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[StevesPetRat]

Someday I will write a much longer post about the insane hell I have put myself through the past year... but not today.

Anyway, I currently have significant cognitive impairment, crippling anxiety about DOING anything (I made my life into any overly complicated mess and during this time experienced 2 month long bouts of what can only be described as subacute encephalitis producing 24/7 hyperadrenal states, once due to liver damage and another due to probably an enterovirus), some ataxia, peripheral and autonomic neuropathy symptoms, heart damage from the virus, some connective tissue and skin erosion, near cachexia rate of muscle loss, and CFS-like symptoms.

Also, my ESR (erythrocyte sedimentation rate) is 2, waiting on meridian valley viscosity results (see http://forums.phoeni...iscosity.14308/
and http://forums.phoeni...a-low-esr.3896/ for discussion), and I have Raynaud-like symptoms in my fingertips, toes, and glans (hey how's that for a 33rd birthday present?). I've also always had mild sleep apnea. So I figure improving my blood flow might help. Arginine certainly did for a while, as have ginger and cayenne. Oh, did I mention I'm about a month away from losing my job as a postdoc and have virtually no savings?

I think piracetam has some excellent effects both on plasma viscosity, cellular flexibility, anxiolysis, and cognition. I'm currently doing nattokinase, A, C, M and AdB12, occasional 400 mcg methylfolate, Omega 3s, acupuncture, 0.5 X 3 ALCAR, and NaRLA. Oh and acetyl-glutathione 2x300mg. This stack would've killed me before this started, now it barely keeps me on my feet.

Any suggestions for superior circulatory racetams? Other circulation enhancers? I added ginkgo, serrapeptase, and pycnogenol, too close together, one of them gave me a rash.

Thanks for reading!

[Adaptogen]

Piracetam, as far as I know, is the only racetam that has been studied as a treatment for raynauds. That being said, oxiracetam is the most effective racetam at restoring mitochondrial energy, with piracetam being the weakest. What that implicates, I couldn't say.

 

There is a lot of good information in this post: http://www.longecity...ndpost&p=520821

I would make sure you have adequate magnesium supplementation. Other supplements that might be worth considering: taurine(for liver repair/heart health), cacao for increased bloodflow and vasodilation, low dose green tea extract

 

Have you looked into C60-olive oil at all?

Edited by Adaptogen, 02 May 2014 - 07:35 AM.

[StevesPetRat]

Oh, right, forgot to mention the daily "natural calm", occasional mineral multi and krebs support. I can't attack the magnesium too hard, or my pulse goes weak. Maybe I shouldn't take it before sleep... it freaks me out how soft it gets while I'm lying there, and I always feel hypoxic the next day (same as if I roll on my back during the night). This isn't a common reaction but I guess it happens. Calcium seems to counter this though. Weirdly, my serum calcium levels are now on the higher side of normal. Oh, other people have seen this too: http://leechiropract...romyalgia/2697/

http://curezone.org/...m.asp?i=1202710

 

Thanks very much for the lead on oxiracetam. With CFS-ish stuff going on, mito boosting seems important as hell.

 

I actually have a bottle of C60oo. My elderly dog does well on it. I tried it a few times at lowish doses... not sure how to use it most effectively in my case. I fear the "oxidative rebounds" that some people are getting.

Edited by StevesPetRat, 02 May 2014 - 07:58 AM.