Posted by tealady on September 26, 2004, at 18:29:09
In reply to Re: Supplements for brain fog?- » tealady, posted by JLx on September 24, 2004, at 15:24:20
> Hi Jan,
Hiya JL,
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> How are you doing these days? :)Actually I had a pretty good year mostly..not up to coping with working(still not enough energy or concentration..and can't stay awake long enough especially for more than one part day in a row!.....but pretty good. Just coming out of a bad couple of weeks though.
I think a few things at home.. ..plus a dentist appointment(AAARGH!), and then finding someone I emailed a bit on another forum with some similar symptoms just gave up, sigh.
http://groups.msn.com/KleineLevinSyndromeGroup/_notifications.msnw?type=msg&parent=1&item=587
Have you read thru the old threads here in your catch-up?
I set myself a goal last year of getting well enough to walk, drive again etc..and managed to get over to England for 6.5 weeks ..and Vanuatu for 3 weeks before that to visit son who is over there again working and diving for few weeks.
http://www.dr-bob.org/babble/alter/20040613/msgs/367246.htmlLast year I wasn't sure if I was going to make it so I thought about what I really wanted to do before I went and tried to get well enough to do some of it. Kinda a goal to aim for.
I went back to uni after many years too to study this stuff..as my osmosis ability seems poor(grin)and I just can't understand these abstracts on pubmed!..
Just started one subject this semester(Biology..cells, molecules and stuff)..had to do high school chemistry and biology first. Wish I could handle more than one at a time..but I can't. Actually the week before last I found the one subject too much..but we've got a week off now..which I really NEEDED a couple of weeks ago. It's a catch22...if I don't study this stuff I don't think anyone else is going to work it out and I might as well just give up..but if I do , I push my health too much too and crash! I'm still hoping for some miracle ..and maybe I can return full time and then help others more too and maybe even get a job?
So now I'm understanding a bit of it.... and I'm just discovering a few more things wrong, sigh. Now I'm starting to get to know enough to really argue with the docs..present them with what IS normal and my body is doing and finally getting them listening. That's another thing I was depressed about actually...wish they would have listened to me years ago! They just see what the majority of people do and if you're different they don't want to know!
Well have to get some tests etc before I get myself too depressed I guess.>
> I haven't been here in a while.I know, I dropped off mostly myself and I'm still not really back <grin> , but I missed ya and had to say hello! I really appreciated your support before.
When last we spoke, I think, I was excited about starting a job.
Yes I remember. Seeing ya back now is kinda a mixed feeling thing! Great to hear from you to say hello again ..but I was kinda happy if you had just gone out there into the world and got better too!!!
I thought about you a few times. You're the ONLY person (out of hundreds) I've heard of that needs so much magnesium to feel good..and I've still got this question in the back of my mind as like WHY???. Everyone else needs somewhere between 1:1 and 2:1....really! So IF I ever find out WHY , I'll let ya know as I figure it's our differences that should be signposts to our problems.
When I posted the usual ratios of calcium : magnesium somewhere below I think , I was thinking ..except for Jlx (grins)
It was only seasonal (tax preparation) so it's over now, and while the work itself went ok, the stress really did me in. I thought I was on a fairly even keel at the time with the supplements I was taking, but everything went haywire almost immediately, and especially after I had a viral respiratory infection for a few weeks. It seemed like my supplements weren't working the same at all, my hormones were such that I was having periods again after going without for so many months that I thought I was finally in menopause. I was having carb cravings all of a sudden and I went off my diet regimen more and more as I just couldn't seem to get a handle on things. That only made things worse, unfortunately, and I started regaining the weight I'd lost last year. Then I hurt my foot so I couldn't do my usual walking as exercise
Yes I know, I finished off my bad dentist's day week before last by walking on a bag of shopping that contained shampoo and a light bulb and squishing out the shampoo everywhere and getting glass in my foot..that was after I walked on my glassed and squished them <g>.
http://forums.about.com/ab-thyroid/messages?msg=52183.55
Well that stopped me exercising too ..just about to start again... got fatter AaARGH!!
I lost a lot of weight when I started exercising over the year.
In England/Wales I tried to walk most days...it's really lovely for doing walks in..something different to see all the the time..gives one an incentive!!!
and I really went deeper into the doldrums and gained more weight. I'm just now coming out of the trough and trying to figure out what to do next.
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> One interesting thing, I think I told you that I've had some thyroid problems (by body temp and other symptoms) and this winter I didn't! I'm guessing it was the tyrosine. I think the magnesium helped too, though it took quite a few months. Magnesium is still the magic formula to keep me from feeling suicidal too, no matter how far down I otherwise go. That is an enormous blessing.that's a blessing at least! Yes tyrosine may have done that..especially with a little magnesium..have you tried a little zinc too..like say 15mg at least a couple of times a week? Have you got copper or plastic plumbing? The zinc should help together with the magnesium and tyrosine especially if you have copper plumbing.
Also B6(P5P) brand..I think "NOW" makes a good one in the US about 10mg a day a least(probably more likely 20mg) together with a multiB of up around 10-25mg size?
If you haven't tried it yet the P5PB6 seems to help with depression a lot for me and should be taken with brekkie together with some magnesium and zinc. Are you taking your tyrosine before brekkie on an empty stomach on waking or after 5AMish if you wake for a toilet break?I've run out of (P5P)B6 a couple of weeks ago which I think is part of my problem..but iherb wants $40US postage alone!!! (For Any guys reading this ..the P5P form of B6 is needed more for women ..usually over 35 years of age.. most men and younger girls seem to be able to handle ordinary B6.)
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> I'm pretty bummed otherwise that I could go so completely off course in such a short period of time. I still feel better on my worst days than I ever felt on drugs, but it feels pretty daunting to have to keep on experimenting and tweaking these things. I'm also now convinced that it's not just the supplements but the diet changes AND the supplements working together that make the biggest difference....it all is just so much work.
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> Waaah, I want to be normal! ;)Waaah, me too (hugs while wailing this)
Jan
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