Hello! Can anyone help me understand why Zinc Carnosine makes me SO tired? The “I can’t keep my brain/eyes turned on. im getting anxious” type of tired. My mother is also taking this but she does not experience fatigue. My body has been through the wringer. I had major blood loss (lady issues) for several years and the treatments used to try to stop this bleeding have destroyed my liver/gut. My body has been ravage by Candida/SIBO ever since i went through benzo withdrawals 8 years ago. I never healed and then subsequent treatments for this bleeding made gut worse. So i stumbled upon what made my bleeding stop. Apple cider vinegar (anything acidic) and Allimax. Anything I consume that is too alkalizing for my stomach/gut causes me to bleed like a faucet. That tells me I have very very low stomach acids or my liver/gallbladder is not working properly. Without this acid, whatever sinister bacteria I have in my gut cannot be kept in check. I also don’t poop often. Problem with trying to fix this is that dealing with malabsorption, my stomach lining is very weak and anything acidic irritates it. Fast forward to yesterday trying zinc carnosine, it made me so fatigued I was on the verge of a panic attack. However i had the first ever sleep without using melatonin (Even this was ineffective) or anything ! U cannot imagine the long-term insomnia benzo withdrawals cause. I slept but woke up groggy with a stuffy head. So what is happening? Can my liver not process the extra zinc? Am I too low in all other vitamins/minerals? Would the loss of all the blood cause zinc to have a profound effect on iron? I cant heal my gut without first healing the lining. I'm also taking a multi-vitamin and alternating with a trace mineral supplement to hopefully keep the zinc/copper ratio in balance. Thanks for reading.
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