Quelsatron
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The last month I've been diagnosed with a vitamin D level of 40 nmol, and to remedy I started taking 10,000 IU of it per day (ingredients: olive oil, gelatin capsule, glycerin, vitamin D3, DL alpha tocopherol). I've had various reactions during this time, and I would like some help with understanding what could be happening. My main health concern the last year has been a very obnoxious fatigue/depression, with various concerning veins (rosacea, telangiectasia, cherry angioma). Previously before my health crashed, I think my main problem had been caffeinated fasting, plus of course regular PUFA consumption, along with sunlight abstinence. When peating I started taking way too many random supplements, and eating a lot. My TSH is fine ish, and is even better than 2 years ago when I was feeling much better, and my pulse is also at least around 72/min pretty much all of the time, though my feet often become cold. I'll go by a week by week basis:
week 0: Tired beyond belief, weekend consisted of lying in bed with a minor headache.
week 1: started vitamin D supplementation. Nothing happened for a few days, as expected, then added in topical magnesium oil to prevent supposed magnesium loss from vitamin D. Result: massive gains in energy levels, huzzah! This petered out a bit over the week, but I expected such. Weekend, went to my mothers, had to take antihistamine for the cat (desloratadine), realized it had been giving me fatigue and heart palpitations throughout all of the year, but not noticably so when i was healthier.
Week 2: general malaise, whether it was due to the lingering effects of the antihistamine or just a return to the normal I don't know. I tried going off magnesium for a day or two, but going for a walk during one of these days made me quickly extremely tired and I fell asleep right after, so I went back on the magnesium figuring that it was quickly being drained and nothing like this happened again.
Week 3: this is where it gets interesting, I made liver paté and ate it regularly with breakfast, about 400 grams of liver over the week (having eaten plenty of times over the last year and a half). Very quickly I gained much more energy, mood and libido. A few days in I started applying much more magnesium than normal by reapplying water on my MgCl-encrusted skin for several hours, and I started feeling extremely good. I was finally feeling like myself again, I was punching the air and doing pushups, music sounded much better, everything was somehow looking beautiful, vivid images appeared in my mind, my dopamine must have been extremely high. But it didn't come without a price, and after about five six hours I became very tired and with strong headaches, despite eating a fair amount, but the more I ate during this period the gentler this burnout period was, so I think I must have burned through the blood sugar levels or something. This only happened 2-3 days, and by sunday I wasn't feeling so good and a meal of meat and potatoes which I had been eating semi-regularly throughout this month left me very "flat"/depressed and cold. I might have eaten a teaspoon of coconut oil in my coffee during the good days and stopped towards the weekend.
Week 4: Yesterday I was back to my bad normal of week 2, today I'm probably a bit worse but I didn't go to work so the inactivity might be making that difference. Coconut oil did not do anything. The only real difference from week 2 is that now whenever I take more than a slight amount of magnesium it gets uncomfortable breathing, like my throat has swollen up, i'll stop taking it for a while and see what happens.
Can anyone explain these up and down responses to the things I consume? It's very frustrating, my only real point of hope lies in steadily raising vitamin D levels.
sorry for the wall of text, but I want to make it as thorough as possible. I'm also gonna get a blood test for vitamin D in a week or so and see how well I've replenished it so far.
week 0: Tired beyond belief, weekend consisted of lying in bed with a minor headache.
week 1: started vitamin D supplementation. Nothing happened for a few days, as expected, then added in topical magnesium oil to prevent supposed magnesium loss from vitamin D. Result: massive gains in energy levels, huzzah! This petered out a bit over the week, but I expected such. Weekend, went to my mothers, had to take antihistamine for the cat (desloratadine), realized it had been giving me fatigue and heart palpitations throughout all of the year, but not noticably so when i was healthier.
Week 2: general malaise, whether it was due to the lingering effects of the antihistamine or just a return to the normal I don't know. I tried going off magnesium for a day or two, but going for a walk during one of these days made me quickly extremely tired and I fell asleep right after, so I went back on the magnesium figuring that it was quickly being drained and nothing like this happened again.
Week 3: this is where it gets interesting, I made liver paté and ate it regularly with breakfast, about 400 grams of liver over the week (having eaten plenty of times over the last year and a half). Very quickly I gained much more energy, mood and libido. A few days in I started applying much more magnesium than normal by reapplying water on my MgCl-encrusted skin for several hours, and I started feeling extremely good. I was finally feeling like myself again, I was punching the air and doing pushups, music sounded much better, everything was somehow looking beautiful, vivid images appeared in my mind, my dopamine must have been extremely high. But it didn't come without a price, and after about five six hours I became very tired and with strong headaches, despite eating a fair amount, but the more I ate during this period the gentler this burnout period was, so I think I must have burned through the blood sugar levels or something. This only happened 2-3 days, and by sunday I wasn't feeling so good and a meal of meat and potatoes which I had been eating semi-regularly throughout this month left me very "flat"/depressed and cold. I might have eaten a teaspoon of coconut oil in my coffee during the good days and stopped towards the weekend.
Week 4: Yesterday I was back to my bad normal of week 2, today I'm probably a bit worse but I didn't go to work so the inactivity might be making that difference. Coconut oil did not do anything. The only real difference from week 2 is that now whenever I take more than a slight amount of magnesium it gets uncomfortable breathing, like my throat has swollen up, i'll stop taking it for a while and see what happens.
Can anyone explain these up and down responses to the things I consume? It's very frustrating, my only real point of hope lies in steadily raising vitamin D levels.
sorry for the wall of text, but I want to make it as thorough as possible. I'm also gonna get a blood test for vitamin D in a week or so and see how well I've replenished it so far.