Peata
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I would go to a tanning bed a little, but I thought those rays were supposed to be harmful...?
I have a couple heat lamps that I intend to set up soon as I figure out the best way to hang them. If you or anyone uses them, do you let them shine directly down on your head, or do you angle them another way? When I was using them before, I tried different ways but was usually uncomfortable with the brightness (not sure if I should be wearing protective goggles or just avoid looking directly at them).
Yeah, that's how I've felt about it as far as medical testing. I had a lot of tests that never really told me anything I didn't know. Just a bunch of money for something I already know by symptoms.
I'm back on cyproheptadine since Christmas night and doing really well with it. Whatever the irritability was about last time, it's not there now. I usually have to wait at least a week - sometimes 10 - 14 days to feel the full effect kick in for mood. I'm almost up to 8 mg. now and that's where I plan to stay for a while.
I knew I was packed with cortisol, adrenaline, estrogen, etc for the last week, and it was really evident on Christmas. Probably the stress of the holiday season didn't help. For once I didn't have any cypro with me but I was really feeling the need for it. As soon as I got home that night, I took some along with a little taurine (that I was already taking) and 100 mg theanine. I took some cascara too. Withing FIFTEEN minutes I felt a huge relief come over me. Just more relaxed everywhere. It kept happening after taking it, although the overall mood effect takes more time, as I said, somewhere around ten days for me. I can tell when it's working because I'll stop ruminating and worrying.
I'm intending to stay on cypro for a good long while and really give it a chance to lower that cortisol and serotonin and help my metabolism.
I'm not worried about weight gain from it. For one thing, I seem to be doing better about being more mindful when eating, and chewing my food a lot. Nicholas, I think it was, had a recent post on it too. I think it's helping my blood sugar be more stable, my digestive discomforts are much less. I discovered what seems to set off the immediate diarrhea after eating sometimes, is too much liquid at once. Anyway, with the slower eating and increase in chewing, I am eating less calories and getting full quicker. I eat every 2 - 3 hours but not as much food now. I feel that I am absorbing nutrients from my food better now that it's not dumping into my stomach in large pieces (sometimes I barely chewed because I was in a hurry to just eat and go do something else, or I would let myself get too hungry to eat slow).
Something in a salad today irritated my GI to where I had to take a little dramamine (for the lightheadedness and weird feeling I'd get). I think it was cannelini beans that did it. I also notice a bad effect from eating a lot of cold cereal (more than one cup) or a lot of popcorn. I think it scratches the intestines or something. So I've cut back on those things a lot.
I seem to have lost my taste for red meat, at least here lately. I want seafood, cottage cheese, small amounts of cheese, milk. I like a little sliced ham, chicken, eggs, and fruit, certain vegs, honey, coffee with milk and sugar (3 c. coffee day usually), soda, potatoes, cooked greens, mushrooms, sherbet. I am eating coconut oil at least 4 x day. I am not focusing on low fat these days, but because I am eating less overall it doesn't seem to hurt.
For supplements: taurine 500 mg. 4 x day, Bs, D&K, E with pufa, cyproheptadine 8 mg day in divided doses with biggest dose at night. At night I also take 100 mg. theanine, 500 mg taurine, 1 capsule cascara sagrada. Occasional Natural Calm. Not taking caffeine pills but relying more on coffee these days.
I have a couple heat lamps that I intend to set up soon as I figure out the best way to hang them. If you or anyone uses them, do you let them shine directly down on your head, or do you angle them another way? When I was using them before, I tried different ways but was usually uncomfortable with the brightness (not sure if I should be wearing protective goggles or just avoid looking directly at them).
Yeah, that's how I've felt about it as far as medical testing. I had a lot of tests that never really told me anything I didn't know. Just a bunch of money for something I already know by symptoms.
I'm back on cyproheptadine since Christmas night and doing really well with it. Whatever the irritability was about last time, it's not there now. I usually have to wait at least a week - sometimes 10 - 14 days to feel the full effect kick in for mood. I'm almost up to 8 mg. now and that's where I plan to stay for a while.
I knew I was packed with cortisol, adrenaline, estrogen, etc for the last week, and it was really evident on Christmas. Probably the stress of the holiday season didn't help. For once I didn't have any cypro with me but I was really feeling the need for it. As soon as I got home that night, I took some along with a little taurine (that I was already taking) and 100 mg theanine. I took some cascara too. Withing FIFTEEN minutes I felt a huge relief come over me. Just more relaxed everywhere. It kept happening after taking it, although the overall mood effect takes more time, as I said, somewhere around ten days for me. I can tell when it's working because I'll stop ruminating and worrying.
I'm intending to stay on cypro for a good long while and really give it a chance to lower that cortisol and serotonin and help my metabolism.
I'm not worried about weight gain from it. For one thing, I seem to be doing better about being more mindful when eating, and chewing my food a lot. Nicholas, I think it was, had a recent post on it too. I think it's helping my blood sugar be more stable, my digestive discomforts are much less. I discovered what seems to set off the immediate diarrhea after eating sometimes, is too much liquid at once. Anyway, with the slower eating and increase in chewing, I am eating less calories and getting full quicker. I eat every 2 - 3 hours but not as much food now. I feel that I am absorbing nutrients from my food better now that it's not dumping into my stomach in large pieces (sometimes I barely chewed because I was in a hurry to just eat and go do something else, or I would let myself get too hungry to eat slow).
Something in a salad today irritated my GI to where I had to take a little dramamine (for the lightheadedness and weird feeling I'd get). I think it was cannelini beans that did it. I also notice a bad effect from eating a lot of cold cereal (more than one cup) or a lot of popcorn. I think it scratches the intestines or something. So I've cut back on those things a lot.
I seem to have lost my taste for red meat, at least here lately. I want seafood, cottage cheese, small amounts of cheese, milk. I like a little sliced ham, chicken, eggs, and fruit, certain vegs, honey, coffee with milk and sugar (3 c. coffee day usually), soda, potatoes, cooked greens, mushrooms, sherbet. I am eating coconut oil at least 4 x day. I am not focusing on low fat these days, but because I am eating less overall it doesn't seem to hurt.
For supplements: taurine 500 mg. 4 x day, Bs, D&K, E with pufa, cyproheptadine 8 mg day in divided doses with biggest dose at night. At night I also take 100 mg. theanine, 500 mg taurine, 1 capsule cascara sagrada. Occasional Natural Calm. Not taking caffeine pills but relying more on coffee these days.