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Metformin with ME
Metformin has been used in Long Covid and ME with some promising results. Metformin can be: However it may also With Ginseng / Red Ginseng / Padox Ginseng “Using metFORMIN together with ginseng may have additive effects on your blood sugar. You may need more frequent monitoring of your blood sugar to safely use both… Continue reading
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Vasoconstriction vs Vasodilation
My notes to make sense of what is vasodilating and what is vasoconstricting. It’s not as simple as needing one or the other as my ME body seems to have problems with both. Continue reading
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Cholergenic System – Notes
My notes to try and make sense of what helps the cholergenic system and what depletes it. Because I feel like it’s a balancing act rather than trying to make it do more or less. Anticholinesterase: prolong the existence of acetylcholine after it is released ANTICHOLINERGICThings that degrade or lower acetylcholine:Horsetail (also diuretic)Corn silkBarberry/berberine AmitriptylineDiphenhydramineKetofinProchlorperazineBenzosPseudoephedrine… Continue reading
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Disorders of ion channels (channelopathies) – Calcium Channel disfunction?
Compiling reading and research on whether Channelopathies are underscoring or playing a role in ME/CFS Saw a pwME saying they had made major recovery using LDN every 2-4hrs as a way to open Calcium Ion Channels and also adding in caffeine which acts on a different Calcium Channel. Very interesting idea to me. I did… Continue reading
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My Abdominal Pain
I’ve had abdominal pain since around 2016 when my gallbladder flared to epic pukey proportions of contraction and disease. I saw the GP and a Gastro about continued pain around my upper gallbladder incisions after surgery. Nerve pain was suggested. At the same time I wasn’t able to wear anything around my waist and haven’t… Continue reading
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Nicotine Therapy overnight – 16hr vs 24hr
When on 7mg/24hr patches I pushed through sleep disruption caused by the patches and while my nicotine disturbed sleep improved each day it was still pretty terrible. It also hasn’t recovered after 4+ weeks. Some of that though is a shift in my body systems since nicotine. So I am considering using 16hr patches and… Continue reading
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