Good Evening Forum,
so i've been browsing/lurking here for 2-3 months now, soaking up so much information and i've finally decided to get into direct contact with the people here.
Perhaps it is selfish and egocentric for my first Post/Thread to be asking strangers to help me but from what i've percieved so far there are many helpful/knowledgable people not shy of using their wealth of information/experience to help a fellow guy to find his way to health.
I try to keep this as short as possible if i can but in case i'm not able to i will try to make a TLDR at the end.
My name is Ben. I'm 26 years old male, 1,80cm (5 feet 11 inches) tall, 63kg (138lbs) from Austria and im dealing with serious health issues for ca. 4 years now and can't seem to figure out what exactly the problem is.
Current Health Issues/Symptoms are:
So far Multi-Vitamin complexes, high dosage B-Vitamin Complexes, Omega 3 fish oil, OPC Supplement, Vitamin D and Vitamin B12, Magnesium, Bone Broth, Vitamin C+Zink, Mineral Supplement have been tested trough the last 1-2 years. I also went to so many doctors with them telling me essentially that i am a nutcase imagining things (as my symptoms are to broad and my bloodtest is not to much out of the ordinary)
I would like to write up my story here as i think its important to understand how or why im having these issues but this would get kinda long. Is there a option where i could put text in a box that can be opened/closed so people are not overwhelmed of this much text .... it is such a stupid long story...
I write it down here and format it later when i figure out how:
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My issues as a teenager has been low energy/fatigue, severe social anxiety and being very skinny despite eating like a madman.
I got into weight lifting at 18 and made realy good progress until i was 22-23 years old.
I had an injury from trying to learn muscle-ups (was kinda sick on that day too, no idea why i felt like workoing out), hurt my right shoulder and i am unable to do dips without pain nor can i benchpress without my arms getting numb (especially the forearm) ever since mid 2016. Also going into planking or lying down position i get a vein on my forehead popping out liky crazy and me feeling like my blood is stuck rushing to my head as if i was doing a handstand for to long, this kinda got better to this day but its still a thing sometimes. That vein thing happense also when im in a health comrpomised state or drink alcohol. Doctor couldnt think of a reason why i have these issues and physiotherapie only helped a little. Within 1,5 years i had severe symptoms of numb arms when i tryied to sleep on my back and also having realy bad lower back pain ... so bad infact i couldnt move often times at all. MRI of the spine couldn't tell us why either. Thank god the backpain and numbness issues went away ... kind of, sometimes it flares up.
Fast foreward to 2018: i got dental braces since i was unhappy with my teeth. Around a 1-2 months after that i started to get a tinnitus that wouldn't go away. I told the orthodontist to remove the braces since i was convinced it was causing the issue. 2-3 weeks without them didn't change a thing so we continued with the dental braces.
The tinnitus was only bothering me when i was lying down trying to sleep so it wasn't that bad but at that time it scared me and i could only sleep with music running in the background.
ENT specialist set me on a one week vitamin b complex which did nothing and after that on a 2-week Cortisone treatment. Didn't help either. I was sent to do a MRI from the skull. Nothing unusual found there either (tho the braces kinda interfered the image). One month after the tinnitus i lost my job.
2-3 Months later i found a new job but during that search time i was fairly depressed.
At my new job i started to get symptoms with my eyes but they would go away quickly so i wouldnt think much of it. I also felt like my immune system was just worse than what it should be. I would go sauna once a week but i couldn't endure it at all anymore. Going sauna would make me feel sickish for 2-3 days while nose, jaw, hands and feed would tingle insanely or go numb. That was already a sign that i should've payed attention to. but instead i decided ... no more saunas.
My PUFA consumption increased in the year 2018 dramaticly, trying out fishoil for its supposed health benefits and eating alot of seeds and nuts. Already had issues with white coating on my tongue/sensitive teeth and inflammed gums from here on. No doctor would take that as a potential problem so i tryed to ignore it. Around october 2018 i tryed to go vegan for some reason. Sticked with it until february 2019 (4 months) but had to stop. I lost around 6-8kg (from 76kg down to 68kg). Skin was extremly good but my hair got realy realy bad (weak hair all the time and needed to be washed within 1-2 days because it greased up insanely quickly) and my nails were just a big mess and weak with wierd black points on them. Doctor found low copper levels ... which was wierd since i ate alot of nuts and chocolate. Well tbh i ate raw nuts, seeds and oats on a daily basis for a long time ... i didn't know anything about phytic acid and enzyme inhibotors ... i also had a inflammed synovial bursa for 2 months.
Anyway, i tried to eat normally and got back into weightlifting during the summer 2019 since i wanted to be as strong as in the "old" days but hair, skin etc. wouldnt catchup from what i did with my veganism experiement. Also i wasn't able to digest tomtatoe/paprika skins nor nuts anymore ... i would find these things in my stool all the time. A smelly wet kind of bowel movement remained even half a year after reverting back to a "normal variety rich diet".
I also tried high dosage of a vitamin-b complex. My eyes went from a grey colour to a deep strong ocean blue ... like this actor ragnar in vikings has. Sadly this effect didnt remain. I also had to stop taking it because i felt bad taking the complex to often. It was an attempt to get rid of the tinnitus.
Somewhere during that summer i got stung by something while doing outdoor pullups at the nearby forrest. This was wierd as i got sick within 2 hours of the sting having an badly inflammaed throat. It was such a wierd experience that i went to the doctor immediately becaus something just felt off. She took bloodsamples, looked at the wound on my chest where i was stung and said its nothing.
Within each following week it got worse and worse and the wound on my chest wouldn't heal/be itchy all the time until it it went from a wound to a scar after 2 months.
The inflammed troath became cronic and would persist while also developing bad inflammaed elbow pain.
Elbow Pain eventually went away after 3 months ... the wierd thing was it was gone after a night of not sleeping and drinking way to much alcohol...
Big blood work at the hopsital, stool and urin sample aswell as a colonoscopy couldn't make me nor the doctors any smarter. Rheumatism or Lyme-disease where ideas but couldn't be proven either.
Went to a tcm doctor for a month which turned out to be a huge waste of money and time.
Went to a orthodontist specialist (since up to that point i was sure my tinnitus had something to do with my jaw) who experiemented a little with me while doing physiotherapie for my jaw/neck.
Also i went to a osteopathy practioner. All of these things were also a huge waste of time and money.
During this time of doctor marathons my tinnitus became hearable troughout the day.
I tried to ignore my issues. Get away from all the medical professionals who were as helpfull as the rock sitting in my backyard. Went on a company outing where i ran into the problem of not sleeping for 2 days and drinking far to much alcohol (well we had alot of fun tho ...) . All of that during a time of big emotional stress i had with this woman i fell in love with.
The 2 days not sleeping and drinking made the tinnitus so bad i couldn't overshadow it with music during broad daylight/ city traffic and i developed severe hyperacusic which made being near ventilators, bus fans, air conditioners, computer fans etc. a living nightmare to be around. Also my stomache was badly inflammed so a simple apple or banana would hurt realy bad and there was this constant chronic pain near the sternum where the lowest rip on the left side starts. I would also get intense tachyarrhythmia during the day and especially at night. Also i got realy bad issues with breathing and falling asleep, laying in bed for 2-3 hours each night.
I was at such a loss, my health derrotiated so badly i didnt know what to do anymore. Took time of work for 3 weeks but it didnt help. I was so weak and sickish while being tortured by the tinnitus/hyperacusic i couldnt manage to do a simple grocery shopping, nor could i work anymore.
In my desperation i ended up at this doctor who was a supposed specialist for lyme-disease. He didn't do any bloodwork nor anything ... he was a alternative guy who thought he could diagnose and treat people with frequency diagnostic. he would hold this thing up to your ears, measure frequencys while feeding you with homeopathic sugar balls. After he was done he told me i had 3 viruses, parasites, ms, lyme disease and a sexual transmittable disease. Ofcourse i thought he was crazy but finally someone who wanted to take some actual action. He set me on a 5 week antibiotic treatment and told me im not allowed to eat anything other than white rice with cooked veggies/cooked meat and maybe some proccessed white toast.
I lost most of my appetite, barely ate anything but this white rice dish. My Weight dropped down to 62 kg and i started to look slowly but surely like a holocoust victim. I went with this treatment until the end of January 2020. My inflammed stomache/throat got better but suddenly ... my hair started falling out realy bad while getting bad dandruff. 1-2 weeks later i get realy realy bad testicle pain for a week and my eyes would go realy bad suddenly having this visual snow like a overlay on my vision, being light sensitive, having nerve pain above my eyes and having realy bad issues with seeing sharp. Neither a ophthalmology doctor nor 2 other doctors at the hospital could find a reason for this (everythings fine apparantly ...)
In February i got so sick for 3 weeks (not sure if it was corona ... bad fever, throat inflamed, bad cough and feeling like a dead person)
From here on i decided its on me to figure this out and take my health into my on responsibility ...
Learning all i could about stress and applying breathing/meditation techniques. Started this Tinnitus retraining therapy on my own trough a self-help book which got rid almost completly of the hyperacusic. I also got rid off most of my tension in jaw/shoulder/neck by selfmassaging painful trigger points i seemed to have everywhere (they still flare up every other day tho).
While this was all good and well and i seemed to get better and better my hair and eyes wouldnt agree with me. A friend of mine recommended this health practioneer. He told me the basis of my problems are parasites (which he apparantly saw trough dark-field microscopy in my blood) and organs not working properly. He set me on this anti worm med pyrantel... and oh boy did it work. I couldn't sleep more than 2-3 hours for the next 3 days but my body was constantly warm (in a good comfy way) and i had energy, focus, selfconfidence, strong libido and felt like i could rip trees out with my bare hands. Tinnitus also was almost gone these days.
Sadly this feeling went away and repeated action with the same med or other worm meds didnt seem to help.
I started doing enemas with cdl recommended by this health practioneer ... and man it realy helps my energy and my libido but i can't seem to eat milk products anymore without this wierd annyoing aftertaste feeling in my mouth since 3 weeks. Also while hair and eyes seem to have days where they regrow/get better, i am now getting worse and worse these days again.
Considering everything i know and experienced most of my problems are somehow connected to my gut. Wether it realy is parasites, endotoxins, fungal/bacterial overgrow idk. But im almost sure it's one of thoose. If the thyriod or some other organ has issues, im still convinced its not the source of my problems. I also crave meat realy badly at the moment.
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So here i am. Avoiding pufas. eating bonebroth/glycine when i can (which feels so good to my stomache). OJ and more sugar/carbs which help my blood circulations. Taking walks. Doing breath/parasympathetic work.
Tryed raw carrot with coconut oil but that triggers sleepy/tiredness sometimes.
My Symptoms are worsening again ... so idk what my next course of action is going to be.
From everything ive read here im tempted to try the taurine/k2 mk4 thing mentioned here somewhere against tinnitus. On the other hand i feel like fixing my stomache first. Twohandsondeck or Amazoniacs posted Stomache fixex with fruit and antifungal/parasitic natural herb reguimes, which also intrigued me. Also i want to be able to eat milk products in good quantities again without white tongue coating /aftertaste feelings.
I'd realy love to hear your ideas. For the sake of offering everything ill try to take pictures of my hair, eye and skinn issues and maybe upload the big bloodwork done last year.
so i've been browsing/lurking here for 2-3 months now, soaking up so much information and i've finally decided to get into direct contact with the people here.
Perhaps it is selfish and egocentric for my first Post/Thread to be asking strangers to help me but from what i've percieved so far there are many helpful/knowledgable people not shy of using their wealth of information/experience to help a fellow guy to find his way to health.
I try to keep this as short as possible if i can but in case i'm not able to i will try to make a TLDR at the end.
My name is Ben. I'm 26 years old male, 1,80cm (5 feet 11 inches) tall, 63kg (138lbs) from Austria and im dealing with serious health issues for ca. 4 years now and can't seem to figure out what exactly the problem is.
Current Health Issues/Symptoms are:
- Tinnitus (the side, sound and intensity changes fairly often)
- Hyperacusis
- Shallow Breathing/ compromised volume to breath (feels like its blocked)
- Eyes Issue (visual snow, seeing sharp to far away objects is compromized, lights at night feel intense and im having difficulty reading electrical signs, also they are always bloodridden and under my eyes i kind of lost connective tissue/fat or something ... you can see all the veins under them ... looking sickish)
- Cold hands and feet (while being very heat sensitive at thoose areas)
- Numb arms while benchpressing
- Hair loss and weak Hair which gets greasy very quickly
- Dandruff on scalp, eyebrows, feet and foreskin
- Bad Nails
- Skin Issues (can't get brown from the sun anymore properly, having many of these bursted bloodvessels(?) under my sternum, also suddenly getting more and more moles, getting smal red dots which look like mini moles everywhere on the body ...hemangioma?)
- White strong coating on the tongue with spots left out (candita? inflammation?)
- Milk products causes me to have this wierd annyoing after taste/feeling all day long (never had issues with milk before)
- Heat/Cold sensitive teeth/inflammed gums almost everyday
- Upper stomache pain under the sternum where the lowest rip starts on the left side
- Jaw, neck and back muscles tense up randomly (no massage/physio helps)
- Sympathetic nervus system being to quick to activate (stress reaction to often, to quickly, to long)
So far Multi-Vitamin complexes, high dosage B-Vitamin Complexes, Omega 3 fish oil, OPC Supplement, Vitamin D and Vitamin B12, Magnesium, Bone Broth, Vitamin C+Zink, Mineral Supplement have been tested trough the last 1-2 years. I also went to so many doctors with them telling me essentially that i am a nutcase imagining things (as my symptoms are to broad and my bloodtest is not to much out of the ordinary)
I would like to write up my story here as i think its important to understand how or why im having these issues but this would get kinda long. Is there a option where i could put text in a box that can be opened/closed so people are not overwhelmed of this much text .... it is such a stupid long story...
I write it down here and format it later when i figure out how:
__________________________________________________________________________
My issues as a teenager has been low energy/fatigue, severe social anxiety and being very skinny despite eating like a madman.
I got into weight lifting at 18 and made realy good progress until i was 22-23 years old.
I had an injury from trying to learn muscle-ups (was kinda sick on that day too, no idea why i felt like workoing out), hurt my right shoulder and i am unable to do dips without pain nor can i benchpress without my arms getting numb (especially the forearm) ever since mid 2016. Also going into planking or lying down position i get a vein on my forehead popping out liky crazy and me feeling like my blood is stuck rushing to my head as if i was doing a handstand for to long, this kinda got better to this day but its still a thing sometimes. That vein thing happense also when im in a health comrpomised state or drink alcohol. Doctor couldnt think of a reason why i have these issues and physiotherapie only helped a little. Within 1,5 years i had severe symptoms of numb arms when i tryied to sleep on my back and also having realy bad lower back pain ... so bad infact i couldnt move often times at all. MRI of the spine couldn't tell us why either. Thank god the backpain and numbness issues went away ... kind of, sometimes it flares up.
Fast foreward to 2018: i got dental braces since i was unhappy with my teeth. Around a 1-2 months after that i started to get a tinnitus that wouldn't go away. I told the orthodontist to remove the braces since i was convinced it was causing the issue. 2-3 weeks without them didn't change a thing so we continued with the dental braces.
The tinnitus was only bothering me when i was lying down trying to sleep so it wasn't that bad but at that time it scared me and i could only sleep with music running in the background.
ENT specialist set me on a one week vitamin b complex which did nothing and after that on a 2-week Cortisone treatment. Didn't help either. I was sent to do a MRI from the skull. Nothing unusual found there either (tho the braces kinda interfered the image). One month after the tinnitus i lost my job.
2-3 Months later i found a new job but during that search time i was fairly depressed.
At my new job i started to get symptoms with my eyes but they would go away quickly so i wouldnt think much of it. I also felt like my immune system was just worse than what it should be. I would go sauna once a week but i couldn't endure it at all anymore. Going sauna would make me feel sickish for 2-3 days while nose, jaw, hands and feed would tingle insanely or go numb. That was already a sign that i should've payed attention to. but instead i decided ... no more saunas.
My PUFA consumption increased in the year 2018 dramaticly, trying out fishoil for its supposed health benefits and eating alot of seeds and nuts. Already had issues with white coating on my tongue/sensitive teeth and inflammed gums from here on. No doctor would take that as a potential problem so i tryed to ignore it. Around october 2018 i tryed to go vegan for some reason. Sticked with it until february 2019 (4 months) but had to stop. I lost around 6-8kg (from 76kg down to 68kg). Skin was extremly good but my hair got realy realy bad (weak hair all the time and needed to be washed within 1-2 days because it greased up insanely quickly) and my nails were just a big mess and weak with wierd black points on them. Doctor found low copper levels ... which was wierd since i ate alot of nuts and chocolate. Well tbh i ate raw nuts, seeds and oats on a daily basis for a long time ... i didn't know anything about phytic acid and enzyme inhibotors ... i also had a inflammed synovial bursa for 2 months.
Anyway, i tried to eat normally and got back into weightlifting during the summer 2019 since i wanted to be as strong as in the "old" days but hair, skin etc. wouldnt catchup from what i did with my veganism experiement. Also i wasn't able to digest tomtatoe/paprika skins nor nuts anymore ... i would find these things in my stool all the time. A smelly wet kind of bowel movement remained even half a year after reverting back to a "normal variety rich diet".
I also tried high dosage of a vitamin-b complex. My eyes went from a grey colour to a deep strong ocean blue ... like this actor ragnar in vikings has. Sadly this effect didnt remain. I also had to stop taking it because i felt bad taking the complex to often. It was an attempt to get rid of the tinnitus.
Somewhere during that summer i got stung by something while doing outdoor pullups at the nearby forrest. This was wierd as i got sick within 2 hours of the sting having an badly inflammaed throat. It was such a wierd experience that i went to the doctor immediately becaus something just felt off. She took bloodsamples, looked at the wound on my chest where i was stung and said its nothing.
Within each following week it got worse and worse and the wound on my chest wouldn't heal/be itchy all the time until it it went from a wound to a scar after 2 months.
The inflammed troath became cronic and would persist while also developing bad inflammaed elbow pain.
Elbow Pain eventually went away after 3 months ... the wierd thing was it was gone after a night of not sleeping and drinking way to much alcohol...
Big blood work at the hopsital, stool and urin sample aswell as a colonoscopy couldn't make me nor the doctors any smarter. Rheumatism or Lyme-disease where ideas but couldn't be proven either.
Went to a tcm doctor for a month which turned out to be a huge waste of money and time.
Went to a orthodontist specialist (since up to that point i was sure my tinnitus had something to do with my jaw) who experiemented a little with me while doing physiotherapie for my jaw/neck.
Also i went to a osteopathy practioner. All of these things were also a huge waste of time and money.
During this time of doctor marathons my tinnitus became hearable troughout the day.
I tried to ignore my issues. Get away from all the medical professionals who were as helpfull as the rock sitting in my backyard. Went on a company outing where i ran into the problem of not sleeping for 2 days and drinking far to much alcohol (well we had alot of fun tho ...) . All of that during a time of big emotional stress i had with this woman i fell in love with.
The 2 days not sleeping and drinking made the tinnitus so bad i couldn't overshadow it with music during broad daylight/ city traffic and i developed severe hyperacusic which made being near ventilators, bus fans, air conditioners, computer fans etc. a living nightmare to be around. Also my stomache was badly inflammed so a simple apple or banana would hurt realy bad and there was this constant chronic pain near the sternum where the lowest rip on the left side starts. I would also get intense tachyarrhythmia during the day and especially at night. Also i got realy bad issues with breathing and falling asleep, laying in bed for 2-3 hours each night.
I was at such a loss, my health derrotiated so badly i didnt know what to do anymore. Took time of work for 3 weeks but it didnt help. I was so weak and sickish while being tortured by the tinnitus/hyperacusic i couldnt manage to do a simple grocery shopping, nor could i work anymore.
In my desperation i ended up at this doctor who was a supposed specialist for lyme-disease. He didn't do any bloodwork nor anything ... he was a alternative guy who thought he could diagnose and treat people with frequency diagnostic. he would hold this thing up to your ears, measure frequencys while feeding you with homeopathic sugar balls. After he was done he told me i had 3 viruses, parasites, ms, lyme disease and a sexual transmittable disease. Ofcourse i thought he was crazy but finally someone who wanted to take some actual action. He set me on a 5 week antibiotic treatment and told me im not allowed to eat anything other than white rice with cooked veggies/cooked meat and maybe some proccessed white toast.
I lost most of my appetite, barely ate anything but this white rice dish. My Weight dropped down to 62 kg and i started to look slowly but surely like a holocoust victim. I went with this treatment until the end of January 2020. My inflammed stomache/throat got better but suddenly ... my hair started falling out realy bad while getting bad dandruff. 1-2 weeks later i get realy realy bad testicle pain for a week and my eyes would go realy bad suddenly having this visual snow like a overlay on my vision, being light sensitive, having nerve pain above my eyes and having realy bad issues with seeing sharp. Neither a ophthalmology doctor nor 2 other doctors at the hospital could find a reason for this (everythings fine apparantly ...)
In February i got so sick for 3 weeks (not sure if it was corona ... bad fever, throat inflamed, bad cough and feeling like a dead person)
From here on i decided its on me to figure this out and take my health into my on responsibility ...
Learning all i could about stress and applying breathing/meditation techniques. Started this Tinnitus retraining therapy on my own trough a self-help book which got rid almost completly of the hyperacusic. I also got rid off most of my tension in jaw/shoulder/neck by selfmassaging painful trigger points i seemed to have everywhere (they still flare up every other day tho).
While this was all good and well and i seemed to get better and better my hair and eyes wouldnt agree with me. A friend of mine recommended this health practioneer. He told me the basis of my problems are parasites (which he apparantly saw trough dark-field microscopy in my blood) and organs not working properly. He set me on this anti worm med pyrantel... and oh boy did it work. I couldn't sleep more than 2-3 hours for the next 3 days but my body was constantly warm (in a good comfy way) and i had energy, focus, selfconfidence, strong libido and felt like i could rip trees out with my bare hands. Tinnitus also was almost gone these days.
Sadly this feeling went away and repeated action with the same med or other worm meds didnt seem to help.
I started doing enemas with cdl recommended by this health practioneer ... and man it realy helps my energy and my libido but i can't seem to eat milk products anymore without this wierd annyoing aftertaste feeling in my mouth since 3 weeks. Also while hair and eyes seem to have days where they regrow/get better, i am now getting worse and worse these days again.
Considering everything i know and experienced most of my problems are somehow connected to my gut. Wether it realy is parasites, endotoxins, fungal/bacterial overgrow idk. But im almost sure it's one of thoose. If the thyriod or some other organ has issues, im still convinced its not the source of my problems. I also crave meat realy badly at the moment.
__________________________________________________________________________
So here i am. Avoiding pufas. eating bonebroth/glycine when i can (which feels so good to my stomache). OJ and more sugar/carbs which help my blood circulations. Taking walks. Doing breath/parasympathetic work.
Tryed raw carrot with coconut oil but that triggers sleepy/tiredness sometimes.
My Symptoms are worsening again ... so idk what my next course of action is going to be.
From everything ive read here im tempted to try the taurine/k2 mk4 thing mentioned here somewhere against tinnitus. On the other hand i feel like fixing my stomache first. Twohandsondeck or Amazoniacs posted Stomache fixex with fruit and antifungal/parasitic natural herb reguimes, which also intrigued me. Also i want to be able to eat milk products in good quantities again without white tongue coating /aftertaste feelings.
I'd realy love to hear your ideas. For the sake of offering everything ill try to take pictures of my hair, eye and skinn issues and maybe upload the big bloodwork done last year.