Took my first dose yesterday, and I think it definitely interacted with some of my other night-time medications, as I seemed to feel extra woozy. Went to bed at a decent hour (for me, 2:30am) but woke up extremely tired at 10am. Went back to bed. Slept past noon, and was still so tired/groggy and it was such a huge battle to get out of bed, I decided to compromise by not going back to sleep, but staying in bed and trying to read. Managed that for a bit, and finally got up after around an hour or so, but already I'm feeling very tired and lusting after my bed...I have something important to do tomorrow, family stuff, so I think I may lay off this particular medication experiment for a couple of days until that's done with and recovered from, and then resume next week at half the dose. (Current dose was 400 mg 2x daily. Perhaps I took the 1st two doses too close together though?)
Re-read and read some more of the posts on the aboutmecfs.org forums (http://www.forums.aboutmecfs.org/showthread.php?2077-Tagamet-(cimetidine)-for-CFIDS-(worked-for-me)/page6) and saw some people definitely felt like they had a Herxheimer Reaction (healing crisis, dieoff symptoms, etc.) and that some people improved on a very low dose. The book I posted the link to earlier also says that improvement was reported by some people taking only a sliver of Cimetidine, so...
Well, back to bed for a nap, or whatever type of rest may come, because I will have to attempt to tidy up my bedroom, at least, for tomorrow, among other preparations...and besides feeling tired and drowsy, my Circulatory/Dysautonomic problems are rearing their ugly head, and being supine is the only remedy for that.
Which reminds me, my doctor mentioned that it remains to be seen whether those problems are permanent damage to the Autonomic Nervous System, or if they will go away if the virus is successfully treated. I truly hope it's the latter, because if not, I'm not sure there's much point in getting better, because those encompass most of what disables me currently...
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Friday, June 25, 2010
Monday, May 10, 2010
A couple of great days...
Thursday (I think) Friday and Saturday were GREAT days. I guess I can't quite say I felt normal, but close enough to it that I'd take it any time if it's the best I could get to it. I ran errands. Lots and lots of errands. Mostly involving groceries.
I started my cat on raw foods, because I'm afraid she might be sick, she's been overweight for ages, no matter what diet food I've tried, and she's getting up there in years. First thing I saw when I Googled holistic treatments for cats was feeding a raw diet, and I'd wanted to do that years ago anyways, only I only had a mini-fridge at the time w/not much of a freezer to keep the food in. She took to it really well, and as morbid as it seems, especially with my being a strict lacto-ovo vegetarian of 10+ years. But it just seems right. It's only been about 50 years or so since the barns they used to hunt mice in disappeared and fewer since they became relegated to yards, and now, indoors only, like my baby. I still remember the days when gifts of birds, mice, and lizards were left on our doormats as offerings from our little hunters...
So along with the obvious changes I've seen from changing my own diet to include more raw and unprocessed foods, it really seemed like the right thing to do for her.
As for me, I went a little buck-wild on the sweets this weekend. Week, actually! Oddly, that's when my energy went up. BUT, it also caused the worst flare up of my IC symptoms I've had since January or so. I really believe there's a tie-in between IC and Candida. Before I had it, when my mother was suffering from it, I found and had her doctor put her on a treatment that included Diflucan (an anti-fungal) for a few weeks, and tons of probiotics, and she's been far better off since. She also notices sugar seems to set it off. And while I was sticking stictly to the Body Ecology Diet, my IC symptoms were pretty much managed except for some premenstrual flare ups.
Well I started back on it, and I'm back to itching like crazy, like I did at the beginning (I'm assuming for die off of the candida fed by my sugar binges) and my energy has plummetted so much that I was just now having to remind myself to breathe because it seemed like so much effort...But I'm going to get back to business. I'd lost over ten pounds...and if I can stick with it eventually the detox will taper down and I hope to feel like I did the past few days for far longer!
Saturday I went to 3 different stores AND the beach! Maybe I'll post pictures later! :)
I started my cat on raw foods, because I'm afraid she might be sick, she's been overweight for ages, no matter what diet food I've tried, and she's getting up there in years. First thing I saw when I Googled holistic treatments for cats was feeding a raw diet, and I'd wanted to do that years ago anyways, only I only had a mini-fridge at the time w/not much of a freezer to keep the food in. She took to it really well, and as morbid as it seems, especially with my being a strict lacto-ovo vegetarian of 10+ years. But it just seems right. It's only been about 50 years or so since the barns they used to hunt mice in disappeared and fewer since they became relegated to yards, and now, indoors only, like my baby. I still remember the days when gifts of birds, mice, and lizards were left on our doormats as offerings from our little hunters...
So along with the obvious changes I've seen from changing my own diet to include more raw and unprocessed foods, it really seemed like the right thing to do for her.
As for me, I went a little buck-wild on the sweets this weekend. Week, actually! Oddly, that's when my energy went up. BUT, it also caused the worst flare up of my IC symptoms I've had since January or so. I really believe there's a tie-in between IC and Candida. Before I had it, when my mother was suffering from it, I found and had her doctor put her on a treatment that included Diflucan (an anti-fungal) for a few weeks, and tons of probiotics, and she's been far better off since. She also notices sugar seems to set it off. And while I was sticking stictly to the Body Ecology Diet, my IC symptoms were pretty much managed except for some premenstrual flare ups.
Well I started back on it, and I'm back to itching like crazy, like I did at the beginning (I'm assuming for die off of the candida fed by my sugar binges) and my energy has plummetted so much that I was just now having to remind myself to breathe because it seemed like so much effort...But I'm going to get back to business. I'd lost over ten pounds...and if I can stick with it eventually the detox will taper down and I hope to feel like I did the past few days for far longer!
Saturday I went to 3 different stores AND the beach! Maybe I'll post pictures later! :)
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