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Health knowledge made personal
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Hey there People
Since having my treatments a few weeks ago I have definitely noticed less of a bombardment of symptoms. I certainly don't feel cured, but I'm not suffering as much. Where I've noticed a difference: is with my muscle fatigue and my pain around my shoulders/neck/head area (which was a mixture of pain and extreme feeling of uptightness). I think when you are being bombarded with symptoms, it's too overwhelming to try as to hazard a guess, or try to be aware as to what's coming from where... However, since things have calmed down slightly, I have begun to notice some things. As I have discussed before, I have low estrogen levels. For this I have to wear HRT patches. I was told to come off these for three days each month. I haven't been sleeping too bad lately and I haven't had too much uptightness. Last week I decided I would do my three days without the patches. For two nights it took a very long time to go to sleep and I had very bad tension/uptightness in my head/neck/jaw (I felt like my muscles couldn't relax). I was very frustrated with this, and couldn't understand why this had suddenly started to happen again. My doctor has explained to me in the past that he thought this tension was possibly linked to magnesium. So, I thought if this was the culprit this time then why did it suddenly start. Then it dawned on me that it started the first night I stopped using my patches. So I looked up estrogen & magnesium online (I found a lot under menopause), and I found that the two are interrelated. I thought this was very interesting. So I decided not to go a third night without the patch––and I had no problems with stiffness or getting to sleep. This very possibly could be coincidence, but it also may not?? If not I'm not sure exactly what was going on... It's something I will have to discuss with my doc next time I see him. I have read that too much estrogen can be bad too, which is why I was probably told to not use my patches for three days each month, so it certainly leaves a lot of questions unanswered. I guess I will have to wait and see. All of this prompted me to continue researching Magnesium Deficiencies, and I found it all very interesting. After reading, I really think that magnesium problems are thrown in amongst the problems in ME/CFS suffers (I also read that magnesium problems effect people with Fibromyalgia too). Many of the symptoms associated with magnesium deficiency are similar to some of the symptoms experienced by CFS/ME sufferers. I have read that, " more than 300 biochemical processes directly depend on magnesium". Anyway, that's enough from "doctor Treya". Just thought, that might help someone somewhere... Hope you are all well. Treya : )  |
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