Sam321
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I suspected endotoxin so I ended up using penicillin 250mg 3x a day to see if that was the issue.
First 3 days on penicillin my sleep improved and my quality of life greatly improved. I backed off on antibiotic then and took a couple smaller doses before stopping. But when I did this I experienced extreme indigestion, bloating, and even soreness/hotness around my abdomen. I had a hard time sleeping and I just felt like trash.
I figured that I hadn't finished my round of penicillin and really gnarly bacteria grew back with a vengeance. So I continued the full course of penicillin for 11 more days at 250mg 3 times a day. My sleep came back a little bit but wasn't really as good as it was the first couple days but it seemed to be therapeutic in attacking whatever was going on in my guts allowing me to sleep pretty good.
The trouble is when I stopped the antibiotic again I experienced severe bloating, indigestion, as I pooped like 5 times that day and night after being constipated. I couldn't sleep 1 full night and the day after that I was just wrecked. I got a couple hours sleep here and there and started megaspore probiotic to try to offset the potential damage I did to my gut. This doesn't seem to be working as I have had a heart beat in the 100-145bpm range about 3 days now and have only gotten about 8 hours of sleep. I feel like I'm dying as whenever I lay down to sleep my heart pounds out of my chest.
I seriously need some help here guys. I'm not sure what to do. My heart rates inability to calm down is incredibly worrisome and I can't go on without sleep like this and the symptoms aren't subsiding. My heart rate is still out of control and I'm writing this 2 hours into sleep having woken up with 120 bpm heart rate.
I'm completely exhausted and some things that seem to pull my heart rate down a little is basically salt and only salt.
I went to the doctor and she put me on ekg and everything looks fine. She is putting me on a sleep monitor soon too to watch my heart. But that doesn't solve my lack of sleep that is killing me. Does this sound familiar to anyone? Any ideas on moving forward?
It feels like I am dealing with either my intestines were injured due to antibiotic over use or I have an antibiotic resistant strain in my gut. Or both. I'm not sure if the elevated heart rate isndue to exhaustion or endo toxin. I'm wary of taking more antibiotics to try to remedy the issue, but if it helps me sleep so be it.
I've also ordered methylene blue that will be here in 3 days and have been taking asprin.
Possible E. Dificile? Haaaalp.
First 3 days on penicillin my sleep improved and my quality of life greatly improved. I backed off on antibiotic then and took a couple smaller doses before stopping. But when I did this I experienced extreme indigestion, bloating, and even soreness/hotness around my abdomen. I had a hard time sleeping and I just felt like trash.
I figured that I hadn't finished my round of penicillin and really gnarly bacteria grew back with a vengeance. So I continued the full course of penicillin for 11 more days at 250mg 3 times a day. My sleep came back a little bit but wasn't really as good as it was the first couple days but it seemed to be therapeutic in attacking whatever was going on in my guts allowing me to sleep pretty good.
The trouble is when I stopped the antibiotic again I experienced severe bloating, indigestion, as I pooped like 5 times that day and night after being constipated. I couldn't sleep 1 full night and the day after that I was just wrecked. I got a couple hours sleep here and there and started megaspore probiotic to try to offset the potential damage I did to my gut. This doesn't seem to be working as I have had a heart beat in the 100-145bpm range about 3 days now and have only gotten about 8 hours of sleep. I feel like I'm dying as whenever I lay down to sleep my heart pounds out of my chest.
I seriously need some help here guys. I'm not sure what to do. My heart rates inability to calm down is incredibly worrisome and I can't go on without sleep like this and the symptoms aren't subsiding. My heart rate is still out of control and I'm writing this 2 hours into sleep having woken up with 120 bpm heart rate.
I'm completely exhausted and some things that seem to pull my heart rate down a little is basically salt and only salt.
I went to the doctor and she put me on ekg and everything looks fine. She is putting me on a sleep monitor soon too to watch my heart. But that doesn't solve my lack of sleep that is killing me. Does this sound familiar to anyone? Any ideas on moving forward?
It feels like I am dealing with either my intestines were injured due to antibiotic over use or I have an antibiotic resistant strain in my gut. Or both. I'm not sure if the elevated heart rate isndue to exhaustion or endo toxin. I'm wary of taking more antibiotics to try to remedy the issue, but if it helps me sleep so be it.
I've also ordered methylene blue that will be here in 3 days and have been taking asprin.
Possible E. Dificile? Haaaalp.