biomes
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Have you taken many anti-biotics in your lifetime? Sounds like the root of your cause may be gut related.
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i see you still active here.I'm going to start logging things in one place for my own sanity, records, and in the hopes that perhaps it could contribute to the body of knowledge and experiences on this forum.
Quick background/timeline:
- Dealt with depression, anxiety, skin and personality problems for life, worsened exponentially at the (relatively late) onset of menstruation at 15
- Stressful and isolated childhood
- Brother developed IBS severe enough he had to drop out of high school
- I developed BDD during teens, escalated to anorexia/orthorexia at 18, became a vegan
- Started to recover from that via various means including therapy at 22 but still struggled with some bulimic behavior
- Tried paleo and found that I was less swollen, brain fogged, just seemed "better", but it wasn't sustainable, bulimic compulsions for CARBS increased
- Came across Ray Peat in 2014 while living in sunny LA, began experimenting extensively with his diet recommendations
- Realized conclusively I can't tolerate unfermented milk of any type (you name it, I tried it) but the main revelations were that
- It's important to eat enough, food should not have to be an enemy
- Hormones can be manipulated to my benefit
- Starch causes me problems that sugar does not
- Food powerfully alters my mood and overall wellbeing
- I have histamine intolerance
Thus I've decided to really give cyproheptadine a go. My issues track heavily with histamine intake and I feel that the most accurate "diagnosis" one could give me is histamine intolerance. However, it isn't clear why I have this syndrome or what the root cause is. Either way, if longterm cypro is an option for me it'd enable me to live a more productive and even-keeled life. As of now I'm caught between several very restrictive diets and it's a problem for me as it makes it hard to eat enough and I develop deficiencies pretty quickly by my own observation. Obviously I also don't want to relapse into an eating disorder. Without being able to drink milk or orange juice, and struggling to tolerate starch without developing high serotonin symptoms, there isn't much I can eat without inadvertently sliding into a low carb diet. You might disagree, but consider that I don't have a lot of money and most fruit/juice sources make me feel extremely funky after only a week or two of relying on them, worse than the serotonin feel of starch. Orange juice feels satiating in a way that apple doesn't, but as a potent histamine liberator it is unsustainable for me to consume (it also did a number on my teeth along the gumline). I find that a starch-free diet makes it hard to hold onto enough sodium (not because I don't eat enough, but because it seems to somehow get washed out of my system), and salt is one of my main allies in controlling allergy symptoms. It just seems like no diet ever feels right, and I have had an increase in some symptoms over the past few years:
- Tried progesterone (progest-e) one of the most important things I ever did in my life, had major reduction in anxiety, depression, tender/swollen/fibrous breasts, lower body water retention, retained those improvements even after stopping supplementation
- Tried thyroid, results were mixed, still unsure I've ever been able to get the dosing on this right or if it's really the right drug for me. There was a time I was convinced this was a necessity, now I'm not as sure, but I have gone back on it recently (about 50mcg t4, 25 mcg t3 a day) since I moved back to the dark northwest and started struggling a lot with fatigue again
- These revelations led me to experiment further for several years, to the point that I was able to live a more normal life and make a lot of progress becoming a well-adjusted adult. But I still haven't found a solution that truly stabilizes me and as a result I think I need to pursue pharmacological solutions more intently.
I have more info to write but that's all for now, I wanted to at least get a place to started documenting how cyproheptadine is working for me.
- My inner ears constantly itch to the point that it drives me insane (new symptom as of 2018)
- My eczema on my hands has gotten much worse
- I get pain in the duodenum area of my gut from time to time, sometimes chronically, usually triggered by high histamine foods or a long period of high starch intake
- I have chronic gastritis since getting food poisoning in 2016
- I had more cavities this year than I ever have in my life, lost significant enamel during my high orange juice intake phase. I have 3-4 cavities now and I had had 2 in my life, ever, prior to this
i see you still active here.
can you gives some update how you doing?
How is your diet looks like?
you know msm is high sulfur right? ;-)It’s not letting me edit but I wanted to add that I think it may be that going off sulfur foods for a little while could have been beneficial and I’m still not 100% sure what happened when things fell apart but ultimately MSM seems to be the final missing piece for resolving it at this time for me. I think I also inadvertently lowered my salicylate intake a lot when I lowered sulfur and this may have been a lot of the perceived benefit. The so-called low vitamin A diet may have a similar source of power for some people who benefit from it.
Yes that’s the reason I’m taking it :p. When I cut out all sulfur and thiols two years ago I was barely even eating protein foods on top of avoiding cruciferous veg, eggs, onions etc and even taking molybdenum. I felt good for a while but had a huge crash that was probably due to not approaching that experiment in an intelligent way. I don’t even know if sulfur intolerance was ever a primary issue for me (although considering the low-thiol diet lowers ammonia I’m guessing that at least helped) and now I’m finding some of the issues that cropped up at the time are being resolved by MSM, presumably because I depleted too much sulfur from my body which is already clearly struggling to detoxify many kinds of substances. Sulfur is important to a lot of those processes as I understand it, as well as connective tissue health which was one of my worst areas of deterioration at the time.you know msm is high sulfur right? ;-)
You saying in the past that starch causes problems that sugar does not
Now you saying that you able to tolerate a lot more starch.
I am curious, what exactly were these problems and what have you done that solved this?