Rosebud Dairy
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Here is some food for thought for the MTHFR philosophers out there.
This patient is going to hyperbaric oxygen therapy for son's ongoing pain post-brain injury, and am joining him in the tank. I posed a question to the supervising hyperbarics physician that maybe the child's pain is ongoing not merely because of the concussion, but perhaps also because of neuropathy. We then tried an increase in pressure from 1.5 ATA to 1.75 ATA (Standard pressure for neuropathy is 2.5 ATA and standard for concussion is 1.5 ATA).
I get out of the tank after two treatments at 1.75, NOT even at the 2.5, and the bottoms of my feet were on FIRE with the strongest tingling sensation I have ever had for 2-5 minutes. The doc says that some parasthesia with hyperbarics is NOT uncommon (and I have never tried the full 2.5 ATA pressure for neuropathy), but I am just now beginning to pass on to him info about MTHFR (of which I have a single C677T). Also , the couple of days before that, I was NOT careful about my intake of dietary folic acid fortified foods, nor was I careful about raw leafy green vegetables........I had had some restaurant pizza, and later some salad.....two items which I don't often allow, much less on the same day. Some numbness and tingling in hands and feet have been noticed since slacking and allowing Folic Acid Fortified Foods into the diet............. I am thinking I am just going to have to leave off fortified foods, so I can test out just foods naturally containing folinic acid.
I had already woken up that morning just having that general run over by a train feeling -- kind of like a hangover, but wasn't a hangover.
The day before I had stopped my low dose of 12.5 mcg of T3 (generic cytomel). Really motivated to stay off the T3 for now, as I want to see if it is something I don't need to be on the rest of my life, as I probably will be on the B12 protocol for my C677T.
All of these things are happening all at once, so I can't split them up so easily.
Anyone have any fortified food folic acid induced parasthesia that one could have previously misinterpreted as "healing?", or could this actually just possibly be some healing going on? Or is this just a huge sign of paradoxical folate deficiency smacking me in the foot, and I don't know it?
I am considering the Methylation Panel by Doctors Lab?
Thinkers?
Many thanks to all of you who have gone before!!
Rosebud
This patient is going to hyperbaric oxygen therapy for son's ongoing pain post-brain injury, and am joining him in the tank. I posed a question to the supervising hyperbarics physician that maybe the child's pain is ongoing not merely because of the concussion, but perhaps also because of neuropathy. We then tried an increase in pressure from 1.5 ATA to 1.75 ATA (Standard pressure for neuropathy is 2.5 ATA and standard for concussion is 1.5 ATA).
I get out of the tank after two treatments at 1.75, NOT even at the 2.5, and the bottoms of my feet were on FIRE with the strongest tingling sensation I have ever had for 2-5 minutes. The doc says that some parasthesia with hyperbarics is NOT uncommon (and I have never tried the full 2.5 ATA pressure for neuropathy), but I am just now beginning to pass on to him info about MTHFR (of which I have a single C677T). Also , the couple of days before that, I was NOT careful about my intake of dietary folic acid fortified foods, nor was I careful about raw leafy green vegetables........I had had some restaurant pizza, and later some salad.....two items which I don't often allow, much less on the same day. Some numbness and tingling in hands and feet have been noticed since slacking and allowing Folic Acid Fortified Foods into the diet............. I am thinking I am just going to have to leave off fortified foods, so I can test out just foods naturally containing folinic acid.
I had already woken up that morning just having that general run over by a train feeling -- kind of like a hangover, but wasn't a hangover.
The day before I had stopped my low dose of 12.5 mcg of T3 (generic cytomel). Really motivated to stay off the T3 for now, as I want to see if it is something I don't need to be on the rest of my life, as I probably will be on the B12 protocol for my C677T.
All of these things are happening all at once, so I can't split them up so easily.
Anyone have any fortified food folic acid induced parasthesia that one could have previously misinterpreted as "healing?", or could this actually just possibly be some healing going on? Or is this just a huge sign of paradoxical folate deficiency smacking me in the foot, and I don't know it?
I am considering the Methylation Panel by Doctors Lab?
Thinkers?
Many thanks to all of you who have gone before!!
Rosebud