ahmo
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I now have no more arm pain. My arms are weak, but no more pain. I'm beginning to start mild exercise, no weight, but using them. I'm using Enzymatic Therapies. ciao.
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@joshi81, everything on your list has improved for me. Things began improving when I went gluten/dairy-free, more when I added the correct minerals, P5P, TMG. I'm close to a year on Freddd's Protocol, initially starting very very slowly. I needn't have been so cautious, but didn't really understand the B12/folate relationship. Now that I'm clear with that and the symptoms, I'm raising folate 100-300 every few days, up to 8.4 mg now, w/ 9mg MB12, 7.5 AdB12, 2x LCF (Dr's Best, as per Freddd above). I'm feeling better and better, my episodic insomnia, which had become chronic, is gone. I've never slept so well in my life. I'm fortunate to have a small group of symptoms to alert me to increase folate, a ridge of pimples around hairline, acne on face. BTW, if you still want sulfate strips, let me know by pm. ahmo
i am also going gluten free but i don't see any changes...but i think the ones who tell that you should stay months gluten free eve 1 year si i try my best to stay as long as i can gluten free , just to try and see what happen but...guys it's a pain in the a... i am in italy..imagine that good pizza that my friends eat when we meet and ...i have to cook and brinh my lunch or dinner uff.. i miss pizza so much or even pasta... it a crime to be gluten free in italy
i am also going gluten free but i don't see any changes...but i think the ones who tell that you should stay months gluten free eve 1 year si i try my best to stay as long as i can gluten free , just to try and see what happen but...guys it's a pain in the a... i am in italy..imagine that good pizza that my friends eat when we meet and ...i have to cook and brinh my lunch or dinner uff.. i miss pizza so much or even pasta... it a crime to be gluten free in italy
Hi Josh,
http://forums.phoenixrising.me/inde...y-deadlock-quartet-and-other-nutrients.27482/
Look at the lists of symptoms. 100% of these listed have improved up to and including 100% gone, by people right here, and many of them were mine too.
I had all the ones you mention and they are all gone and another 175 of the etc etc ones. Look at the lists.
Methylation is half the answer. ATP and mitochondria is the other half of the answer. The deadlock quartet is 90% of the answer and another 30 or so factors make that possible.
So once we get on your methylation protocol to deal with half the issue...... how do we then try and fix the ATP/Mito problem?
@Freddd is there a multi of some sort that could be used to cover some or all of the other 30 odd co factors?
@knackers323@Freddd is there a multi of some sort that could be used to cover some or all of the other 30 odd co factors?
Hi Knackers, my current situation regarding supplementation is (it is not my intention to hijack this topic):
-vit D: started 3,000ui daily last August, then in December dropped it to once a week or every 2 weeks (summertime) and also unsure to take it due to Lyme
-Thyroidinum homeopathy: 5 drops daily since September (now on and off b/c I think I am going to need adrenal support)
-transdermal progesterone: since September but still trying to find out how many days in the month I should use it
-Fish oil of inexepensive brand 2g daily since late December
-vit E Gamma complex: 400iu daily since late December (tried to up it to 800iu but started bruising easily)
-Magnesium: started foot baths with Epsom salts in January, but didn’t feel very well (heavy calves and burning sensation in lower back – could it be due to water kefir or wrong probiotics?) also started Mg glycinate orally but then found dr. Klinghardt’s warning against oral Mg and stopped it
-Zinc: started Zn picolinate 25g with breakfast last week
-Selenium: perhaps will start Se methionine this coming weekend
-vit C: I am having trouble with it. The 1st one I tried gave me fatigue and intense muscle twitching in the back or my arms and right eyelid. Then switched to another one with a little fatigue (heavy eyelids), next I am going to try acerola powder and camu camu powder. Right now I am taking 500mg daily since I am already getting heavy eyelids on and off from the mB12.
-B-50: in early January I took only two caps and could not stand the pain in the right kidney (or was it the appendix?), so no multi-B right now
-cyanocobalamine: likewise could only take 2 tabs before switching to mB12 3 weeks ago, THEN I found out about methylation
-mB12: 1500mcg daily, having worked myself up from 500mcg (as advised by Eric – howirecovered.com)
-Potassium: the salt substitute I can buy here contains 49%NaCl. I do have a collaborative MD, but I am not sure he will prescribe me any K supplementation...
The mB12 I am taking is from the local compounding pharmacy. Tomorrow I am going to pick up methylfolate (800mcg), cobamamine (3g) and acerola powder (1g) from the same pharmacy. I plan to start on 1/4 tab of each, but don’t know in which order or at what time of the day. Today I started taking my 1,500mcg of mB12 at once after breakfast instead of divided after the 3 meals.
Once I know I can tolerate everything I will place an online order for the recommended brands (delivery time is over a month). I imagine I will have to reduce the dosages due to their higher potency though. The mB12 supplementation has actually been a roller coaster energy-wise for me, but mostly with positive results. The 1st dose felt like I was cured of everything I ever had in my life. After the 1st increase one week later I crashed for 2 days. Yesterday I increased again and today I took everything after the breakfast. The immediate feeling was the darn heavy eyelids... But it is clearing slowly.
Sorry for rambling... I still have so many questions... Haven't even finished reading Eric's FAQ yet...
izzy
Hi Freddd, thank you so much for your input. Now I see how lowered K might be behind the unwanted side effects I am experiencing - fatigue, the back pain wich is probably the sciatic compressed by the piriforms (never had this one before), yesterday my calves started cramping mildly and my heart "jumped" once after lunch. Obviously taking Na ascorbate and ascorbic acid + CaCO3 didn't help!
I will need a MD prescription, and the compounding pharmacy wil take at least until Tue to delivery K caps (I will try to speed things up but time is against me since today is Fri). What would be the lowest useful dosage to supplement? I am 5.3' / 106 lbs (and going down). Early Dec I had blood tested looking for causes to frequent urination (in Sep one MD prescribed me cipro for UTI and I took it...) and the results were:
serum Na 142 mEq/L (137-145 mEq/L)
RBC Na 39 mEq/L(25-55 mEq/L)
serum K 4.5mEq/L (3.5-5.3 mEq/L)
RBC K 85 mEq/L (60-80 mEq/L)
serum Mg 2.00 mg/dL (1.9-2.5 mg/dL)
RBC Mg 5.0 mg/dL (4,3-5,7 mg/dL)
In the meanwhile I will eat oranges, carrots, avocado, banana, tomatoes (I have been eating almost no fruit lately).
Thanks again,
izzy
Edited to say that I think I might get K citrate (1080mg or 540mg) and slow release KCl 600mg from the drugstore hopefully w/o prescription. What about vit B1 deficiency? I am not eating legumes for 2 months now due to autoimmune disease. Should I take the multi-B prior to K supplementation?