Kathevans
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Hi guys!
I’ve been reading PR threads all morning related to stomach issues. It’s probably where all this started for me, back when I was in high school. Though, we know issues of stomach acid and B12 could have been tangled up in there. Most likely were.
This may be long and wearying, as it is for so many of us, so take a breath. It’s possible breath has more to do with this than I suppose…
In any case:
A couple of decades ago, after nearly another decade of taking zantac at low doses for acid reflux, I got a foot infection that required antibiotics. I don’t recall how long I took them. I do remember that the cellulitis was so bad they started me off at the ER with intravenous stuff. I was already burping, as of six months into the zantac, and massaging my belly to help bring up more burps. So that was there.
In short order my stomach became hard and I felt very uncomfortable on the antibiotic. I developed a sort of mucus situation at the base of my throat that made me feel as if I was going to gag. I had to sleep sitting up. Yuck. Finally the infection resolved. (Just FYI, another infection in a subsequent year I completely healed by using Bentonite Clay mixed with water—many times a day. On, dried up, off and so on. It took a while and I had the antibiotics on hand in case I saw that red line tracking up my leg. But it worked.) And 6 months after this antibiotic punch, I'd developed the non-muscle recovery and much worse sleep that have been my constant companions since.
I spent YEARS getting my digestion to a better place. First, I managed to get off the Zantac by chanting. Three weeks; no kidding. So maybe what I read in another thread about stress and some sort of exercises (I think that might have been you, @PeterPositive) helping tightness and hiatal hernias was at work in this. I had endoscopies regularly and the Gastro always said I had a “Pseudo hiatal hernia,” whatever that is. No H. Pylori, so good. And “No significant celiac sprue.” Hmmm. How much do you need for it to be ‘significant’? I’ve now been gluten-free for about 7 years, two of my sibs for nearly as long and with our British Isles, Northern European genetics, I strongly suspect at the very least a recessive celiac gene. My mother’s sister died of an Alzheimer-like dementia in a nursing home. She had chronic diarrhea long before dipping into the dementia. I’m very suspicious. I’ve read about links.
Very slowly my digestion improved. A lot. I could eat raw foods again, salads were a staple. I got on Bee Wilder’s Healing Naturally site, and although I never could tolerate more than 2 tablespoons of the coconut oil, I learned so much that was worthwhile there. I added a small amount of lemon juice to each meal; I added a regular amount of Celtic Sea Salt to my diet (and when I became deficient, I added just a few drops of iodine!); I learned about coffee enemas (though I knew of them already as my mother had done them on the Gerson diet as she was dying of breast cancer); I got on a lot of very good supplements like magnesium, calcium (lately added the K2 for this!), cod liver oil and no doubt another one or two.
Then I found Phoenix Rising.
I’ve worked my way toward a methylation protocol, not easy for me as I was stuck on a B-complex that was doing some good mood stuff, even as it did a lot of bad physical stuff. After a very rocky month, I managed to work my way up to 1/2 , or 500 mcg of MeB12, and 100-200mcg of the Folate—I’m playing with this trying to find the right ratio because even at such low doses, I definitely feel when I’m out of balance with these two. My need for potassium has gone up to somewhere around 800-1000 mg/day of Potassium Gluconate powder to keep my heart rhythms even.
This feels like an enormous success.
I’ve been increasing those co-factors. I hadn’t been taking any zinc and am now up to about 25 mg/day. I discovered that despite the CLO, I am D deficient, so I’ve been increasing that (Thanks to whoever posted that video about Dr. Sasha Gominak: http://drgominak.com/vitamin-d-3/).
I haven’t yet felt good two days in a row, but I now can have a few days a week when I feel good. I had one day this week where I was out for an evening walk, in that early evening Magritte-sky moment when the trees are black against the sky, and had such an intense moment of feeling ‘normal’ that the recognition was a punch to my gut. I let out an ‘Oooof’ and nearly wept because I couldn’t recall the last time I’d had that feeling. That sense that I had a life and I could live it. I had energy. The world was my oyster, there for the cracking.
But.
That mucus stuff is back at the base of my throat. My throat occasionally feels sore and scratchy. I feel as if I’m going to gag. I’ve stopped all my supps today other than my probiotic. There are few things that are new over the past couple of months and they are these:
Titrated Zinc Sulfate drops, the same with vit D3 drops, up to a 1500 IU, 100 IU/drop, Nature Made B-complex-very, very low B basic Bs, Enzymatic B12, Solgar Folate, and lots and lots of NOW Single “0” VCaps made of hydroxypropl methylcellulose (HMPC), a vegetable source, and water, and finally--and I fear possibly most likely—Potasium Gluconate powder in increasing amounts.
So, of course, I’m scared. Going forward is hard, but there’s no way I want to go backward. Maybe I need to chant more and just chill, as my son would say. I haven’t been chanting as much on this methylation rollar-coaster. Maybe I need to find other modes of ‘delivery’ of some of the supps. I am very suspicious of those VCaps, too.
Two things that are already on my radar that I haven’t yet ordered are Betaine HCL and some Pancreatic Enzymes, for which I was very low on my NutrEval test. The iHerb order is on pause as I gather any other thoughts to explore…
I have to find a way to move forward that includes this miracle of B12 that has only come to consciousness in the last year or so. Otherwise there are more symptoms than I even have the heart to complile in a list.
Any thoughts you have are much appreciated. (I'm heading out for a walk; I'll check in again later...)
I’ve been reading PR threads all morning related to stomach issues. It’s probably where all this started for me, back when I was in high school. Though, we know issues of stomach acid and B12 could have been tangled up in there. Most likely were.
This may be long and wearying, as it is for so many of us, so take a breath. It’s possible breath has more to do with this than I suppose…
In any case:
A couple of decades ago, after nearly another decade of taking zantac at low doses for acid reflux, I got a foot infection that required antibiotics. I don’t recall how long I took them. I do remember that the cellulitis was so bad they started me off at the ER with intravenous stuff. I was already burping, as of six months into the zantac, and massaging my belly to help bring up more burps. So that was there.
In short order my stomach became hard and I felt very uncomfortable on the antibiotic. I developed a sort of mucus situation at the base of my throat that made me feel as if I was going to gag. I had to sleep sitting up. Yuck. Finally the infection resolved. (Just FYI, another infection in a subsequent year I completely healed by using Bentonite Clay mixed with water—many times a day. On, dried up, off and so on. It took a while and I had the antibiotics on hand in case I saw that red line tracking up my leg. But it worked.) And 6 months after this antibiotic punch, I'd developed the non-muscle recovery and much worse sleep that have been my constant companions since.
I spent YEARS getting my digestion to a better place. First, I managed to get off the Zantac by chanting. Three weeks; no kidding. So maybe what I read in another thread about stress and some sort of exercises (I think that might have been you, @PeterPositive) helping tightness and hiatal hernias was at work in this. I had endoscopies regularly and the Gastro always said I had a “Pseudo hiatal hernia,” whatever that is. No H. Pylori, so good. And “No significant celiac sprue.” Hmmm. How much do you need for it to be ‘significant’? I’ve now been gluten-free for about 7 years, two of my sibs for nearly as long and with our British Isles, Northern European genetics, I strongly suspect at the very least a recessive celiac gene. My mother’s sister died of an Alzheimer-like dementia in a nursing home. She had chronic diarrhea long before dipping into the dementia. I’m very suspicious. I’ve read about links.
Very slowly my digestion improved. A lot. I could eat raw foods again, salads were a staple. I got on Bee Wilder’s Healing Naturally site, and although I never could tolerate more than 2 tablespoons of the coconut oil, I learned so much that was worthwhile there. I added a small amount of lemon juice to each meal; I added a regular amount of Celtic Sea Salt to my diet (and when I became deficient, I added just a few drops of iodine!); I learned about coffee enemas (though I knew of them already as my mother had done them on the Gerson diet as she was dying of breast cancer); I got on a lot of very good supplements like magnesium, calcium (lately added the K2 for this!), cod liver oil and no doubt another one or two.
Then I found Phoenix Rising.
I’ve worked my way toward a methylation protocol, not easy for me as I was stuck on a B-complex that was doing some good mood stuff, even as it did a lot of bad physical stuff. After a very rocky month, I managed to work my way up to 1/2 , or 500 mcg of MeB12, and 100-200mcg of the Folate—I’m playing with this trying to find the right ratio because even at such low doses, I definitely feel when I’m out of balance with these two. My need for potassium has gone up to somewhere around 800-1000 mg/day of Potassium Gluconate powder to keep my heart rhythms even.
This feels like an enormous success.
I’ve been increasing those co-factors. I hadn’t been taking any zinc and am now up to about 25 mg/day. I discovered that despite the CLO, I am D deficient, so I’ve been increasing that (Thanks to whoever posted that video about Dr. Sasha Gominak: http://drgominak.com/vitamin-d-3/).
I haven’t yet felt good two days in a row, but I now can have a few days a week when I feel good. I had one day this week where I was out for an evening walk, in that early evening Magritte-sky moment when the trees are black against the sky, and had such an intense moment of feeling ‘normal’ that the recognition was a punch to my gut. I let out an ‘Oooof’ and nearly wept because I couldn’t recall the last time I’d had that feeling. That sense that I had a life and I could live it. I had energy. The world was my oyster, there for the cracking.
But.
That mucus stuff is back at the base of my throat. My throat occasionally feels sore and scratchy. I feel as if I’m going to gag. I’ve stopped all my supps today other than my probiotic. There are few things that are new over the past couple of months and they are these:
Titrated Zinc Sulfate drops, the same with vit D3 drops, up to a 1500 IU, 100 IU/drop, Nature Made B-complex-very, very low B basic Bs, Enzymatic B12, Solgar Folate, and lots and lots of NOW Single “0” VCaps made of hydroxypropl methylcellulose (HMPC), a vegetable source, and water, and finally--and I fear possibly most likely—Potasium Gluconate powder in increasing amounts.
So, of course, I’m scared. Going forward is hard, but there’s no way I want to go backward. Maybe I need to chant more and just chill, as my son would say. I haven’t been chanting as much on this methylation rollar-coaster. Maybe I need to find other modes of ‘delivery’ of some of the supps. I am very suspicious of those VCaps, too.
Two things that are already on my radar that I haven’t yet ordered are Betaine HCL and some Pancreatic Enzymes, for which I was very low on my NutrEval test. The iHerb order is on pause as I gather any other thoughts to explore…
I have to find a way to move forward that includes this miracle of B12 that has only come to consciousness in the last year or so. Otherwise there are more symptoms than I even have the heart to complile in a list.
Any thoughts you have are much appreciated. (I'm heading out for a walk; I'll check in again later...)
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