allblues
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Hey folks
Been lurking here for a while after stumbling upon Ray's works a few weeks ago, and after incessant reading of his stuff, the forum, and listening
to podcasts i feel i've come to the right place to start getting myself in order again;
I'm in pretty deep bleep and have been for a few years. I'm 22, soon to be 23.
I got on SSRI's in late 2010, sertraline, and took my last dose in may 2013, after about a 3 month long taper down from 100 mg.
Having read now about inescapable stress (bullying/harrassment which led to the SSRIs), serotonin, endurance training, low-carbing which i thought would be my savior, it's like the last five-six years have been this perfect serotonin-stress-smackdown, taking a pretty big toll on my brain and functioning.
So, current symptoms, which come and go to some extent but are persistent;
- Anxiety, tense in social situations
- Poor concentration/learning, i feel dumb, can't focus or "get into" things
- Irritated, yet i dont care about anything
- On/off libido, emphasis on off, if i ever "finish" (i'm sorry, is this a family show? ) libido
will go into hiding for a week or longer, before it'll stick as much as its pinkytoe out the door again
- Panic attacks, intrusive thoughts, which starts this adrenaline-ish reaction that doesn't subside
for days/weeks, together with worsening of all other symptoms, i try to kill it with sugar, not really helping thus far
- At worst it feels like being in hell. Interestingly, a very demanding 10k-race, about a month ago, triggered the worst episode
i've had in at least 6 months, akathisia-like, restless, insomniac, terrible state for a week until it started improving.
I've felt this reaction before with endurance training, and this was the last straw, i'm not putting on those running
shoes again for a while unless at gunpoint.
Well, enough doom and gloom, i'll just ask;
Do any of you have a clue of what is going on with me?
I've been trying to connect the dots as best i can, have started moving towards more of a Peaty,
follow-my-fruit-and-milk-cravings kind of diet, eating eggs, some beef, gelatin, etc. Potatoes. Coconut oil. Been at it for 2 weeks,
after transitioning from low-carb to sort of medium carb without much fruit/sweet things over the last 1-2 years.
Supplements i'm taking are Garden of Lifes Men-multivitamin, Zinc 60 mg from the same company (just started),
Taurine (just started), the occasional mucuna pruriens 1 g capsule.
I've seen some improvements just during this short time, libido, when it was there, was much better.
But then i had a panic attack this monday, and now it's sort of gone again, with all these nasty symptoms following.
Could i benefit from some kind of anti-serotonin drug? Maybe i should just sit still for a while with the new diet tweaks and see where it takes me?
Recently got a bloodtest (these are Swedish ways of measuring, they might seem odd to some of you), my testosterone is high, 1095 ng/dl, vitamin D low, 75 nmol/L, T4 at 14 pmol/L, TSH 1.87. Free T3 4.6. I missed asking for the prolactin and or estrogen. I'm thinking prolactin might
be an issue, with the low libido, and slight gynecomastia that wont go away.
Thank you all, finding RP and this forum has been quite the revelation! Any answers are greatly appreciated.
Been lurking here for a while after stumbling upon Ray's works a few weeks ago, and after incessant reading of his stuff, the forum, and listening
to podcasts i feel i've come to the right place to start getting myself in order again;
I'm in pretty deep bleep and have been for a few years. I'm 22, soon to be 23.
I got on SSRI's in late 2010, sertraline, and took my last dose in may 2013, after about a 3 month long taper down from 100 mg.
Having read now about inescapable stress (bullying/harrassment which led to the SSRIs), serotonin, endurance training, low-carbing which i thought would be my savior, it's like the last five-six years have been this perfect serotonin-stress-smackdown, taking a pretty big toll on my brain and functioning.
So, current symptoms, which come and go to some extent but are persistent;
- Anxiety, tense in social situations
- Poor concentration/learning, i feel dumb, can't focus or "get into" things
- Irritated, yet i dont care about anything
- On/off libido, emphasis on off, if i ever "finish" (i'm sorry, is this a family show? ) libido
will go into hiding for a week or longer, before it'll stick as much as its pinkytoe out the door again
- Panic attacks, intrusive thoughts, which starts this adrenaline-ish reaction that doesn't subside
for days/weeks, together with worsening of all other symptoms, i try to kill it with sugar, not really helping thus far
- At worst it feels like being in hell. Interestingly, a very demanding 10k-race, about a month ago, triggered the worst episode
i've had in at least 6 months, akathisia-like, restless, insomniac, terrible state for a week until it started improving.
I've felt this reaction before with endurance training, and this was the last straw, i'm not putting on those running
shoes again for a while unless at gunpoint.
Well, enough doom and gloom, i'll just ask;
Do any of you have a clue of what is going on with me?
I've been trying to connect the dots as best i can, have started moving towards more of a Peaty,
follow-my-fruit-and-milk-cravings kind of diet, eating eggs, some beef, gelatin, etc. Potatoes. Coconut oil. Been at it for 2 weeks,
after transitioning from low-carb to sort of medium carb without much fruit/sweet things over the last 1-2 years.
Supplements i'm taking are Garden of Lifes Men-multivitamin, Zinc 60 mg from the same company (just started),
Taurine (just started), the occasional mucuna pruriens 1 g capsule.
I've seen some improvements just during this short time, libido, when it was there, was much better.
But then i had a panic attack this monday, and now it's sort of gone again, with all these nasty symptoms following.
Could i benefit from some kind of anti-serotonin drug? Maybe i should just sit still for a while with the new diet tweaks and see where it takes me?
Recently got a bloodtest (these are Swedish ways of measuring, they might seem odd to some of you), my testosterone is high, 1095 ng/dl, vitamin D low, 75 nmol/L, T4 at 14 pmol/L, TSH 1.87. Free T3 4.6. I missed asking for the prolactin and or estrogen. I'm thinking prolactin might
be an issue, with the low libido, and slight gynecomastia that wont go away.
Thank you all, finding RP and this forum has been quite the revelation! Any answers are greatly appreciated.