Hi all!
I am very happy that I found the Ray Peat Forum. My background is a condition of two years of suffering with ill health. After a antibiotic treatment something happend and my system got out of wack. I first thought I would have gotten Candida and tried to starve it out. I was following a mainly protein/fat based diet. And after 3 month my body broke down. I got very afraid! Something happend which I didnt understood and still dont.
I lost about 35 kg in 3 month, a lot of the sympthoms I had where brainfog, itchy eyes, rectal itching, stomach pain, constant diarre, malnutrion, intestinal transit-time of 4 hours, UT irritation, a feeling that I would pee in my pants.
Long story short. As all my sympthoms got better I thought I am soon healed from that terrible situation. How wrong I was I noticed, when in the middle of nigh,t I was awaken with a flash. From deep sleep I suddenly was full awake. I knew something was wrong and it felt like I would die. A strange sensation of my was blood boiling, or millions of ants running under my skin, mixed with a feeling of getting a heart attack, my spirit leaving my body. I had a feeling that my upper body was sinking down in the pillows while my legs would start to flow up. My chest got tight and I got a feeling of a coming heart attack. A terrible fear of death entered the room. I noticed all and said to myself. Keep cool, breath, count, breath and check. I had a feeling of a racing heartbeat but when I counted it with a clock it was normal. Very strange! I thought that I am on my way to get nuts.
I have to say here that I never in my 50 years old live had any issues with mental health. Later I learned that what I experienced was a panic attack. Fear entered my life which I never experienced before. I had to do something and started to eat normal again. I thought I messed up my brain with lack of sugar so I was eating it. I got strength back and it took a long time before the stress went out of the body. Fear attacked me now and then and even panic only when I had some air in my stomach. With the sugar I got the panic out of the body but the sympthoms which drove me on the road of diets where again present. The brainfog was the worst as I felt drunken all the time. It felt like I had a half bottle of strong wine in me for over a year, day in and out. I got deppressed as I was very health concious. No drugs, no alchohol, no smoke, etc but I got worse and worse.
I still believed I had candida and followed another course of action. This time with a lot of pre-biotics. (special vegetables, fat, protein) pro-biotics, vitamines, minerals etc. I grew worse until I had to give it up after 3 month. I too broke down again with getting this dreaded vibration in my body, the blood boiling, running ants symdrome. I got really afraid and thought if that continues another year I will be dead. Neadless to say the doctor didnt find anything and thought I am nuts.
The first big change happend with a book I bought about IBS. From that book I learned to cut out all fibres. When I did that I was within a week 70 percent better. I had hope. I learned and learned and came to learn that I have SIBO, leaky gut and probably candida. I started with the SCD/GAPS diet and are still learning and getting better. While on the learning streak I happen to find Ray Peat and read his articles on his webside and somehow found you guys.
I hope I can learn a lot as I really want to understand what is going on in the body and the digestion system. I learned the hard way that the doctors could not and didnt help me and the knowleadge I got searching and learning myself saved my life.
all the best to you all
yours
Thomas
I am very happy that I found the Ray Peat Forum. My background is a condition of two years of suffering with ill health. After a antibiotic treatment something happend and my system got out of wack. I first thought I would have gotten Candida and tried to starve it out. I was following a mainly protein/fat based diet. And after 3 month my body broke down. I got very afraid! Something happend which I didnt understood and still dont.
I lost about 35 kg in 3 month, a lot of the sympthoms I had where brainfog, itchy eyes, rectal itching, stomach pain, constant diarre, malnutrion, intestinal transit-time of 4 hours, UT irritation, a feeling that I would pee in my pants.
Long story short. As all my sympthoms got better I thought I am soon healed from that terrible situation. How wrong I was I noticed, when in the middle of nigh,t I was awaken with a flash. From deep sleep I suddenly was full awake. I knew something was wrong and it felt like I would die. A strange sensation of my was blood boiling, or millions of ants running under my skin, mixed with a feeling of getting a heart attack, my spirit leaving my body. I had a feeling that my upper body was sinking down in the pillows while my legs would start to flow up. My chest got tight and I got a feeling of a coming heart attack. A terrible fear of death entered the room. I noticed all and said to myself. Keep cool, breath, count, breath and check. I had a feeling of a racing heartbeat but when I counted it with a clock it was normal. Very strange! I thought that I am on my way to get nuts.
I have to say here that I never in my 50 years old live had any issues with mental health. Later I learned that what I experienced was a panic attack. Fear entered my life which I never experienced before. I had to do something and started to eat normal again. I thought I messed up my brain with lack of sugar so I was eating it. I got strength back and it took a long time before the stress went out of the body. Fear attacked me now and then and even panic only when I had some air in my stomach. With the sugar I got the panic out of the body but the sympthoms which drove me on the road of diets where again present. The brainfog was the worst as I felt drunken all the time. It felt like I had a half bottle of strong wine in me for over a year, day in and out. I got deppressed as I was very health concious. No drugs, no alchohol, no smoke, etc but I got worse and worse.
I still believed I had candida and followed another course of action. This time with a lot of pre-biotics. (special vegetables, fat, protein) pro-biotics, vitamines, minerals etc. I grew worse until I had to give it up after 3 month. I too broke down again with getting this dreaded vibration in my body, the blood boiling, running ants symdrome. I got really afraid and thought if that continues another year I will be dead. Neadless to say the doctor didnt find anything and thought I am nuts.
The first big change happend with a book I bought about IBS. From that book I learned to cut out all fibres. When I did that I was within a week 70 percent better. I had hope. I learned and learned and came to learn that I have SIBO, leaky gut and probably candida. I started with the SCD/GAPS diet and are still learning and getting better. While on the learning streak I happen to find Ray Peat and read his articles on his webside and somehow found you guys.
I hope I can learn a lot as I really want to understand what is going on in the body and the digestion system. I learned the hard way that the doctors could not and didnt help me and the knowleadge I got searching and learning myself saved my life.
all the best to you all
yours
Thomas