digital dog
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Are you 100% sure its not the selenium? I feel edgy on that but ok on CoQ10. I don't take either now as Im a little scared of everything but I will double check the selenium again soonish.
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Co Enzyme Q10 reaction? whats going on here?
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Hi,
Well, I decided to try coq10 again. Although I ended up starting it about the time I started Alpha Lipoic Acid.
After a week or two I ended up having this new feeling of calm. It was strange, but felt good. Then shortly after my insomnia which was getting better, got worse and stayed consistantly worse.
I was taking 50mg of the Ubiquinol active form. I was taking 50mg of ALA (non R form).
I believe the ALA helped me with blood sugar issues, feeling better between meals, and possibly caused the calm feeling. One doctor mentioned that ALA gave him a "relaxed wellbeing" feeling.
I later started taking acetyl l-carnitine which really seemed to helped.
As a trial I skipped a couple of days of taking coq10 and I slept MUCH better, although I did take one Unisom. But usually Unisom will not work if I feel too wired. So, it might seem that the coq10 is causing me to feel wired and I might need to take it less frequently. I do have some adrenal fatigue, but has greatly improved. Not sure if that is why coq10 might be a little too stimulating for me or not. My spectracell test did show I had normal coq10 level so it might just be something I don't need, and not really obtaining any therapeutic benefit from it. Maybe once start sleeping regularly, and totally recover from adrenal fatigue that I could tolerate coq10 more. But, if I'm not low then maybe there's no need for it right now.
I do take other supplements and I'm sure the combination might just be too much for me. Too much energy that is. So, coq10 might be something I just take a couple of times per week, maybe if I do need more energy.
Anyway, that's my update.
Well, I decided to try coq10 again. Although I ended up starting it about the time I started Alpha Lipoic Acid.
After a week or two I ended up having this new feeling of calm. It was strange, but felt good. Then shortly after my insomnia which was getting better, got worse and stayed consistantly worse.
I was taking 50mg of the Ubiquinol active form. I was taking 50mg of ALA (non R form).
I believe the ALA helped me with blood sugar issues, feeling better between meals, and possibly caused the calm feeling. One doctor mentioned that ALA gave him a "relaxed wellbeing" feeling.
I later started taking acetyl l-carnitine which really seemed to helped.
As a trial I skipped a couple of days of taking coq10 and I slept MUCH better, although I did take one Unisom. But usually Unisom will not work if I feel too wired. So, it might seem that the coq10 is causing me to feel wired and I might need to take it less frequently. I do have some adrenal fatigue, but has greatly improved. Not sure if that is why coq10 might be a little too stimulating for me or not. My spectracell test did show I had normal coq10 level so it might just be something I don't need, and not really obtaining any therapeutic benefit from it. Maybe once start sleeping regularly, and totally recover from adrenal fatigue that I could tolerate coq10 more. But, if I'm not low then maybe there's no need for it right now.
I do take other supplements and I'm sure the combination might just be too much for me. Too much energy that is. So, coq10 might be something I just take a couple of times per week, maybe if I do need more energy.
Anyway, that's my update.
frog_in_the_fog
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Some people say CoQ10 keeps them awake. Every morning I take a 100mg dose of CoQ10 in liquid form, mixed with 1g acetyl l-carnitine & 500mg magnesium carbonate in a glass of water.
I have tried Ubiquinol. I found it a million times easier to tolerate than Q10. Q10 seemed to weaken me, lower blood pressure and give cognitive problems. Ubiquinol doesn't.