Thanks Mark,

I've booked a naturopath follow up for next week and I'll bring the list of vitamines and see what she has to say.

Again, my main issue was anxiety when I first met her and that was my main symptom. My headaches weren't as bad last August when I first met her.

Hopefully now we can focus on healing my brain and getting me back to somewhat normal.

I've also started an excel spreadsheet to help track my activity levels, diet, mood, symptoms, treatments, etc.

A big issue is getting a doctor to prescribe rest from work and collect disability. I've got a mortgage and bills to pay so stopping work without disability income isn't much of an option right now.

My general doctor prescribed me celexa and told me to exercise more on my last visit so I've kind of given up on her.

I visited a sports medicine doctor and she said that I should just keep working because I have been for the last year. She offered me a prescription that I would take daily to help me sleep which would help alleviate some of my symptoms (which I didn't fill but may consider next time I see her - I used to be able to sleep like a rock. Not so much anymore)

I'm hoping that if I gather a month's worth of data that demonstrates that my symptoms aren't improving that I can get prescribed some time off work.

In the meantime, starting yesterday I've decided to take the following actions and see if they help.

1.

At work no more listening to music and pod casts while I problem solve (I'm very used to multitasking and I'm sure that isn't good for the healing process).

Instead of music I'm trying just ocean sounds as I like having my headphones in to drown out any talking that is going on around me

2.

Weeknights - limit TV to one hour or less

3.

No Video games until I am symptom free

4.

Weekends - as much rest as possible. I've spoken to my wife about this and she is on board. This means the patio I was planning to put in this weekend will have to wait.

I will still attempt to do social things as I need the exposure therapy for my anxiety and these also reduce stress. I will just pick things that don't last as long and are more relaxing. For example, we have my nephews birthday and then we were going to go to a food festival which would have been all day. Instead we are just doing the birthday party which will be about 3 hours instead of all day.

5.

Driving - I would always drive everywhere. For longer drives my fiance will drive all or at least some of the distance so that I can relax. I find driving relaxing so this is actually a tough one to let go of.