Got my period! 01/09/2020

I got my period totally out of the blue, after the worrrrsssttt year ever.
I had been wishing to get it, it's been on the back of my mind a lot I guess. I kept taking Loestrin Lo birth control in the hopes that I would get my period and that would trigger me to get them.  That never worked, lol.

But anyways, I got my period completely out of the fricking blue.  Some constant cramping, not a big deal.  Will probably be over soon.  Very exciting for me.

I personally think it's due to taking Kratom, and/or Magnesium, and/or Cymbalta 60 mg, and/d or B complex plus the other supplements I've been taking.  They've been mostly nutrients, they have been like those fertility supplements. I've been on the Cymbalta for two months, went from 20 to 60 mg.

We'll see what happens, if I get it again.  Will February 10th bring another cycle??  Gawd, I hope so.

I suppose its a bit ironic, I haven't been exercising AT ALL.  I mean absolutely none, whatsoever, so sweating, and apparently I was still able to get a period.

June 2019

This is becoming just the most insane, health-issues - laden year of my life.  I thought last year was terrible when I kept going into and out of Cymbalta withdrawals.  But now this is even worse.

Well, we don't know what is going on.  My abdominal ultrasound was normal.  My bloodwork was normal.

I have variously thought it was: gallstones, gallbladder cancer, stomach cancer, NET tumor, ulcers, Leukodystrophy, Creutzfeldt-Jakob prion disease, Brain cancer, dysautonomia, Ehlers-Danlos, mitochondrial disease shutting down my stomach and muscles, porphyria, etc etc


I don't know!  I have alot of abdominal pain, but I also have a lot of everywhere pain.

Problems:
I get sick when I eat.
I feel dizzy.
I feel ALOT of pain- pain in different places,
I feel EXCESSIVELY weak.  I have never even imagined the sort of weakness that I feel now, on a daily basis.
Extreme pain and tiredness with eating.
I am very food picky- most everything makes me sick.

Sonya asked what my body pain could have to do with Dad's cancer.  UGHHHH  Why am I even seeing a psychiatrist.  lol.

What's unclear to me, is - is that Gastroparesis (inability to eat), or is this an ulcer (pain from a sore or multiple sores, within the intestines), or just some weird thing that I have never heard of, or literally cancer.  Did I ever have porphyria, or did I just get sick with something?

Lev says that he's sick too- but he's such a stress case.. who knows if he isn't just stressing out about work 24/7.

Uggh I feel sick.

Dr. Berg says that ulcer treatment is: DGL (licorice), zinc-carnosine, cabbage juice (yay!), chlorophyll meaning veggie greens (which of course made me sick).

I suppose I could just try to live, not fix it, and the more symptoms that come up, the more I will be on my way to a (deadly) diagnosis..


I went to the ER twice in the last two weeks.  The first time I was beside myself with having had all these MUSCLE problems over the last two weeks, and had basically felt really sick and unwell and gone into mom's room and said I didn't feel okay.  The second time, luckily dad took me and the place was FREEZING.  It took 4 and a half hours to be seen, I think.  I declined blood tests, because they are always normal.  They didn't tell me to change clothes or to put in an IV.

This attack is ending..

I have felt a little better over the last few days.

A little bit and a little bit more today.

Started:
05/25/19
Ending:
06/12/19

What was the trigger?
I have no idea, although it did seem to worsen pretty significantly when I drank alcohol, only one of the times.

EDIT:  It did not end.  Like 3 minutes after I wrote this, I ate some food, and, boom- triggered for an hour now already.

No Diagnosis -- but such severity of issues - am I dying?

Told Kyla that I am dying (so I think).  She said no, you can't not while I'm alive... lol what a stupid response.  But at least I got that out of the way so that she can know why I am not responding to text and stuff, that was a worry of mine.

Lord, I am quite a worried child, am I not?  Why can't I just be free to say whatever I want and feel what I want, express what I want, (dislike what I want!)

Anyways, I basically can't stand, can't lift, can't eat, can't sleep.  My mind (body) just goes crazy at night- all alone with SO many issues that are hurting and taking up my attention.  

I'm scared that I'm going to get a bowel obstruction.  This past week, I've only gone number two ... twice, and they both were really hard pellets, that I just simply couldn't evacuate from my body.

more thoughts about my health problems which are really bad

I don't know what is going on!  I don't know if this is a leaky gut injecting things into my body, Lyme's disease, cancer (bone cancer, brain cancer, anything else that is causing a paraneoplastic syndrome..)
I don't know! I am having so many neurological symptoms- spasms in my muscles (that thing where the intercostal muscles were so tight! That was crazy).  Dizzy/shaky/wooshing in ears, weakness, tightness, tiredness, vomiting.

I'm also having frequent changes in mood - terribly anxious, then fine, then just miserably sad, then just kind of out of it and without feeling.

Then there's - is it a nutritional thing? Lack of a micronutrient, due to gastroparesis and/or leaky gut.


I must not concern myself with what is going on in my body, since I never seem to come up with any good answers.  But the worse the pain gets, the more it has me going online, which is ugh.

If it was a micronutrient deficiency, would it cause these exact symptoms?  I don't know but seems like perhaps not.  Although the Vit C deficiency thing is interesting, I guess.

So I was going on and on about histamine  But, I suppose that its

Who shall help me?

This is scary!  scary scary scary.

April 2019 how I'm doing

So- here I am, 4 months into the new year
Here's generally what has been going on

- My body pain is really, really bad.  I basically just can't walk or hold myself up at all.  I don't even feel like I used to feel, which is I used to have the energy to get out and do stuff, but back pain kind of stopped me.  Now I don't even have the energy to go out and do stuff.

-One thing that's changed with the increase in pain (which FYI I believe is due to Cymbalta issues),is I can't sit anymore!  Sitting hurts my entire back, not just my low back, to a degree beyond what it used to.  Also, my legs just don't work either, due to how tight they are.

- I was on Gabapentin this year, and went from initial taking 1mg (1 milligram!!) to taking 600 mg 3x a day, because it felt so good.  Fast forward a month, and things were getting weird.  Like I was having these sensations where I'd be really tight in between my 6 hours doses, then the dose would totally relieve it and feel great! But only for a little bit.  Then fast forward another few months and I was getting serious, terribly painful feeling in my mid back at night- my whole back sort of seizing with tightness.  It was definitely a symptom of Gabapentin, nothing else had changed.

- I wondered how I'd even withdraw from Gabapentin- was it even possible? Because I was essentially having such extreme withdrawal type symptoms IN BETWEEN DOSES.  What would I do without the next dose?
I do remember having the most extreme, severe headache I could ever imagine, when I dropped my first dose of Gabapentin.  I was dropping doses in thirds.  Then the rest of the week was okay.  Then the next week all went to hell- nausea, nausea, I don't remember what else honestly except that I felt really bad.  I spent months in so much pain that I was in bed, almost all day.  I couldn't even go to the animal shelter because walking hurt too much.  Sometimes I'd have this feeling like my muscles would get really rigid or tight, and it would feel like I was being squeezed by a boa constrictor from my own body.  It was HORRIBLE.
Also, an interesting thing to note is that, when I was getting to the end of my Gabapentin taper, I started taking it at half doses- like half of a 300 mg pill.  That was miserable.  It was like my body blew through it in a minute and then went into withdrawal again right after.  It was really scary too.

- I basically spend so much time in bed, and my head/mind just didn't feel right. I didn't feel like I could think.
- So I went on Cymbalta in November 2018 to "help me with this", because I can't make it through this withdrawal.  Well, it just didn't get better.  My pain levels continued to be really high, I wasn't doing much of anything, (internet browsing a lot at home but that's about all), and my head still didn't feel right.

So- I started TMS at SoCal TMS, since A) I was already thinking of doing it and B) I just literally couldn't improve after my Gabapentin withdrawal, so I felt that I really needed a big time solution.

TMS was crazy.  I got tons of pain in my whole body, and excessively tired.  It was dramatically bad. I barely got to session number 12, and then finally I was going to quit.  My insurance paid for 38 sessions (7 weeks plus a few).  I wanted to try it, I wanted it to make me better...

So, I started telling them that they HAD to keep the level down, or I'd quit.  Which they did.  No problem. They couldn't have done that all along? lol. Then I was switched to right sided only, which I tolerated somewhat better, but no change in my mood or anything.


So finally- I didn't KNOW this, but turns out, that that head sensation and lethargy were due to Cymbalta, as well as to Gabapentin withdrawal.  Because lo and behold, once I changed that 20 mg dose to 30 mg dose, the fatigue just left.  Same day.  But then I started having more problems with it. Nausea, it was becoming more apparent that I was having nausea after taking my dose, which I had again been thinking was due to my Gabapentin withdrawal problem.
So- 30 mg isn't good for me, either.  It helped for a few days, I was feeling much more like myself, thank goodness.  But then I realized that it just doesn't seem to be lasting a whole day.  I don't know why.  It doesn't make much sense.  Its like it was lasting half a day, giving me energy but also bad nausea.

As soon as I made that (actually fairly small) switch from 20 to 25 mg Cymbalta, boom, I tolerated TMS fine- no side effects no problems.  Even the treatments weren't a huge problem, although I still got neck spasm many times. We went up to 120% for the remaining sessions left which was two and a half weeks, both left and right sided, versus earlier I'd been at around 80% and barely tolerating it.

I ended up doing an entire 42 sessions of TMS. That's a lot! I've felt absolutely nothing good from it whatsoever, though, now that I'm done with treatment.  Theoretically, that could be because I didn't get a full 25-40 sessions at therapeutic value of 120%, but still, you would've hoped I'd feel something, even small.

So anyhoo, I'm now going to quit Cymbalta, after having been on it for 6 months (holy shit!).  That's by FAR the longest i've ever been on an antidepressant, and it didn't work whatsoever.  Think my overthinking was a BIT better than usual, but not enough to be like, hey I feel fine.  And my general pain and lethargy were so bad, all day every day.

So that's interesting.  20 mg Cymbalta - a low dose, was really fucking with me.  Never would have guessed it, since I remembered having tolerated it fine.

I can't wait to get off it fully and feel more like myself!  A little more energy, a little less pain (well- that part is IRONIC- given that my NORMAL pain levels cause me to be so unhappy).  But I can't wait to get back to THAT.

I got my period!

began 04/18/19

honestly it was just completely out of the blue!

I've been in the worst pain of my life for the last 6 months - from the Gabapentin withdrawal nightmare to the long-term Cymbalta nightmare, so I have no reason to be doing well enough to have gotten my period. lol

But anyways- here's my theories:
1) I took Fluconazole two weeks ago ..  this is definitely possible; I had gotten my period before, shortly after taking fluconazole.  BUT last year I took Fluconazole so many times, and didn't get that many periods, although I did get 4 periods last year, which is enormous for me.  so ?

2) all these peppermint oil (includes thyme oil) supplements- Heather's Tummy Tamers.  Doesn't really seem like the reason, but I saw online that thyme oil will 'regulate your hormones'

3) just because of taking Cymbalta long term.  Doesn't really seem right, since I was on it for 5 months, so A) it could have happened faster and B) I was on Cymbalta other times and didn't get it
But it IS possible, since being on Cymbalta long-term, I haven't had such intense overthinking like normal, and that seems to have something to do with my neurotransmitter levels.  IE- a few times when I had good results from antidepressants, I did get my period

Btw, it did give me the insight, that all that time I wondered how I got my period with doctor Olsen- was it the 5 months of gluten-free, the Takesumi- now I think it was the Prolent/Lentra.  So, I'm totally down to try Prolent/Lentra again, although wow is that stuff expensive or what.

4) I actually think it was the Fluconazole, just due to the timing.  Maybe I should take Fluconazole once a month and just make it a habit.  I can take it when I give Carly her dog meds, LOL.

5) I've been drinking cranberry juice recently, I dunno, who knows

6) I've also been eating a lot of cheese just recently, actually just one specific kind- the Pepperjack Cheese from the Cracker Barrel (tastes really good! I like how thick the pieces are!  I eat that shit like candy)
.. interesting, I just looked at my last period bio, and - I had eaten more cheese that time around, too.

Is it possible that I have a stomach parasite?

My dreams were completely crazy last month around the full moon.
I was wondering it since my stomach has been so messed up, and the trouble with bowel movements making me so sick.  Now, I know that its Gabapentin Withdrawal that is causing the stomach problems, since that clearly happened after I lowered my dose.  And, I ceased to remember that, while I was obsessing about possibly having a parasite.

But it IS kind of interesting.  My dreams were so crazy- up all night, then crazy dreams the week up to and on the full moon.  It ceased, but I started TMS, so that's a whole other factor.

But now..  the full moon will come again in two weeks, so I am curious to see my response to it or not.

edits below:

How I'm doing on Lyrica / Gabapentin taper

I did quit Gabapentin entirely and went through a week of basically soul-crushing 'hardness' in my entire body.  It was as if a liquid went through me and then turned solid in my veins and muscles.  I was also really, abominably cold.  Like, didn't show my legs for a week straight because I needed clothing to cover them due to cold.  But also terribly hypersensitive to the feeling of clothing, so I basically only wore yoga pants.

Then I went on Lyrica.  It did make me feel like my muscles relaxed.  Although it was like a two-step thing.  I would feel it when I took it (the 25 mg), and it would make me feel something in my forehead and get really tired and kind of dizzy in my thinking.  That  lasted a while - like a few hours.  Then as that slowly subsided over several hours, I got more and more normal feeling. - less body pain, and less forehead pain.  However, My whole body was still incredibly tight due to how I felt after just having weaned off Gabapentin, and that did not go away.  So it was like having less pain on top of tons of pain.  I was wondering why I felt like that but I understand it now.  If I had taken Lyrica without all that excessive tightness from Gabapentin withdrawal it probably would have been better.

Anyways, I went from taking 25 mg Lyrica to 12.5 because of the dizzy tiredness.  I did not get the dizzy tiredness at 12.5  At first it seemed successful on my first dose, then, and perhaps I had poured out more than the time before, I just didn't feel it hardly at all.  Then I got withdrawal symptoms on that smaller dose, and thought, "NAH", and stopped taking it.

So, what occurred after that was interesting withdrawal symptoms- my body got kind of crazy feeling, then subsequently all hard (bad), then the ER thing happened for about a day where my thoughts were kind of flying, and my body STOPPED HURTING.  Then I woke up and felt normal, which for me is calm and back pain.  Which I haven't felt like in a month.  So the withdrawal may be coming to an end.  I'll miss you, ER stuff.  I'll miss how my body didn't hurt.


So, there is a middle ground.  I could have taken around 20 mg.  I think the issue is that it needs to last long enough to completely overlap with the next dose; it can't leave any wiggle room in between the doses.  That is a bit tough for me to figure out because at the 25 mg twice a day dose, I get too tired in the beginning.  (Although I did feel nice and calm for so many hours after that!).  So it's a crapshoot.  And I probably won't ever want to take it for the rest of my life and get addicted to it.

How I'm doing on Lyrica/ Gabapentin taper

I'm doing terrible, I'm unhappy, I'm in ALOT of pain which is not letting me go out and drive or do anything to speak of.  Although I have been to synagogue, it really hurts my neck and I can't stand during the standing prayers.

Okay so here's what happened:  I went to the rheumatologist and got prescribed Lyrica.  I was supposed to taper from Gabapentin at 300 mg every few days.

When I started the taper, I was surprised that my daily waking up in back muscle spasms stopped happening.  I had a few instances of side effects - headaches, but not too much.  It seemed like I was just in a generally huge amount of pain.  My muscles were all tight, I wasn't doing much besides staying home and occasionally walking Carly to get out of the house.  Its hard to explain - I was in more pain, but I was in less distressing muscle cramping.  So I thought I was doing fairly well, all things considered, as compared to how awful and horrible I was expecting.

But then a couple weeks in the stomach stuff really started.  Those fast bowel movements, light colored, and full of gas.  The gas wouldn't go away and it got terrible after a shit.  It was really weird. I'd wake up okay, but then as soon as I ate and had a BM, I'd be in pain for hours and hours.

I tried a slew of antacids over the counter, all of which didn't work for more than a minute.  I tried: Mylanta, milk of magnesia, TUMS, and Pepsid AC.  I had a funny week of trying them and feeling various muscle releasing (for just a few moments), which made me wonder if my muscle pain has something to do with stomach gas?  I mean what?  Why else would it cause that?  But on the whole, I couldn't figure out what was happening.  It didn't go away.  I went on Omeprazole, have been on it for 5 days.

Still taking Cymbalta.

Now as far as LYRICA:

I tried Lyrica once- 25 mg, and felt kind of helter-skelter pain relief.  I tried it because I was in so much pain from Gabapentin withdrawal, but didn't want to take more Gabapentin since I want to taper off it.  I tried it sincerely due to needing pain relief.  I am in more pain than I can tolerate.  Like I can't think or anything in this much pain.  I would if I had to, but its really horrible and I can't move and I can't be happy and I hate my life and should I kill myself, I don't know..?  etc.

I also tried 50 mg and that worked really well, gave me lots of pain relief.  I actually just laid down in bed and ended up napping a few hours. 

So Lyrica is giving me withdrawal symptoms too! After its initial pain relief- and boy do my muscles relax thank god.  Its like a feeling I don't even recognize, but it feels so right.  But anyways, with Lyrica, the pain relief has been sporadic - place to place to place, not all over.  Not only that, but it causes lots of cramping, at the same time as the pain relief.  And then yesterday, I took 50 mg, and got all wierd and pain relief, but,  when I slept i just woke up in pain with spasming muscles.  FUCK ME is how I feel.

What the fuck to do?  When I go off my meds, I get the stomach problem that doesn't go away, and gets worse with time.  And pain.  Which of course I need the meds to help with.  Dear god.  

I am so fuckign frustrated.  I hate that these meds cause me so much pain and cause me to feel like I am in a spiral of increased pain that i am never going to get out of. 

How I'm doing as of 12/18 on Gabapentin

I am on the max dose of Gabapentin - 600 mg, 3x/day.
So far I like Gabapentin, however I'm confused by my pain really hurting me a lot still (can't stretch, can't walk much), and by it working better and worse.  It doesn't give me any side effects, which is good.  I'm also on 20 mg Cymbalta, since November.

Every time I take Gabapentin, I need it.  That is, I am tight and sore and in pain and, I tend to expect that Gabapentin will make it better, which it often dos.  Sometimes, I really feel a period of pain relief, when I am lying down and ahh- all those spasming (cramping, pulling, tight) muscles relax. Its funny because I try to get them to relax all day by doing stretches/purposeful releasing, and yet its not until Gabapentin that I actually feel - oh, THATS how its supposed to feel.
I often wake up with a ton of spasms throughout my back that just get worse the longer I go without Gabapentin.

However, I don't feel that much better for very long.  And seriously, even though better is much better than spasming (much, much much much better than spasming, it makes me feel terrible), its not very good!  I'm starting to go crazy thinking that this is my quality of life- waiting for my meds to work, then going back into pain, and all the while not being able to run or stretch my hamstrings.

However also, of note- my experience is that Gabapentin works better when I combine it with Vicodin (from the ER)- which is 5-325 acetaminophen-hydrocodone, which I take just a half tablet at a time.  I really notice a difference.

Also of note-I had a few times where I took Gabapentin a little too close together.  What happened was really surprising.  I had a period where I was like thinking-thinking-thinking-thinking, my thinking was just off the wall crazy and I felt anxious.  But then when that subsided on its own, I became extremely at peace and "here" and could socialize with less problems than usual.  (as in, at the synagogue, and that one time at the pizza place after my neurologist appt)

So with those things in mind- I am going to try Lyrica.  While I do obviously expect it to help, that is why I am taking it, it likely won't help me in the incredible way that the anti fungal did, where my body started relaxing big time, not just a moderate decrease is spasms, but actually my muscles breaking open and letting go.  So... its probably not going to cure me, you know?




How I'm doing on Lo-Loestrin -- I had the least bleeding period ever, had absolutely no need for a tampon.  However, I felt that my blood really really smelled, stunk, and that was kind of gross.

Another incidence of the ER thing; but it was a short one

I felt the pumping feeling, after having gotten muscle spasms in my neck and jaw.

It wasn't a bad one, it only lasted an hour.  The pumping/rushing feeling actually felt good.. pain relief.

The very last thing I had eaten was a box of raspberries and a sip of wine.

Didn't get my period on 09/22

Didn't get it, it would have been a month from the last time.

So I took Brintellix and we will see what happens, if I get it again.  I took Brintellix 10 mg for 3 days only.  I had bad dreams but I also think I was having bad dreams before it too.

So-- update in a couple weeks..
I hope I get it!  It makes me happy.

Times I went to Moishe House (and thus had alcohol)

The first date, I'm not sure. Possibly: May 8

The following dates:
July 20
Aug 17 (I think I skipped this one when I was feeling really bad with symptoms..)
Sept 15

edited: nah, I tried some more wine but it didn't bring on any symptoms.  hmph.

Another incidence of the muscle spasms /wierd ER head thing

Began 09/16.
To go into a few details:

I was constipated beginning 09/15.  It was odd but I didn't think much of it.
Day of 09/16 - Was doing perfectly fine.  Took codeine along with Neurontin, something I had tried out the last two days.  Around 4 pm, got really nauseus, threw up, and then also had all this pain relief throughout my body, but sick feeling.  Figured that it was due to the Codeine, a side effect of Codeine is nausea, but I had taken Codeine the day before and not had nausea.
Head started really hurting, enough that I was vocally going 'ahh, ahh', and staying out of light from the TV.  I was nauseus.  I forced myself to eat a chocolate bar and I felt better a few hours later and went to sleep.  I woke up at 6AM which is strange for me.

Currently- getting muscle spasms, ow!  Not very nauseus, but a little.  Definitely not getting that rushing feeling which is also pain-relieving.

I'm getting tested for Variegate Porphyria today.. hope to heck that it IS so that I can get a diagnosis!.

If not, then WHY AM I GETTING MUSCLE SPASMS INTERMITTENTLY 


edit: I am not on birth control so its not that.  I didn't change my meds significantly.. I did try codeine, could that have been the culprit?  But, I didn't have codeine the other two times it happened this year.

EDIT: Test for Porphyrins was negative, so its not Porphyria :(

Got my period! 08/25/18

Completely out of the blue.

Here's what I've been doing that might have caused it-- trying to put it together, like always.. :(

Tried a Fluconazole recently; 4 days before period
Took Trintellix with Fluconazole for two days - 10 mg, then 20 mg
Have been taking 'the supplement' -  N-acetyl cysteine
recently started eating more fat in the form of cheese and dairy

my guess is the Trintellix (Brintellix), because that is what caused my period last year that was kind of surprising, although I had also been taking Fluconazole then so that is unclear!

Part III testing- a few inhibitory items and others

Others: 

Date: 09/08/18

Food Item:  Epicatechin; don't know the dose

Time Ingested: [  ]

     Reaction No. 1:  [ good reaction, felt like some of my muscles stopped being held tight, so that was interesting]

Date:  09/08/18

Food Item:  Diatomaceous Earth, silica

     Reaction No. 1:  [ no bad reaction to taste or in body.  Good reaction- Felt some muscle releasing, not sure if it was due to the diatomaceous earth or because I had recently ingested nortriptyline.  Would be good to know the difference and keep in mind.. ]
     What time did it end? [lasted a few min]

    

Date: 09/07/18

Food Item:  Potassium choline

Time Ingested: [  ]

     Reaction No. 1:  [  tasted bad, felt bad in my body until I burped 15 min later.  No other reaction noted.]

     What time did it start: [  ]

     How severe was it? Scale 1-10:  [  ]

     What time did it end? [ ]

Mainly inhibitory items- GABA, L-theanine, Magnesium Glycinate, Potassium Glycinate

Date: 08/17/18

Food Item:  GABA

Time Ingested: [  ]

     Reaction No. 1:  [ very slight reaction.  Had ten seconds of feeling in my body.  and had a bowel movement, which may or may not have been related.  Did not get the feeling when I took more of it though]

     What time did it start: [  ]

     How severe was it? Scale 1-10:  [  1 ]

     What time did it end? [ immediately ]

Date: 08/17/18

Food Item:  Magnesium Glycinate

Time Ingested: [ 1/4 tsp ]

     Reaction No. 1:  [  no reaction ]

     What time did it start: [  ]

     How severe was it? Scale 1-10:  [  ]

     What time did it end? [ ]

Date: 08/17/18

Food Item:  Taurine 500 mg pill

Time Ingested: [ 11:03 pm  ]

     Reaction No. 1:  [ no reaction as of 5 min ]

     What time did it start: [  ]

     How severe was it? Scale 1-10:  [  ]

     What time did it end? [ ]

Date: 

Food Item:  

Time Ingested: [  ]

     Reaction No. 1:  [  ]

     What time did it start: [  ]

     How severe was it? Scale 1-10:  [  ]

     What time did it end? [ ]

possible ovulation on 07/03

I had a noticeable sticky discharge for a couple days.  It was odd.  It was coming out in a long thin line.

Possible ovulation?  I haven't had my period naturally all year.  But I was on birth control the last two months and then stopped.

PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE BE MY PERIOD!!

(If so, my period will land two weeks from now-- 07/17)

oh god I hope so!  Although, perhaps I'm getting all excited for no good reason, too. :(




EDIT- I ended up taking birth control later so we'll never know if I would have gotten a period.  But then I stopped taking birth control after a week and a half because I was being annoying and scared of the blue dye.  (had a light period)

Re-try of Supplement with only cysteine and flavoring

Re-try of Supplement with only Cysteine and flavoring

Day 1 (07/14) - 15 mg
reaction: stomach hurts, immediate

Day 2 - 15 mg

Day 3- 

Day 4-

Day 5- 

Day 6-

Day 7- 

Day 8-

Day 9-

Part II- Elimination Ingredients Test Log- Amino Acids

Part II Individual Ingredients Elimination Test Log - Amino Acids

Key:

* and BOLD - bad reaction

* - good reaction

and, note to self- try to do the tests 30 min before / 2 hours after food, and keep the amino under the tongue.

Date: 07/06
Food Item:  Glutamic Acid - 1/4 tsp, 325 mg *

Time Ingested: [ 8:20 am ]

     Reaction No. [ 1:  immediate- doesn't feel too good in stomach going down.
     a few min later - stomach ache, shoulder pain, headache.  I feel pretty sick.
     later- farted. odd. later burped. ]

     What time did it start: [ immediate ]

     How severe was it? Scale 1-10:  [ 6 ]

     What time did it end? [ the stomachache  / sick feeling lasted around 60 min; I ate to relieve it ]

Date: 07/06

Food Item: Carnitine  - 1/4 tsp, 700 mg *

Time Ingested: [ 12:25 pm ]

     Reaction No. 1:  [ tasted harsh going down.  immediate burp.  then felt a little sick; stayed sick feeling in stomach for awhile, but no headache or other reactions. ]

     What time did it start: [ immediate  ]

     How severe was it? Scale 1-10:  [ 3 ]

     What time did it end? [ 40 minutes or so]
     Reaction No 2: [ Feel tired, headache, 30 min later]  -- although I suppose that could've been a computer           headache

Date: 07/09

Food Item:  Choline - 1/4 tsp, 600 mg *

Time Ingested: [ 12:55pm ]

     Reaction No. 1:  [ ugh harsh going down like the others.  No bad reaction. I did burp, which I consider a good reaction ]
     

  

Date: 07/10

Food Item:  Mannose - 1/4 tsp, 500 mg

Time Ingested: [ 7:47pm ]

No response. liked the taste.

Date: 07/10

Food Item: Glycine - 1/6 tsp, 500 mg

Time Ingested: [ 8:25pm ]

 No response

Date: 07/10

Food Item:  Glutamine - 1/8 tsp, 500 mg

Time Ingested: [ 8:58pm ]

No response

Date: 07/10

Food Item:  Tryptophan - 1/4 tsp, 400 mg *

Time Ingested: [ 9:30 pm ]

     Reaction No. 1:  [ tasted bad.  I am not sure but I think I feel some body muscles releasing.  (possible slight good reaction).  no bad reaction as of 10 min in.]

     What time did it start: [ 10 min later]

     What time did it end? [ 10-20 min later]

Date: 07/10

Food Item:  Serine - 1/4 tsp, 650 mg *

Time Ingested: [10:11 pm  ]

     Reaction No. 1:  [  similar to tryptophan- I'm not sure but possibly some muscle release, and no bad reaction except a tiny amount of neck nerve pain]

     What time did it start: [ 5 min ]

   

Date: 07/10

Food Item:  Methionine - 1/4 tsp, 500 mg

Time Ingested: [ 11:20 pm ]

No response except tiny bit of neck nerve pain

Date: 07/10

Food Item:  Bamboo / Silica (retest) - 1/16tsp, 100mg *

Time Ingested: [  11:48 pm]

     Reaction No. 1:  [ neck nerve pain, headache, heat ]

     What time did it start: [ within a few min ]

     How severe was it? Scale 1-10:  [ 5 ]

     What time did it end? [ lasted only a few minutes ... that's odd.  The other bad reactions to other ingredients lasted longer.  I think the headache came back later for awhile]

Date: 07/11

Food Item:  Histidine - 1/8th tsp, 600 mg *

Time Ingested: [ 2:46 pm ]

No response initially... My eye was twitching for a little bit at least 20 min after ingesting it.

Date: 07/11

Food Item:  Aspartic Acid - 1/8th tsp, 460 mg*

Time Ingested: [ 7:45pm ]

No response.   [ slight positive-  I liked it when I drank it.; I liked the acidity  ]

Date: 07/11

Food Item:  Citrulline - 1/4 tsp, 600 mg *

Time Ingested: [  8:56 pm ]

No adverse response.   [slight positive- I liked it when I drank it due to the acidity.  immediate burp ]

Date: 07/11

Food Item:  Ornithine - 1/4 tsp, 400mg

Time Ingested: [  9:34pm ]

No response.

Date: 07/12

Food Item:  Proline- 1/8th tsp, 300 mg *

Time Ingested: [  9:06 am ]

     Reaction No. 1:  [ no headache, but my knees started hurting.  I don't know if its due to taking proline or just a coincidence; they may have hurt anyways.]

     What time did it start: [  20 min in ]

     How severe was it? Scale 1-10:  [ 4 ]

     What time did it end? [ not sure ]

Date: 07/13

Food Item:  Leucine - 1/4 tsp, 500 mg *

Time Ingested: [ 10:48 AM  ]

Tasted terrible. No headache, but stomach hurt until I burped. Level 3

Date: 07/13

Food Item:  Isoleucine *

Time Ingested: [ 12:04 pm ]

This tastes so terrible. No headache, but stomach hurt until I burped. Level 2

Date: 07/13

Food Item: Lysine- 1/4 tsp, 650 mg *

Time Ingested: [ 2:27pm ]

Tasted bad.  No headache, but made my stomach hurt until I could burp.  Level 2

Date: 07/13

Food Item:  Arginine - 1/4 tsp, 700 mg

Time Ingested: [  5:40 pm ]

No response.

Date: 07/13

Food Item:  Taurine - 1/4 tsp, 500 mg *

Time Ingested: [ 6:35 pm ]

 I got a headache immediately, then right after, my forehead and neck muscles did some cracking (cracking is really good for me, and is always a surprise), and also I had some feeling in my feet, and an increase in breathing.

Muscle releases lasted a few min only.

Date: 07/13

Food Item:  Tyrosine *

Time Ingested: [ 6:55 pm  ]

no taste, unlike all the others

mixed response.  very slight positive- some feeling in my feet.   negative - headache, stomach pain, shoulder pain. Level 3

Date: 07/13

Food Item:  Carnosine - 1/8th tsp, 250 mg *

Time Ingested: [  8:03 pm ]

Didn't taste bad.  promising positive - Various muscle releasing.  15 - 20 min long or so. ]

Date: 07/13

Food Item:  Threonine - 1/4tsp, 650mg *

Time Ingested: [ 8:50 pm ]

Also promising positive- muscle releasing.  was immediate so I can't be sure it isn't just the carnosine still.

Date: 07/13

Food Item:  Phenylalanine - 1/4 tsp, 900 mg

Time Ingested: [  9:52 pm]

No response.  Tasted really bad. Brief neck nerve feeling.

Date: 07/13

Food Item:  Valine

Time Ingested: [ 10:34pm ]

 No response.  tastes really bad.