Heavy Brain fog and energy fluctuation - history of depression and anxiety

[Santino]

Thank you.

I always care about where the information cones from. Because there is all information availible. You can find something considered healthy or unhealthy. For me it is important to know how information was gained to work with it.

I will try it out.

So far, coconut oil was well tolerated. Yesterday I avoided all vitamin a and precursors and it got better during the day for the first time. Also in the morning it still was better. But then I decided to try to eat sone vitamin a cobtaining foods. And one hour later the symptoms came back slightly and keep on until now. I am quite sure that it is the vitamin a the same way it was vitamin c. But my reaction to vitamin c does not last as long. Maybe because it leaves the body fast. But vitamin a will stay longer.

Whatever it is: it stimulates my immune system in a bad way. My autoimmunity gets triggered. Two times duribg this reaction I was measured (blood) and the autonuclear antibodies where found to be high. It could be by accident but when measuring in absense of the reaction there where low ANA conpared to during the reaction. It could be a flare up!


I definitevely feel as if there is a big flare up the last days. I have joint pain again in hand and feet. I will go to a rheumatologist (always avoided that) and get checked. Maybe I want to try low dose naltrexone as you mentioned. I think this would something where I have not much to loose but much to win!

Does anyone know if it is availible on the internet? I am searching for a product without aby additives if possible. But I think it will be difficult enough to just get a product!

I need to bring my immune system ubder controle!

I will definetely try magnesium citrate as it is the only form I found without additives where I am sensitive too.

Best regards

 

[Gondwanaland]

Be very careful with magnesium since you have a kidney problem.
Perhaps you should see a nephrologist to determine blood pH, anion gap etc

 

[Gondwanaland]

Also take a look into gut dysbiosis. I think Saccharomyces boulardii could help you.

So this is one of my biggest problems with a very low-carbohydrate diet—GAPS, SCD or even sort of typical Candida diet—that removes every possible source of glucose or sugar in the diet. That can lead to ketone production. Then there are studies, for example, that show that neutrophils, which are white blood cells, are less able to kill Candida when ketones are present. There are studies of diabetic patients with ketoacidosis—you know, a lot of ketone production—developing Candida overgrowth.

 

[Gondwanaland]

On a side note, I wonder if drinking Volvic brand of water brings you any benefits.

 

[Santino]

Volvic is only availible in plastic bottles in Germany. I dont drink any water out of olastic bottles anymore because of bpa and other bewer chemicals which you always have with plastic bottles.

My renal function is normal. Blood ph was tested (had broad examination by renal specialist while on the ketogenic diet)

Just 2 days off ketogenic diet and I feel loosing my constant energy, getting heavy brainfog again and most bad: depressive swings....

I ask myself if Himalaya salt could be a trigger ?! (Maybe in the case I have MCS)

I am considering to stop my study but when I sit home, I dont know if I ever can get back...nobody knows how it goes further....

Did you test LDN yourself?

I am really sure that my doctor wont prescribe this to me. I consider to get this per online prescription and work without any doctor...

 

[Gondwanaland]

My advice to you is based on my personal experience only, and I am giving you advice because I also have autoimmunity.

Volvic is only availible in plastic bottles in Germany. I dont drink any water out of olastic bottles anymore because of bpa and other bewer chemicals which you always have with plastic bottles.

I think orthorexia will lead you nowhere. The benefits largely overcome any detrimental effect from the bottle.

I ask myself if Himalaya salt could be a trigger ?! (Maybe in the case I have MCS)

I don't think so. When I had food sensitivities, using either seasalt or Himalayan only helped.

Did you test LDN yourself?

I have been postponing my start because I must finish my studies next month, and I read that LDN can disturb sleep in the begining. But it is my intention to start it in April or May.

I am really sure that my doctor wont prescribe this to me. I consider to get this per online prescription and work without any doctor...

You can join the Yahoo group LDN. I am sure they can recommend a place to order without prescription.

 

[Santino]

I dont have orthorexia. Maybe you are not up to date with this but Chris Kresser recently summarized independent studies on this topic in his podcast. Maybe you want to listen. But I warn you: afterwards, you do not want to drink from out plastic bottles anymore.

I also did nit think that this was likely but when I look into my daily notes I found that on the worst days I used half tablespoon in the morning. On a ketogenic diet you need more salt, so you do this. Also this helps with adrenal fatigue. Although I dont have a f, it would not harm I thought...

Today in the morning I used it again and I am having a big flare up now. Because I just ate fish (like the last two days) hinalaya salt is the only possibility. I find this absurd but also I learned that really absurd things were true for me.

I noted that I had some sand in the salt in the morning. I react to silicon dioxide which is also in sand...

No idea but I will try that out. When I wake up on friday feeling mich better, I certainly can say it was the h salt...

 

[Santino]

Of course I meant teaspoon...


Edit:
The Naturopath tested some intraceullular minerals and said that I would have the lowest level of selenium he has ever seen (ok he is just 32). But of course this could be relevant for me as we all know how important Selen is in many processes of the body.

So I am searching for a pure selen-product now and then will start to take that everyday...

 

[Santino]

Another result from the testing of my naturopath:

Alpha 1-Antitrypsin is out of the norm (greater than 112).
Calprotectin is 56.

So there is little inflammation in the gut and a big big trouble with leaky gut.

I did a lot to threat leaky gut the last months (although I was not tested for it), but now this result?!

My naturopath wants me to take glutamine but I can´t tolerate it (get the allergy symptoms then).

Leaky gut is just a logical underlying cause of many of my healthproblems and I know that it all began with coming and going leaky gut...

 

[Gondwanaland]

Since you react so bad to silicon, you should actually avoid Volvic even if you find it in a glass bottle. At this point I am not sure anymore if you will benefit from magnesium. Perhaps you have a lack of omega 6, manganese, vitamin E and B1 (all of which occur mainly in seeds and legumes that you avoid).

 

[Santino]

I was tested. No lacks instead of Selenium!

I never had problems with volvic. I don´t know what it is. Maybe it always was the microcrystalline cellulose. Really difficult to say.

I feel like everythink gets little better very slowly since avoiding himalaya salt, but I am not sure yet. Although I said, that I will have to know on friday I now think I will have to wait until sunday to say 100% for sure.

Leaky gut could explain why I react to such things like microcrystaline Cellulose but also could explain that developed a autoimmune reaction to a food which I ate all the time (e.g. salmon).

It is very difficult to say where the reaction at this moment comes from. Last time I definitively noticed a flare up, was after taking half teaspoon of himalaya salt. When I go to bed I feel like the symptoms really get into my upper body, especially brain. When I stand up, I feel like the symptoms over day go more to my distal joints (feet and upper foot joint).

Really rare. But I often noticed that. I notice that I have more depressive symptoms and more brain fog again since I eat carbohydrate again. I eat some potatoes everyday.


There are three possibilities:

1. It was something in the H-salt. In this case the reaction should keep going away, but should really be much milder on sunday
2. I developed new immune reactions to foods because of leaky gut and the reaction comes from the food I eat now. I feel that this is unlikely. Just don´t feel as if I have acute trigger at this moment in my diet plan.
3. I do not tolerate Vitamin A anymore and it is still too much in my system.

I feel that 1. is most likely and after that 3. If it is 3 I really have a problem, because my diet plan will be very limited. If it is 3 I have no idea what to do. I would have to do another food sensivity test which I already did 2 months ago. There should be new trigger then (foods I ate last 2 months).


In any case. I can really feel that my gut is inflamed now because my bipolar mood swings are there again in the very fast changing forms. I can feel well for an hour and sudden crash with anxiety feelings for no reason. I know that this is due to my inflammation because I notice these swings often after drinking something, especially water with gas or so....


I am in the LDN group now and will try to get that. I find out what I could loose when I use it. I am afraid that I could bould intolerance to the product because of leaky gut and then I will never be able to use it again or I am afraid that I will depend on it for life. With vitiligo you see that people who tried cortisone will have worsening after they stop.

Of course I know that LDN is not to compare to cortisone.


Last but not least I will try gluthathione infusion and today I start with selenium!

 

[Gondwanaland]

I am in the LDN group now and will try to get that. I find out what I could loose when I use it. I am afraid that I could bould intolerance to the product because of leaky gut and then I will never be able to use it again or I am afraid that I will depend on it for life.

I think those are real risks in your case.

today I start with selenium!

I think low thyroid might be behind many of your issues, even if it doesn't show in your test results.

EDIT: Also be sure to click the link I posted above with info about gut dysbiosis and ketogenic diet. It is an interview with Chris Kresser.

 

[Santino]

If I can say something for sure, then, that I do not have low thyroid.

What you are saying is impossible. If you measure high thyroid, then you can not have low thyroid on that day. And my thyroid was measured maybe 15x and was always fine. I also had no symptoms of low thyroid. If I had thyroid issues then it would be a too high thyroid...

 

[Gondwanaland]

If I can say something for sure, then, that I do not have low thyroid.

What you are saying is impossible. If you measure high thyroid, then you can not have low thyroid on that day. And my thyroid was measured maybe 15x and was always fine. I also had no symptoms of low thyroid. If I had thyroid issues then it would be a too high thyroid...

Interesting. I became hyperthyroid while my results never changed and kept showing borderline low thyroid. I have lost 10kg in 2 months.

 

[Santino]

then you have symptoms of high thyroid...But you don´t know if you loose that weight because of high thyroid.

But in any case: You have THE SYMPTOMS and therefore a reason to think about hyperthyroid.

I don´t have the symptoms of many of the suggestions you make, so I often ask myself why you think about that....

 

[Gondwanaland]

I am just trying to help you think. You are the one who is going to find out what is wrong.

 

[Santino]

I know and you helped me out. For example did I never heard of LDN. On the other hand: I often said how important it is to think about the source of your information + I feel like you often compare yourself to me and think that I must have the same. You had issues with your thyroid, so I have that too...Even if everything is pointing out that I do not have you still believe it. So for me seems you are not objective enough because of your own thyroidissues?

Please don´t feel I do appreciate your help. I do that. I just wanted to let you know...

 

[Gondwanaland]

seems you are not objective enough because of your own thyroidissues?

I am aware of that. That is because my knowledge is limited to what I have been through.

On the other hand, you have lots of autoimmune issues, and there is an underlying pattern for autoimmunity (the gut).
For people with autoimmune issues, the conditions just keep piling up - see the Paleo Mom who had arthritis and now also has Hashimoto's. If you don't have a condition right now, it doesn't mean that your body isn't already struggling with it, unfortunately.

You report intolerance to immune stimulating vitamins, and I have that too, and in my personal experience the thyroid is the underlying cause for that.

I am not trying to convince you that you have something just because I have it, I am just trying to make you aware of it.

I don't expect you to trust blindly what I say. I expect you to research the info for yourself and come to your own conclusions (e.g. LDN, hypervitaminosis A).

to think about the source of your information

I said that I don't care about the source of information for that site I recommended to you because everytime I researched to check the info given there I verified it to be true, so now I trust what is written there for the most part of it.

I am sorry, this is the best I can do, and I have pretty much exhausted my personal resources here.

 

[Santino]

I yesterday introduced parsnips into my diet. I avoided vitamin C and A as much as possible and i felt the symptoms go away very slowly but they never went away fully. I thought that i could introduce parsnips and give it a try.

Yesterday I just felt a little heat on head and face (the places where i use to sweat when I have the reaction) But it stayed at this status and I was hoping that I can tolerate more. But today in the morning I felt that the symptoms are worse. I sweat at my head and face slightly and feel as if I get cold a little. So typical reaction which a also have to synthetic vitamin C (ascorbic acid).

I don´t know what to do further...Should I avoid Vitamin A and C as much as possible for the rest of my life or what????

@Gondwanaland : What are the precise symptoms you have when you eat different vitamins (A, C) or what you call immunostimulants?

 

[Gondwanaland]

What are the precise symptoms you have when you eat different vitamins (A, C) or what you call immunostimulants?

I feel a lump in the throat, breathlessness and low thyroid symptoms.

I think you need histamine-lowering probiotics like Saccharomyces boulardii (e.g. Florastor by Merck).