SQu
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My apologies if I'm wasting people's time asking questions that have been answered elsewhere. I've spent a few days doing nothing but reading forums and posts on my issues. I did have a good look and get some info from some posts but if I've missed something that seems to answer my question please point me in that direction!
Many years ago I got bad hayfever to the point of such nonstop sneezing and dizziness I could do literally nothing else but go to bed and sleep it off, then I'd wake up all better. Variations on this worst case were just heavy bouts of sneezing, eye tearing, face numb yet itchy, scratchy cough, and (embarrassingly) a definite worsening of slight urine incontinence that started after childbirth but is pretty well controlled with pelvic floor exercises. (It's not just the extreme pressure of constant powerful sneezing - it's a bit worse even taking that into account otherwise I wouldn't even mention it)
Low carb sorted that out and it was gone for years. The past few weeks it's been back at a time when I have had the following happen:
1. a health setback following a holiday following a period of overwork - migraine, bad nausea, bad aching, tiredness, insomnia, feeling 90years old, and none of my usual fixes working, such as BCAAs, aspirin
2. I've been upping the peatiness of my diet and it's summer so I've been having more fat free milk, more very ripe tropical fruit, more orange juice (commercial but not from concentrate, does include pulp), more gelatin, but nothing here is new ,I'm just having more of it. Less starch, and just one slice of homemade bread a day but I'm thinking of dropping that.
3. To counteract the nausea I tried charcoal and the first time it worked a treat even leading to slight euphoria, but the next time it made me worse. I am aware that changes raise stress hormones for me and I get paradoxical symptoms so I back off then try again later and slower.
4. I tried diphenhydramine 25mg - nothing - doubled it to 50 - helps somewhat, sometimes, not helping poor sleep though
I'm still taking that.
A day's diet includes often 2 litres of fat free milk, alitre of orange juice, sugar, coffee before 12am, 3 eggs, a smear of butter, a teaspoon or two of coconut oil, fruit, gelatin, a bit of meat or chicken at night at a family meal, a bit of rice or potato with it - a few spoons - a little veg but I'm not mad about it. also the daily carrot, which I'm now having in the form of that salad with coconut oil, a bit of vinegar and salt. There's nothing new here, just more of the same. I take too many supps but feel worse without them so I keep on them - vits c,e,b complex, niacinamide, mag glycinate, zinc with selenium and vit a, ubiquinol, bit of k2 (but so expensive here!!!), adaptogens, p5p and vitex. nothing new there either. aspirin before bed (2) and the DPH. NDT made me more hypothyroid not less so I stopped that, haven't taken progesterone since I learned the creams are not so good but it did help before that.
Thanks in advance for any help!
Many years ago I got bad hayfever to the point of such nonstop sneezing and dizziness I could do literally nothing else but go to bed and sleep it off, then I'd wake up all better. Variations on this worst case were just heavy bouts of sneezing, eye tearing, face numb yet itchy, scratchy cough, and (embarrassingly) a definite worsening of slight urine incontinence that started after childbirth but is pretty well controlled with pelvic floor exercises. (It's not just the extreme pressure of constant powerful sneezing - it's a bit worse even taking that into account otherwise I wouldn't even mention it)
Low carb sorted that out and it was gone for years. The past few weeks it's been back at a time when I have had the following happen:
1. a health setback following a holiday following a period of overwork - migraine, bad nausea, bad aching, tiredness, insomnia, feeling 90years old, and none of my usual fixes working, such as BCAAs, aspirin
2. I've been upping the peatiness of my diet and it's summer so I've been having more fat free milk, more very ripe tropical fruit, more orange juice (commercial but not from concentrate, does include pulp), more gelatin, but nothing here is new ,I'm just having more of it. Less starch, and just one slice of homemade bread a day but I'm thinking of dropping that.
3. To counteract the nausea I tried charcoal and the first time it worked a treat even leading to slight euphoria, but the next time it made me worse. I am aware that changes raise stress hormones for me and I get paradoxical symptoms so I back off then try again later and slower.
4. I tried diphenhydramine 25mg - nothing - doubled it to 50 - helps somewhat, sometimes, not helping poor sleep though
I'm still taking that.
A day's diet includes often 2 litres of fat free milk, alitre of orange juice, sugar, coffee before 12am, 3 eggs, a smear of butter, a teaspoon or two of coconut oil, fruit, gelatin, a bit of meat or chicken at night at a family meal, a bit of rice or potato with it - a few spoons - a little veg but I'm not mad about it. also the daily carrot, which I'm now having in the form of that salad with coconut oil, a bit of vinegar and salt. There's nothing new here, just more of the same. I take too many supps but feel worse without them so I keep on them - vits c,e,b complex, niacinamide, mag glycinate, zinc with selenium and vit a, ubiquinol, bit of k2 (but so expensive here!!!), adaptogens, p5p and vitex. nothing new there either. aspirin before bed (2) and the DPH. NDT made me more hypothyroid not less so I stopped that, haven't taken progesterone since I learned the creams are not so good but it did help before that.
Thanks in advance for any help!