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Since I've been making all these changes to my diet etc, I thought I should record how I feel.
For reference, here is the baseline. Now I have good days and bad days, and psychology plays a lot into that (unfortunately, it's not so much that positive thinking makes me feel better so much that being motivated by something makes my body repress how crap I feel until it is done. I crashed a fair bit after Wastelands, for example) so it's hard to say for certain what long term effect this is having until it's ben a few weeks.
But so far, I actually feel pretty good. For me.
Able to answer email and write moderately together posts etc, not in much pain at all even though I did quite a bit of walking around while investigating gluten free food, not too much in the way of headaches, and while I do still feel fairly nauseous and sleepy some of that is probably the fault of all the sugar/refines flour etc I'm eating while I figure out the whole gluten free thing. Still too sick to work, but (hypothetically) well enough to catch the train into work and check my email and maybe make some conversation before having a nap and going home :) I've managed to leave the house every day for a week or so, though I still spend most of my day sitting or lying down.
As well as the gluten-free-ness I've also been eating more tumeric since apparently that's good for cfs, and it's one of the few spices that never seems to disagree with me even when I'm feeling sensitive.
New tablets I am on:
4x1000 UI Vitamin D3
150mg Co enzyme Q10
Calcium + magnesium (He said "Super calcium complete" but the chemist had no idea what that was) Oops, I just realised he said 4 a day, I've only been taking 1
He also said "colloidal minerals" but the chemist could only interpet that as colloidal silver, which I am NOT taking. Will discuss that with him at next appointment.
Tablets I've been taking for ages after some experimentation to see what worked:
Centrum multivitamin
1000mg Vit C
Iron tablet
40mg Pariet presecription reflux medication
Also in general I eat lots of red meat (and other meats), low fat, high fibre, high protein, unprocessed foods. LOTS of fresh fruit and vegetables. As little sugar (or artificial sweetners) and refined carbohydrates as possible.
For reference, here is the baseline. Now I have good days and bad days, and psychology plays a lot into that (unfortunately, it's not so much that positive thinking makes me feel better so much that being motivated by something makes my body repress how crap I feel until it is done. I crashed a fair bit after Wastelands, for example) so it's hard to say for certain what long term effect this is having until it's ben a few weeks.
But so far, I actually feel pretty good. For me.
Able to answer email and write moderately together posts etc, not in much pain at all even though I did quite a bit of walking around while investigating gluten free food, not too much in the way of headaches, and while I do still feel fairly nauseous and sleepy some of that is probably the fault of all the sugar/refines flour etc I'm eating while I figure out the whole gluten free thing. Still too sick to work, but (hypothetically) well enough to catch the train into work and check my email and maybe make some conversation before having a nap and going home :) I've managed to leave the house every day for a week or so, though I still spend most of my day sitting or lying down.
As well as the gluten-free-ness I've also been eating more tumeric since apparently that's good for cfs, and it's one of the few spices that never seems to disagree with me even when I'm feeling sensitive.
New tablets I am on:
4x1000 UI Vitamin D3
150mg Co enzyme Q10
Calcium + magnesium (He said "Super calcium complete" but the chemist had no idea what that was) Oops, I just realised he said 4 a day, I've only been taking 1
He also said "colloidal minerals" but the chemist could only interpet that as colloidal silver, which I am NOT taking. Will discuss that with him at next appointment.
Tablets I've been taking for ages after some experimentation to see what worked:
Centrum multivitamin
1000mg Vit C
Iron tablet
40mg Pariet presecription reflux medication
Also in general I eat lots of red meat (and other meats), low fat, high fibre, high protein, unprocessed foods. LOTS of fresh fruit and vegetables. As little sugar (or artificial sweetners) and refined carbohydrates as possible.
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What's amusing is that I and Cam have this whole "CFS=vampirism" in-joke going on :)
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Damn, my secret is out at last! The ministry of magic will never let me back into a teaching position now!
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(*)what, everyone doesn't consider this from time to time? You never know when it might happen!
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It absolutely could happen at any time...we never know when the improbability drive will kick in. :-)
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see, my paranoia is always of ending up in post-modern times, (by which I guess I'm thinking post-apocalyptic) and there being nothing to eat but canned food!
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What's amusing is that I and Cam have this whole "CFS=vampirism" in-joke going on :)
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Damn, my secret is out at last! The ministry of magic will never let me back into a teaching position now!
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Pariet
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(*)what, everyone doesn't consider this from time to time? You never know when it might happen!
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It absolutely could happen at any time...we never know when the improbability drive will kick in. :-)
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see, my paranoia is always of ending up in post-modern times, (by which I guess I'm thinking post-apocalyptic) and there being nothing to eat but canned food!
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