digital dog
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What do you do when almost everything makes you feel worse but you cannot continue to live feeling so bad?
I try things and then swear that i'll never try another drug/supplement/diet again but then the reality of my existence is so torturous that I begin to think that there must be something out there that will improve my symptoms...not cure but improve.
Everything I try makes me feel dreadful, has disastrous results, or will improve one symptom at the detriment of another. Examples are that thyroxine gave me energy but gave me anxiety and insomnia, probiotics make my digestion better but make me disorientated, even cutting out sugar makes me feel energised but then I cannot sleep. I could go on and on and on and on.
Are my only options enduring this hellish existence or suicide?
Do we carry on trying things incase we hit jackpot?
I'm scared as I seem to have such an obscure reaction to things. I just wonder why I can't be like any of the other millions who try something and find some relief. I have friends who are menopausal and they suffer for a few months, go on HRT, or some sort of magical bio-identical concoction, and then they are fine. It suddenly dawns on them that they don't like the inconvenience of waking up throughout the night, look on the internet for a few hours, see their GP in their lunch hour, take the medication prescribed without worrying whether it will make them lose their mind and then live happily ever after. Ta-dah!!!!
All I ask for is one thing to help me, not cure me, just help. Is that really too much to ask after trying so much?
Sorry just venting and feeling sorry for myself and overwhelmed and bitter and guilty and grief stricken and frustrated and disappointed and sad and......
Digital Dog
I try things and then swear that i'll never try another drug/supplement/diet again but then the reality of my existence is so torturous that I begin to think that there must be something out there that will improve my symptoms...not cure but improve.
Everything I try makes me feel dreadful, has disastrous results, or will improve one symptom at the detriment of another. Examples are that thyroxine gave me energy but gave me anxiety and insomnia, probiotics make my digestion better but make me disorientated, even cutting out sugar makes me feel energised but then I cannot sleep. I could go on and on and on and on.
Are my only options enduring this hellish existence or suicide?
Do we carry on trying things incase we hit jackpot?
I'm scared as I seem to have such an obscure reaction to things. I just wonder why I can't be like any of the other millions who try something and find some relief. I have friends who are menopausal and they suffer for a few months, go on HRT, or some sort of magical bio-identical concoction, and then they are fine. It suddenly dawns on them that they don't like the inconvenience of waking up throughout the night, look on the internet for a few hours, see their GP in their lunch hour, take the medication prescribed without worrying whether it will make them lose their mind and then live happily ever after. Ta-dah!!!!
All I ask for is one thing to help me, not cure me, just help. Is that really too much to ask after trying so much?
Sorry just venting and feeling sorry for myself and overwhelmed and bitter and guilty and grief stricken and frustrated and disappointed and sad and......
Digital Dog