Please, Marco, and AB, if you know anything that might help me. My brain is going quickly. I think what you wrote about astrocyte swelling resonates with me. Are there glutamate inhibitors I can take?? My muscles are not tense however, rather, my core/ spinal muscles are very weak and low tone.
Your first article on glutamate resonated so strongly with me, too, that I emailed it to a doctor of mine, to ask about a medication you mentioned is not yet used in the US i think though.
I am also having mercury amalgams removed, and am down to one left (this being done only because I had decay around them all anyway. I have the next one out in a week and a half.
I have lots else going on, too. Thought I was getting better, but tremendous confusion again.
Is there anything I can take, or do? I take befotiamine, among many many other things.
I will see a psychiatrist Monday (urgh, hate it, but have to, to get anything to help with sleep, for which i take prescription antihistamines. I will not take anything addictive or mood altering, as I am sixteen years in recovery, and must never become addicted to anything again.
HE put me on low dose lithium for its neurotrophic properties, he said. I added lithium orotate. Anyway, is there anything I could ask him for that might help with these symptoms. He is pretty cool, even asked for the IACFSME primer for other severely fatigued patients. He likes to help HIV patients, for instance, too.
Thanks,
WaSP