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01-01-2016, 01:47 PM | #1 | ||
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Hi Bluesfan,
Thank you for your kind words and the encouragement. This forum and you all are wonderful. I genuinely find it encouraging and an important part of this, and on some level I want to get better for us all, and feel that when others improve, it's a pick me up for me me too. I think such community is important. I'm sorry to hear about your various health problems. I hear what you're neuro is saying, but perhaps it's still worth seeking the cause, in case it can be addressed? Perhaps another neuro will, if he/she won't? How have your symptoms gone? Have you seen improvement with dietary and/or supplement or general lifestyle changes? I hope so. Often that's all we have. Thank you for those links. I've read much on here in the last month or so, but this looks good, and I don't think I've read it all for sure. I do have all the supplements and then some waiting in the wings and will introduce them one by one. In the last week or two, the B12 and B-complex introduction has really helped with energy, mood and much else, so that was a very positive introduction. I drank a lot, so it could have been caused by nutrient deficiencies, at least partly, if not entirely. Well, I'll keep updating things, and will hope it's more positive than negative. Thanks again and happy new year! Quote:
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12-30-2015, 06:35 PM | #2 | ||
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Madisongrrl,
Thanks for all this. Sorry for the delay in responding. But I did receive and read your helpful note, and really appreciate the sentiment. I’m glad I find this and you and the others, and hope that we can all received some relief, if not a cure. I’m sorry to hear that you have been suffering so much. Your situation sounds worse than mine. I also had tinnitus, spasms, lots of joint pain, but no burning, or very little. The tremor on my left side can be bad, but often or mostly when I’m about to go to sleep. Recently, the worst has been face symptoms, lots of numbness, tingling, shocks and the like. Not fun. But overall, I think I’m doing better. But honestly who the hell knows with this illness?! I do hope you’ve continued to improve with your treatment now that they know at least one of the causes. I also hope that more and more you receive back some of the self you were, your life, identity and all that defined you. This has hit me hard too, and I’ve been through lots of reassessing and rethinking of who I am, what I want and can have in my life. It’s something you don’t expect to deal with in your mid-30s. The diet has and does help. I use Ketostix now and then, and they show .5, which is what my lab blood test showed. It’s good. You don’t want to be stuck in the extremes of ketosis. I’ve been on this for 6 months. It sounds like you had a healthy diet pre-SFN, so I’m not surprised that yours at least partly, if not entirely, came from a foreign entity, Lyme. Mine is likely autoimmune, given my diet and lifestyle, but perhaps that just made worse a foreign invasion, so to speak. I’m going to treat for that, since I really don’t know what else to do, or where to get the meds you’re getting. It doesn’t work that way here really, though I could try to ask my GP. There are no physicians working outside the system in Canada. But more and more I’m thinking of heading across the border and seeing what I can get done. It will be at a financial cost though. Thanks again for all the helpful links, advice and for just commiserating. If you have any ideas, anything that can help, I’d be grateful. In the meantime, I hope you keep improving. Quote:
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Thanks David. I'm getting better every single day. Baby steps, I guess.
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12-30-2015, 09:56 PM | #4 | ||
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12-26-2015, 02:00 PM | #5 | ||
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Ragtop,
First off, thank you for listening. Thank you also for your kind words and for sharing some of your story. I appreciate your words of wisdom, and very much agree. I'm trying to take things one day and step at a time, but it's more difficult, I think, when you're at the start of your life and you're expected to plan longterm and to build a future, not that I'd be okay with this happening to me when I'm retired and planning to enjoy quieter and more relaxed times. I suppose it just creates a different set of problems now. But I'm doing what I can, and that's all I suppose I can do. It's difficult not to become overwhelmed and somewhat hopeless. I no longer feel like a young man, but that's what I am or supposed to be, and everyone looks at me as if I can't actually be ill or somehow incapacitated, at least at times. It's a strange and somewhat ageist thing. Anyway, thank you for sharing about your gut health. I'm sorry you've had to go through it for so long. I truly know what it's like and how much it can affect one's life. I honestly can't recall how far mine goes back, but likely to my teens or early 20s - I think the latter. I almost can't recall a time without it. I'm not surprised yours is connected to your anxiety. When my stress or anxiety goes up, mine gets worse too, almost instantaneously. Given recent research, it seems our gut flora are not in balance, that we don't have enough good bacteria. I'm trying to correct that, as I mentioned in the post. Studies are showing that correcting this can actually affect anxiety and depression. Did you do anything with respect to diet before you saw the improvement? Not that that's the only way your gut flora could have changed. But the research is showing this more and more clearly. My onset and testing also did a number on my anxiety levels. I even needed medication to be able to lie in the MRI machines. I had so much anxiety and fear that I became claustrophobic, which I'd never been. I'm much better now, but that was not a good time. Anyway, I could write much more, but I'll leave at this: thank you for your kind words and thoughts. I'll try to keep in mind the sage words with which you ended things, and to keep trying to dedicated to my difficult regimen. I wish you the best of health and am glad to hear you have some stability with the PN. Quote:
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