ZenAlex

You're adoringly crazy.

If it's after a meal, I'd recommend getting a blood glucose monitor. What you're describing sounds like reactive hypoglycaemia. A blood sugar issue after consuming foods. People with hypo, especially when eating carbs, will often feel bad after eating. Get a glucose monitor and take your bloods frequently.

Hmmm, so I took a more trusted NHS test for Covid 19 on the recommendation of people within a long covid community. Specifically says it doesn't detect vaccine antibodies. It would make sense. Only problem is no improvement in 8 months. FFS.

Formulated a diet that's not really low carb, but have cut out baked beans, medjool dates and rice and replaced with chia seeds, avocados and increased my tofu. That cuts 150g of carbs from those foods, and total carbs by 100g, and getting carbs from not so high carb foods. It's a stab in the dark but we'll see what happens. Will start it next week and see what happens. Diet I will try - Oats - 60g, 100g avocado Alpro coconut milk Cashews -- Salmon (alternative between eggs and salmon) Banana Pineapple strawbarries blueberries avocado ----- Sweet potato tofu 300g asapargus/mushrooms etc gravy spinach salad w/ olive oil chia pudding Maybe some nutritional yeast -------- Carbs around 210 down from 320ish. Will probably not do much but lets see. Have cut out Rice, Dates and Baked beans, so I don't see any real detriment, still hitting micros easily. Only concern is saturated fat up from 15g to 23g, but that doesn't seem too bad. Only around 9% of daily cals.

I've been feeling quite irritable and my internal issues have been amplified. I was sitting in a meditation state and I took the b12 sublingual and I felt weird. May stop taking it.

I'm going to take a break from further research. What I'm going to do is do my normal diet, add some nutritional yeast as I've heard b1 can be related to POTS style symptoms. I don't think I have POTS or something like that, but it's possible it's an autonomic nervous system issue Going to keep supplementing b12, 10mcg of D because my D levels were in adequate range not optimal, nurtritional yeast. I'm also gonna forget about doing anymore research and just focus on working with my doc, just in case there's a health anxiety element to it, and the research is contributing, although I doubt it since it's exercise that brings it on more than most things. Posted off a better covid test today. Hopefully this will sort itself out soon.

Context - Was vegan from early Jan 2016 to late jan/early feb 2024. While I was vegan I was consuming an EPA/DHA supplement daily. (https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B07VV4YQGH/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_search_asin_title?ie=UTF8&psc=1) Per 2 soft gels - 400mg of DHA, 200mg of EPA. I was either consuming 1 or 2 gels daily, often only 1 because 2 at a time sometimes caused me headaches. 2 is the recommended serving though. Since early feb I have stopped consuming DHA supplements, because I am now consuming Salmon 3x per week and have been for 3 months now. I consume about 150g-170g of salmon at a time, so it's about 500g of a salmon a week. These bloods were collected on the 9th of april, so just over 2 months since stopping the supplementation, and eating animal products again The symptoms I have are well documented in my symptom investigation journal, and have been occuring since late august/early sep 2023, while I was still vegan and consuming chia/flax seeds most days and 1-2 dha softgels. Symptom list here - Below are my results - @Michael569 @undeather Any advice appreciated.

When I was trying to avoid fapping, I sometimes had to stop watching ASMR videos by girls because it would make me want to jerk off.

I'm going to try my best not to procrastinate, and take my information to more and more doctors. It's time for less theorizing and researching possibilities and more practical. It's been 8 months now ffs. I keep slapping myself for not doing more practical but it's difficult not to procrastinate when you don't know where to look and your doc doesn't really know and is taking stabs in the dark like you are.

After a few more tests I'm going to strongly consider switching doctors to see if another better reviewed doc will help. I will take all my INFO to them. One condition I'm strongly considering I have is POTS or orthostatic issues. Today on my walk I will take my BGM again and my BP monitor.

Fasting glucose? Don't think I've ever taken this. My fasting blood sugar on the BGM seems in normal ranges. But it seems to be a bit low during walks which is why I think this diagnosis makes sense, although it may be b.s My HBA1C is usually the low 30's when I've had it done but I didn't fast before the test. I will mention this to doctor. I was consdiering the possibility of REACTIVE hypoglycemia, as the symptoms come on often during or as a result of exercise. Here is my diet plan for 200g carbs - Not what im eating now. Breakfast Oats 50g + 75g of avocado + 20g of flaxseeds w/ coconut milk Tofu 200g + small amount of baked beans Lunch - Currently eating 100g of medjool dates daily, but that has 75g of carbs just in that, so wil cut that out from next week. Salmon 170g Banana, pinapple, strawberry, blueberry fruit salad 50g of cashews. Dinner - (currently having 50-60g of brown basmati rice + 200g of baked beans with it, will cut this out). 250g of sweet potato Chicken breast Gluten free gravy Spinach/asparagus with some olive oil. Chia pudding with cashew/coconut milk, maybe a small amount of chocolate milk for flavour. Currently clocking in at around 2300-2500 cals depending on portion sizes. 200-210g carbs.

Not specifically Ketogenic, but I am considering lower carbs significantly. I've been eating 100g of medjool dates and lots of rice etc for a while now. I have a feeling my recent issues could be an issue with blood sugar, but even if not, lowering carbs is worth trying because it may make me feel better or worse and therefore it's worth experimenting. I wanna try getting carbs down from around 350-400g a day, to 150-200g and see how I feel. Anyone with experience care to share useful info?

Go to the journals section, I have a diary on it.

Not keto!

DAO test came back normal. Will be looking forward to my echocardiogram report back. Am gonna spend some time today formulating a diet lower in carbs, and see what happens. Still taking b12 sublingual, no noticeable changes yet. Am still noticing that I feel worse after any ejaculation, even though I'm not masturbating/watching porn, even just wet dreams.

If all the lifestyle changes and therapy in the world doesn't work, how can I accept going on meds which may have side effects?

Depression and BPD. At the end of the day we don't know how it feels for her. Depression comes in varying severities, and along side BPD which is one of the worst disorders to have. She may simply not be able to enjoy her life, doctors cannot do anything more.

In my opinion, we can bring a quicker end to this debate by asking ourselves "who's decision should it be?", the person themselves or the people around them? Who gets to decide when a person dies? In a controlled environment, I think you should have the right to do it. I am for Assisted suicide, you're all free to be upset, disappointed at a persons choice but it's theirs to make not yours.

Did an echocardiogram today at hospital. It was weird hearing my heart rate. I had to walk a mile there, nothing strenuous but still brought on the symptoms. My resting heart rate at the hospital sounded around 80-90. She didn't say anything but spent 10-15 minutes looking around and said "your GP will contact you". I hope it's something conclusive, even if it's bad news. Walking around today I used up my 5k step limit so not gonna do anymore because despite my eagerness I know it will just lead to a shit week mood wise. I'm going to do some more blood glucose readings on my walks this week, and then report my findings again to my doctors, and will look to plan a low carb diet, and see what happens with that.

So I decided to test the blood sugar/hypoglycaemia idea again, and decided to take my glucose monitor with me. I got some low readings half way through a 45 minute walk. 3.7, 3.5, 2.5. I'm not sure how much I can trust these readings, so I'm heading back to my hypo forums to ask more questions. Will ask about hypoglycaemia diets and see what helps. If it is Hypo it's reactive hypo. Am considering Ketogenic diet. Will look into a continuous BGM. I really miss hiking and my Zen. But not gonna bitch about it. It's not way too bad. It's made the last 8 months fly by in a bad way tho.

While doing my therapy session today, I realised I couldn't conjure up any positive memories, and although I can remember details from when I was like 3-4 years old, I couldn't conjure up happy memories in relation to people, even those closest to me. People don't matter that much too me personally, despite part of me wanting to do good for humanity.

Going for an echocardiogram tomorrow. Just doing what the doc says at this point. No idea if it will lead to anything. Am gonna have a shower, go for a 5k step walk, stop part of the way through at a local quarry to breath deeply in nature, and monitor how I feel. Since I have to walk to the hospital tomorrow, that will be my step limit almost reached just from that lol Will see what happens. Am still taking the b12 sublingual, no changes noted yet. Sometimes I get random feelings of my not breathing right. Weird feelings around my chest, but since the feelings are not extreme, I don't know what to think of them. At times I get really frustrated just concentrating on things. Still meditating, using my nights to listen to ambient sounds, do my therapy defusion techniques. My next appointment is next wednesday and received my invite, 1st of may.... We're almost in may already man! Part of me thinks "damn we're almost half way through another year", but realised it would still only be 1 3rd. I gotta remember to just figure out ways to enjoy my life now as it's only happening now, and not to make this a waiting game for recovery. I can still enjoy some music, I can still sometimes go out and watch sport, I can still sometimes focus on true crime and horror documentaries. That's at least something.

Just ordered what should be an accurate test to determine if I've had covid, from an NHS backed website directly.

I don't really have much idea where to look at this point, and it sucks. I keep thinking it must have been something I've done wrong in the past, but I don't know exactly what. I have at times binged video games and TV, but that's about the unhealthiest thing I've done in years. Everything I try would feel like a stab in the dark. I'm getting more tests done but don't know where to look in general. This blows. Considering nucleocapsid test for covid.