I'm still doing 4.5ml and I discovered 4.5ml (if you're doing LDN by dissolving the pill in water) works out to exactly 1 teaspoon! So, no more drawing up that 4.5ml in my syringe-without-the-needle. (pharmacy didn't have an eye dropper!!!) I can just measure it out in my teaspoon measuring spoon for cooking (not from the silverware drawer) and dump it into my mouth.
Yuck! It's very bitter, but it's over in a second and easier to clean up than the syringe and the glass that I had to dump the solution into in order to get the syringe into it.
I may have provoked some immune responses, as others have reported doing. I got a cold for the first time in decades and have felt like death warmed over for a couple of days.
BUT, I still sleep better than I have in decades, am remembering some dreams, some of them erotic, heh, heh, heh, and I have slightly more energy than before. Worked in the garden without turning into an ogre afterward. And that was on a day of 99 degrees F, heat index of 105. I think that was around 35-36C for you Celsius guys. Extreme temperature intolerance is also something I've long suffered from, so this is a meaningful change for me. We'll be having another month of hot, hot, hot, before it begins to rain, rain, rain, so I'm relieved not to be suffering from the heat like I did last year. Could be I'm just getting more acclimated, but I never got acclimated to the freezing cold of yesteryear, so I think it's better temperature tolerance.
I've also started doing antibiotics, planning on doing them for a month. Clindamycin and amoxycillin. My severe back pain went away while I was on the Marshall Protocol and has been creeping back in the 3 years since I quit it, so I'm going to see if a short course will rid me of that again.
My startle response and overstimulation by noise have improved a great deal, too. I have mango and avocado trees in my garden, and so does my neighbor who has zinc (corrugated metal) roofs. When the fruits fall off the trees, some of them hit the roof with a loud bang, day and night. Lately, I don't even hear them at night, let alone wake with a start, heart pounding, etc. I still do my "mind over matter" routines, that is, telling myself to be "neutral" on negative stimulations like this in the daytime, but my body is really reacting differently, too.
Semana Santa/Easter Week is coming up next week with all the fireworks, parades with marching bands and a generally carneval atmosphere with lots of rum and spirits being consumed, so my newer, healthier response is going to get tested....over and over and over.
The strange headaches, only on the left side, with migraine-like visual disturbances, haven't reappeared in at least a week, so I hope that's the end of that. They started after I started on LDN, so I'm assuming they were related somehow, but who knows.
I've skipped my afternoon nap about half the time lately, or only rested, instead of falling asleep and being too groggy to get up until after nightfall. That tells me in another way that the sleep I'm getting is of better quality. Even after coughing and sneezing one whole night, I felt pretty good by morning.
I no longer have the stomach aches I had upon starting LDN, either. And my appetite has reduced, and I've lost a few pounds, and that's a good thing, as I have gained weight with CFS/ME, unlike some of you who have lost it. So maybe my hormones, ie thyroid, are working better, or maybe it's just that I'm a little more active.
Oh yeah, one more thing...I did the no flour, no dairy for a week and didn't notice any improvement on anything, so I'm back to yogurt, cheeses and milk in my coffee. I avoid refined flours and all sugar, already, and generally either eat corn tortillas or whole wheat bread or whole wheat crackers. I use stevia in my hot chocolate or cold chocolate milk, as in my world, chocolate is a medicinal herb.
