Hi starblue88,
Thank you for your reply. I understand what you're saying about many experts saying that the therapeutic benefits of supplements take at least several weeks to become evident, but there are some supplements that I ended up staying on for several months that didn't seem to do anything positive after several weeks or months. Maybe there is a supplement or two out there that might be an exception to this for me, but I think that the only way to know if this might be the case would be to try every supplement that I can tolerate over a long period of time to see if they might have any long-term benefits, and I don't know how worthwhile that would be, especially given the results I've had so far.
My test results from the orthomolecular treatment center I went to did recently come back, and all they found was that my vitamin D level was low and that my white blood cells were elevated (the second of which is a reading that keeps coming back every time I'm hospitalized). My histamine levels were normal. I've tried supplementing with vitamin D in the past, and my psychotic symptoms became worse when I tried to do so, so I don't think that supplementing with vitamin D again would be a good idea.
The lab value that I think I need to pay the most attention to is the fact that my white blood cells are chronically elevated. I've pretty much always felt that my chronic fatigue and related symptoms (the slow thinking, hypersomnia, and difficulty concentrating) were brought on by prolonged sleep deprivation, and not too surprisingly, sleep deprivation has been shown to bring about elevations in white blood cells that can't be reversed with recovery sleep. Taking supplements that address things like neurotransmission or methylation are probably going to be of no value unless they address my underlying problem with white blood cells. No medical professional seems to know what to do with my white blood cell problem. All they do is ask if I've had an infection recently, and when I tell them that I haven't, they basically brush that off. Anyway, I might be trying some anti-inflammatory supplements with the potential to lower white blood cells, but given my track record with supplements, I'm certainly not expecting anything that will produce lasting results. I mean, I wouldn't be trying the supplements if I didn't think that there was some chance that they might do some long-term good, but I know how supplements normally affect me and thus have to be realistic about my treatment outcome.
Tomatheus
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