I'm taking a break from methylfolate, not methylation -- I started off with a diagnosed B-12 deficiency several years ago, so that's a fact for me for the rest of my life, not something I will ever be able to take a break from. It probably came about due to a series of stomach drugs and antibiotics that wiped out my digestive system. At around the same time as that diagnosis, my doctor (at the time, a total idiot) suggested we alter my method of taking my thyroid medication (which I'd taken for over 20 yrs) and my thyroid went crazy, a process that took 2 years to wind down from and which involved trips to the ER and counseling for anxiety and even a disability diagnosis for awhile. So over the years since then there have been ups and downs and I've never normalized. I settled in to working a 3 day work week and resting on the days between. I go through phases. There is a lot to figure out still and recently I don't have the mental energy to do it. I started on a gluten free diet in November, I think, and although I think that has really helped some things, in other ways, I've had a real drain of resilience and energy and inspiration, more depression, more exhaustion. Then again, this is the height of the flu season and I just got the stomach flu last week, so . . . hard to tell what's what these days.
>>Although it can be difficult being socially isolated, I'm too sick to do much of anything even if I had friends.
Exactly, that sums up my life in a nutshell.