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Valentijn

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It is no less dark in my cell, but it has become less lonely. Another hapless inmate has been housed nearby, But hope remains as the Resistance prepares to flee to a promised land of plentiful subforums and sweet moderation. Dreams of my new life sustain me in this purgatory. Yours...
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12 October, in the year of our Lord 2017 It is dark and lonely here. Not only can I not speak to my loved ones, my incoming stream of "likes" have trickled off to such an extent that I fear they will not be sufficient to sustain me. Nonetheless I hear the faintest whispers of news from the...
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Everything is still going pretty well. I'm doing 4ME and the VSL#3 probiotics daily, and the creon 150 digestive enzymes with every meal. HydroxoB12 is twice per week, and still hurts like a bastard every time :( Still not taking Glucagon, and will probably stop the liposomal Vitamin C since...
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I had a couple more bedbound zombie days after the wedding, plus headache issues. I then stopped taking the glucagon completely and the headache's gone and I'm feeling a bit better overall. Able to sit up for an hour or so at a time, versus a couple minutes :-P I even got ambitious while my...
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Well, I didn't crash after the wedding and related activities! I felt a bit wiped out yesterday, but no more so than my fiance did. His parents came over to get some help with computer stuff, and his mom cleaned our neglected bathrooms and even folded my Eternal Floor Pile of Clean Laundry...
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I did another B12 and 4ME injection yesterday, though it went a little rougher. I did them both all by myself, and I think I forget to breathe while doing it, and got pretty light-headed. But I managed, and as my fiance suggested, I should listen to the advice of the band "Bush" and "Breathe...
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I had a 2nd appointment with the nurses at the GP's office yesterday, and that went well. They'd tried to ask my GP how/where to inject the 4ME (Nexavir), and she'd given me a call, sounding a bit frustrated because they were asking her questions about something she hadn't prescribed...
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Well, "a day or two" was obviously overly optimistic in my last blog post :p The high dose hydroxoB12 injections aren't available in the Netherlands, so the local pharmacy had to set it up to import them from Belgium. But now that it has been sit up, it should be easier and faster to get it...
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I'm starting pre-treatment in a day or two, so I figured I'd blog about my progress so folks can see how things go if they're interested, and in case I have trouble remembering anything :-P So basically I was diagnosed with Lyme about a month ago, based on Elispot LTT results from infectolabs...
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I went shopping for flowers at the garden center on Saturday, so naturally I crashed Sunday. At least I get to look at the happy little plants while feeling like crap. But it occurred to me this morning that my crashes lately haven't been as bad, even though my threshold for crashing is still...

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