drowsier, but not too much, deeper, shorter breaks
GABA 2x600mg: deeper, 10 areas in daytime
theanine 1x300 relaxed, not too long
glutamine 1x500mg: GABA antagonist. But maybe more day than night?
melatonin 1mcg at 22, 1mcg at 2.
P5P (serotonin/GABA)
( SRP serrapeptase 2x10.000IU before sleep (but 2h after last meal!))
INFLAMMATION:
5:30 serrapeptase 2x10.000IU (more?)
zinc
tea tree oil on gums
rose root 20:00 2-3x200mg: serotonin & bp.
mumijo (shihalit) 20:00: 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: Mumijo – Das schwarze Naturheilmittel
2h after meals SAMe 0x100mg (max. !): pain, stiffness, sfx: GI, bladder!, dry mouth!, sleep!, serotonin-seizures! SAMe - #2 by Anne
WAKE/FOG:
8:00 GABA & theanine
Mg glycinate 2x400
NAC
Mg malate 0-1 for the time being , cos I’m running short. (2x500)
ACHE:
Serrapeptase up to 8x or more?
ENERGY/FATIGUE:
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 & post exertional malaise.
➲ // Acetyl L-Carnitine (ALC)?: LC first? A for Alert brain, dose: 2x750mg, for no sfx keep under 3000. Question about kinds of pain | Page 2 | Fibromyalgia Forum.
// glycine? Alertness
STIFFNESS:
Glutamine?: Low Dopamine in Fibromyalgia and CFS
NOSTRILS CLOTTED at night
tea tree oil (lavender not enough)
EVERYTHING:
Vitamin B12: injections again?
// Schüssler 2, 4, & 7 (need 3-6 months sez my acupressurist).
ACID:
Mumijo isn’t working: Still same heartburn, plus hungriness at 5/6.
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))

Supps TAKEN TODAY: 2x0.1 melatonin with 4x passiflora was too much again, didn't feel well, drowsy in the morning, so don't feel like increasing melatonin to 3x0.1. NAC & Ribose cos of commuting stress: 2 NAC, 2 Ribose, later 1 Ribose, 2 SRP. Better then, so TT easy, but bloaty: Ribose?

/19:40 P5P, 1 Mumijo, 1x289 passiflora, selene, 1x rosewort/Mg carbonate/B1 at meal.
/21:00 600mg GABA & 500mg !glutamine, <0.1 melatonin, 1x rosewort.
/23:45 !300mg theanine & !600mg GABA & 2nd 1x289 passiflora, !2 serrapeptase (2h after meal!) 2nd <0.1 melatonin! (Mouth.) No mumijo.
/1:45 “3rd” passiflora
/3:45 4th passiflora
/5:30 zinc, 2 serrapeptase
/7:05 600 GABA+500mg theanine, 1 Mg glycinate.
/9:10 NAC, Ribose, glycinate, malate, mumijo
/12:30? NAC, glycinate, malate.
/13:40 Ribose
/16:30 2 SRP, 1 Ribose. Bit GI.
/17:05 mumijo cos of GI.
/18:20 mumijo. P5P. Gastritol for GI. (bloaty)
SRP later…
Daytime: NAC , 6x Ribose , 3x1 malate , 3x1 glycinate , ?x SRP (2h after meals) ).
ORDER MORE NAC! tea tree oil

Development:

Lessons in self-care #92 Got to keep everything down today after that stress.
Reasons to be cheerful #94 In hindsight, the train story today was so wacky, it was/is a good tale to tell and get worked up about to let off steam …

• Highlights week 20th to 26th.
• 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
➔ ⇄ ⇨➜ ➞ ➲ ↔:⇰↔ →:arrow_upper_right:

↯ ↛ ↺ ↮ ⇝ ⇾ ⟹ ⭆ ⤮:

[JayCS]

2021-10-14, Thursday - bit of a lot of work - over my limits?

Triggers & resulting Symptoms

SLEEP: 7h18, up 7x (24'), creative break, plus 1h27 = 8h45 ➔ Feeling 90% well, Ache 1 of 7 ✅, the many short breaks are strange, but the night feels "sounder", "healthier" without melatonin. Allowing for a creative break is completely OK. But tomorrow I won't be able to sleep till 8:45 and 6:02 won't be enough. But the last stint was partly dozing anyway first. Maybe melatonin only if I don't feel drowsy enough?

No fw!
FCS p0 22:20-
23:30 5’ 90%/1 p0 st1 drink fw2’ !400mg theanine, !600mg GABA, 2nd passiflora, !1 SRP
0:20 4’ 90%/1 p0 st3 drink fw2’ 3rd passiflora, 1 rosewort
1:09 3’ 90%/1 p0-1 st2-1 drink fw1’ 4th passiflora
1:55 3’ 90%/1 p1-2 st2 drink fw1’
3:05 3’ 90%/1 p0 st1 drink fw1’
4:38 3’ 90%/1 p0 st1 drink fw1’
-6:02 3’+21’+2’+11=37’ 90%/1 p0 st1 drink fw2’ music-idea Zn 2SRP
7:18-8:45 =
-End
Sum: 1h40+6h02-(5+4+3+3+3+3+3=)24’=7h42-24’=7h18, up 7x (24’), creative break, plus 1h27 = 8h45

ACTIVITIES ➔ ACHE: Bit overloaded before work, but ➔ 90%/1 ✅, feverish & bloaty see supps. Having to go a 2nd time at 15:00 was tough tho, 80%/2, may've been only 1.5h of net real work, but, all in all with commuting another 3.5h+ - good that time off is coming up! Strangely feverish, not tired, different.

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: ✅, GI bloaty again & feverishness after lunch & 2xMg plus a heaped tsp of ribose, not NAC...

➔
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

SELF-PHYSIO: 53' ✅

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

THERAPIES: ✅

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

Supps to KEEP UP (3): passiflora, GABA, theanine ✅, to WATCH (10): glutamine, Mg malate & glycinate, 2-3x mumijo (not helping GI ❌, so only daytime), ↗5x NAC ✅, P5P, ↗6x Ribose (GI?) ✅, ↗2-3x rose root, ↗?x SRP 🧐, to START/CHANGE (2-3): NADH, ALC (ordered) ✅/❌/🧐. 2x1mcg Melatonin deepens sleep, but makes me feel achey-shakey-unwell. Keep overall Mg down (GI). Dry mouth after 5:00 (after zinc & serrapeptase, but neither are sposed to cause it), despite drinking more, so I'll start putting in dry mouth gel automatically directly after, and watch if I don't get it if I don't take them.

SLEEP:
Passiflora 4x289mg: drowsier, but not too much, deeper, shorter breaks
GABA 2x600mg: deeper, 10 areas in daytime
theanine 1x300 relaxed, not too long
glutamine 1x500mg: GABA antagonist. But maybe more day than night?
melatonin 1mcg at 22, 1mcg at 2.
P5P (serotonin/GABA)
( SRP serrapeptase 2x10.000IU before sleep (but 2h after last meal!))
INFLAMMATION:
5:30 serrapeptase 2x10.000IU (more?)
zinc
tea tree oil on gums
rose root 20:00 2-3x200mg: serotonin & bp.
mumijo (shihalit) 20:00: 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: Mumijo – Das schwarze Naturheilmittel
2h after meals SAMe 0x100mg (max. !): pain, stiffness, sfx: GI, bladder!, dry mouth!, sleep!, serotonin-seizures! SAMe - #2 by Anne
WAKE/FOG:
8:00 GABA & theanine
Mg glycinate 2x400
NAC
Mg malate 0-1 for the time being , cos I’m running short. (2x500)
ACHE:
Serrapeptase up to 8x or more?
ENERGY/FATIGUE:
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 & post exertional malaise.
➲ // Acetyl L-Carnitine (ALC)?: LC first? A for Alert brain, dose: 2x750mg, for no sfx keep under 3000. Question about kinds of pain | Page 2 | Fibromyalgia Forum.
// glycine? Alertness
STIFFNESS:
Glutamine?: Low Dopamine in Fibromyalgia and CFS
NOSTRILS CLOTTED at night
tea tree oil (lavender not enough)
EVERYTHING:
Vitamin B12: injections again?
// Schüssler 2, 4, & 7 (need 3-6 months sez my acupressurist).
ACID:
Mumijo isn’t working: Still same heartburn, plus hungriness at 5/6.
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))

Supps TAKEN TODAY: GI bloaty again & feverishness after (lunch &) 2xMg plus a heaped tsp of ribose, not NAC..., energy boost praps wasn't nec yet, but I was gonna need it. Does that maybe mean not to take it at meals, cos taking a lot without eating on Sunday seemed OK..?

/18:20 mumijo. P5P. Gastritol for GI. (bloaty)
/21:35 1st 1x289 passiflora, selene, 1x rosewort/Mg carbonate/B1 at meal. So tired: No melatonin.
/21:00 600mg GABA & 500mg !glutamine.
0 <0.1 melatonin, 0x rosewort.
/23:45 !400mg theanine !600mg GABA 2nd 1x289 passiflora, !1 serrapeptase (2h after meal!) 0 <0.1 melatonin! (Mouth.) No mumijo.
/0:20 3rd passiflora, 1 rosewort
/1:10 4th passiflora
/7:15? zinc, 2 serrapeptase
/8:50 600 GABA+500mg theanine, 1 Mg glycinate.
/15:00 NAC, glycinate, malate. Afterwards bloated.
/17:30 NAC, glycinate, malate, SRP
SRP later…
Daytime: NAC , 6x Ribose , 3x1 malate , 3x1 glycinate , ?x SRP (2h after meals) ).
ORDER MORE NAC! tea tree oil

Development:

Lessons in self-care #93 Bed early
Reasons to be cheerful #95 Did a lot and still fairly OK

• Highlights week 20th to 26th.
• 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
➔ ⇄ ⇨➜ ➞ ➲ ↔:⇰↔ →:arrow_upper_right:

↯ ↛ ↺ ↮ ⇝ ⇾ ⟹ ⭆ ⤮:

[JayCS]

2021-10-15, Friday - feverish feeling 15:00-11:00 probably from the ripening tooth inflammation (I doubt the NAC)…

No temperature: Only helpful thing I can find is Healthline’s: drink more.
Negative CoV-test: Boss said it’s OK to work.
A 2nd cold shower didn’t improve it at all…
Maybe a combination of the - I think - ribose yesterday at 15:00 and the tooth inflammation which I could easily squash out today, yukky-yuk, tea tree oil will hopefully help that.

Triggers & resulting Symptoms

SLEEP: 7h41, up 3x (2h04), plus a bit?... ➔ Feeling 70% due to only feverish-feeling,, after that 80% well, Ache 1 of 7 ✅

No fw!
FCS p1 21:45-
00:18 1h27 90%/1 p0 st1 drink fw1’ GABA theanine, passiflora, SRP, Still feverish (since 15:00) as if ill, not like tired! CoV negative, fever negative (<36°C). OK, sleep more. (Repeat CoV??)
00:38 2nd SRP, 2nd mumijo. 00:40 Had left all 3 heatings on, temp. was 19.5°C (67°F, not that high.) 1:21 still feverish, unchanged, praps I have to take some clothes off? -1:45
2:45 still awake, creative flash, still feverish. 3:15 after FCS#2: Hasn’t helped either, try to sleeping it off… Umckaloabo, clothes on again.
5:07 4’ 90%/1 p0 st1 drink fw1’ Better. Umckaloabo again.
?2:00 3’ 90%/1 p0 st1 drink fw1’
-7:30
Sum: 2h15+7h30-(1h57+4+3=)2h04=9h45-2h04=7h41, up 3x (2h04), plus a bit?..

ACTIVITIES ➔ ACHE: ➔ 90%/1, apart from this strange feverishness ("70%" till midday)

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: ✅ GI: Liquid stool, probably related to the feverish-feeling. ❌

➔
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

SELF-PHYSIO: 56' ✅

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

THERAPIES: Ear acupressure; legs and loins. Good. ✅

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

Supps to KEEP UP (3): passiflora, GABA, theanine ✅, to WATCH (10): glutamine, Mg malate & glycinate, 2-3x mumijo (not helping GI ❌, so only daytime), ↗5x NAC ✅🧐, P5P, ↗6x Ribose (but GI?) ✅, ↗2-3x rose root, ↗?x SRP 🧐, to START/CHANGE (2-3): NADH, ALC (came today, 15th, as did further NAC, malate & theanine) ✅/❌/🧐. Stopping 2x1mcg melatonin, keeping overall Mg down (GI). Dry mouth better 🧐. Watching GI 🧐 & feverishness 🧐.

SLEEP:
Passiflora 4x289mg: drowsier, but not too much, deeper, shorter breaks
GABA 2x600mg: deeper, 10 areas in daytime
theanine 1x300 relaxed, not too long
glutamine 1x500mg: GABA antagonist. But maybe more day than night?
P5P (serotonin/GABA)
( SRP serrapeptase 2x10.000IU before sleep (but 2h after last meal!))
melatonin 1mcg at 22, 1mcg at 2 - not nice feeling.
INFLAMMATION:
5:30 serrapeptase 2x10.000IU (more?)
zinc
tea tree oil on gums
rose root 20:00 2-3x200mg (serotonin & bp)
mumijo (shihalit) 20:00: 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: Mumijo – Das schwarze Naturheilmittel
2h after meals SAMe 0x100mg (max. !): pain, stiffness, sfx: GI, bladder!, dry mouth!, sleep!, serotonin-seizures! SAMe - #2 by Anne
WAKE/FOG:
8:00 GABA & theanine
Mg glycinate 2x400
NAC
Mg malate 0-1 for the time being , cos I’m running short. (2x500)
ACHE:
Serrapeptase up to 8x or more?
ENERGY/FATIGUE:
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 & post exertional malaise.
// Acetyl L-Carnitine (ALC)?: LC first? A for Alert brain, dose: 2x750mg, for no sfx keep under 3000. Question about kinds of pain | Page 2 | Fibromyalgia Forum.
// glycine? Alertness
STIFFNESS:
Glutamine?: Low Dopamine in Fibromyalgia and CFS
NOSTRILS CLOTTED at night
tea tree oil (lavender not enough)
EVERYTHING:
Vitamin B12: injections again?
// Schüssler 2, 4, & 7 (need 3-6 months sez my acupressurist).
ACID:
Mumijo isn’t working: Still same heartburn, plus hungriness at 5/6.
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))

Supps TAKEN TODAY: Feverishness from 15:00 till 11:00. Tooth inflammation or was it the NAC at 14:30?? Took nothing after 7:35, was OK.

/20:10 mumijo. P5P. 1st 1x289 passiflora, selene, 1x rosewort/Mg carbonate/B1 at meal.
/21:05 600mg GABA
/21:20 500mg !glutamine.
/00:20 400mg theanine 600mg GABA 2nd passiflora, 1st serrapeptase (2h after meal!)
/00:38 2nd SRP, 2nd mumijo.
/1:27 3rd passiflora, 1 rosewort umckaloabo for the feverishness (feels a bit like GI-type fever, but no GI symptoms since about 16:00)
/3:17 4th passiflora
/7:35 zinc, 600 GABA+500mg theanine, 1 Mg glycinate. Now feeling a little feverish again.
later 2 serrapeptase
Wary of taking more, cos of the feverishness till 11:00. But nothing else necessary, despite lots of cycling and grandchild. Not bloated. No further feverishness
?15:00 NAC, glycinate, malate. Afterwards bloated.
?17:30 NAC, glycinate, malate, SRP
?9:10 NAC, Ribose, glycinate, malate, mumijo 2 SRP, 1 Ribose. Bit GI.
SRP later…
Daytime: NAC , Ribose , 3x1 malate , 3x1 glycinate , ? SRP (2h after meals) . tea tree oil

Development:

Lessons in self-care #93 Too late to bed cos wife was out.
Reasons to be cheerful #95 Got away with doing a lot today.

• Highlights week 20th to 26th.
• 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
➔ ⇄ ⇨➜ ➞ ➲ ↔:⇰↔ →:arrow_upper_right:

↯ ↛ ↺ ↮ ⇝ ⇾ ⟹ ⭆ ⤮:

[JayCS]

2021-10-16, Saturday - night a bit short, but amazing how quickly my wake-up supps propped me up after a sluggish start; maybe a few minutes of gut-uneasiness after ribose… Testing NADH for PEM today. Ribose still under suspicion…

NADH is for PEM, post-exertional malaise, theoretically by improving the ATP in the mitochondria. So now I’ve got it, I deliberately just over-exerted myself at table tennis, 15’ longer than pretty full Ache. When I came home my wife said I have the sick yellow colour in my face, like before, plus a bit of orange from the exertion. 30’ later at 16:50 have now taken 5mg NADH, hoping for that bringing the PEM down quick and wary of it maybe causing “overstimulation & jitteriness”, some say start with 2.5mg, altho the “capsule” sizes (with filling) I’ve found go from 5 to 20mg. As they are not enteric coated, just normal HPMC I cd decrease the dose, by opening the capsule, but OTOH they may not be as effective as enteric coated ones anyway, so also less sfx.
At 17:05 I feel a lot better, much like the first times I tried serrapeptase, which didn’t keep on. Maybe placebo. As my psychiatrist said sign of placebo is that it continues working for months. My body is a bit warmly tingly. As I need to go to 2 shops now before closing time I can test whether I really (seemingly) have more energy or just feel like it… Unusual really warm feeling in my left calf for 5’. Bit of pins prick feeling in a right finger and left wrist is probably over-conscious.
18:15 no problem in the 3 shops, not quite sure if it feels natural or not. Going to do some yardwork before the light’s gone. Worked out fine, but unusually hot’n’sweaty, had to take my hoodie off. At least an hour. Then some music production. My wife says I still look tired, but that’ll be something different.

Triggers & resulting Symptoms

SLEEP: 7h37, up 4x (43') ➔ Feeling 80% well, Ache 2 of 7 ✅, sluggish start, but then improving due to the normal wake-up supps

No fw!
FCS p0 managed a lot of things I’ve been putting off, so worth going to bed late - I hope…
23:25-
01:38 3’ 90%/1 p0 st1 drink fw1’ 400mg theanine GABA 2nd passiflora, 1st SRP
02:28 14’ 90%/1 p0 st1 drink fw1’ 2nd SRP, 2nd mumijo 3rd passiflora, 1 rosewort, 5x RR .
4:12 23’ 90%/1 p0 st1 drink fw20’ 4th passiflora (seems to be working better, praps due to increasing rosewort)
4:55 3’ 90%/1 p0 st1 drink fw1’ Riskily long sleep break for fw is making falling to sleep harder, now hungry & thirsty → soy drink (forgot dry mouth gel), oh and I’ll try a 3rd mumijo after all.
7:20 3’ 90%/1 p0 st1 drink fw1’ Hungry & thirsty → soy drink, Zn, SRP
-7:46
Sum: 35+7h45-(3+14+23+3=)43’=8h20-43’=7h37, up 4x (43’)

ACTIVITIES ➔ ACHE: ➔ 90%/1, till during the end and after table tennis ➔ 70%/3, after taking only 5mg NADH ➔ 90%/1. I'd taken

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: RR at night ✅, GI uneasiness and a strrange unnatural feeling after taking Ribose in the morning and then later strong stool urge after eating.

➔
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 for Sleep/Ache; Acupressure & Self-Treatment mainly for Pains)

Supps TAKEN TODAY: Slight GI again seemed like the ribose, First NADH-experiments at least seem to have placebo fx

/22:30 mumijo. P5P. 1st 1x289 passiflora, selene, 1x rosewort/Mg carbonate/B1 at meal.
/23:05 600mg GABA 500mg glutamine.
/01:40 400mg theanine 600mg GABA 2nd passiflora, 1st serrapeptase (2h after meal!)
/02:30 2nd SRP, 2nd mumijo 3rd passiflora, 1 rosewort
/4:12 4th passiflora
/7:20 zinc, 3rd SRP
/9:40 600 GABA+500mg theanine, 1 Mg glycinate. NAC. !1g (only) Ribose to wake up. Felt as if the ribose immediately went to my gut.
14:40 First NADH after strenuous stool seemed to help quickly, no sfx.
16:50 2nd NADH again seemed to help inside of 15’, no sfx.
Daytime: NAC , Ribose , 3x1 malate , 3x1 glycinate , ? SRP (2h after meals) . tea tree oil

Supps to KEEP UP (3): passiflora, GABA, theanine ✅, to WATCH (10): Ribose seemed again to cause slight GI issues, discomfort for 5' & looser, more frequent but more strenuous stool: maybe use it just for emergencies or check if NAC or Mg glycinate is better with similar good fx. glutamine. Mg malate & glycinate (< 6, GI), 2-3x mumijo, NAC, P5P, Ribose (GI!?!) ✅🧐, ↗2-3x rose root, ↗?x SRP 🧐, to START/CHANGE (2-3): NADH, ALC ✅/❌/🧐. Not 1mcg melatonin. Watching GI 🧐 & feverishness 🧐.

SLEEP:
Passiflora 4x289mg: drowsier, but not too much, deeper, shorter breaks
GABA 2x600mg: deeper, 10 areas in daytime
theanine 1x300 relaxed, not too long
glutamine 1x500mg: GABA antagonist. But maybe more day than night?
P5P (serotonin/GABA)
( SRP serrapeptase 2x10.000IU before sleep (but 2h after last meal!))
melatonin 1mcg at 22, 1mcg at 2 - not nice feeling.
INFLAMMATION:
5:30 serrapeptase 2x10.000IU (more?)
zinc
tea tree oil on gums
rose root 20:00 2-3x200mg (serotonin & bp)
mumijo (shihalit) 20:00: 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: Mumijo – Das schwarze Naturheilmittel
2h after meals SAMe 0x100mg (max. !): pain, stiffness, sfx: GI, bladder!, dry mouth!, sleep!, serotonin-seizures! SAMe - #2 by Anne
WAKE/FOG:
8:00 GABA & theanine
Mg glycinate 2x400
NAC
Mg malate 0-1 for the time being , cos I’m running short. (2x500)
ACHE:
Serrapeptase up to 8x or more?
ENERGY/FATIGUE:
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.
// Acetyl L-Carnitine (ALC)?: LC first? A for Alert brain, dose: 2x750mg, for no sfx keep under 3000. Question about kinds of pain | Page 2 | Fibromyalgia Forum.
// glycine? Alertness
STIFFNESS:
Glutamine?: Low Dopamine in Fibromyalgia and CFS
NOSTRILS CLOTTED at night
tea tree oil (lavender not enough)
EVERYTHING:
Vitamin B12: injections again?
// Schüssler 2, 4, & 7 (need 3-6 months sez my acupressurist).
ACID:
Mumijo isn’t working: Still same heartburn, plus hungriness at 5/6.
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))

SELF-PHYSIO: 71' ✅ inkl. RR ✅.

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

THERAPIES: Still stiff from yesterday's acupressure.

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

Development:

As the supp-treatment as well as their triggers/symptoms (= fx & sfx) are now my main focus, I’m trying out putting them first as treatments. Altho acupressure as been the fundament for single pains… But the supps are improving sleep, activities and Ache, after nothing else could/can (except last year a lot and now still sometimes cryotherapy/cold showering for Ache).

Lessons in self-care #94 Need to watch out if the energy NADH gives me is taken from something else I may need…
Reasons to be cheerful #96 First try with NADH really worked out well so far.

• Highlights week 20th to 26th.
• 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
➔ ⇄ ⇨➜ ➞ ➲ ↔:⇰↔ →:arrow_upper_right:

↯ ↛ ↺ ↮ ⇝ ⇾ ⟹ ⭆ ⤮:

[JayCS]

2021-10-17, Sunday - great sleep, only 3 breaks. NADH seems to take the brunt off of daytime problems.

Triggers & resulting Symptoms

SLEEP: 8h23, up !!3x (44') (+22' doze = 8h45) ➔ Feeling 90% well, Ache 1 of 7 ✅ - only 3 breaks, despite only PF (last at 5:00! What was different? Different brand of theanine, 2x100mg 🧐 (before I was never sure cos I was encapsulating pulverized tablets, but I don't think it was much less.)

No fw!
FCS p1 ?23:10-
02:10 10’ 90%/1 p0 st1 drink fw6’ 1st 100 theanine, 1st SRP, 3rd PF, GABA.
5:00 3’ 90%/1 p0 st1 drink fw1’ 2nd 100 theanine, 2nd SRP, 4th passiflora, 2nd mumijo, 1 rosewort,
6:21 31’ 6 90%/1 p0 st1 drink fw1’
-8:17 5’ 90%/1 p0 st1 drink fw1’ +22’ doze
Sum: 50+8h17-(10+3+31=)44’= 9h07-44’ = 8h23, up 3x (44’) (+22’ doze = 8h45)

ACTIVITIES ➔ ACHE: Lots of activity: music production and ordering supps since 9, ➔ 90%/2 took NADH at 12:30... better again. ➔ 90%/1. Table tennis ➔ 90%/3, rest & NADH at 14:55 ➔ 90%/1, 1h15 walk ➔ 90%/2 (daytime pills now always with me in a 4-pill-box), NADH ➔ 90%/1, evening service ➔ 90%/2: NAC & SRP.

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: 22:55 - Just been standing doing fibro-work for an hour or so, now I can't take my trousers and socks of standing up, cos my left thigh is cramping at the loins. Also my right calf. Both muscles at the top of the thighs are stiff. Also the muscles in my lower back, to the right of my lordosis. 🧐 To lie on my back longer I can use a thick blanket under my buttocks to take the pressure off my SIJ ✅. Better after 5-10' (during cold showering). Again rib muscles cramping at 12:00 after standing straight to record my singing, strained too much, so taking a break. 🧐 Right elbow hurt after table tennis, but usually they both hurt, or alternately. ❌ 🧐. Right knee after walk. ❌.

➔
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: Great sleep: First PF -3h, 2nd -1h before sleep; different theanine: ("250mg green tea-extract", 100mg of it theanine) - is this less? 🧐, took it later at 2 and 5, + SRP also. Maybe I shdve repeated GABA at 5 instead of adding mumijo and rosewort. 🧐 No Ribose; no GI. 🧐

/19:55 mumijo. P5P. 1st 1x289 passiflora = PF, selene, 1x rosewort/Mg carbonate/B1 at meal.
/22:00 600mg GABA 500mg glutamine 2nd passiflora
/02:10 600mg GABA, !100mg theanine 3rd passiflora. 1st serrapeptase = SRP (+2h/)
/05:00 --0mg GABA 100mg theanine. 4th passiflora. 2nd SRP, 2nd mumijo 2nd rosewort.
/8:22 zinc, 3rd SRP
/10:00? 600 GABA
/11:15 !100mg theanine, 1 Mg glycinate. NAC.
/12:30 1st NADH.
/15:00 2nd NADH.
/16:20 NAC, malate, glycinate, SRP .
/19:40 NAC, SRP
Daytime: NAC , 3x1 malate , 3x1 glycinate , ? SRP (2h after meals) . tea tree oil
Leave out Ribose to watch if there is no GI .

Supps to KEEP UP (3): passiflora, GABA, theanine ✅, to WATCH (10): Ribose just in emergencies. Prefer NAC and !NADH? Glutamine? Daytime: Mg malate & glycinate (< 6, GI), 2-3x mumijo, NAC, P5P, Ribose (GI!?!) ✅🧐, ↗2-3x rose root, ↗?x SRP 🧐, to START/CHANGE: ALC ✅/❌/🧐. Not 1mcg melatonin. ❌ Watching GI 🧐 (ribose?) & feverishness 🧐.

SLEEP:
Passiflora 4x289mg: drowsier, but not too much, deeper, shorter breaks
GABA 2x600mg: deeper, 10 areas in daytime
theanine 1x300 relaxed, not too long
glutamine 1x500mg: GABA antagonist. But maybe more day than night?
P5P (serotonin/GABA)
( SRP serrapeptase 2x10.000IU before sleep (but 2h after last meal!))
melatonin 1mcg at 22, 1mcg at 2 - not nice feeling.
INFLAMMATION:
5:30 serrapeptase 2x10.000IU (more?)
zinc
tea tree oil on gums
rose root 20:00 2-3x200mg (serotonin & bp)
mumijo (shihalit) 20:00: 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: Mumijo – Das schwarze Naturheilmittel
2h after meals SAMe 0x100mg (max. !): pain, stiffness, sfx: GI, bladder!, dry mouth!, sleep!, serotonin-seizures! SAMe - #2 by Anne
WAKE/FOG:
8:00 GABA & theanine
Mg glycinate 2x400
NAC
Mg malate 0-1 for the time being , cos I’m running short. (2x500)
ACHE:
Serrapeptase up to 8x or more?
ENERGY/FATIGUE:
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.
// Acetyl L-Carnitine (ALC)?: LC first? A for Alert brain, dose: 2x750mg, for no sfx keep under 3000. Question about kinds of pain | Page 2 | Fibromyalgia Forum.
// glycine? Alertness
STIFFNESS:
Glutamine?: Low Dopamine in Fibromyalgia and CFS
NOSTRILS CLOTTED at night
tea tree oil (lavender not enough)
EVERYTHING:
Vitamin B12: injections again?
// Schüssler 2, 4, & 7 (need 3-6 months sez my acupressurist).
ACID:
Mumijo isn’t working: Still same heartburn, plus hungriness at 5/6.
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))

SELF-PHYSIO: 2h02 ✅✅ (esp. hunchpack-pillow at night; twist-stretch & marionette-hang during service)

Timing, AuTr 10’, hunchback-pillow 20’, cold shower (10’), back 3’, neck 1+ 6’, neck 2 3’, twist-stretch 40’, loins 3’, yoga 10’, gums 2x30’’, marionette-hang 15’,
V ‘, mirror 2’, shaking dance 1’, breath-hold 11’, RR x2’, HWB 3’, workout 7’, jolt-jump 1’

THERAPIES:

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

Development:

Managed at last to put the supps together better: Wrote the name on every lid/side/base, also for the daytime ones what I’m taking it for. Still to be developed.

Lessons in self-care #95 Memo: Blanket tucked under each buttock takes pressure of my SIJ!
Reasons to be cheerful #97 Quite good day altogether. Managed to socialize after the service.
Reasons to be cheerful #98 Quite a relief to have managed to organize the supps better at last!

• Highlights week 20th to 26th.
• 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
➔ ⇄ ⇨➜ ➞ ➲ ↔:⇰↔ →:arrow_upper_right:

↯ ↛ ↺ ↮ ⇝ ⇾ ⟹ ⭆ ⤮:

[JayCS]

2021-10-18, Monday - again great sleep, only 17’, 4 breaks - but GABA overdose!

Just 400mg (I take 3x600mg without problems): focal seizures and incredible bladder pain and frequency, now I remember how it used to be!
The added GABA wasn’t necessary, I’d just seen a certain supp-combi and thought I’d try to repeat it one more time at night, reduced: but it doesn’t work like that, that’s comfirmed!

Triggers & resulting Symptoms

SLEEP: 8h17, up 4x (17') ➔ Feeling 90% well, Ache 1 of 7 ✅. Using an expensive minty essential oil mixture 'breathe well' for my stuffy nostril worked without acidity sfx!

No fw!
FCS p0 23:50-
1:32 3’ 90%/1 p0 st1 drink fw1’
3:40 8’ 90%/1 p1 st3 drink8 fw1’ Some looser stool. GABA#3 theanine#2 PF#4 SRP#2
5:49 3’ 90%/1 p0 st1 drink fw1’ Zn, SRP#3 Intense dream: adoption of African boy (been on daily show with thin white older woman)
7:00 3’ 90%/1 p0 st1 drink8 fw1’ minty oils for right nostril, traumeel on right & left elbow, Schüssler too.
-8:24
Sum: 10+8h24-(3+8+3+3=)=8h34-17 = 8h17, up 4x (17’)

ACTIVITIES ➔ ACHE: 2h of music production without even taking any cps. ➔ 90%/1 ✅, housework, more music ➔ 90%/1 ✅, siting in the (cold) kitchen with my wife "in the sun" has made me start getting cold and aching ➔ 80%/2, so trying supps - helped.

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: 5:50 right Achilles a bit, 7:00 elbows a bit, bladder 5xp6! and high frequency ❌❌, due to GABA overdose

➔
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: sleep ✅, starting PF early, plus a 3rd GABA (instead of mumijo and rosewort) was also good. Yesterday I had longer sleep stints, but also one longer break. ✅ Still no Ribose; still no GI... ✅. Meal end now: 13:40... (mumijo & SRP), 17:20 a focal seizure, and before that more bladder pain means GABA was overdosed tonight! Trying glutamine as antidote stopped further seizure-ishness, but once my bladder's set off it takes many hours to calm down again.

/19:55 mumijo. P5P. 1st 1x289 passiflora = PF, selene, 1x rosewort/Mg carbonate/B1 at meal.
/22:45 1st 600mg GABA 500mg glutamine 2nd passiflora
/01:32 2nd 600mg GABA, 1st !100mg theanine, 3rd passiflora, 1st serrapeptase = SRP (+2h/)
/03:40 3rd 400mg GABA, 2nd 100mg theanine, 4th passiflora, 2nd SRP,
/05:50 zinc, 3rd SRP.
/10:35 600 GABA !100mg theanine, 1 Mg glycinate. NAC.
/16:40 NAC, Mg glycinate, SRP.
/17:20 glutamine and theanine as antidote to the GABA.
/19:45 Mg malate, NAC, NADH, as well as SRP before eating and to help calm my muscles down.
1st NADH
?15:00 2nd NADH.
?16:20 NAC, malate, glycinate, SRP .
?19:40 NAC, SRP
Daytime: NAC , 3x1 malate , 3x1 glycinate , ? SRP (2h after meals) . tea tree oil
Leave out Ribose to watch if there is no GI .

Supps to KEEP UP (3): passiflora, GABA, theanine ✅, to WATCH (10): Mumijo 2-3h from other meds, and that and SRP 2-3h after meals, both for inflammation (tooth!!) So I need to note/remember meal ends now. 🧐. Daytime: Mg malate & glycinate (< 6, GI), NAC, P5P, NADH, ribose only in emergencies. ✅🧐, ↗2-3x rose root, Sfx?: Ribose (GI!?!) Feverishness? 🧐. Glutamine? START/CHANGE: ALC ✅/❌/🧐

SLEEP:
Passiflora 4x289mg: drowsier, but not too much, deeper, shorter breaks. 18th: Starting earlier.
GABA 2x600mg: deeper, 10 areas in daytime
theanine 1x300 relaxed, not too long
glutamine 1x500mg: GABA antagonist. But maybe more day than night?
P5P (serotonin/GABA)
( SRP serrapeptase 2x10.000IU before sleep (but 2h after last meal!))
melatonin 1mcg at 22, 1mcg at 2 - but not nice feeling, praps.
INFLAMMATION:
5:30 serrapeptase 2x10.000IU (more?)
zinc
tea tree oil on gums
rose root 20:00 2-3x200mg (serotonin & bp)
mumijo (shihalit) 20:00: 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 SAMe 0x100mg (max. !): pain, stiffness, sfx: GI, bladder!, dry mouth!, sleep!, serotonin-seizures! SAMe/SAM-e - #2 by Anne
WAKE/FOG:
8:00 GABA & theanine
Mg glycinate 2x400
NAC
Mg malate 0-1 for the time being , cos I’m running short. (2x500)
ACHE:
Serrapeptase up to 8x or more?
ENERGY/FATIGUE:
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.
// Acetyl L-Carnitine (ALC)?: LC first? A for Alert brain, dose: 2x750mg, for no sfx keep under 3000. Question about kinds of pain | Page 2 | Fibromyalgia Forum.
// glycine? Alertness
STIFFNESS:
Glutamine?: Low Dopamine in Fibromyalgia and CFS
NOSTRILS CLOTTED at night
tea tree oil (lavender not enough)
EVERYTHING:
Vitamin B12: injections again?
// Schüssler 2, 4, & 7 (need 3-6 months sez my acupressurist).
ACID:
Mumijo isn’t working: Still same heartburn, plus hungriness at 5/6.
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))

SELF-PHYSIO: 46' ✅

Timing, AuTr 5’, hunchback-pillow 20’, cold shower (10’), palpate 1’, belly 3’, back 7’,
neck 1+ 9’, neck 2 10’, twist-stretch 10’, loins 5’, yoga 5’, gums 2x30’’, V ‘, marionette-hang 1’, mirror 2’, shaking dance 1’, breath-hold 11’, RR x2’, HWB 3’, workout 7’, jolt-jump 1’

THERAPIES:

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

Development:

I shd praps write a “my successes, my fails” as part of my reference section.

To put my supp-development short I just wrote someone “thanks to the new powders (aside of the previous neurotransmitters/amino acids and passiflower now a cough expectorant (amino acid-derivate), a sugar - however with sfx - and a vitamin B3-variant)”… And:
I’ve actually still got Mucuna on my list (the one-after-last, which is ALC ;-)…): Ayurvedic, good for neurological disorders and arthritis, so why not… I fear I’ll be getting bored in a few weeks, Dr. JayCyll at the end of his list, and no more Mr. Hyde sfx from (having to) overdose… more stability, less suprises (?!) yawn ;->

Lessons in self-care #96 Oh well, back down with the GABA tonight.
Reasons to be cheerful #99 Wonderful how clearly the overdose shows how well GABA usually works.

• 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
➔ ⇄ ⇨➜ ➞ ➲ ↔:⇰↔ →:arrow_upper_right:

↯ ↛ ↺ ↮ ⇝ ⇾ ⟹ ⭆ ⤮:

[JayCS]

2021-10-19, Tuesday - extraordinary bladder: up 10x (every 30-60’)

Triggers & resulting Symptoms

SLEEP: 8h56, up 10x (38') ➔ Feeling 90% well, Ache 1 of 7 ✅. Pee pain reduced, but pee frequency enormous...

No fw!
FCS p1 22:30-
23:19 3’ 90%/1 p0 st1 drink fw1’
23:45 3’ 90%/1 p1 st1 drink fw1’
00:08 3’ 90%/1 p1 st1 drink fw1’
01:38 3’ 90%/1 p1 st1 drink fw1’
02:00 3’ 90%/1 p1 st1 drink0 fw1’
03:15 3’ 90%/1 p0(-1) st1 drink2 fw1’ 2x mumijo! (target was at/after 3:40…)
03:30 11’ Can’t find good sleep position any more: ribs, arm, undefined unrest. Jolt-jump, shake-dance, FCS#2, twist-stretch
4:42 3’ 90%/1 p1 st1 drink1 fw1’
5:14 3’ 90%/1 p0 st1 drink1 fw1’
7:04 3’ 90%/1 p0 st1 drink4 fw1’ zn SRP mumijo
?2:00 3’ 90%/1 p0 st1 drink fw1’
-8:04
Sum: 1h30+8h04-(3+3+3+3+3+3+11+3+3+3=)38’=9h34-38’=8h56, up 10x (38’)

ACTIVITIES ➔ ACHE: music, housework, table tennis, walk with heavy rucksack some of the time...(no work...) ➔ 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: Slight forehead pain feeling as if a cold was coming on turned out to be cold feet due to forgetting my 3rd AND inside also 4th pair of socks; heat pad and cushion helped, gotta watch that in this weather.... ✅ Squashed out my recurrent tooth inflammation. 🧐 Problem lying once at night 🧐: but FCS#2 helped ✅. Pee pain & frequency is slowly improving. 🧐✅, Right knee while walking with a heavy rucksack got better again when I turned my right leg inwards ✅; everything else good ✅

➔
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: After yesterday's GABA overdose I've realized I've been feeling seizure-ish during table tennis for quite a few weeks, whether I'm focused or not. Need to reduce GABA, it's been 3x600mg lately, and I think 4x600 again last night, whilst it was only 400/600/400 in Sept. sleep? Also I seem to have taken Ribose? Meal ends?.. (mumijo & SRP),

REDUCE GABA to 400/600/600 & checking if sleep stays good/better, before trying some ribose again
/20:35 P5P. 1st PF, selene, 1x rosewort/Mg carbonate/B1 at meal. Not mumijo! (later…)
/22:00 1st GABA, glutamine, 2nd PF
/23:20 2nd 600mg GABA, 1st !100mg theanine, 3rd passiflora, 1st serrapeptase = SRP
/01:40 3rd 400mg (I think 600) GABA, 2nd 100mg theanine, 4th passiflora, 2nd SRP,
/03:15 2 mumijo
/07:05 zinc, 3rd SRP, 3rd mumijo
/08:10 600 GABA !100mg theanine, 1 Mg glycinate. NAC.
/12:00 4th mumijo
/13:50 500 NAC, 1 malate, 1 SRP, 14:00 1st ALC to get a bit more alert.

?16:40 NAC, Mg glycinate, SRP.
?19:45 Mg malate, NAC, NADH, as well as SRP before eating and to help calm my muscles down.
1st NADH
?15:00 2nd NADH.
?16:20 NAC, malate, glycinate, SRP .
?19:40 NAC, SRP
Daytime: NAC , 3x1 malate , 3x1 glycinate , ? SRP (2h after meals) . tea tree oil
Leave out Ribose to watch if there is no GI .

Supps to KEEP UP (3): passiflora, GABA, theanine ✅, but REDUCE GABA to 400/600/600 & check if sleep stays good/better, before trying some ribose again. WATCH (10): Mumijo 2-3h from other meds (around 11:00), and that and SRP 2-3h after meals, both for inflammation (tooth!!) So I need to note/remember meal ends now. 🧐. Daytime: Mg malate & glycinate (< 6, GI), NAC, P5P, NADH, ribose only in emergencies. ✅🧐, ↗2-3x rose root, Sfx?: Ribose (GI!?!) Feverishness? 🧐. Glutamine? START/CHANGE: ALC ✅/❌/🧐

SLEEP:
Passiflora 4x289mg: drowsier, but not too much, deeper, shorter breaks. 18th: Starting earlier.
GABA 2x600mg: deeper, 10 areas in daytime
theanine 1x300 relaxed, not too long
glutamine 1x500mg: GABA antagonist. But maybe more day than night?
P5P (serotonin/GABA)
( SRP serrapeptase 2x10.000IU before sleep (but 2h after last meal!))
melatonin 1mcg at 22, 1mcg at 2 - but not nice feeling, praps.
INFLAMMATION:
5:30 serrapeptase 2x10.000IU (more?)
zinc
tea tree oil on gums
rose root 20:00 2-3x200mg (serotonin & bp)
mumijo (shihalit) 20:00: 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 SAMe 0x100mg (max. !): pain, stiffness, sfx: GI, bladder!, dry mouth!, sleep!, serotonin-seizures! SAMe/SAM-e - #2 by Anne
WAKE/FOG:
8:00 GABA & theanine
Mg glycinate 2x400
NAC
Mg malate 0-1 for the time being , cos I’m running short. (2x500)
ACHE:
Serrapeptase up to 8x or more?
ENERGY/FATIGUE:
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.
// Acetyl L-Carnitine (ALC)?: LC first? A for Alert brain, dose: 2x750mg, for no sfx keep under 3000. Question about kinds of pain | Page 2 | Fibromyalgia Forum.
// glycine? Alertness
STIFFNESS:
Glutamine?: Low Dopamine in Fibromyalgia and CFS
NOSTRILS CLOTTED at night
tea tree oil (lavender not enough)
EVERYTHING:
Vitamin B12: injections again?
// Schüssler 2, 4, & 7 (need 3-6 months sez my acupressurist).
ACID:
Mumijo isn’t working: Still same heartburn, plus hungriness at 5/6.
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))

SELF-PHYSIO: 77' ✅

* Timing, AuTr 3’, hunchback-pillow 15’, cold shower 2x(10’), jolt-jump 1’, shaking dance 2’, palpate 1’, belly 3’, back 7’, neck 1+ 3’, neck 2 3’, twist-stretch 4’, yoga 5’, marionette-hang 10’,
loins 5’, gums 2x30’’, V ‘, mirror 2’, breath-hold 11’, RR x2’, HWB 3’, workout 7’, *

THERAPIES:

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

Development:

Lessons in self-care #97 Got to watch out I don’t get some cold & keep spirits up, despite drizzy weather…
Reasons to be cheerful #100 Obviously been taking too much GABA anyway!

• 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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[JayCS]

2021-10-20, Wednesday - better, but 2 further focal seizures

Triggers & resulting Symptoms

SLEEP: 9h21, up 3x (54') ➔ Feeling 90% well, Ache 1 of 7 ✅ - however dreams that semed to express my and another's incompetence

FCS p0 22:45- with wife, and it worked - I could tolerate it.
01:37 6’ 90%/1 p0 st1 drink4 fw2’
03:40 42’ 6 90%/1 p0 st2? drink fw1’ -4:22
6:56 6’ 90%/1 p1 st1 drink fw2’ Dreamt: Pound of flour thrown at me. Why? Sore throat: Umckaloabo & Marigold.
-9:00
Sum: 1h15+9h-(6+42+6=)54’=10h15-54’= 9h21, up 3x (54’)

ACTIVITIES ➔ ACHE: ➔ 90%/1, after table tennis only short ache: NADH

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: Right knee during a fast! 1h walk (possible due to ribose), twisting in and out helped a bit 🧐, no GI: after a tsp of ribose slight tension only after eating, not before ✅, bladder still tough, due to the GABA overdose 2 days in a row, 5xp2-4 ❌, also a bit stiffer, and the 2 focal seizures with 2 auras... ❌

➔
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: GABA: Reducing has neither decreased sleep nor stiffness up to now, but that might be due to it still being how. Tried 1 tsp Ribose at 12:05: Helped keep up full speed on a 1h walk, no GI to speak of! Mumijo only at 7:00

REDUCE GABA to 400/600/600 & checking if sleep stays good/better, before trying some ribose again
/20:35 P5P. PF#1, Se, rosewort/Mg carbonate/B1 at meal. Not mumijo! (later…)
/22:20 !300 GABA#1, glutamine, PF#2
/01:40 !300 GABA#2, theanine#1, PF#3, SRP#1
/03:40 !300 GABA#3, theanine#2, PF#4, SRP#2
/07:00 zinc, 3rd SRP, mumijo#1
no ?11:00 mumijo#4
/12:05 tsp ribose alone to see what that does: feels funny again inside a short time, but lots of energy, and OK, however 2 focal seizures…
/14:00 Ribose
…14:50 focal seizure, aura 2x before
/15:25 NAC, glycinate
…16:30 focal seizure during TT, both not severe, could still talk a bit and continue playing well.
/17:15 NADH for PEM after TT.
Daytime: NAC , 3x1 malate , 3x1 glycinate , ? SRP (2h after meals) . tea tree oil, NADH alerter: ALC?
Ribose: GI? Not on 20th! .

Supps to KEEP UP (3): passiflora, GABA, theanine ✅, keep GABA to 400/600/400, check sleep, & trying ribose for GI. WATCH (10): Mumijo 2-3h from other meds (around 11:00), and that and SRP 30' before or 2-3h after meals, both for inflammation (tooth!!), same for NADH. So I need to note/remember meal ends now. 🧐. Daytime: Mg malate & glycinate (< 6, GI), NAC, P5P, NADH. Ribose only in emergencies. ✅🧐, ↗2-3x rose root, Sfx?: Ribose (GI!?!) Feverishness? 🧐. Glutamine? START/CHANGE: ALC ✅/❌/🧐

SLEEP:
Passiflora 4x289mg: drowsier, but not too much, deeper, shorter breaks. 18th: Starting earlier.
GABA 2x600mg: deeper, 10 areas in daytime
theanine 1x300 relaxed, not too long
glutamine 1x500mg: GABA antagonist. But maybe more day than night?
P5P (serotonin/GABA)
( SRP serrapeptase 2x10.000IU before sleep (but 2h after last meal!))
melatonin 1mcg at 22, 1mcg at 2 - but not nice feeling, praps.
INFLAMMATION:
5:30 serrapeptase 2x10.000IU (more?)
zinc
tea tree oil on gums
rose root 20:00 2-3x200mg (serotonin & bp)
mumijo (shihalit) 20:00: 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 SAMe 0x100mg (max. !): pain, stiffness, sfx: GI, bladder!, dry mouth!, sleep!, serotonin-seizures! SAMe/SAM-e - #2 by Anne
WAKE/FOG:
8:00 GABA & theanine
Mg glycinate 2x400
NAC
Mg malate 0-1 for the time being , cos I’m running short. (2x500)
ACHE:
Serrapeptase up to 8x or more?
ENERGY/FATIGUE:
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? A for Alert brain, dose: 2x750mg, for no sfx keep under 3000. Question about kinds of pain | Page 2 | Fibromyalgia Forum.
// glycine? Alertness
STIFFNESS:
Glutamine?: Low Dopamine in Fibromyalgia and CFS
NOSTRILS CLOTTED at night
tea tree oil (lavender not enough)
EVERYTHING:
Vitamin B12: injections again?
// Schüssler 2, 4, & 7 (need 3-6 months sez my acupressurist).
ACID:
Mumijo isn’t working: Still same heartburn, plus hungriness at 5/6.
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))

SELF-PHYSIO: 34' ✅

Timing, AuTr 3’, hunchback-pillow 10’, cold shower (10’), palpate 1’, belly 3’, back 7’,
neck 1+ 9’, neck 2 10’, twist-stretch 10’, loins 5’, yoga 5’, gums 2x30’’, V ‘, marionette-hang 1’, mirror 2’, shaking dance 1’, breath-hold 11’, RR x2’, HWB 3’, workout 7’, jolt-jump 1’

THERAPIES:

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

Development:

Reasons to be cheerful #101 Lots of fun today helping people.

• 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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Hey @JayCS ! Do you have a history of seizures? Are you being treated for this? It’s really important to aggressively manage seizure activity.

Sharon from ModSupport

[JayCS]

2021-10-21, Thursday - bladder OK again, no seizure-ishness at all, plus full energy

Triggers & resulting Symptoms

SLEEP: 8h25, up 5x ((1h33)) ➔ Feeling 90% well, Ache 1 of 7 ✅

23:00?- (together, worked again, but discipline tough)
00:00 1h07 90%/1 p4 st1 drink2 fw2’ FCS GABA#1 glutamine PF#2 Umckaloabo
03:15 11’ 90%/1 p4 st1 drink4 fw3’ !600 GABA#2, theanine#1, PF#3, SRP#1 Umcka Marig
04:44 4’ 90%/1 p3 st1 drink4 fw1’ PF#4 SRP#2
06:25 5’ 90%/1 p3 st1 drink2 fw1’ mumijo
07:51 6’ 90%/1 p0! st1 drink fw1’ zinc, SRP#3
-8:58
Sum: 1h?+8h58-(1h07+11+4+5+6=)1h33=9h58-1h33=8h25, up 5x ((1h33))

ACTIVITIES ➔ ACHE: resting/fw a lot ➔ 90%/1, getting active now, cycling, shops, fast walk, half mile jogging (using ribose) ➔ 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: Better today, bladder down. ✅

➔
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: GABA down is good now, Ribose OK, less!! Mumijo: OK, but can't 'feel' it

/20:50 P5P. PF#1, Se, rosewort/Mg carbonate/B1 at meal.
/00:05 !300 GABA#1, glutamine, PF#2 Umckaloabo
/03:15 !600 GABA#2, theanine#1, PF#3, SRP#1 Umckaloabo Marigold
/04:44 PF#4 SRP#2
/06:30 mumijo#1
/07:55 zinc, 3rd SRP,
/9:25 400 GABA, theanine, glycinate.
/11:00 mumijo#2 I seem to remember
/14:00 only <2g of ribose, seems I’d been taking too much, tbl instead of tsp…
/16:35 NAC, ALC, glycinate & malate as I’m a bit tired, but want to get active. Where’s
18:15 NADH for PEM after cycling around to 4 shops in 1h and a little kind of housework.
18:25 1/4 tsp Ribose to go for a walk.
focal seizures?
Daytime: NAC , 3x1 malate , 3x1 glycinate , ? SRP (2h after meals) . tea tree oil/calendula/myrrh, NADH alerter: ALC?
Ribose: GI? .

Supps to KEEP UP (3): passiflora, GABA, theanine ✅, keep GABA to 400/600/400, check sleep, & trying ribose for GI: Less! WATCH (10): Mumijo 2-3h from other meds (around 11:00), and that and SRP 30' before or 2-3h after meals, both for inflammation (tooth!!), same for NADH. So I need to note/remember meal ends now. 🧐. Daytime: Mg malate & glycinate (< 6, GI), NAC, P5P, NADH. Ribose only in emergencies. started ALC 🧐, ↗2-3x rose root, Sfx?: Ribose less: no G, no more feverishness 🧐. Glutamine more?

SLEEP:
Passiflora 4x289mg: drowsier, but not too much, deeper, shorter breaks. 18th: Starting earlier.
GABA 2x600mg: deeper, 10 areas in daytime
theanine 1x300 relaxed, not too long
glutamine 1x500mg: GABA antagonist. But maybe more day than night?
P5P (serotonin/GABA)
( SRP serrapeptase 2x10.000IU before sleep (but 2h after last meal!))
melatonin 1mcg at 22, 1mcg at 2 - but not nice feeling, praps.
INFLAMMATION:
5:30 serrapeptase 2x10.000IU (more?)
zinc
tea tree oil on gums
rose root 20:00 2-3x200mg (serotonin & bp)
mumijo (shihalit) 20:00: 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 SAMe 0x100mg (max. !): pain, stiffness, sfx: GI, bladder!, dry mouth!, sleep!, serotonin-seizures! SAMe/SAM-e - #2 by Anne
WAKE/FOG:
8:00 GABA & theanine
Mg glycinate 2x400
NAC
Mg malate 0-1 for the time being , cos I’m running short. (2x500)
ACHE:
Serrapeptase up to 8x or more?
ENERGY/FATIGUE:
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? A for Alert brain, dose: 2x750mg, for no sfx keep under 3000. Question about kinds of pain | Page 2 | Fibromyalgia Forum.
// glycine? Alertness
STIFFNESS:
Glutamine?: Low Dopamine in Fibromyalgia and CFS
NOSTRILS CLOTTED at night
tea tree oil (lavender not enough)
EVERYTHING:
Vitamin B12: injections again?
// Schüssler 2, 4, & 7 (need 3-6 months sez my acupressurist).
ACID:
Mumijo isn’t working: Still same heartburn, plus hungriness at 5/6.
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))

SELF-PHYSIO: 86' ✅ (been doing lots more than I've written down)

Timing, AuTr 20’, hunchback-pillow 15’, cold shower 1x(10’), palpate 2’, belly 3’, back 7’, workout 7’, jolt-jump 1’, shaking dance 1’, yoga 4’, twist-stretch 10’, marionette-hang 4’, neck 1+ 2’,
neck 2 10’, loins 5’, gums 2x30’’, V ‘, mirror 2’, breath-hold 11’, RR x2’, HWB 3’

THERAPIES: Trauma book?

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

Development:

Lessons in self-care #98 More care with doses, e.g. GABA & ribose.
Reasons to be cheerful #102 Good, hopeful start

• 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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[JayCS]

Hi Sharon, thx for asking! Yep, all under control, I’ve had them for about 20 years, they are focal, caused by cortex left over in my speech centre from birth my good neurologist found out. My right hand starts shaking, then my speech goes wonky (aphasia) for 1-2 minutes, sometimes my brain too, but I can still usually do things like cycle fast or win at table tennis (but I can’t always continue counting points). Sometimes I get them in one phase in every 1-3 months, worse from the prescription meds I got (amitriptyline, tilidine), actually better since using GABA, but if it’s imbalanced, e.g. too little GABA, or too much glutamin (= dopamine) or too much GABA so the “GABA shunt” reduces the amount of GABA/serotonin produced naturally, and this is something I hadn’t been paying attention to of late, having focused on the help GABA was giving me for sleep… (it’s helping me in 10 areas and that’s a lot to pay attention to at the same time). My docs (GP, neurologist, sleep lab psychiatrist/neurologist) can only rudimentarily help me here, but assist my thoughts and trials, interested in my successes, cheering me on.
The focal seizures are one of the reasons I don’t want to drive a car at all tho, altho my neurologist allows me to.

[ModSupport]

GABA is one of the “Devil Drugs” lol hang in there (also IMO a nuclear option which is not a bad thing just hard to control. So are you still using amitriptyline at all? Its actually one of my favorites. Didn’t think it did much for pain control until I stopped it. I learned it was very subtle at 25mg but did make a difference. (especially in sleep)

TJ

[JayCS]

Hey TJ:
Devil - drug?! Whoah! 8-). I as ever mean the supp, neurotransmitter & amino acid Gamma-Amino-Butyric Acid, not its drug derivatives e.g. gabapentin (Neurontin) or pregabalin (Lyrica), phenibut, baclofen or mirogabalin, as people often misunderstand…

Can’t imagine GABA being considered a devil drug by anyone, considering it’s long been considered by researchers not able to pass the blood-brain-barrier! Recent studies have revised that, but can’t explain it yet. It definitely does cross my BBB tho, and it has definitely placebo-status, as my sleep lab psychiatrist contends, as it has greatly improved my severe fibro in 10 areas continually for over 6 months now.
Also I’ve recommended it to 2 befriended fibromites, one of whom “thanks me daily” for the change it has made to her life for fibro fog, whilst the other realized she doesn’t need GABA, she needs tyrosine (using the amino acid questionnaire).
So GABA is so much of an Angel Supp for me, not at all a Devil Drug! Some people only need 125mg of it per day (or even just pixie dust amounts), I need about 1.5g, but sometimes I forget, and went up to 1.8 and then 2.2g, that was the problem the past days.

What I’d call Devil Drugs are actually almost all meds I’ve tried, cos of massive sfx, so I keep clear of them as of all devil stuff , incl. - never wanting to try them - gabapentin and pregabalin, as well as amitriptyline, which I took for 4 months last year, and did absolutely zero for my pain, zombified me at night and half the day, even at 10mg and under, but caused 8 sfx, the 8th being steadily increasing seizures. I weaned off of it in only 10 days and felt increasingly better every day. But not just meds: Similar zomfibying fx/sfx with only 2mg of CBD oil and only 1mcg!! of melatonin too (5% of the tablets I’d been prescribed)… And strong sfx with other fairly common supps & herbs like 5-HTP, L-tryptophan, ashwagandha, taurine…

So all the more “angelic” is the real GABA with glutamine, theanine, passiflora being uttermost game-changers for me, apparently NADH for post exertional malaise, maybe NAC & ribose for energy too, maybe support from magnesium malate, glycinate, mumijo, P5P (B6) & serrapeptase.

[ModSupport]

My mistake I was referng to Gabapentine. whic is hard to regulate lots of side effect as you noted but Miraculous when the right balance is achieved .

BUT as a supplement GABA, a non essential amino acid is one I would stay away from personally as it is dealing with the Devil. When naturally produced it ordinarily is found in the eyes and brain and is a inhibitory neurotransmitter. BUT outside of those two areas is GABA has long been viewed as a by-product of liver disease and contributes to hepatic encephalopathy.

Introducing it as a supplement CAN have the same effect of causing Nonconvulsive status epilepticus which is essentially is when you have siezures over and over in your brain, though they may not cause any physical symptoms beyond sleepiness. But may also, if amounts are too high, cause; trouble speaking, muscle weakness or twitches they can’t control, eye movements they can’t control, tremors, trouble swallowing, sleepiness and occasionally - seizures. You may not be crossing the BBB as you think but messing with your liver function having what appears to be a beneficial effect. Its sorta like alcohol. Social to buzz to alcholism, to fried liver. Good turns to bad to catastrophe that ther is no coming back from. Be careful my friend.

TJ

[JayCS]

2021-10-22, Friday - good, despite short sleep

Triggers & resulting Symptoms

SLEEP: 6h01, up 3x (36') but awake... what now? ➔ Feeling 90% well, Ache 1 of 7 ✅

No fw! Hmm… did a lot before
FCS 1xp2, 1xp0 01:26- GABA#2, theanine#1, PF#3, SRP#1
1:57 6 fw8’ 28’ 90%/1 p0 st1 drink fw1’ !600 GABA#2, theanine#1, PF#3, SRP#1
4:54 5’ 90%/1 p2 st2 drink4 fw2’ PF#4 SRP#2
7:35 3’ 90%/1 p0 st1 drink4 fw1’ 2x mumijo
-8:02
Sum: 8h02-1h25-(28+5+3=)36’=6h01, up 3x (36’) but awake… what now?

ACTIVITIES ➔ ACHE: loads of fw etc. ➔ 90%/1, but also going out to a fast 1h walk in pouring rain ➔ 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: ✅, except 1xp2 in the evening, 1xp2 in the daytime, but a high frequency suddenly on the walk (having drunken a pint 1-2h before), leading to pain having to keep it in in the car on the way back, ouch!

➔
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: Accidentally wide awake with less sleep after (due to??) mumijo, so wakers later. GABA: 300/?600/300, I tried adding 200 at 18 (instead of 300 at 15 as planned...), no seizures, no pee pain, not really pee frequency

/20:35 P5P. PF#1, Se, rosewort/Mg carbonate/B1 at meal. (Increase rose root! P5P with Mg with meal, praps with GABA)
/22:35 !300 GABA#1, glutamine, PF#2
/01:25 !?600 GABA#2, theanine#1, PF#3, SRP#1
/05:00 PF#4 SRP#2
/7:35 mumijo#1+2 (better earlier)
/11:35 zinc, 300 GABA, theanine, glycinate (better earlier…)
/15:00 NADH for PEM after the pee urge on the way back.
/18:00 200mg GABA & 100mg theanine, glycinate & malate altho unnec.
Daytime: NAC , 3x1 malate , 3x1 glycinate , ? SRP (2h after meals) . tea tree oil/calendula/myrrh, NADH alerter: ALC?
Ribose: GI? .

Supps to KEEP UP (4): passiflora, GABA (plus rose root/rhodiola & B6/P5P), glutamine, theanine, ✅, but try taking GABA down to 400/400/400, and adding 200 GABA with either 100 glutamine (or 100 theanine) at midday, to try to get the bladder pain down in the evenings, also watching sleep. WATCH (10): Mumijo 2-3h from other meds (around 11:00), and that and SRP 30' before or 2-3h after meals, both for inflammation (tooth!!), same for NADH if poss. 🧐. Daytime: Mg malate & glycinate (< 6: GI), NAC, P5P: with GABA?! so evenings? 50mg?, with Mg?, with meals? NADH. ALC 🧐, ↗2-3x rose root (), Sfx?: Ribose ↘<1g seems good, using a 100mg spoon "to go" 🧐. Glutamine more?

SLEEP:
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
glutamine 1x500mg: GABA antagonist. But maybe more day than night?
P5P (serotonin/GABA)
( SRP serrapeptase 2x10.000IU before sleep (but 2h after last meal!))
melatonin 1mcg at 22, 1mcg at 2 - but not nice feeling, praps.
INFLAMMATION:
5:30 serrapeptase 2x10.000IU (more?)
zinc
tea tree oil on gums
rose root 20:00 2-3x200mg (serotonin (like P5P), BBB & bp, so with GABA)
mumijo (shihalit) 20:00: 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 SAMe 0x100mg (max. !): pain, stiffness, sfx: GI, bladder!, dry mouth!, sleep!, serotonin-seizures! SAMe/SAM-e - #2 by Anne
WAKE/FOG:
8:00 GABA & theanine
Mg glycinate & malate <6x!
NAC
ACHE:
Serrapeptase up to 8x or more?
ENERGY/FATIGUE:
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? A for Alert brain, dose: 2x750mg, for no sfx keep under 3000. Question about kinds of pain | Page 2 | Fibromyalgia Forum.
// glycine? Alertness
STIFFNESS:
Glutamine?: Low Dopamine in Fibromyalgia and CFS
NOSTRILS CLOTTED at night
tea tree oil (lavender not enough)
EVERYTHING:
Vitamin B12: injections again?
// Schüssler 2, 4, & 7 (need 3-6 months sez my acupressurist).
ACID:
Mumijo isn’t working: Still same heartburn, plus hungriness at 5/6.
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))

SELF-PHYSIO: 36' (✅)

Timing, AuTr 5’, hunchback-pillow 10’, cold shower (10’), palpate 1’, belly 3’, back 7’,
neck 1+ 9’, neck 2 10’, twist-stretch 10’, loins 5’, yoga 5’, gums 2x30’’, V ‘, marionette-hang 1’, mirror 2’, shaking dance 1’, breath-hold 11’, RR x2’, HWB 3’, workout 7’, jolt-jump 1’

THERAPIES: Book...

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

Development:

Lessons in self-care #99 Watch out not to overdo it… And move more!
Reasons to be cheerful #103 Enough energy despite short sleep.

• 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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[JayCS]

Phhhhoo - what a scary scenario you’re scetching, TJ!

Thanks for your warning tho… - I’m all for knowing the dark side of everything…
But let’s see…

I’ve studied about 30-40h on GABA - so surprising that your information has eluded me up to now…

Your liver disease (mis)quote is from a study about the POSITIVE fx of GABA on the liver

I’ve found your above quote “GABA has long been viewed as a by-product of liver disease and contributes to hepatic encephalopathy” in this study
which is about GABA protecting against severe liver injury.
Your quote is also cut off. It goes on to say “in patients with cirrhosis” - I have no liver disease and no cirrhosis, so I don’t see the relevance. To the contrary: if I had liver disease I’d have too high levels of GABA and adding GABA would according to my logic cause serotonin syndrome, so immediately sfx.
What follows this is a list of neutral to positive influences, incl.
reduces chromosomal abnormalities
decreases malignancy potential
stimulate DNA synthesis for regenerating livers
protective role of GABA signaling against acute liver injury
advantageous effect of GABA in … hepatectomy and a … partial liver transplantation
enhances antioxidative countermeasures and improves mitochondrial function.

The alcohol-alcoholism comparison is only a warning against ALCOHOL...

I’d see as a slippery slope argument which clearly more than anything else admonishes yourself to keep those Scotch bottles carefully locked away as you are already almost an alcoholic (your own implication… )

GABA does NOT buzz me, it alone IMPROVES 10 symptoms, with no alternative!

As opposed to alcohol creating a social help & buzz out of the ordinary, what GABA is doing to me is only returning my life in part to the health I used to have, nothing buzzy, nothing different, nothing extra, no artificial, unnatural feelings. That is also my criterion for other things I’m trying, like ribose (similarly taurine before): In a higher dose it makes me feel artificially feverishly slightly over the top (taurine very much so), which is something I want to avoid in all cases, because it doesn’t feel right, natural and might make me overdo things and crash, like alcohol does - but GABA does not.
Also: Someone who feels the need to drink alcohol to take part in normal life has alternatives in therapy. I don’t. If I stop GABA, I will have to reduce my activities again, go back on sick leave and retire. Remember I have been to 46 docs, 15 physios and tried >100 treatments in the last 2 years and GABA is the only thing that has helped, even if it’s not a cure. Are you really warning me to stop it? And what then?

I don't have NCSE/those sfx, my seizures are REDUCED by GABA

Similarly your quote about “nonconvulsive status epilepticus”, which I can only find anecdotal evidence for in studies like this one about tiagabine in a 27yo. Here they are saying that this, which increases GABA, might occasionally be a problem for people without epilepsy, whilst people with partial seizures are given it. But I do have these, and they got less - due to taking GABA. Also I have never had any of the fx you have mentioned, nor any of the symptoms of NCSE. When I overdose, which as I said creates a GABA shunt and “serotonin syndrome”, which are a different set of symptoms, and sets 3-5 of my symptoms back to the way they were when not taking GABA, but not all 10. That only goes to show I need to keep the dose moderate, not to show that I should stop taking it - doesn’t it?

My doc says to do all this it MUST BE crossing my BBB. And docs rule, you say...

I had the same thinking that it might not be crossing the BBB. More importantly than your liver example it seems to be produced in the gut biome. But looking at research and asking my sleep lab psychiatrist, these explained otherwise - that my successes with it show it MUST be crossing the BBB and has nothing to do with my biome or liver. And according to moderator wisdom I should listen more to docs who know me than to things I read on the forums .
My doc says it helping more than a few months proves it also can’t be placebo any more, and to definitely continue with it.

The leaky brain hypothesis caveat against taking GABA is not convincing.

Have you read any of the studies or many (long-term) experiences about the positive effects of GABA?
The only - fairly - real caveat I’ve found up to now is the “leaky brain theory hypothesis”. I’ve spent hours reading and pondering on this, but find it even less convincing (and applicable to my body) than the “leaky gut theory hypothesis”, and it has also recently been very much revoked by the originator of the so-called “theory”. Again according to research and my doc, this hypothesis is rubbish.

So, if I’ve still missed something:
Could you cite your sources? Or explain further?
Of course I’m now worrying , but at the same time I can’t at all see why I should be!

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I think you should go back and reread what I said and review some basic physiology. I’m not sure what article you are referring to. GABA is naturally produced when it is, it is found in the Brain and the eyes. Liver disease is the among the few known “things” that causes it to occur outside of those two areas.

When it is found, outside of the normal production it CAN cause the effects I mentioned.

As far as my sources, I’m afraid it’s memory, which can fail me occasionally and the materials in addition to the lectures labs etc. in the 12 years of preparation for my career are not found on the internet. (and considering the cost of texts and credit hours even in the dark ages of my training it hadn’t better be… I’m not sure what Google has - usually not much.

But honestly I don’t much care. If alternative treatment gives you relief, that certainly is your right.

I’d say the comparison to alcohol is pretty right on. It a poison. Harmless in low amounts. Has effects in higher amounts that some people enjoy on occasion And used regularly/too much can have very serious effects.

The same can be said for most medications and supplements. The amount, how much, how often varies by the individual.

My granddaughter is a good example. She recently had a cooking accident in her apartment the resulted in some pretty severe burns. (second degree) through a parade of increasing treatments she ultimately ended up with c.Diff.

Tough luck for sure. Better than losing her foot from infection. Except she is an autoimmune patient with gut involvement.

Most c. Diff patients recover with rest, good food etc and a different antibiotic. Not her. For her two and half weeks in the hospital including 3 days in ICU where it was touch and go. All from routine ABX to prevent infection.

Of course you should worry. People who prescribe for a living do. I can assure you the Doc who prescribed my Granddaughter was worried.

Self prescribing based on self research should be worrying. We have folks taking horse dewormer from the feed store to cure a disease they may or not have and may have been able to avoid by a few simple actions and chose not to based on doing their research.

TJ