I just exchanged some emails with Cort from Phoenix Rising asking him about NA sellers that would send to Brazil right now (really putting effort to get them) and telling him about my crazy protocol, stacks, and experiments, and he sent me back a form asking me to disclose my protocol for him to post on the forum so others could benefit. I'll be sure to do that.
I'd be interested in seeing your stack of treatments.
I have spent over a decade trying out all sorts of supplements and drugs to try to improve my ME/CFS. The only major success I have had was with high-dose selenium (400 micrograms daily), which took me from the edge of severe ME/CFS, up to being at the edge of mild ME/CFS. Selenium is antiviral for coxsackievirus B, one of the main viruses linked to ME/CFS (and my blood test showed I have active CVB4). Selenium also has other benefits, like boosting the antioxidant enzyme glutathione peroxidase.
As soon as I stop selenium, I slip back to being much worse within 5 days. I posted details of my selenium protocol in this thread on the Phoenix Rising ME/CFS forums.
Some people who tried my selenium protocol also benefited; though like most ME/CFS treatments, others found this protocol did not help at all. That's often case with all ME/CFS treatments: what helps one patient may do nothing for the next.
You might like my roadmap to ME/CFS testing and treatment. This is a document I slowly compiled over many years, after reading about ME/CFS treatments on online forums like Phoenix Rising. The roadmap lists the ME/CFS treatments which are used by ME/CFS specialist doctors in the US, and which have a track record of helping ME/CFS patients.
Treatments which are not too expensive and worth trying include vitamin B12 methylcobalamin injections (or the B12 transdermal oils, which are easier to administer than injections), the immunomodulator oxymatrine, low-dose naltrexone, and the immunomodulator drug tenofovir.
You might also like my recent thread: List of ME/CFS Recovery and Improvement Stories.
the unbelievable gift of "knowing" and "reading" people, kind of like "getting inside them" that I developed.... it's pretty much gone.
I am exactly the same. I used to have a strong empathy, I could tune into other people's minds very easily. Not always a good thing, because when someone's mind is dark or depressed, the same feeling may come over you too. But overall I considered my empathy as a gift.
However now with ME/CFS, I would say that 90% of my empathetic skills in tuning into other minds has disappeared. I find this very sad, because I now feel more isolated from other people; before, when I had lots of empathy, I felt very mentally intimate with others, because I could feel their minds.
I think empathy may be due to naturally having high levels of consciousness, whereas I think ME/CFS dulls consciousness. ME/CFS brain fog feels like a deficit of consciousness. So maybe that's why ME/CFS reduces empathy.
Where did you get this idea from?
Originally I used to take creatine orally, in doses of around 5 grams. I observed a mild spiritual effect from oral creatine at that dose.
Then I read that creatine can increase levels of the hormone DHT (dihydrotestosterone), which is associated with increased aggression and hair loss. So then I thought, what if I snort some creating powder, in order to get it directly into my brain (the nose is known to provide a fast route of getting substances into the brain, even pharmaceutical companies use it). Then I could direct the creatine into my brain, but not have much creatine in the rest of my body, where it would increase DHT.
And sure enough, I found that just 100 mg of creatine monohydrate powder snorted into my nose would produce the same consciousness increasing effects as 5 grams of oral creatine. Just don't do this outside a police station!
I should add that I have often experimented with snorting various supplements into my nose, in order to target the brain. I think it's safe, but be careful not to snort anything acidic, as you would not believe how much that stings. I once tried to snort some vitamin C in the form of ascorbic acid powder into my nose, and it instantly caused a terrible stinging pain, and I had to rush very fast to the bathroom to wash it out with water!
You buy or make your collidal platinum?
I bought it. Also tried colloidal silver, and colloidal gold. The silver did not seem to help; the gold did not seem to do much either. The platinum only had mild spiritual effects.
Also very funny of you to say that (ie. increasing emotions). I've been looking for something to actually "feel feelings" for years, much before the CFS thing, but had lately come to the conclusion that it's okay and normal for me to not feel emotions
Having blunted emotions (what psychologists call "blunted affect") is actually a known symptom of ME/CFS. My emotions became quite weakened as a result of ME/CFS. However I never had strong emotions even when healthy; I was more of a logical scientific type, although with lots of empathy.
I always found I could offer empathetic help and understanding to other people, but I was never good at offering sympathy, because I think you have to be emotionally strong to give sympathy. I think empathy is a spiritual/consciousness-mediated connection to others, whereas sympathy is an emotional connection.
So even when healthy, I was always looking for something that might increase my emotions, and one day I started experimenting with myrrh essential oil, and noticed a powerful boosting of emotional strength. It felt really nice, all of a sudden I was that more emotional person that I had always wanted to be.
As you say, the Magi offering frankincense and myrrh was wise, one enhancing spirit and the other enhancing emotion.
Unfortunately not long after I discovered these emotional benefits of myrrh, I was hit with ME/CFS in 2006, after catching a virus that caused a bad sore throat initially, which I caught from kissing someone on a date (I think lots of people unknowingly catch viruses from their amorous activities, as deep kissing is a good way to spread viruses person to person).
ME/CFS then weakened my emotions much more, and now I find myrrh does not work for me at all. But when I was healthy, it worked very powerfully, you could not mistake it, because the emotional effect was strong.
I have been experimenting with numerous supplements and drugs to try to boost my ME/CFS blunted emotions, and I listed some of the things that help in this post. But I usually find that supplements which work to increase my emotions would only do this for a short time of a few hours, and then would stop working the next day. So if I took the same supplement the next day, it would do nothing. Which is strange, almost like developing a tolerance to the supplement. So I would have to take a break from that supplement for a week, and only use it occasionally.
That post also lists supplements I found have some slight benefit for my anhedonia, which I also have (anhedonia is the loss of the feeling of pleasure from life's normally pleasurable activities).
Anyway, I have just ordered this agricultural fulvic/humic acid product: Lignohumate MAX (1 liter for £16), so look forward to trying that.
Edited by Hip, 05 September 2020 - 04:16 PM.
