Nemo
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Discussing research on beriberi, Dr. Lonsdale, who wrote a book on thiamine deficiency, observed that
"beriberi symptomatology is extremely complex and not a matter of simply giving a few milligrams of thiamin. In fact, it took huge doses of the vitamin for months to abolish the symptoms."
Creative, everyone is different, but I can tell you that I can trigger severe hyperventilation and most of the other symptoms you have in myself by simply taking 20-25 mg of B1 at one time. That's supposed to be impossible, but I could do it right now. The first time it happened it was so frightening I went to the ER.
Like you, I believe I had some degree of beriberi.
But smaller doses of B1 (in 1-2 drops of Energin with each meal or snack) have been the single most helpful thing I've done other than resuming eating fruit and milk.
I mentioned manganese because it was hugely helpful to me when I took care to get enough, not in supplements but in foods. I apparently needed more manganese for the B1 I was taking to work right.