An update
So many of you have kindly asked me how I am doing, how my recovery is speeding, that I want to reply. Ironically, I started this blog on a day where I felt awful because I just needed to have it out. Like a man who digs a hole into which he can deliver his secrets, I thought that by confessing my pain and frustration, perhaps to lance the boil. I never imagined it would have appeal, or find a following, or connect with people. It has been a wonderful experience for me. It has helped me to give voice to this illness, to give a name to the darkness, in as such, to let go of it. Thank you all.
I am going to go out on a limb and give MTP credit for my recent upsurge in health. Throughout my recovery, I can trace the substantial increases in my well being to certain acts. Each one caused the slope of my linear improvement to steepen.
The first was diet. Adopting a whole foods approach, with adequate calroeis, fats, protiens, and nutrients, helped a lot.
SR. Skilled relaxation. At the first, I tried, and was very successful with autohyponosis, after that I transitioned to TM, transcendental meditation. I watch breaths. I do this twice a day for 20 minutes. At best, I can enter into the alpha brain wave zone, discharging stress at a rate of 24:1 compared to delta sleep. This has improved my bodies ability to overcome its stress threshold, and slowly inch away from the cliff.
Zinc. Ainc was the first nutrient that I noticed an unmistakable improvement in well being. It was with these improvements that I feulled my research into nutritional therapies. After the Zn sucess, I bought some books on orthomolecularism, and I disintered myold psych testing that included Sz on one of the possibility axis as having a signifigant, if not strong, correlation. I used that, and found the PTC after some abysmal failures on my own.
Folate. I upped my folate from three a day to 10, then to 20. I currently take that much. My health took a great jump when I began to increae the amount of B-9 I took every day. However, taking 24 was very counterproductive.
p5p. A PTC error in calculating my kryptopyrrole, they forgot to allow for specific gravity in the urine, meant my pyroluria, which was pronounced, went undiagnosed for 2 years. After I stated to up my p5p in December of 05, more dramatic improvements.
MTP. my digestion, absorbtion and gut pain have all radically imroved. The MTP was rocky to get on at first, but, if we believe the literature, then we can imagine taht my metallothionine is improving, adn with it my digestion and copper levels. It does, however, [warning: TMI ahead] make one urine stink.
So, another rachte in the improvement slope. We are not there yet, but vastly improved.
My hands have not trembled in a year or more. My vision is clear in my left eye most of the time. I do not get vast dispercetions of space, though time is still a wee bit messy. The racing mind is constrained to mere inability to focus. My libido is up, I sweat, I tear, I even sneeze. My metabolism is increased, as is my body tempurature. My ability to tolerate stress is greatly improved. my insomnia regularly gone. No voices, no paranoia, not that these were ever regular complaints. The inreality is gone (disassocaition). My balance is almost completly fine.
My digestion and susbsequent headaches and pain are the largest remnants of the illness. I am not yet cured, though I expect to anounce myself well soon. perhaps by the new year. I will then celebrate, it is to be hoped, with my friends and those who have carried me through.
Ok, good vibes are officially over. I am, after all, a curmudgeon at heart.
X and E are going to begin a conversation about being h'delic. I hope that one or both of them will share their experiecnes or results with us.
W
I am going to go out on a limb and give MTP credit for my recent upsurge in health. Throughout my recovery, I can trace the substantial increases in my well being to certain acts. Each one caused the slope of my linear improvement to steepen.
The first was diet. Adopting a whole foods approach, with adequate calroeis, fats, protiens, and nutrients, helped a lot.
SR. Skilled relaxation. At the first, I tried, and was very successful with autohyponosis, after that I transitioned to TM, transcendental meditation. I watch breaths. I do this twice a day for 20 minutes. At best, I can enter into the alpha brain wave zone, discharging stress at a rate of 24:1 compared to delta sleep. This has improved my bodies ability to overcome its stress threshold, and slowly inch away from the cliff.
Zinc. Ainc was the first nutrient that I noticed an unmistakable improvement in well being. It was with these improvements that I feulled my research into nutritional therapies. After the Zn sucess, I bought some books on orthomolecularism, and I disintered myold psych testing that included Sz on one of the possibility axis as having a signifigant, if not strong, correlation. I used that, and found the PTC after some abysmal failures on my own.
Folate. I upped my folate from three a day to 10, then to 20. I currently take that much. My health took a great jump when I began to increae the amount of B-9 I took every day. However, taking 24 was very counterproductive.
p5p. A PTC error in calculating my kryptopyrrole, they forgot to allow for specific gravity in the urine, meant my pyroluria, which was pronounced, went undiagnosed for 2 years. After I stated to up my p5p in December of 05, more dramatic improvements.
MTP. my digestion, absorbtion and gut pain have all radically imroved. The MTP was rocky to get on at first, but, if we believe the literature, then we can imagine taht my metallothionine is improving, adn with it my digestion and copper levels. It does, however, [warning: TMI ahead] make one urine stink.
So, another rachte in the improvement slope. We are not there yet, but vastly improved.
My hands have not trembled in a year or more. My vision is clear in my left eye most of the time. I do not get vast dispercetions of space, though time is still a wee bit messy. The racing mind is constrained to mere inability to focus. My libido is up, I sweat, I tear, I even sneeze. My metabolism is increased, as is my body tempurature. My ability to tolerate stress is greatly improved. my insomnia regularly gone. No voices, no paranoia, not that these were ever regular complaints. The inreality is gone (disassocaition). My balance is almost completly fine.
My digestion and susbsequent headaches and pain are the largest remnants of the illness. I am not yet cured, though I expect to anounce myself well soon. perhaps by the new year. I will then celebrate, it is to be hoped, with my friends and those who have carried me through.
Ok, good vibes are officially over. I am, after all, a curmudgeon at heart.
X and E are going to begin a conversation about being h'delic. I hope that one or both of them will share their experiecnes or results with us.
W
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