Vitamins supplements qand

I was wondering if there were any vitamins or supplements that you recommend your patients take in addition to prescribed medication, in general or specifically for bipolar? I know vitamin D is often recommended, especially if you live further north, and take it regularly.

Hello everyone, as I announced in a recent post, I'll tell you about my experience of playing a chess tournament while I was fasting.
Last Sunday I finished a 7-round (4 days) over-the-board chess tournament (long time control: 90 mins per player per game + 15 mins after 40 moves + 30 s increment for each move from the beginning) and an 8-days water fast. So, the tournament took place on days 5-8 of the water fast.
During the fast I supplemented electrolytes, added magnesium glycinate (helped with hunger and cravings), b-vitamins and vitamin d + vitamin k2. I drank approximately 2.5-3 liters of water each day and one cup of black coffee on two of the days each.
In the tournament I scored 5/7 with four wins, two draws and one loss. This was an okay result considering my playing strength and the strength of my opponents. It was just slightly below the expectation, but in a totally normal range.
Probably more important is the course of the games and how I felt while playing. The fasting didn't show any direct adverse effects (except for the usual watery stool), so I did not feel distracted by the fast. I felt rather relaxed most of the time and had no issues with pressure or concentration. I felt slightly tired, but that could have been caused by a lack of sleep (caused by a baby).
I sometimes had the impression that my thinking was a bit slower than usual and slightly less focused. But that was not worse than what's possible while eating. Also, it seemed like my memory of my opening preparation was slightly worse than normal. Still nothing out of the ordinary.
So, as a result I'd say that fasting did neither have a strong negative nor a strong positive impact on my chess performance. This came to me as a surprise because I thought it would change at least something significantly. For me this is a positive outcome as it shows that I can perform well in demanding cognitive tasks during fasts. I'll probably try this again in a few months.
I am a male in my mid-30s, BMI ~30, 5'10", 210 lbs. Lost about 7 lbs during the fast.
n=1

Study: https://patents.google.com/patent/US20040266659A1/en
Section [0007]: “Both ancient traditional medicines and modern popular speculation has assigned Oneirogenic, or “Dream-Inducing” properties to numerous herbs and other natural substances, including herbs like Valerian, Mugwort, Mullein, Kava Kava, Dittany of Crete, St. Johns Wort, Salvia Divinorum, Scutellaria Indica, Licorice Root, Vervain, Jasmine, Honeysuckle, Datura, Bee Pollen, Catnip, Hops, Sculicap, Mimosa, Lavender, Damiana, Withania Somnifera, Passionflower, Chamomile, Cardamom, Gotu Kola, Ginkgo Biloba, Ibogaine, Verbena, Rose, Cinnamon, Marigold, Nutmeg, Peppermint, Holly, Yarrow and Anise. Few if any of these have any scientific basis or support for these purported effects. Other supplements and/or drugs are also claimed to be linked to lucidity, including B-vitamins, Melatonin, DMAE, and the psychedelic DXM. Some of these drugs and herbs may be addictive, poisonous and/or illegal.”
I’d love to hear about any firsthand experiences with the lesser-studied (referring to their oneirogenic effects) oneirogens mentioned here

Hi everyone. I’m here to share some hope.
I (23M) had anal warts for the past 8-6 months. It was a very difficult situation, they were itchy, I was bleeding almost everyday and couldn’t even sleep well. They were big, abundant.
What did I do to clear them out?

1. Go to the derm: I got cryo every two weeks for 6-8 months.
2. Be as healthy as possible: your immune system has to be on point. I was eating healthy, hitting the gym 4-6 times a week, sauna, meditation, taking vitamins and AHCC (I wasn’t very consistent with this supplement but I read it helps)
3. Got the vaccine. I got one shot like two months ago, second shot like a month ago, and will have a third one in 5 months.
4. DO NOT SHAVE, just trim.
5. I sweat a lot, so I take a shower after I go to the bathroom in the morning, after I workout at 11am, and before bed. This is very important.
6. I used Imiquimod every M-W-F the week after cryo. I had so many that I used two packages of cream.
7. Stop vaping, drinking, or smoking. I didn’t do any of that but i am 100% sure it will help you

I’m so happy to share my story. Don’t lose hope. Try to get cryo or any kind of help from a dermatologist or a doctor.
The last month my insurance expired so I paid out of pocket. $20 per session of cryo = $40 per month. Don’t let this f*cking virus take control of your live or your emotions.
And also want to clarify: I never had anal sex or any kind of touching back there. So I don’t know how they got there in the first place.
Let me know if you have any questions, I’ll tell you what worked for me.

Every time I think I maybe found the way to stop it, I prove myself otherwise. Meditation didn't work, sleeping rituals, the only thing that somehow helped was not sleeping in my bed and that also stopped working. I found out I need to take vitamin d and iron supplements and I hope that'll help but I'm so pessimistic at this point. It's been like this for like 6 months or something and I'm fucking losing it why can't I just sleep like a normal person

28M 5'10 W155
PMHx: hyperlipidemia, insomnia, OSA (well controlled)
No medications except vitamin D supplement during the winter
Let me begin by saying I don't have connection with my dad, so I really don't know his side of my medical history. I do know my paternal grandma had heart issues, but at an old age. I believe my maternal FHx to be noncontributory.
My triglycerides are fine (always been 40-60ish). My HDL has always been quite high (usually 80's), but my LDL has been the problem.
I was first noted to have high LDL cholesterol at 8 years old after routine labs because I was on a medication at the time that can cause dyslipidemia. I was promptly taken off the medication and it was assumed that was the culprit. I was tested again and it was continuously had slightly higher and higher cholesterol. Around age 23 is when I really started to get stuck into the 170 to 180's range and when I really tried to double down on dietary changes.
I keep taking more steps to improve it... at this point after 5 painful years of modifications to my diet... I never eat processed meats, exceedingly rarely touch beef. I do eat lean skinless chicken breast, shrimp, and salmon a couple times a week at most, never fried. Replaced as much dairy as I can. Almost never eat fried foods. Try to limit carbs. Never use butter. Avoid saturated fats and trans fats like the plague. Limit my egg consumption.
I have oatmeal every morning and a whey protein shake with chia seeds for fiber. I eat lots of vegetables.
I've literally sucked my joy out of food at this point and I literally don't know how to modify my diet any more.
I also weight lift 4-5 times a week and go for walks or treadmill most days as well.
Yet my LDL stays stuck in 170 to 180's range.
My doctor keeps pushing dietary changes at me and I keep trying to reiterate how much I have already done for my diet, but he keeps suggesting more things I can do. I feel like maybe he doesn't believe or understand how much effort I have put into this already.
I feel like he doesn't want to start me on statins at such a young age and I can respect that and I know my LDL is pretty borderline in a vacuum to consider statins, but I also am worried that I have had high cholesterol for at least 20 years now and nothing is addressing it.
I asked him if it was possible that my high LDL could be from a familial cause and he thinks it is possible but unlikely. I am not sure he is really processing or understanding how much I've already attempted to make dietary changes at this point though despite me repeatedly informing him. Thoughts?

Im writing this with pure happiness and so much joy. Im going to tell the full story for the best possible understanding.
I started watching porn in 2014 when I was 12 and masturbated to it ATLEAST once a day until 2024. Im 21 now. I had a girlfriend from april 2022 to june 2023. We would have occasional sex, I probably had a body count of 7 during all of this. She was hot but a pillow princess so it was just missionary and her vagina was hairy and smelled bad. For a whole 9 months I dealt with this. Until I found myself watching porn every morning when I woke up. I enjoyed masturbating more than fucking. We stopped having sex from like december 2022 to until we broke up in june 2023. After we broke up, I would have sex 2 more times with 2 different girls. Until it happened. My dick got soft as I was fucking one. It was awkward. I didnt really question anything and just ended up finishing on her and that was it. The next time i was with a girl, I was drunk and I got hard. But when it was time to actually start to have sex, it didn’t work. I was so frustrated. I never thought it would happen to me and I was THAT PERSON that couldn’t get it up. She told me it was fine and that it was because I had too much to drink. The next morning we tried again. Nothing. I was so embarrassed and I felt like garbage. This happened 2 more times with 2 different girls. My dick didn’t work. I found myself in the rabbit hole tryna figure out what was wrong with me. I didn’t know if it was performance anxiety, PIED, ED, I didn’t know what the fuck was wrong with me. From that summer of 2023 to aprox. march 2024 I kept masurbating and watching porn. I was addicted. My dick couldn’t even get hard from just watching porn. I had to stimulate it for it to stay hard. I didn’t know if I had death grip or if it was dopamine. I did research and found the no fap 90 days bs. I just had trouble believing that this would work. So many people said that it has been a year and nothing has changed. I made the decision to do nofap. I would relapse every day, then every 3 days. Finally got to 2 weeks then relapsed again. I thought I was doing so good going a week or two without masturbating or watching porn. I even got to the point where this nofap bullshit convinced my mind to finally be confident and tried to have sex. I met a girl from a dating app. My dick was just soft so I told her I could only get hard if she gave me head but for some reason she didnt want to. So that worked as an excuse for me to be soft. She had patience with me and we had to force it until it got hard at the perfect time. I felt like a handicapped person having sex ( no offense) I had sex but it didnt feel right and I definitely wasn’t cured at all. Nothing was changing. It was a feeling of not knowing if or when your ever gonna have a normal working dick. Its such a fcking essential thing to have and I felt jealous of people around me having sex so damn easily. Why me. How will I even get a serious girlfriend(which is what I want). But then I started doing research. A lot. I changed my lifestyle, started taking natural supplements and everything changed. In one week. I fed a girl a couple weeks ago and went three rounds. MY DICK GOT HARD 3 TIMES AND I CAME 3 TIMES. I LITERALLY HAD PIED LIKE A WEEK BEFORE THAT. It was unbelievable. I have been going on a spree. I feel like a normal person again and Im so happy. It was almost a year of that bs. This worked for me and I know exactly how it feels to have that piece of sht curse. I wasn’t going to do any of this but I just said fk it. I literally have the key to be freed from this horrible thing. The reason im selling this is because its so valuable. I stumbled across this problem and this problem affected me for so long and made me feel like garbage. Its a problem that is emerging and that many people are dealing with. No one told me to not watch porn. No one knew it would end like this. Idc if you don’t believe me every single thing I have said happened and it worked for me as crazy as it sounds. If someone had told me during that time that they had the GUARANTEED KEY with no pain, no weird shit like nofap, penis pill and horny goat weed like wtf is that. I would have payed 1,000 dollars to fix myself in a heartbeat. I would only not get this if you work an overnight job, and or are unable to take natural vitamins and supplements. As simple as it is that’s all it takes. I have with all the supplement brands and all the exercises I did to fix my pied. All the little details and variables that I had to fix myself.
i have nothing to lose take it or don’t take it message me

Hey everyone, I’m mainly doing this for myself as a journal but whoever wants to join along is more than welcome to me. I’m hoping this becomes a success story and for my quality of life to stop being haunted. YOU DONT HAVE TO READ ALL OF THIS
I’m a 22 year old female in the US. I currently don’t have a job as I have been let go yesterday due to my unsuspecting symptoms and lack of communication. I can’t keep up with the regular 9-5 jobs and it’s turning into a pattern of me burning myself out. I don’t have anybody to rely on other than myself and I can’t get afford health insurance at the moment.
Current Symptoms: - Extreme Fatigue/Exhaustion - SouCurdling/Spicy tummy feeling? - Nausea/Contractions (especially after physical activity and eating or drinking) - Bloating/Gas/Gurgling -Rancid Smelling Poop - Acne - Regurgitating oil/grease - Recurrent yeast - Brain Fog/Confusion - Urinary Incontinence - Body Rashes/Allergic Reactions -Sugar Cravings - Migraines - Cotten Mouth/Dehydration - Malabsorption/Continual Hunger - Thinning Hair - Weight Loss - Weak Pelvic Floor? Tight/Tense Muscles? - Food in Stools (Not often) - Drunkness Feeling After Carbs? - Acid Reflux - Depression/Anxiety - Weak Immune System
Food Sensitivities that have developed: - Dairy -Gluten - Soy - Gastric foods/spices/drinks (including onion and garlic) - Processed Foods - Broths - Sugar (Fruit and All) - Starch - Acid (Fruits/Vinegars) - Medications (NSAIDS/Anti-Acids)
Tried treatments that I can remember: -Xifaxin (2 weeks) - Ortho Molecular Ortho Spore (2-3 months worked wonders but relapsed) -Dietitian: Low Fodmap Diet (3 months didn’t help) - Reuteri - B12, VitD, other vitamin supplements - Physical Therapy - Fluconazole - Boric Acid -Laxatives (basically all) - Collagen Peptides - Plant Based Protein Powder - Yoga
Most of Background: So I have been dealing with different illnesses that is a repeated pattern since I was possibly 12 years old. I would frequently have nasty migraines, stomach bugs, food poisoning, and respiratory infections out of the blue. It gotten to the point of my family always saying “there’s always something wrong with you”, “you’re just exaggerating”.
When it came to 2017, I started gaining rashes as allergic reactions. It couldn’t be classified as hives even though it looked the part because it would sting like a bitch instead of itching. It would run through out my body whenever I ate every so often and that was only on of the reactions as I had a second of my skin swelling as if it was a mosquito bite but worse and when the swelling went down, it would leave scars behind.
I went to an allergist and nothing popped up on the regular tests, but something popped up on the chemical patch test. The name of the chemical was called Balsam of Peru, it’s mainly a preservative that is in your common foods/beverages, cleaning products, and aerosols. I continued to have random allergic reactions here and there as it wasn’t feasible to follow a diet that strict in a household like mine.
Then came the end of 2019, I was having trouble with my stomach and would randomly gag from November til Jan 2020. I would literally start throwing up even if I had nothing in my stomach. I went to doctors but they kept thinking I was pregnant and would say my vitals were fine therefore there’s nothing wrong. One day mid Jan, I had throw up for the last time but there was something different..I couldn’t get up. I lost all strength in my legs and half of my strength in my arms. I went to the hospital and they did X-rays and scans just to say there was nothing wrong and it might be a virus that hit my nervous system. The next day they boot me out with nothing. I had to learn how to walk all over again like a baby until I gained my strength with only the help of my family which took about a month. Throughout that time I was still feeling sick and gagging/throwing up.
This is the point when my mom decides to get a referral to a GI and they look through my records from the hospital to find out I was backed up with waste up to my ribs. They did a horrifying flush on me and prescribed me linzess. It was getting me to poop more frequently but I still was feeling pretty sick often, it was manageable though.
I get to college, it was a shit show, I start to get more symptoms, like brain fog and fatigue. I thought it was all in my head at this point and tried my best in school but had low performance when I was used to easy A’s. I began to have yeast infections every so often. I start getting into vaping, smoking weed, and the occasional drinking. The vaping became chronic and whenever I would drink I would have alcohol poisoning like symptoms that were uncontrollable to the point where a couple of times I ended up in the hospital to get my stomach to stop contracting. I stopped all drinking and started becoming a religious smoker to deal with my symptoms, school, work, and every other stress in my life. All it did was make my health plummet even faster.
I finally got diagnosed with SIBO at the end of 2021 and thought “finally something!”, the GI thought to cure it was to give more laxatives to get my bowels to move more frequently. Instead it would turn me into a balloon that was about to burst but could not push anything out. The GI gave up anf I decided to move on. At this point I had to take a break from school because I was so tired whenever I woke up in the morning that I either slept completely through my alarms or I couldn’t physically get up out of bed. I constantly was having stomach issues. My yeast infections started coming at least 2x a month. I had so bad urinary incontinence that I had to wear diapers. I was dealing with so much stress with family, working, trying to make ends meet, trying different doctors that never helped and telling me different things. I was dealing with a psychologically abusive bf. Nobody believed how bad I felt everyday. How hard it was for me to eat, think, overall function like a human being. My bf seen it everyday but refused to acknowledge that when he says he understood that his actions would always say otherwise. It all mentally broke me and I crashed hard.
This brings me to practically the present. I cut contact with the EX bf and parents. I’m low contact with the rest of my family. I quit vaping for good, but the damage is already done. I am now on Wellbutrin and trying to pick up the pieces that are shattered. It’s been 6 months but my symptoms are worsening instead of getting better. I can’t hold down a 9-5 job, my stomach can’t and won’t tolerate anything. I starve myself most days, drink water and electrolyte drinks whenever my stomach take it.
Everyday I feel weak, exhausted, brain fog so bad that I can’t count to 5, stomach hurt. The last thing that made me question my entire existence, Saturday night I was starving so I made rice thinking it was the safest thing. The next morning I felt so drunk that I couldn’t function, I was so dehydrated and in so much pain I went to urgent care. The doctor looked at me as if I was on drugs, refused iv, and told me my symptoms were caused by trauma, it’s all in my head. She refused a work note as well. I felt a tad bit better after some electrolytes from home and went to sleep for work. I slept through my alarms and woke up 2.5 hrs late (total 14 hrs). I couldn’t move my body, text manager. She called after the shift explaining that she isn’t letting me go because of my illness, bc I failed to tell her about the day prior so she could plan accordingly. She wants me to focus on my health, it would’ve been kind if I wasn’t already drowning in debt and couldn’t even afford rent.
The reason why I wrote everything I could is because 1. I believe a lot of this is relevant to each other regarding SIBO and Candida in some way 2. It will help me for my future
If you made it this far CONGRATS 🎉🎊 🥳 And thank you for the support!

My symtoms recently got so bad I had to take medical leave from work. I'm on a waiting list to see a cardiologist, and get an appointment with a Long Covid clinic.
This last weekend my anti-mask, anti-vax father that I currently live with attended a local convention. He obviously didn't wear a mask, and today he's extremely sick.
I'm terrified. I can not get fucking sick again. And what's worse is that I have a flight on Saturday I was already dreading because I feel embarrassed to use the airport wheelchair services. I need to make that flight, my boyfriend and I are moving in together at the end of summer. I need to get fucking better. I can't fucking get sick again.
I'm so scared and upset. I took some extra vitamin C supplements and I'm hiding in my room now, masked. I can't get fucking sick.
Edit: don't comment on my posts with your anti-mask, anti-vax *bullshit*. People who don't believe in covid safety protocols are why I now have a god damn chronic illness in the first place.

Hey everyone, I’m mainly doing this for myself as a journal but whoever wants to join along is more than welcome to me. I’m hoping this becomes a success story and for my quality of life to stop being haunted. YOU DONT HAVE TO READ ALL OF THIS
I’m a 22 year old female in the US. I currently don’t have a job as I have been let go yesterday due to my unsuspecting symptoms and lack of communication. I can’t keep up with the regular 9-5 jobs and it’s turning into a pattern of me burning myself out. I don’t have anybody to rely on other than myself and I can’t get afford health insurance at the moment.
Current Symptoms: - Extreme Fatigue/Exhaustion - SouCurdling/Spicy tummy feeling? - Nausea/Contractions (especially after physical activity and eating or drinking) - Bloating/Gas/Gurgling -Rancid Smelling Poop - Acne - Regurgitating oil/grease - Recurrent yeast - Brain Fog/Confusion - Urinary Incontinence - Body Rashes/Allergic Reactions -Sugar Cravings - Migraines - Cotten Mouth/Dehydration - Malabsorption/Continual Hunger - Thinning Hair - Weight Loss - Weak Pelvic Floor? Tight/Tense Muscles? - Food in Stools (Not often) - Drunkness Feeling After Carbs? - Acid Reflux - Depression/Anxiety - Weak Immune System
Food Sensitivities that have developed: - Dairy -Gluten - Soy - Gastric foods/spices/drinks (including onion and garlic) - Processed Foods - Broths - Sugar (Fruit and All) - Starch - Acid (Fruits/Vinegars) - Medications (NSAIDS/Anti-Acids)
Tried treatments that I can remember: -Xifaxin (2 weeks) - Ortho Molecular Ortho Spore (2-3 months worked wonders but relapsed) -Dietitian: Low Fodmap Diet (3 months didn’t help) - Reuteri - B12, VitD, other vitamin supplements - Physical Therapy - Fluconazole - Boric Acid -Laxatives (basically all) - Collagen Peptides - Plant Based Protein Powder - Yoga
Most of Background: So I have been dealing with different illnesses that is a repeated pattern since I was possibly 12 years old. I would frequently have nasty migraines, stomach bugs, food poisoning, and respiratory infections out of the blue. It gotten to the point of my family always saying “there’s always something wrong with you”, “you’re just exaggerating”.
When it came to 2017, I started gaining rashes as allergic reactions. It couldn’t be classified as hives even though it looked the part because it would sting like a bitch instead of itching. It would run through out my body whenever I ate every so often and that was only on of the reactions as I had a second of my skin swelling as if it was a mosquito bite but worse and when the swelling went down, it would leave scars behind.
I went to an allergist and nothing popped up on the regular tests, but something popped up on the chemical patch test. The name of the chemical was called Balsam of Peru, it’s mainly a preservative that is in your common foods/beverages, cleaning products, and aerosols. I continued to have random allergic reactions here and there as it wasn’t feasible to follow a diet that strict in a household like mine.
Then came the end of 2019, I was having trouble with my stomach and would randomly gag from November til Jan 2020. I would literally start throwing up even if I had nothing in my stomach. I went to doctors but they kept thinking I was pregnant and would say my vitals were fine therefore there’s nothing wrong. One day mid Jan, I had throw up for the last time but there was something different..I couldn’t get up. I lost all strength in my legs and half of my strength in my arms. I went to the hospital and they did X-rays and scans just to say there was nothing wrong and it might be a virus that hit my nervous system. The next day they boot me out with nothing. I had to learn how to walk all over again like a baby until I gained my strength with only the help of my family which took about a month. Throughout that time I was still feeling sick and gagging/throwing up.
This is the point when my mom decides to get a referral to a GI and they look through my records from the hospital to find out I was backed up with waste up to my ribs. They did a horrifying flush on me and prescribed me linzess. It was getting me to poop more frequently but I still was feeling pretty sick often, it was manageable though.
I get to college, it was a shit show, I start to get more symptoms, like brain fog and fatigue. I thought it was all in my head at this point and tried my best in school but had low performance when I was used to easy A’s. I began to have yeast infections every so often. I start getting into vaping, smoking weed, and the occasional drinking. The vaping became chronic and whenever I would drink I would have alcohol poisoning like symptoms that were uncontrollable to the point where a couple of times I ended up in the hospital to get my stomach to stop contracting. I stopped all drinking and started becoming a religious smoker to deal with my symptoms, school, work, and every other stress in my life. All it did was make my health plummet even faster.
I finally got diagnosed with SIBO at the end of 2021 and thought “finally something!”, the GI thought to cure it was to give more laxatives to get my bowels to move more frequently. Instead it would turn me into a balloon that was about to burst but could not push anything out. The GI gave up anf I decided to move on. At this point I had to take a break from school because I was so tired whenever I woke up in the morning that I either slept completely through my alarms or I couldn’t physically get up out of bed. I constantly was having stomach issues. My yeast infections started coming at least 2x a month. I had so bad urinary incontinence that I had to wear diapers. I was dealing with so much stress with family, working, trying to make ends meet, trying different doctors that never helped and telling me different things. I was dealing with a psychologically abusive bf. Nobody believed how bad I felt everyday. How hard it was for me to eat, think, overall function like a human being. My bf seen it everyday but refused to acknowledge that when he says he understood that his actions would always say otherwise. It all mentally broke me and I crashed hard.
This brings me to practically the present. I cut contact with the EX bf and parents. I’m low contact with the rest of my family. I quit vaping for good, but the damage is already done. I am now on Wellbutrin and trying to pick up the pieces that are shattered. It’s been 6 months but my symptoms are worsening instead of getting better. I can’t hold down a 9-5 job, my stomach can’t and won’t tolerate anything. I starve myself most days, drink water and electrolyte drinks whenever my stomach take it.
Everyday I feel weak, exhausted, brain fog so bad that I can’t count to 5, stomach hurt. The last thing that made me question my entire existence, Saturday night I was starving so I made rice thinking it was the safest thing. The next morning I felt so drunk that I couldn’t function, I was so dehydrated and in so much pain I went to urgent care. The doctor looked at me as if I was on drugs, refused iv, and told me my symptoms were caused by trauma, it’s all in my head. She refused a work note as well. I felt a tad bit better after some electrolytes from home and went to sleep for work. I slept through my alarms and woke up 2.5 hrs late (total 14 hrs). I couldn’t move my body, text manager. She called after the shift explaining that she isn’t letting me go because of my illness, bc I failed to tell her about the day prior so she could plan accordingly. She wants me to focus on my health, it would’ve been kind if I wasn’t already drowning in debt and couldn’t even afford rent.
The reason why I wrote everything I could is because 1. I believe a lot of this is relevant to each other regarding SIBO and Candida in some way 2. It will help me for my future
If you made it this far CONGRATS 🎉🎊 🥳 And thank you for the support!

After being VERY careful about what I eat and exercising more ... got another metabolic test today and my LDL went up almost 30 points from February. My glucose and triglycerides? Also WAY up. I have also lost exactly ONE pound.
(Yes I'm logging food, yes I am logging EVERYTHING including condiments.)
In other news, my vitamin D deficiency is now completely gone ... I went from 22 to 75, which also makes no sense but whatevs. I mean ... I'm on supplements but tbh I don't understand how I got deficient in the first place.

I’m 24 years old, female, and 5’8” tall. I have POTS and genetically elevated cholesterol (diagnosed at 10). My gall bladder was removed at age 18 because it was functioning at 13% and causing problems. I take Atorvastatin, Bystolic, and Fludrocortisone with an over the counter iron supplement for my periods and over the counter vitamin D3. I was recently diagnosed with a UTI due to UTI symptoms (burning and cramping during and after urinating with urinary frequency and urgency) during an online care visit. After almost being done with the course of antibiotics, the pain spread to my mid back.
I’ve been extremely nauseous and experiencing diarrhea. This happens every time I eat, regardless of whether I take my antibiotic or not. I have thrown up and am having trouble eating. My blood pressure kept dropping very low (around 79/47). In a follow up visit, I was sent to the emergency room to check for a kidney infection and sepsis.
At the hospital, my blood pressure came back up and my bloodwork + urinalysis came back normal, except my BUN and creatinine are too low and my urine is “cloudy.” My BUN is 3 mg/dL and my creatinine is 0.57 mg/dL. The emergency room conducted a CT scan to check for kidney stones and possible infection, but the imaging appears normal. The doctor remarked that my area of sensitivity “is classic with kidneys” when feeling my abdomen. No one has spoken with me about my bloodwork, next steps, etc. so I was wondering if this bloodwork should be followed up on or if there’s no reason to worry about low BUN and low creatinine. I’m not feeling any better and the cramping is very painful. However, I don’t have a primary care provider in my state and there are none in network accepting new patients anywhere near here, so I don’t have a lot of options of people to follow up on this with except urgent care providers.

27M and I initially started having symptoms May 2023 that ranged from migraines+auras, left side of body tingling + numbness that lasted for a month. Clean brain, cervical, thoracic, and lumbar MRIs with and without contrast. (8 MRIs and counting wooo)
Labs were normal except for severe vitamin B12 and D deficiency, which I am treating with supplements. Soon after (October 2023) started experiencing muscle fasciculations throughout the body (arms, legs, chest, back, face,etc.) and have not gone away. Also, trigger finger-like symptoms on right pinky finger and what looks like palmis brevis syndrome. Rheumatologist rules out arthritis. Diagnosed with ulnar neuropathy after EMG of upper extremities.
March 2024, I had a clean EMG of lower extremities after experiencing burning and tingling sensation in legs from standing for no more 10mins at a time.
As of now, I have ruled out autoimmune diseases (ANA negative), other neurological issues besides my ulnar neuropathy. Neurologist has no reason to suspect ***…all lab work has been normal. Muscle fascilulations and cramps still present and considered benign (BFS / CFS).
I wonder if anyone has any ideas of what other things I should be looking out for (EDS?). I have health anxiety and having no actual diagnosis has been worrisome.

Hi! I’ve been diagnosed with pcos for more than 10 years. Have not really thought about supplements tbh until recently. Im struggling with my weight and fertility. I stopped taking contraceptive pills a year ago as trying to conceive and since then I gained 10kg (tried calorie deficit, work outs etc).
Read about supplements and there’s just so much! Can anyone advise on combination to take (dosage and when to take)? I kept seeing Inositol, Berberine, Omega 3, L-carnitine, NAC, vitamin D and Magnesium.
Can i take all those daily? In different times of the day or is that too much?
Im so overwhelmed

I’ve been wanting to post for a couple months now, but talk myself out of it every time but I’m really losing my mind now. I have a doctor appointment set for Monday but with the terrible health care in my town I’m not very hopeful but hopefully it can lead somewhere.
Female, about to be 27, overall healthy besides the fact I’ve been overweight my entire life. I have had a really bad vitamin D deficiency for a few years but was always bad at taking supplements.
In November after a long car ride I got out of the car and my legs felt very weak and like they were shaking inside it was really strong at first and then it calmed down but the whole night my legs felt like they were shaking/buzzing. The next day I felt normal, a couple of months later we did the same long trip and the same thing happened; I told myself it would go away in a couple of days but it didn’t really. My legs felt like they were buzzing non stop for a few weeks, then the twitching began. I had made a dr appointment for the initial buzzing sensations and I got an ultra sound done to check for blood clots. The ultra sound found nothing. A few days before that appointment I started getting random twitching in both my legs. I don’t really remember where but I think my calves and thighs. I hadn’t even mentioned it at my appointment. I’ve always had terrible health anxiety and I was having some insurance issues, I just got married so the change over messed some things up so I didn’t go back for my follow up.
The twitching started in mid December and was only in my legs for what I can remember. A couple of weeks later it started all over my body. Legs, arms, hands, eyes, tongue, and face, butt, stomach, back, shoulders, neck. You name it, it’s twitched.
I’ve spent countless hours reading and freaking the hell out that it’s the big bad. It consumes me from time to time when the twitching gets bad. It’s so weird, it seems as though it happens in phases now. It will get really bad for a few days to a week and then calm down for a few days to a week and then repeat like a cycle. I wouldn’t say anything has gotten “worse”. I do feel like my muscles feel different. Not “weak”, definitely not clinically weak. I can walk on tippy toes and heals, I can pull myself up but I just feel like I get way more sore way quicker than ever before. Could be getting older and the weight of my body? Could be something more?
I used to be able to calm myself down by thinking it’s BFS but it seems most have a hot spot? Or only one area will twitch at once while for me it’s like my knee will twitch then half a second later my arm will and they will jump all over from place to place. Like I said I’ve mostly talked myself out of it being something serious by telling myself I have no clinical weakness, etc. but today I was watching my calves and they were just moving like crazy. Little pops here and there up and down my calf. Most of them I could feel but a majority I couldn’t. And seeing this has really really freaked me out. Since reading about *** more and more I’m back on being convinced it’s what it must be. Also, my hands feel weird a lot of the time, like my dexterity is off. I occasionally get tightness and cramping feeling in my calf, mostly my left.
Another odd symptom I’ve developed is eye floaters. Occasionally I think I’m having problems swallowing but only my saliva and I don’t know if that’s from me getting freaked out. I’ll also have a few days where my facial muscles are twitching like crazy and my jaw/teeth almost feel like they’re clattering?
If anyone took the time to read this, thank you and I’m sorry again for the long post just a fellow person freaking out and hoping a doctor will listen to them. I don’t really know what I’m hoping to gain from this post, maybe others who have had similar symptoms and a similar order of them. I don’t know.
I’m editing to add that I have been taking magnesium and vitamin d supplements for at least four months now. I started them back after these symptoms started and haven’t noticed a difference.

HW: 275 SW: 262 CW:252 (5’8 39 BMI)
2 questions after reading crash diet warnings.
Is this sustainable? Is losing 5 lbs a week dangerous?
I took my 3rd dose yesterday. I have lost 10 lbs. I even cheated week 1 with about 8 craft beers. I did the entire bariatric pre-op program last year. Backed out the day prior because the surgeons office seemed incompetent making several mistakes in orders. I am now in the VA MOVE program and have been referred to Bariatrics and I love the VA way more than the private providers. So while I’m still heading the bariatric route, we are trying semagutide along the way.

I have NOT had surgery but I am following a hybrid post-op program. No more alcohol. I probably drank 10-15 beers 5x a week at the pub with my friends. This cuts back 1500-2000 calories per day. Not to mention the irresponsible eating out afterwards. Spanish food, Chinese food, pizza or Taco Bell 🤦🏽‍♂️ After the alcohol I’m focused on walking a moderate 30 min and a minimum of 5000 steps 5x a week. I am doing a light full body workout, not over exerting myself, 4x a week (pushing and pulling different days). That brings me to what I am eating. 

My hybrid post op bariatric diet consists of about 1000-1200 calories with a minimum of 100 grams of protein. Average amount of complex carbs. I have and I am taking the bariatric supplements I got from the previous program. This includes bariatric calcium, Vitamin D, iron, multivitamins, etc.The semaglutide has helped curb my appetite and limit my cravings.
SUMMARY

1. MENTAL HEALTH: Eliminate toxic people and environments that do not support the weight loss. Stay away from sweets and alcohol.
2. EXERCISE: Goal of 5,000 to 10,000 steps 5x week. Weights 4x week. Leisure activity 3x week.
3. DIET: Less than 1500 calories 100 g protein.
4. SEMAGLUTIDE: w B12, Methionine, Inositol, Choline.

• August 2020
  • Start to notice symptoms
• August 2021 - October 2021
  • Undergo an elimination diet to try to see if I have food intolerances
• November 2021
  • See a naturopathic doctor – basically doesn’t help at all.
• December 2022
  • See a gastroenterologist in Colorado. (South Denver Gastroenterology)
    • Undergo tests – they come back healthy. Blood test = healthy. Don’t have Celiac. They do say that my thyroid is technically in the healthy range but to watch it.
• January 2023
  • Undergo a breath test – comes back positive for SIBO.
• March 2023
  • Take a round of Xifaxan – no improvements in symptoms.
• May 2023
  • Take a second round of Xifaxan – no improvements in symptoms.
  • Undergo a second breath test – comes back positive for SIBO but with improvements in the test measurements.
• June 2023
  • Take a third round of Xifaxan – no improvements in symptoms.
• July 2023
  • Undergo the Ruscio Elemental Heal Diet for 6 days – notice some improvements in symptoms.
  • Undergo a low-FODMAP diet for about a month – notice bad symptoms starting to return.
• August 2023
  • Pray and start eating without any restrictions – notice symptoms
• September 2023
  • Symptoms start to get worse.
  • See Dr. Hannah Hamlin. She begins by prescribing me the following:
    • Treatment Plan for SIBO:
    • Triple Probiotic Therapy: Take one stick per day for 60 days.
    • Herbal Antimicrobial Protocol:
    • Biota-Clear 1b : 2 pills, 2x per day, best with food, 2 bottles of 60 capsules needed
    • Biota-Clear 1a : 4 pills, 2x per day, best with food, 2 bottles of 120 capsules needed
    • Multivitamin: 2 per day for 60 days
    • Supplement/dp/B07KCZ6CDW/ref=sr_1_24?crid=BE5KSKA02TSD&keywords=multivitamin&qid=1695244863&rdc=1&sprefix=multivitamin,aps,102&sr=8-24
    • Nutrition: Low-FODMAP Diet - see handout - Remember to follow only 80% of the time.
    • Movement: F45 2-3x per week, walk/yoga 30 min 2-3x per week.
    • Sleep: Aim for 8.5 hours of sleep per night on average.
    • Supplements: Continue vitamin C at home, hold other home supplements at this time.
• October 2023
  • The protocol was not helping. Dr. Hannah Hamlin then prescribes that I halve the doses of herbal antimicrobials and halve the probiotic stick per day. The Low FODMAP diet did not seem to be helping, so she told me I no longer needed to live by it.
  • October 5, 2023
    • Started the entire protocol
  • October 16, 2023
    • Started doing the half dosage amounts
  • October 18, 2023
    • Stopped doing the low FODMAP since I was still bloated even when only eating strictly low FODMAP meals.
  • October 18 - 30, 2023
    • Was going in waves of being super slim and then being back to super bloated again
• November 2023
  • November 1, 2023
    • Ceased all medicine to see if the supplements leaving my body would return my body to a balance.
  • November 1 - 8, 2023
    • Saw great improvements and reduced bloating
  • November 9, 2023
    • Bad bloating and constipation until November 11
  • November 11, 2023
    • Excluding November 9, I had sen significant improvements in my symptoms. The symptoms that remained included excessive burping (even when having not consumed food) and light bloating even if I had not eaten.
  • November 17, 2023
    • Meet with Dr. Hannah Hamlin. She prescribes that I take Psyllium Husk and Magnesium daily to combat constipation. She also advises that I reintroduce the probiotics and herbal antimicrobials from before at full dosages until running out of them.
• December 2023
  • December 6, 2023
    • Started the regimen again, and my bloating and constipation had been super bad since. The constipation pills were not helping either. Thus, Dr. Hannah Hamlin advises me to hold off on the probiotics and herbal antimicrobials until I start having daily bowel movements.
  • December 16, 2023
    • After following Dr. Hamlin’s above advice, my body definitely improved, but the constipation remained. I am having daily bowel movements, but it doesn’t feel like they are fully getting everything out. I tried eating foods rich in fiber, running on the treadmill, drinking black coffee, etc., but nothing seemed to make a consistent impact. Remaining symptoms: constipation, bloating (not as bad as originally but still present), and burping even when having not eaten anything.
  • End of December, 2023
    • Start using senna tea to increase bowel movements. I had multiple days in a row where my stomach was completely flat and healthy looking.
    • BUT, I left for Europe for a 3-week long study abroad trip, and now my stomach is back to being very bloated and constipated daily–despite using senna tea during the trip. I was discouraged because I was doing really well right up until I started traveling for study abroad.
• January 2024
  • January 29, 2024
    • Appointment with Dr. Hannah Hamlin. She said: Week 1: continue Psyllium Husk and magnesium for daily bowel movements. Week 2: Start probiotic sticks. Remember the first days can sometimes cause a worsening of symptoms. If by day 7, you aren’t back to baseline of feeling better, then decrease to ½ dose per day. Week 3: Start herbal antimicrobials. Follow up in 6 weeks.
• February 2024
  • February 3, 2024
    • Get an infection and have to take the antibiotic Amoxicillin. Halt all other medication until completed the round of Amoxicillin.
• March 2024
  • Continued the protocol prescribed in January, 2024. Within a week or so, my stomach was doing MUCH better after starting the probiotic sticks. Unfortunately, I got sick again for the second time and had to take Amoxicillin again. Then, my stomach was extremely bloated and felt like I had regressed. Spoke with Dr. Hannah Hamlin, and she advised that I continue the treatment described in January, 2024.
• April 2024
  • April 17, 2024
    • Met with Dr. Hamlin. Felt like my body was 80% better on a 100% scale.
    • She advised that I finish the protocol outlined in January, 2024.
  • April 29, 2024
    • I had been taking vitamins to try to prevent getting sick again (since I had been sick twice earlier in the year. Realized the Iron supplement I was taking may have been causing extra constipation–so I ceased taking all extra at-home vitamins other than Vitamin D. I continued the protocol that Dr. Hannah Hamlin had prescribed.
• May 2024
  • May 9, 2024
    • Finished the protocol outlined in January, 2024. My stomach honestly seemed worse.
    • Met with Dr. Hannah Hamlin. She prescribed that I start trying to do core exercises to strengthen my stomach and that I try meditation…

Symptoms:

• Constant bloating – look like I’m 7 months pregnant all the time
• Excessive gas
• Excessive bloating that causes discomfort and tiredness
• Constipation

Not consistent but symptoms I encountered in the past:

• Fatigue, tiredness
• Brain fog? (not fully sure if that’s what I am experiencing, but I will feel out-of-it at times.)

My 4 month old baby is EBF and because we are super pale I keep her out of the sun. Has anyone been advised to supplement with vitamin D?
I see it on the American parts of Reddit but the midwives and MACH nurses have never mentioned it to me.
EDIT: I call the nurse line and they said they don't recommend it, so that's interesting. l will book in with my GP and have a chat.

I (25M) experienced a big eczema flare up in February which finally began to subside after I was prescribed Elocon a couple weeks back (i was hesitant to use steroids but it got too bad i couldn’t not use it)
Anyway one week after stopping Elocon it’s coming back on my face and hands. I literally have not got a clue why. The only thing I can think at this stage is that the flare up began 2 weeks after i began regularly wet shaving for the first time, so a chemical allergy to shaving foam? But then again, the area i shave isn’t affected, but other parts of my body are
Today I picked up some Vitamin D supplements in case it’s a deficiency of some sort as here in the UK it’s been cloudy out for the past 8 months or so
I’m just confused more than anything. Why is this happening now after no changes in diet etc? why is it so vicious? what’s triggering it?

(Quick note: If this isn't the right place to ask please direct me to the right subreddit. Also I reside in Canada)
Is there a way to get your vitamins/mineral levels checked to see if you need to take vitamin supplements or to see what foods you need more (or less) of? I am hoping there is a way to get them checked/tested without going in for a doctors appointment since my next one is a long time away. I found out a year or so back how bad my iron deficientcy is and I'm thinking it could be good to get all nutrition or just see what else I may be lacking in. I saw on amazon that there was a test kit but I don't know if it's truely accurate.
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I’m a vegetarian and generally don’t eat very well, and I need to up my protein intake. I’m curious realistically if I would see any effect on my hair if I improved my diet. Bloodwork hasn’t shown any significant deficiencies, though my iron and vitamin D are on the lower side (taking vit d supplement now).