Posted by JLx on September 25, 2004, at 20:57:07
In reply to Re: Supplements for brain fog?- » JLx, posted by karaS on September 25, 2004, at 19:40:26
> It's so amazing to me that people are still reading all of the old posts in this long thread and bringing them back to life.
Seems like some of the best info is in the long threads, not to mention that you and Simus were pretty funny. :)
> I'm sure that my cortisol is all out of whack too. Might as well be a morning person with screwed up cortisol than a night owl with same problem, eh?Well, if you have a day job anyway! In "The Cortisol Connection" Talbott described the normal rise and fall cycle throughout day and how we screw it up by our tendency to have a lot of activity and stress in our evening hours. I recall him saying that he took theanine himself at a certain time each day to try to counteract that. I'd like to try that some day.
Have you ever taken anything specifically for hormone changes? I took a herbal women's formula for years and it was helpful, probably because of the DHEA. Last year I tried both pregnenolone and progesterone. The progesterone was very disappointing after I had read such good things about it. Aside from one tantalizing day of feeling like I had a lot of zip and spring in my step, it was awful.
> I know you're right on this one. I just have to manage to discipline myself more and get on that earlier schedule. It's just too critical at this point.
Well, one reason why I was saying it is that I needed to hear it! Here I am on the computer at nearly 10 PM.
> Yes, sugar is very stimulating for me also and gives me hypoglycemia as well as contributing to restless leg syndrome.
By that do you mean vague little jumpiness feelings in your legs? When I get those, I usually try magnesium and if that doesn't work, I add a little calcium, and if they don't work, I add a little potassium. Some version usually does the trick.
>I do have a light box though I haven't been using it much.
I saw your post elswhere about that after I posted. I was surprised to see that you didn't find much value in the Sunrizer....I've always wanted one of those because I thought it sounded very body-friendly to be woken up gradually with light.
Have you ever seen this site http://www.cet.org/default.htm?AutoMEQ.htm~main and it's Morningness - Eveningness Questionnaire? Before I read that, I was thinking that I was using my light visor early enough in the AM but now I think not.
>This did help a lot. It's maintaining that schedule that is the really hard part because my natural instinct is to go to be later and later and later on each progressive night.
Oh, I know what you mean. I still do that too. The only difference now is that it doesn't seem so bad if I have to get up in the morning because I only sleep 6 hours instead of 8.
> I really should try shutting off the computer and the TV by 8:00 PM. Of course I'd be cutting off two of my very few pleasures left but that's another story...
I'm not sure the TV counts so much as long as you watch it in a darkened room, unless you have one of those monster TVs maybe. What I notice when I get in the habit of getting to bed early, or when I use my light visor in the morning early enough, is that when about 10 PM rolls around, I start feeling just desperate to sleep. That's really pretty cool then to just fall asleep right away after a near lifetime of insomnia.
> I haven't started my anti-Candida program yet. Too many plans and too little motivation.Yeah, I hear ya. I could just kick myself for getting on the sugar and carb bandwagon again after having done so much of the anti-Candida effort last fall.
> I've never heard of pantethine before. Sounds like it's worth a try.
Me neither. I think I'm going to get some as it sounds like it might neutralize some of the ill effects of the yeast, even without the anti-Candida measures.
> The reason I think this is that I have cholinergic urticaria. Larry mentioned that this is thought to be caused by incomplete protein metabolism. That might help explain my depression as well (if there isn't enough of the amino acids available in my body to make neurotransmitters) and it would explain why I have aboslutely no reaction to taking tyrosine supplementation - even in very large dosages.
I noticed that on the other thread. Have you tried the...bromelain, was it?
> I've recently had luck with taking extra magnesium. I swear I have much less brain fog the following day after the evening I've taken it. It seems so hard to believe that it could help so much. I'm still testing it but there's no doubt in my mind that it's helping.
Magnesium is great stuff. No matter how crappy I feel, or how slipshod I am not taking helpful supplements or watching my diet, I've found that if I at least still take magnesium, then I don't get the extreme "hate myself" blues and suicidal ideation/feelings that always before characterized "the pit" of depression for me. That's a big deal as I used to not only feel suicidal but also beat myself up for it...in that inimitable depressive style. ;)
I started taking magnesium after I ran across George Eby's site about it. I know you're familiar, most people here are by now I think, but here's the link anyway for lurkers: http://www.coldcure.com/html/dep.html I found that linked on a British psychiatric journal's site, and when I asked my psychiatrist about whether he thought magnesium might help me, he responded negatively. Fortunately, I didn't listen to him!
> It's so hard to deal with the ignorance of the healthy world!! You want to make them experience it for just a little while so that they could understand. Did you read about the idea Simus and I had for forced understanding treatment?Yes, I enjoyed many of your comments. :)
> It's just maddening! You said something so similar to Simus when she wrote: "As if anyone would choose to live like this!"
That's the wonderfulness of coming here, people understand.
> Yes, I trust them because Larry recommended them even though I haven't placed any orders with them yet. How long does it take to get your order? Do you live in the States or Canada?
I live not too far from Simus, depending on what she considers "central" Michigan. I am a bit northwest of Grand Rapids. I don't recall specifically how long it took for my BAC orders, but I'm sure it was something reasonable like a week.
JL
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