goodfortune
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Please let me state upfront that I am very new to this forum, and also I am not up to the high level of scientific sophistication that is very evident throughout this forum, nor am I very technologically literate in general, so if I blunder, e.g., mention something that I could have/ should have read elsewhere (and maybe did read elsewhere but forgot where), please be forgiving.
Without going into a long back story, a year ago (after intense amounts of stress in the previous year), I began gradually developing a repetitive stress injury, posterior tibial tendonitis specifically, not due to running or great athleticism, but just from walking a lot with a large tote bag, which I think created biomechanical imbalances. Eventually, I was completely incapacitated for six weeks and lost much weight, could not eat, and was depressed and in pain; however, I did use the time to plan my recovery, and now I am at four months later, able to walk and perform the one-foot heel raise, which is the litmus test for recovery.
Two months ago, because I had lost so much weight, I was seeking a way to make myself eat more because I had very little appetite. I found a product called Apetamin, which is cyproheptadine with lysine and some B-vitamins. I had never heard of cyproheptadine, and as I began to read about it, I found the IdeaLabs cyproheptadine using DMSO as a carrier, so I decided to try it because I am very sensitive to substances, and the idea of transdermal application gave me comfort.in experimenting.
One of the biggest troubles I had in recovering was that my calf, shin, and thigh muscles were stubbornly tight and my knee (aside from my arch) was over-pronated. It was as though my whole leg was “locked.” When I first used the cyproheptadine – 2 drops, one in each nostril – almost instantly my leg began to “unlock.” Within two days, the pain was disappearing, and I could feel the first indications of normalcy being restored. From that point on, everything gained momentum and improved. In just two weeks, I had regained all my weight and lost all my stress and depression, and though cyproheptadine is reported to create apathy, in my case just the opposite occurred: I was able to overcome my fear of moving my foot in certain ways and thus able to start exercising to regain strength. In those two weeks, I took the cyproheptadine daily for one week and then every other day during the second week, always at just two drops intranasally. I seemed to reach a plateau at two weeks, and then things seemed to continue positively but within the same frame of improvement, still with two drops intranasally every other day. Then at one month, everything changed. I began to feel stressed and depressed again, and my muscles began to tighten again and feel weak, but most outlandishly, my breasts began to swell and become sore. I am at menopause right now, I am 50 this year, but I really have not had any of the typical menopausal symptoms, and I have not had sore breasts since in my 30’s. Also, the tendon has become painful again, not intensely, but for nearly a month the pain seemed gone. I have not done anything new except use the cyproheptadine, and I have not been eating or using anything “estrogenic” – estrogen is the first hormone that came to mind with the swollen breasts. I could not think of anything else to do, so I decided to try the Progestene from IdeaLabs because I read somewhere in this forum that progesterone can help tendonitis as well as breast pain. I have only been taking the Progestene for three days (three drops three times daily on my ankle), and I am starting to feel better, and my breasts seem to be slowly draining, and maybe my muscles feel a bit better, though I still have pain in my tendon and muscle stiffness and weakness. I have stopped the cyproheptadine.
Does anyone have any idea as to why the cyproheptadine would produce this reaction, both good and bad?
Thank you greatly for your time.
Without going into a long back story, a year ago (after intense amounts of stress in the previous year), I began gradually developing a repetitive stress injury, posterior tibial tendonitis specifically, not due to running or great athleticism, but just from walking a lot with a large tote bag, which I think created biomechanical imbalances. Eventually, I was completely incapacitated for six weeks and lost much weight, could not eat, and was depressed and in pain; however, I did use the time to plan my recovery, and now I am at four months later, able to walk and perform the one-foot heel raise, which is the litmus test for recovery.
Two months ago, because I had lost so much weight, I was seeking a way to make myself eat more because I had very little appetite. I found a product called Apetamin, which is cyproheptadine with lysine and some B-vitamins. I had never heard of cyproheptadine, and as I began to read about it, I found the IdeaLabs cyproheptadine using DMSO as a carrier, so I decided to try it because I am very sensitive to substances, and the idea of transdermal application gave me comfort.in experimenting.
One of the biggest troubles I had in recovering was that my calf, shin, and thigh muscles were stubbornly tight and my knee (aside from my arch) was over-pronated. It was as though my whole leg was “locked.” When I first used the cyproheptadine – 2 drops, one in each nostril – almost instantly my leg began to “unlock.” Within two days, the pain was disappearing, and I could feel the first indications of normalcy being restored. From that point on, everything gained momentum and improved. In just two weeks, I had regained all my weight and lost all my stress and depression, and though cyproheptadine is reported to create apathy, in my case just the opposite occurred: I was able to overcome my fear of moving my foot in certain ways and thus able to start exercising to regain strength. In those two weeks, I took the cyproheptadine daily for one week and then every other day during the second week, always at just two drops intranasally. I seemed to reach a plateau at two weeks, and then things seemed to continue positively but within the same frame of improvement, still with two drops intranasally every other day. Then at one month, everything changed. I began to feel stressed and depressed again, and my muscles began to tighten again and feel weak, but most outlandishly, my breasts began to swell and become sore. I am at menopause right now, I am 50 this year, but I really have not had any of the typical menopausal symptoms, and I have not had sore breasts since in my 30’s. Also, the tendon has become painful again, not intensely, but for nearly a month the pain seemed gone. I have not done anything new except use the cyproheptadine, and I have not been eating or using anything “estrogenic” – estrogen is the first hormone that came to mind with the swollen breasts. I could not think of anything else to do, so I decided to try the Progestene from IdeaLabs because I read somewhere in this forum that progesterone can help tendonitis as well as breast pain. I have only been taking the Progestene for three days (three drops three times daily on my ankle), and I am starting to feel better, and my breasts seem to be slowly draining, and maybe my muscles feel a bit better, though I still have pain in my tendon and muscle stiffness and weakness. I have stopped the cyproheptadine.
Does anyone have any idea as to why the cyproheptadine would produce this reaction, both good and bad?
Thank you greatly for your time.