messtafarian
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After a couple of months of going to doctors, I sort of gave up and went into a fugue state. I've been up in my bedroom, really nearly bedridden ( well ok i can't say that, my HQ is my bed but I pad around to the fridge and bathroom and so on) for about two months. I took a crapton of supplements and finally gave up on those too including pregnenolone. The only things I've been taking are a chewable multiple with copper, etc; topical progest-e, and about 200mg extra B1 chewable, when I think of it.
Months, I'm talking. I would sleep when I wanted to, hours at a time, shower every couple days, and just sort of drift.
Then I got this craving. I started eating Rice Krispies. I mean like boxes of Rice Krispies but that's not the weird part; the weird part is that the only thing that would satisfy me would be to take the Rice Krispies, put them on a paper plate and plop big chunks of KerryGold Irish Butter on top and put it in the microwave until the butter was melted. Then I would douse this mess with salt.
I could not get enough of this. I wanted absolutely nothing else. I fed myself plates and plates and plates of this stuff for days basically just heading back downstairs to the microwave every two hours or so. I must have been eating about three thousand calories a day of buttered Rice Krispies. When I slept I'd take about 4 mg cyproheptadine beforehand. No caffeine at all, no aspirin, no coconut oil. No exercise, just me going back and forth to the microwave and watching Netflix. That went on for about a week.
Suddenly I realized I was feeling a little better. Not *great* -- but my weird nerve symptoms were almost gone, my stomach was working a lot better, and then I checked my pulse. I know we like fast pulses in the Peat world but mine had been running somewhere between 95-105 for months and when I stood up I'd get POTS. Checked my pulse this morning and it was suddenly...60, at total rest. When I stood up, 82.
Normal. No dizziness, no twitching, no crazy sweating.
I somehow got a lot better than I've been in 9 months eating Rice Krispies and butter. Now the question is, what in the hell did I do right?
Months, I'm talking. I would sleep when I wanted to, hours at a time, shower every couple days, and just sort of drift.
Then I got this craving. I started eating Rice Krispies. I mean like boxes of Rice Krispies but that's not the weird part; the weird part is that the only thing that would satisfy me would be to take the Rice Krispies, put them on a paper plate and plop big chunks of KerryGold Irish Butter on top and put it in the microwave until the butter was melted. Then I would douse this mess with salt.
I could not get enough of this. I wanted absolutely nothing else. I fed myself plates and plates and plates of this stuff for days basically just heading back downstairs to the microwave every two hours or so. I must have been eating about three thousand calories a day of buttered Rice Krispies. When I slept I'd take about 4 mg cyproheptadine beforehand. No caffeine at all, no aspirin, no coconut oil. No exercise, just me going back and forth to the microwave and watching Netflix. That went on for about a week.
Suddenly I realized I was feeling a little better. Not *great* -- but my weird nerve symptoms were almost gone, my stomach was working a lot better, and then I checked my pulse. I know we like fast pulses in the Peat world but mine had been running somewhere between 95-105 for months and when I stood up I'd get POTS. Checked my pulse this morning and it was suddenly...60, at total rest. When I stood up, 82.
Normal. No dizziness, no twitching, no crazy sweating.
I somehow got a lot better than I've been in 9 months eating Rice Krispies and butter. Now the question is, what in the hell did I do right?