Exactly it’s pretty tough some days. I have noticed a pattern though. I noticed that my anxiety and symptoms all spike after a meal, especially one that didn’t digesteHey, I experienced identical symptoms that came on about a year ago. Came suddenly and also got the same twitching you are describing. First few months it was difficult to leave the house. Over the summer it improved a bit (but not the twitching) and I was able to go out again and stuff. This winter it came back but not as extreme.
I have spent most of this year trying to figure it out. I hope I inflicted this on myself through anxiety and not some sort of terrible degenerative disease. Some days I feel OK, some days I feel like an Alzheimer’s patient with extreme anxiety.
Feels surreal having someone describe the exact situation I am in. I tried thiamine and I really don’t think it’s the right move for me.. although years ago I got great benefits from it. It doesn’t really do anything now even at gram doses.
right leading to GERD and SIBO symptoms such as belching, heart burn or excessive burping leading me to believe that it is also serotonin related. And yes I think the thiamine is helping but it’s kind of plateau’d since I’m not upping my dose or supplementing magnesium, which I am going to do once my bulk powders arrive.
I think it’s also important to do the non-nutritional things and break the routine like going for a walk somewhere you’ve never been before or doing a new hobby, Ray has pointed out the importance of these things in lowering serotonin. I have started trying to be more spontaneous and even though it’s hard I’m trying to push myself, the supplements and diet get you to a certain energy state where you are able to do these things and I think it’s important to recognise when you are able and then acting on that energy and picking yourself back up.
I don’t know how I ended up this way and I definetly took for granted those times when I felt normal. I envy all my friends who are still able to enjoy themselves and have a drink of alcohol and get wasted even though I spent the better part of 2 years. I often think ‘why me?’ but there’s no point, your in the situation now so you may as well pull yourself out. Cheers for the message, hope to hear more on how your getting on and if you find anything in particular that helps shoot it my way :)
Carrot salad (with coconut oil and vinegar) and the thiamine is a big help for me and I suspect the magnesium will be too. I also got good results today from IDEALABS Energin.