I have bad pain in my finger joints, finger tips, wrists, hands, and forearms, and it's making it hard to earn a living.
It's been going on for at least 10 years and has gotten so bad I can barely do my work at a computer. I have exhausted every possibility with ergonomic workstations, done physical therapy, etc. There's got to be some way to lower inflammation in my hands and arms. I also have chronically swollen fingers. Have been diagnosed with carpal tunnel syndrome twice with an electroconductivity test and was offered surgery but the outcomes on carpal tunnel surgery are pretty bad. Besides, the root cause, not to mention the finger pain and swelling, wouldn't be addressed.
Been eating Peat inspired for 8 years. My diet is optimized as well as it can be. I drink seven or eight cups of 1% milk daily, a quart of Orange juice, ripe fruit, shellfish, liver occasionally, cheese, well cooked mushrooms, a daily carrot, oat bran and corn tortillas -- though I have experimented with starch free, and it makes me depressed and no less inflamed. Have tried pretty much every Peaty supplement and drug.
I take 5,000 IU vitamin d, vitamin k, T3 and a combo thyroid drug (an entire cynomel and 1/4 cynoplus), 900 mg aspirin, cascara sagrada, 100 mg pregnenolone, progesterone, sunlight, and I supplement with B vitamins as the pain is unbearable when I don't do that.
I also have to eat shrimp once a week or the pain becomes unbearable. But it only helps a little -- eating it more frequently doesn't help more. For some reason, I seem to need above average amounts of the nutrients in shrimp. I'm assuming that would be selenium and copper. Any thoughts on this? As you can tell, I'm pretty well versed in Ray Peat's work and have experimented a lot with his diet but still can't seem to get stress hormones and inflammation down. I have other health problems but this one is impacting my ability to work.
It's been going on for at least 10 years and has gotten so bad I can barely do my work at a computer. I have exhausted every possibility with ergonomic workstations, done physical therapy, etc. There's got to be some way to lower inflammation in my hands and arms. I also have chronically swollen fingers. Have been diagnosed with carpal tunnel syndrome twice with an electroconductivity test and was offered surgery but the outcomes on carpal tunnel surgery are pretty bad. Besides, the root cause, not to mention the finger pain and swelling, wouldn't be addressed.
Been eating Peat inspired for 8 years. My diet is optimized as well as it can be. I drink seven or eight cups of 1% milk daily, a quart of Orange juice, ripe fruit, shellfish, liver occasionally, cheese, well cooked mushrooms, a daily carrot, oat bran and corn tortillas -- though I have experimented with starch free, and it makes me depressed and no less inflamed. Have tried pretty much every Peaty supplement and drug.
I take 5,000 IU vitamin d, vitamin k, T3 and a combo thyroid drug (an entire cynomel and 1/4 cynoplus), 900 mg aspirin, cascara sagrada, 100 mg pregnenolone, progesterone, sunlight, and I supplement with B vitamins as the pain is unbearable when I don't do that.
I also have to eat shrimp once a week or the pain becomes unbearable. But it only helps a little -- eating it more frequently doesn't help more. For some reason, I seem to need above average amounts of the nutrients in shrimp. I'm assuming that would be selenium and copper. Any thoughts on this? As you can tell, I'm pretty well versed in Ray Peat's work and have experimented a lot with his diet but still can't seem to get stress hormones and inflammation down. I have other health problems but this one is impacting my ability to work.
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