Oddbean new post about login | logout After about 25 years longer than you with almost all the symptoms you mention, I came to realize that the base issue is inflammation and that it works like a chain reaction with feedback. Food, infection, etc can start inflammation anywhere then inflammatory agents spread everywhere increasing the likelihood that other areas enter the inflammatory state. The feedback occurs because the overall inflammatory state of the whole system increases the inflammation of the original trigger as well. Nasty stuff. Its a self-perpetuating cycle, difficult to stop by eating better etc. After years of it I found the best way is to clamp down hard on it with antiinflammatories for a few days, then ease up slowly (for your kidneys' sake). Years ago I started with steroids and I was amazed how effective they were but long-term use was advised against. Recently I found etoricoxib (90mg/day until the inflammation levels reset - its very noticeable, then slow down until early symptoms appear again (mine are usually the joint pains). I'm down to 90mg every month on average to stop that chain reaction starting as needed. Do you have gastric reflux too? I was surprised when the antiinflammatories helped there too. Are you discussing this somewhere? I'm thinking the toe tingling, numbness and calf cramps are real damage beyond the inflammatory cause - its not getting worse now, but other than that it doesn't seem to be improved by antiinflammatories Specialists over 30 years or so have been quite useless in my case.
yeah, it's celiac though, the list of symptoms matches up perfectly secondary problems have developed due to the inflammation and digestion problems, especially potassium deficiency and magnesium deficiency i get ZERO benefit from any kind of steroids, the only thing that stops the asthma is stopping the allergens, that's mainly wheat, but i guess this particular kind of eggs here are now in the same basket several of these problems diminished a lot when i was on a milk diet, but the neuropathy started to get worse and i put on a lot of weight i only get reflux from eating certain kinds of foods... which are probably gluten or seed oil containing in most cases in any case, once a gain 🤦♂️ yes the eggs, i already figured this one out like 4 months ago and here i am again, forgotten again fasting and beef and no wheat or eggs all will probably help... cannabis helps stop the cramps but i was only taking CBD/HHC stuff, which was sorta half working for a few days and then stopped wolking so much
Etoricoxib is a non-steroidal antiinflammatory. Worth a try at least. I guess my basic thesis is that you won't easily stop this feedback cycle so easily by reducing the triggers and you really need to clamp down on it to get a new base to work on.
well, that's why i want to go for the raw milk/grass fed beef this has just reminded me yet again that i can't tolerate standard EU regulated eggs, has to be legit free range or nothing i'm cooking regularly with beef tallow now, and i am sure it is helping, and as for inflammation, i'm taking MSM and also spraying 60% DMSO with magnesium chloride in it they both are reducing the cramping problem... it was just the eggs, it crept up on me, takes about 1-2 weeks of daily eating these eggs before it starts probably if i would actually cut out seed oil fried potato chips that would help a lot, Jack Kruse specifically says that carb foods cooked in canola/sunflower shit have acrylamide in them which contributes to peripheral neuropathy he also mentions in one text i got about it that the standard treatments are antinflammatories and painkillers and both long term are making you sicker than eliminating these things nah, i'm making some progress, really, the MSM is definitely a step forward, i've got more energy now and everything, it's a natural antiinflammatory, and the DMSO is both opening up the peripheral circulation and putting magnesium there in the muscles that are having problems depolarising, which is partly due to the nerves but partly due to low potassium and magnesium levels just have to keep the eggs out of the diet, i'm too nervous about it at this point to even try, if i can even find them, free range, i just don't trust these EU farmers at all, they keep on pandering to brussells and the amount of sickness it is causing just keeps getting worse every year