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ok thx on the surface, that sounds like my overnight pattern if not actually sleeping. i will take a look!

oh interesting. here, the local lab's range for TSH looks more narrow (0.32-4.00 mIU/L), and for T4 it looks lower (9-19 pmol/L). either way, from here it does look like your TSH is on the high side. that said, these look interesting: ...estimated normal, low, and high ranges of TSH levels for adult...

Hi Jaded! i have a few hormone prescriptions going now. it's hard to say conclusively, but i think i feel better in a few ways but it's harder to see progress in others. please forgive any repetition in the following. one of the earliest was the armour desiccated thyroid 30mg/d. i was surprised that...

Menopausal symptoms and hormone therapy in women with multiple sclerosis: A baseline-controlled study https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S221103482200606X "Improvements in vasomotor, depressive, and insomnia symptoms observed during one year of MHT are encouraging and suggest th...

ok this is going to sound ridiculous but here goes: I have to strongly recommend magnesium as a laxative! so, since you definitely need something for reflux, please consider zantac 360 which doesn't have the mineral depletion, sweating, or kidney damage reported for omeprazole. https://www.rxlist.co...

The role of magnesium in pain https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK507245/ " The beneficial effects of magnesium treatment have also been demonstrated in patients suffering from neuropathic pain ..." How can proton pump inhibitors damage central and peripheral nervous systems? https://ww...

it came up bc i put pennsylvania in the search terms. the product photo could be better. there's help chat on the site i notice, and the shop gets rave reviews by the looks of things. potentially a moot pt anyway!

i watched an episode of 'the nature of things' last eve, and it was all about air pollution. i hadn't realized that when you smell a toxin, it's getting into your brain through the olfactory nerves and right past the bbb. :O

found these, 400mg/d would be a good daily amount - esp if you've been in decline for years and years. looks like giving it a try for a week would cost even less than a test, and just be good for you either way: https://www.burmanshealthshop.com/produ ... glycinate/

i love this. i'm reminded of park prescriptions https://www.parkrx.org/ https://www.parkprescriptions.ca/ and forest bathing Effects of Shinrin-Yoku (Forest Bathing) and Nature Therapy on Mental Health: a Systematic Review and Meta-analysis https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11469-020-00363-4

Post-cholecystectomy syndrome and magnesium deficiency "... MD was confirmed by serum and erythrocytic low Mg levels... Supplemental therapy was provided with Tiomag (Mg gluconate and methionine)... for 6 weeks or more. In 50 patients, PCES symptomatology disappeared after this treatment."...

The effect of magnesium oral therapy on spasticity in a patient with multiple sclerosis "... We found a significant improvement in the spasticity after only 1 week from the onset of the treatment ... an improvement in the range of motion and in the measures of angles at resting position in low...

...I'd have to secure an immediate alternative. I cannot quit something like Omeprazole not even for a week. i hear you! not suggesting you go med-free at all. ranitidine could be worth a try. might help you avoid both the unmedicated IBS nightmare and omeprazole's sweating side effect. ... looks l...

frustrating indeed! i strongly encourage you to try magnesium for the charlie horse/spasm issue, plus a break from omeprazole for the sweating issue. all the best!

hi again, i was thinking of a couple folks i'd met years back, who had happened to be on PPIs and just randomly broke their legs - both while simply walking. completely separate and unrelated incidents with only ppis and fracture in common other than both of them being middle-aged guys. at the time,...