I was curious to try No2 Black because I regularly experience phases of what seems to be spontaneous vasodilation and a raging thirst.
I can categorise these episodes into three situations but I can only recognise a trigger for one of them:
- if I've been active, particularly shopping but not exclusively, fatigue can hit like a wave and I get a sudden raging thirst. Sometimes it's the thirst which hits first. I will typically knock back at least two, sometimes three, pints of water and half an hour later the worst of the fatigue will have passed. From time to time, I even get a boost of energy.
- quite often in the evening, after drinking adequately and peeing normally all day, I'll get a sudden thirst and drink a pint of liquid. Half an hour later, the thirst might return and I'll drink another pint, and possibly again another half hour later. I may not pee again before bedtime and in the morning very little, but over the day I'll excrete more fluid than I take in. By the evening, the raging thirst will be back.
- over periods which can last weeks or months, I get very, very thirsty overnight to the extent that I keep waking up to drink typically 100 to 200 ml of water but in the morning I don't pee out anything like the expected volume. During these nights, I'm listless/restless and weak. My blood pressure is typically below 100/60, not drastically low but low enough to feel it.
The process is unpleasant, sometimes extremely so, but the end result feels good (except in the overnight scenario which ends in the usual morning 'hangover'). It doesn't surprise me that some people are reporting unpleasant effects from the No2 Black.
I started the No2 on Monday pm so that I would get a half dose the first day. Monday wasn't remarkable at all. Tuesday was grim; by midday my vision was blurry and I couldn't think straight. I drank plenty of fluid but couldn't seem to absorb as much as I needed to. Even so, I had put on 2lb by the end of the day. Wednesday was somewhat better with improving vision but I still couldn't muster the effort to do the dishes. My feet felt weirdly engorged and warm with blood and slightly itchy in the same way that a healing scab is, rather than a rash.
On Thursday I sweated profusely in the morning (
very unusual). Later on I took my mother out for her shopping and had to drag myself around the shop. My limbs seemed much heavier than usual. In the evening, I noticed that my vision was particularly good. I still had the strangely blood engorged sensation in my feet, and the right one especially was all veiny.
Today, I'm back at baseline in all respects except that my vision is much, much better and the skin on my hands and face feel moisturised. And the dishes are now done. As of this morning I was still 2lbs heavier.
No miracle so far but having forced myself through the tough part I'm going to persevere in the hope that the benefits are still to come.
