Hello,
New here ... I found your forum searching for more info about Periactin/Cypro. I've read quite a few of the threads, and am considering switching from paleo/WAP to the Peat Diet. My doctor doesn't have any answers for years of flushing all night long, EVERY night and just prescribed the Cypro for skin rashes and irritations and trouble sleeping at night. I am so desperate for years of this red hot nightmare to end.
I'd rather not take any meds, but I've been messing with doses of clonidine for a year now to control flushing during the day - just 1-3 a day of 0.1mg. It gives me random narcolepsy-like naps and hours of fighting off sleeping during the day. Dry mouth. Ringing ears. But with a steady dose, maybe that will let up.
2 weeks ago I had loss of memory episode that inspired me to take my blood pressure ... YIKES 179/118. Started researching/increasing clonidine and monitoring pressure. One every six hours is mostly keeping blood pressure under 140/90 AND I have almost no daytime flushing now and the night flushing is not as severe, but it is still an every night torment. I was delighted to be able to take a nice long hot bath without instigating a major flush for the first time in years.
The pharmacist would not give me more clonidine, so had to see the doctor with money I do not have ... well, it brought me here, so maybe soon I can get some sleep without red hot blood-engorged ears and blotchy hot face and sometimes a prickly rash on chest and shoulders. It takes up to an hour to get rid of this in the morning.
I see some of you are taking cypro, but I'm not understanding why. The first night I took 4 mg I woke up without red ears, but the face was still red, and all the next day was terribly sleepy. Then it didn't seem to work as well the 2nd night and this morning I woke up with ... red hot ears. Well, I always wake up every 1-3 hours with the burning torment, and only sleep 5-6 hours most night to cut the number of horror events by one.
My temperature is consistently around 95.5 which my Dr. said is actually in normal range. My feet freeze. My hands are usually burning sometimes freezing, rarely neither.
Before the doctor visit and finding this forum I found a web page with info from Dr. Bill Wenzel and ordered glycine powder, Ubiquinol, Great Lakes Beef Hide Gelatin. And also Black Seed Oil which is supposed to cure everything but death. I was disappointed to read that the dried Mango I got and think is yum-yum is in the poison ivy family and allergenic and nuts that are so easy to make a meal with are high in PUFA. From a previous purchase I have Suntheanine and Lithium Aspartate.
I've seen hints here and there that the Ray Peat information holds the key to why this flushing during sleep is happening to me and how to stop it, but nothing very in depth. Any articles, books, videos, terms to google, advice on how much glycine, etc to try?
Thanks much,
Karen
New here ... I found your forum searching for more info about Periactin/Cypro. I've read quite a few of the threads, and am considering switching from paleo/WAP to the Peat Diet. My doctor doesn't have any answers for years of flushing all night long, EVERY night and just prescribed the Cypro for skin rashes and irritations and trouble sleeping at night. I am so desperate for years of this red hot nightmare to end.
I'd rather not take any meds, but I've been messing with doses of clonidine for a year now to control flushing during the day - just 1-3 a day of 0.1mg. It gives me random narcolepsy-like naps and hours of fighting off sleeping during the day. Dry mouth. Ringing ears. But with a steady dose, maybe that will let up.
2 weeks ago I had loss of memory episode that inspired me to take my blood pressure ... YIKES 179/118. Started researching/increasing clonidine and monitoring pressure. One every six hours is mostly keeping blood pressure under 140/90 AND I have almost no daytime flushing now and the night flushing is not as severe, but it is still an every night torment. I was delighted to be able to take a nice long hot bath without instigating a major flush for the first time in years.
The pharmacist would not give me more clonidine, so had to see the doctor with money I do not have ... well, it brought me here, so maybe soon I can get some sleep without red hot blood-engorged ears and blotchy hot face and sometimes a prickly rash on chest and shoulders. It takes up to an hour to get rid of this in the morning.
I see some of you are taking cypro, but I'm not understanding why. The first night I took 4 mg I woke up without red ears, but the face was still red, and all the next day was terribly sleepy. Then it didn't seem to work as well the 2nd night and this morning I woke up with ... red hot ears. Well, I always wake up every 1-3 hours with the burning torment, and only sleep 5-6 hours most night to cut the number of horror events by one.
My temperature is consistently around 95.5 which my Dr. said is actually in normal range. My feet freeze. My hands are usually burning sometimes freezing, rarely neither.
Before the doctor visit and finding this forum I found a web page with info from Dr. Bill Wenzel and ordered glycine powder, Ubiquinol, Great Lakes Beef Hide Gelatin. And also Black Seed Oil which is supposed to cure everything but death. I was disappointed to read that the dried Mango I got and think is yum-yum is in the poison ivy family and allergenic and nuts that are so easy to make a meal with are high in PUFA. From a previous purchase I have Suntheanine and Lithium Aspartate.
I've seen hints here and there that the Ray Peat information holds the key to why this flushing during sleep is happening to me and how to stop it, but nothing very in depth. Any articles, books, videos, terms to google, advice on how much glycine, etc to try?
Thanks much,
Karen