misery guts
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Hi,
I'm a 30 year old male and have had depression since around the age of 14/15. Although it's somewhat intractable from extreme social anxiety (I've been shy since early childhood), there is a distinct emotional 'lowness', and inability to feel pleasure that has remained absolute. I also experience brain fog (poor memory, inability to focus, getting tongue tied), and exist in a fairly permanent state of anger and irritability
Anyway, after reading an article linking depression to inflammation, I discovered the usual paleo blogs and then eventually this article - Curing Arthritis and Depression with Diet and Antibiotics - Perfect Health Diet | Perfect Health Diet
Which was a bit of a revelation to me, because around the exact same time I developed depression, I also developed arthritis in my knees.
After discovering Peat/Haidut, I then decided the infection was likely causing me to become hypothyroid. So I took a blood test:
http://i.imgur.com/NVdxYmP.jpg
Which has quickly ruined my week. I'm aware that the thyroid tests are taken with a pinch of salt around here, but I remember @haidut saying in one of the Roddy discussions that the TSH reading is pretty useful.. Namely that my TSH should be high if an infection is preventing cells from using the T3, yet it isn't. As for my crp... My understanding was that this should be high if you're in a state of inflammation, yet mine's low.. I don't understand
I know this post is a mess, but anyway. I just want to quickly mention my symptoms and supplements I've tried:
Symptoms:
- depression/anxiety/anhedonia/brain fog
- arthritis in knees
- muscular pain from around the middle of the back up to the neck (some days painful enough I can't move the neck) - this has only started in the last 2 years or so
- extremely easy to bruise
- spider veins
- what looks like early onset rosacea (little red spots/veins appearing on face)
- very fine hair
- dry skin on face/dandruff (I also used to get flaky, dry skin on elbows and keratosis pilaris on the back of my arms, and some mild acne, but these are resolved with 100IU retinol)
- muscle twitches, especially eye lids
- heart palpitations, however these have ceased since supplement/Peatish diet
- extremely sensitive teeth (worse since Peating)
- sudden noises cause me to jump extremely easily (I only mention this because I remember Haidut mentioning it somewhere)
Supplements I've tried:
- b complex
-magnesium
-selenium
-d3
-estroban
-retinil
-taurine
-zinc
-previously methylene blue
Also... So I actually got these results a few days ago and immediately searched the forum for info on low b12/high folate. Not much info unfortunately, and so ended up on a Chronic fatigue syndrome forum (which incidentally, has a lot of the same symptoms listed as hypothyroid), trying to work out what methylation means :s
Anyway, it resulted in me spending the rest of my overdraft on 500mcg sublingual b12 and methyfolate. Took some today and all I can feel is the familiar dread of yet another cure that has no affect on me whilst I slowly rot away and die
So erm.. Does anyone have any idea from a Peat perspective on why someone might have high folate, with low b12? Or indeed low crp despite being in a state of chronic inflammation?
Thanks for any help!
I'm a 30 year old male and have had depression since around the age of 14/15. Although it's somewhat intractable from extreme social anxiety (I've been shy since early childhood), there is a distinct emotional 'lowness', and inability to feel pleasure that has remained absolute. I also experience brain fog (poor memory, inability to focus, getting tongue tied), and exist in a fairly permanent state of anger and irritability
Anyway, after reading an article linking depression to inflammation, I discovered the usual paleo blogs and then eventually this article - Curing Arthritis and Depression with Diet and Antibiotics - Perfect Health Diet | Perfect Health Diet
Which was a bit of a revelation to me, because around the exact same time I developed depression, I also developed arthritis in my knees.
After discovering Peat/Haidut, I then decided the infection was likely causing me to become hypothyroid. So I took a blood test:
http://i.imgur.com/NVdxYmP.jpg
Which has quickly ruined my week. I'm aware that the thyroid tests are taken with a pinch of salt around here, but I remember @haidut saying in one of the Roddy discussions that the TSH reading is pretty useful.. Namely that my TSH should be high if an infection is preventing cells from using the T3, yet it isn't. As for my crp... My understanding was that this should be high if you're in a state of inflammation, yet mine's low.. I don't understand
I know this post is a mess, but anyway. I just want to quickly mention my symptoms and supplements I've tried:
Symptoms:
- depression/anxiety/anhedonia/brain fog
- arthritis in knees
- muscular pain from around the middle of the back up to the neck (some days painful enough I can't move the neck) - this has only started in the last 2 years or so
- extremely easy to bruise
- spider veins
- what looks like early onset rosacea (little red spots/veins appearing on face)
- very fine hair
- dry skin on face/dandruff (I also used to get flaky, dry skin on elbows and keratosis pilaris on the back of my arms, and some mild acne, but these are resolved with 100IU retinol)
- muscle twitches, especially eye lids
- heart palpitations, however these have ceased since supplement/Peatish diet
- extremely sensitive teeth (worse since Peating)
- sudden noises cause me to jump extremely easily (I only mention this because I remember Haidut mentioning it somewhere)
Supplements I've tried:
- b complex
-magnesium
-selenium
-d3
-estroban
-retinil
-taurine
-zinc
-previously methylene blue
Also... So I actually got these results a few days ago and immediately searched the forum for info on low b12/high folate. Not much info unfortunately, and so ended up on a Chronic fatigue syndrome forum (which incidentally, has a lot of the same symptoms listed as hypothyroid), trying to work out what methylation means :s
Anyway, it resulted in me spending the rest of my overdraft on 500mcg sublingual b12 and methyfolate. Took some today and all I can feel is the familiar dread of yet another cure that has no affect on me whilst I slowly rot away and die
So erm.. Does anyone have any idea from a Peat perspective on why someone might have high folate, with low b12? Or indeed low crp despite being in a state of chronic inflammation?
Thanks for any help!