This morning i was having a bit of trouble with fatigue. Caffeine wasn't making any impression on it, nor carnitine nor tyrosine. I decided to try some nicotine, and all of a sudden i had an urge to get out of my chair and work on the powder room some more. The rest of the afternoon flew! I finished removing the wallpaper from all of the west wall i could reach without a ladder, and called it a day.
When we're feeling more-or-less GOOD, with "normal" energy levels, work and exercise feel good too. People who don't have chronic fatigue issues probably only experience this kind of weariness, which carries with it the satisfaction of accomplishment and the promise of good rest and returned vitality tomorrow. This is the way it should be. Unfortunately, some don't share this experience -- theirs is completely otherwise.
And this is one of the reasons that normal people can't empathize with "chronic fatigue" sufferers. Hell, even the name of this problem is felt by its victims to be a minimization of the disease; while some have widely-varying day-to-day energy levels, others are completely prostrated by the lack of available energy for the essential activities of living. Their lives are devastated by inability and they're not even taken seriously by much of the medical establishment -- they're constantly told that they're malingerers and it's all in their heads.
So many medical problems have fatigue as a significant symptom, i can imagine that pinning down the diagnosis IS tricky. As a hypothyroid, i've always had energy issues, and my fatigue has waxed and waned in a manner not at all predictable. Fatigue crops up in association with neurological problems, too, and with mitochondrial issues and in concert with difficulties in energy-retrieval and ... innumerable others that i'm not qualified to list.
In the last few decades, CFS/ME [(Chronic Fatigue Syndrome/Myalgic Encephalomyelitis) and its aliases post-viral fatigue syndrome (PVFS), chronic fatigue immune dysfunction syndrome (CFIDS), or by several other terms] HAS gained some ground, though the whole situation is far from well-defined OR understood. The sufferers and their doctors have amassed quite a few techniques for improving energy and quality-of-life, and i'm hoping to be able to pick their brains for some good pointers. It's turning out to be a very interesting study!
You see, i WANT to be able to enjoy more afternoons like i did today -- expending some energy i actually have TO SPARE, and accomplishing things.
Friday, August 30, 2013
"seeking cures"
Oh brother.... If anything engages my gag reflex more than what i wrote about the other day, it's solicitations and races to help FIND CURES for what ails us. It's not the concept of actually curing illness -- if only!!! Alas, no. What they want is to look like they're TRYING to do something constructive.
What they're actually trying to do is fund drug research in order to market something new -- it doesn't even have to be something effective! Most pharmaceuticals have a piss-poor track record for alleviating suffering, especially in the psychiatric world from what i hear. And "they" want to put statins in the water supply....
A dear friend was very recently diagnosed with pancreatic cancer and his prognosis is bad. This has prompted me to revisit a few sites that discuss cancer from a professional and informed point of view, and ... what can i say? The state of the union in the treatment of this sad illness is a bloody JOKE. Same-ol'-same-ol' poisoning of the patient in hopes that they'll kill the renegade cells before they kill the host -- nothing more! In other parts of the world they're "softening up" the cancer's defenses with enzymes before administering the poison, to give a little advantage to the victim but we don't want to do that here! We want to pretend that American medicine is evidence-driven and state-of-the-art, and our propaganda machines have convinced the poor suckers that it is SO.
For chrisesake, if _I_ can find reasonable evidence that at very least a non-omega-6-based ketogenic diet, and the use of serrapeptase SUPPORT conventional treatment in a safe and cheap way, there's no f'ing excuse for the resistance that both get in the medical industry. Doctors, alas, support each other in faith and confidence: they give each other the secret handshake and assume the other guy knows what he's talking about. They rarely suspect each other of ulterior motives or stubbornness or IGNORANCE of actual data -- more's the pity.
So "survivors" are turned into shills supporting the systems that let them down in the first place. I pity them as enthusiastic suckers, while scorning them as deluded and indoctrinated, and so addicted to sugar that they aren't even willing to give up their fix to help their bodies heal. They've been poisoned, and poisoned, and poisoned again; assaulted with knives and ray-beams, and they go on to praise their assailants and dig up money for them to continue doing it to others.
There are damn few "cures" in this world, mostly "treatments." The treatments some doctors and researchers like best are the ones that keep the victims coming back for more till their resources run out, they're discarded by the system that didn't care about them from the beginning, and they die in misery. People with respect for this appalling industry wonder why i despise it so much; why, those annual cancer screenings they've been brainwashed into taking every year or so throughout their adulthood "saved their lives"!!! Pardon my skepticism -- i don't necessarily believe that to be true. I strongly suspect that these screenings are designed to scare the patient into undertaking procedures which are more harmful than helpful in an awful lot of cases.
The world of nutritional information about which i've become so passionate has taught me about far more than food and supplements. It's taught me that the people who SHOULD be looking out for the health and well-being of their "flocks" are more interested in their incomes and reputations than THE REASON THEY THEORETICALLY WENT INTO THE FIELD (to help people) or THE OATH THEY TOOK UPON BEGINNING PRACTICE (to first do no harm). Their outdated ideas and bad advice are killing people, and they don't give a shit. Hell, if they were ONLY killing i'd be less censorious of them -- they're causing needless pain and suffering, and they just don't give a damn. They could be ameliorating the lot of miserable people everywhere, and it's not that they can't, but a shocking proportion of them WON'T.
What they're actually trying to do is fund drug research in order to market something new -- it doesn't even have to be something effective! Most pharmaceuticals have a piss-poor track record for alleviating suffering, especially in the psychiatric world from what i hear. And "they" want to put statins in the water supply....
A dear friend was very recently diagnosed with pancreatic cancer and his prognosis is bad. This has prompted me to revisit a few sites that discuss cancer from a professional and informed point of view, and ... what can i say? The state of the union in the treatment of this sad illness is a bloody JOKE. Same-ol'-same-ol' poisoning of the patient in hopes that they'll kill the renegade cells before they kill the host -- nothing more! In other parts of the world they're "softening up" the cancer's defenses with enzymes before administering the poison, to give a little advantage to the victim but we don't want to do that here! We want to pretend that American medicine is evidence-driven and state-of-the-art, and our propaganda machines have convinced the poor suckers that it is SO.
For chrisesake, if _I_ can find reasonable evidence that at very least a non-omega-6-based ketogenic diet, and the use of serrapeptase SUPPORT conventional treatment in a safe and cheap way, there's no f'ing excuse for the resistance that both get in the medical industry. Doctors, alas, support each other in faith and confidence: they give each other the secret handshake and assume the other guy knows what he's talking about. They rarely suspect each other of ulterior motives or stubbornness or IGNORANCE of actual data -- more's the pity.
So "survivors" are turned into shills supporting the systems that let them down in the first place. I pity them as enthusiastic suckers, while scorning them as deluded and indoctrinated, and so addicted to sugar that they aren't even willing to give up their fix to help their bodies heal. They've been poisoned, and poisoned, and poisoned again; assaulted with knives and ray-beams, and they go on to praise their assailants and dig up money for them to continue doing it to others.
There are damn few "cures" in this world, mostly "treatments." The treatments some doctors and researchers like best are the ones that keep the victims coming back for more till their resources run out, they're discarded by the system that didn't care about them from the beginning, and they die in misery. People with respect for this appalling industry wonder why i despise it so much; why, those annual cancer screenings they've been brainwashed into taking every year or so throughout their adulthood "saved their lives"!!! Pardon my skepticism -- i don't necessarily believe that to be true. I strongly suspect that these screenings are designed to scare the patient into undertaking procedures which are more harmful than helpful in an awful lot of cases.
The world of nutritional information about which i've become so passionate has taught me about far more than food and supplements. It's taught me that the people who SHOULD be looking out for the health and well-being of their "flocks" are more interested in their incomes and reputations than THE REASON THEY THEORETICALLY WENT INTO THE FIELD (to help people) or THE OATH THEY TOOK UPON BEGINNING PRACTICE (to first do no harm). Their outdated ideas and bad advice are killing people, and they don't give a shit. Hell, if they were ONLY killing i'd be less censorious of them -- they're causing needless pain and suffering, and they just don't give a damn. They could be ameliorating the lot of miserable people everywhere, and it's not that they can't, but a shocking proportion of them WON'T.
Thursday, August 29, 2013
feeling much better -- on a diet aimed at lower histamine
Whew -- although i'm awake and it's the middle of the night, i'm feeling MUUUUUCH better. The DOH reports mold and ragweed readings still in the "high" range but grass pollen has dropped down to "moderate." For the most part, i've been trying to eat a lower histamine/tyramine diet, but i've made a few additions -- and i even got a little accidental mold contact in the house in the last 12 hours!
Part of the improvement MAY be attributable to a short fasting period i enjoyed yesterday -- on Tuesday evening we ate a whole duck between us (cooked in a "new" and wonderful way as described in Dana Carpender's "Five Hundred Paleo Recipes" "Unsightly but Delicious Duck").... Well, eat half a duckling, and you're not going to be hungry again for quite some time! I drank mostly black coffee until Wednesday dinner, at which time i couldn't even finish my (admittedly huge) ribeye steak ... though i polished off my share of the swiss chard with asian spices that J prepared to go with it. With this i allowed myself about eight or nine ounces of petite syrah ... oh, and twice during the afternoon (when i started to feel hunger again) i had a small square of the egg-cheese-jalapeno preparation that's on my recipe page. Yum.
I started working on the next house-rehab project -- the downstairs powder room where the wallpaper started to fail. That's where i found the mold, behind the toilet (which is under the window). Some of the previous owners' rehabs have been very poorly done, and every time i pull down old wallpaper i find things that make me roll my eyes in disbelief. Friends, if you have to make repairs to old plaster walls, do yourself a favor and put a layer a primer between it and your new wallpaper.... I'm surprised my sinuses didn't start screaming at me, working in that tiny airless room, up-close-and-personal with mildew ... or whatever it was.
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Got back to sleep around 5:30 and got a few more hours -- and i still feel very good! :-) I guess my next experimental move will be to [gasp] go outdoors for a little while. We'll see if the summer heat (which finally arrived) makes me feel crummy again.
My husband, though, says he now feels symptoms of a chest-cold and has for a couple of days -- dating to when we got the new vacuum cleaner and air filter. Although our rugs and therefore the air we breathe are much cleaner now, there's no doubt i stirred up some almost-literal "old shit" (the stuff that Spense scratched off himself, which then got trodden into the carpets). This may be an indication that he's catching something i just got over. Bear in mind that J almost NEVER gets sick -- he's got the most robust body i've ever heard of, even compared to my mother's 90 years of generally good health! Back in the days he was smoking, he was always able to blow the lung-testing machine to the top of its scale, whereas i (nonsmoker) barely got it into the "normal" range. I'm grateful he's learned tolerance of my wimpiness!
Today's pollen and mold have been reported -- mold and grass pollen have both moderated and only ragweed is still high. Quality of life continues to improve. ;-)
Doing a last proofread while sitting down for awhile -- just got finished making more mayo and oopsie rolls, and clarifying the duck fat i saved the other day. Also reclarified the last tallow i saved, but alas it's developed a little rancid smell -- this will get saved in the "ordinary tallow" bag for use in my new betty lamp, or making candles. Damn.
Part of the improvement MAY be attributable to a short fasting period i enjoyed yesterday -- on Tuesday evening we ate a whole duck between us (cooked in a "new" and wonderful way as described in Dana Carpender's "Five Hundred Paleo Recipes" "Unsightly but Delicious Duck").... Well, eat half a duckling, and you're not going to be hungry again for quite some time! I drank mostly black coffee until Wednesday dinner, at which time i couldn't even finish my (admittedly huge) ribeye steak ... though i polished off my share of the swiss chard with asian spices that J prepared to go with it. With this i allowed myself about eight or nine ounces of petite syrah ... oh, and twice during the afternoon (when i started to feel hunger again) i had a small square of the egg-cheese-jalapeno preparation that's on my recipe page. Yum.
I started working on the next house-rehab project -- the downstairs powder room where the wallpaper started to fail. That's where i found the mold, behind the toilet (which is under the window). Some of the previous owners' rehabs have been very poorly done, and every time i pull down old wallpaper i find things that make me roll my eyes in disbelief. Friends, if you have to make repairs to old plaster walls, do yourself a favor and put a layer a primer between it and your new wallpaper.... I'm surprised my sinuses didn't start screaming at me, working in that tiny airless room, up-close-and-personal with mildew ... or whatever it was.
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Got back to sleep around 5:30 and got a few more hours -- and i still feel very good! :-) I guess my next experimental move will be to [gasp] go outdoors for a little while. We'll see if the summer heat (which finally arrived) makes me feel crummy again.
My husband, though, says he now feels symptoms of a chest-cold and has for a couple of days -- dating to when we got the new vacuum cleaner and air filter. Although our rugs and therefore the air we breathe are much cleaner now, there's no doubt i stirred up some almost-literal "old shit" (the stuff that Spense scratched off himself, which then got trodden into the carpets). This may be an indication that he's catching something i just got over. Bear in mind that J almost NEVER gets sick -- he's got the most robust body i've ever heard of, even compared to my mother's 90 years of generally good health! Back in the days he was smoking, he was always able to blow the lung-testing machine to the top of its scale, whereas i (nonsmoker) barely got it into the "normal" range. I'm grateful he's learned tolerance of my wimpiness!
Today's pollen and mold have been reported -- mold and grass pollen have both moderated and only ragweed is still high. Quality of life continues to improve. ;-)
Doing a last proofread while sitting down for awhile -- just got finished making more mayo and oopsie rolls, and clarifying the duck fat i saved the other day. Also reclarified the last tallow i saved, but alas it's developed a little rancid smell -- this will get saved in the "ordinary tallow" bag for use in my new betty lamp, or making candles. Damn.
Wednesday, August 28, 2013
it WAS "the other thing" ... i think
HEADBANGONDESK
How could i have been so stupid? I think i CAN guess what it was that set off my allergy/histamine system so badly! It could easily have been the same thing that made my dog so sick.
Not that i know EXACTLY what it was, but it was definitely bacterial because it responded to antibiotics. It was something that he picked up on the farm, and which i suspected might have been associated with the water-well, because that had just been repaired when we arrived in VA. All the way home, Spenser chewed on himself, and it took me a long time to get his coat back in order (using his brush), because he was too stressed to bathe. I continue to brush of course, and have to remove hair from it every time. That brush must be teeming with "buggies."
Also "of course" i wash my hands after brushing him, but not just after casually touching the brush.
There are many kinds of infective agents and they can do all kinds of different things to us -- not all of which are logical and intuitive. If i may use our dear Sidereal as an example, some of the fatigue she has suffered may have originated in a years-ago infection....
One hint that i was already a little fragile while on vacation lies in the fact that the chigger bites i suffered made huge bumps instead of the tiny ones i usually get. My fault -- i SHOULD have hunted down a can of repellant before J and i walked the length of our son's property, and me having put on shorts that morning! I'm lucky i didn't pick up ticks, too.
If i were not on a very-low-sugar diet, might i have gotten as sick as Spense was? (It's not like he actually eats sugar, and he is on a grain-free diet, but the sweet-potato filler in his kibble is bound to give him blood-sugar spikes larger than my usual.) He never was able to tell me exactly where it "hurt" but he obviously felt like shit and needed extra rest ... just like i did. His poor little eyes got all inflamed and goopy, and his white fur is still stained from it to the point he still looks a little like the walking dead with their dark circles....
So my malaise may have been the direct descendant of his, and i didn't need antibiotics because my natural biota were able to deal with the problem. I just had to be extra-careful of my diet and environmental contacts, as he was when he refused to eat and spent most of his time in a quiet corner. He feels much better now, you can tell because he now enjoys a healthy appetite and a propensity to growl at J about toy-possession.
How could i have been so stupid? I think i CAN guess what it was that set off my allergy/histamine system so badly! It could easily have been the same thing that made my dog so sick.
Not that i know EXACTLY what it was, but it was definitely bacterial because it responded to antibiotics. It was something that he picked up on the farm, and which i suspected might have been associated with the water-well, because that had just been repaired when we arrived in VA. All the way home, Spenser chewed on himself, and it took me a long time to get his coat back in order (using his brush), because he was too stressed to bathe. I continue to brush of course, and have to remove hair from it every time. That brush must be teeming with "buggies."
Also "of course" i wash my hands after brushing him, but not just after casually touching the brush.
There are many kinds of infective agents and they can do all kinds of different things to us -- not all of which are logical and intuitive. If i may use our dear Sidereal as an example, some of the fatigue she has suffered may have originated in a years-ago infection....
One hint that i was already a little fragile while on vacation lies in the fact that the chigger bites i suffered made huge bumps instead of the tiny ones i usually get. My fault -- i SHOULD have hunted down a can of repellant before J and i walked the length of our son's property, and me having put on shorts that morning! I'm lucky i didn't pick up ticks, too.
If i were not on a very-low-sugar diet, might i have gotten as sick as Spense was? (It's not like he actually eats sugar, and he is on a grain-free diet, but the sweet-potato filler in his kibble is bound to give him blood-sugar spikes larger than my usual.) He never was able to tell me exactly where it "hurt" but he obviously felt like shit and needed extra rest ... just like i did. His poor little eyes got all inflamed and goopy, and his white fur is still stained from it to the point he still looks a little like the walking dead with their dark circles....
So my malaise may have been the direct descendant of his, and i didn't need antibiotics because my natural biota were able to deal with the problem. I just had to be extra-careful of my diet and environmental contacts, as he was when he refused to eat and spent most of his time in a quiet corner. He feels much better now, you can tell because he now enjoys a healthy appetite and a propensity to growl at J about toy-possession.
Tuesday, August 27, 2013
gag
Every time i see the word "detox" on a blog or facebook, i gag a little bit.
It's usually promoting some kind of product to "flush your liver," and at other times to urge a vegetarian diet. A lot of sincere and wanna-be-helpful people have fallen for the BS, and encourage it. It's still BS.
The body is DESIGNED to filter and discard toxins. What it has trouble dealing with, it sequesters instead. Your conscious part of the process is primarily to AVOID CONSUMING TOXINS IN THE FIRST PLACE. Subsequently, when successful dieting may set some free, your power lies in knowing that your nasty symptoms come from the released substance and not that LCing itself is at fault for making you feel bad.
Like candida die-off symptoms, it can happen. Does this mean we need to increase our sugar intake, so the candida can be fat and happy again? ...Hardly.
Analogous to "new vegan high," when you change your input, some of the results are not direct cause-and-affect. Do you REALLY want to make your liver happy? (...'Cause it's actually pretty easy and pleasant.) Lay off the omega-6 oils. Avoid fructose and be careful with the alcohol. Eat plenty of nice clean saturated fats. Go for the organic and grassfed end of the "healthy foods" spectrum.
Apparently, traditional cultures have been cognizant of the importance of the liver for a long time -- only the modern world has come to neglect it so horribly. What i see when i go out in public ... right and left, people with fatty livers hanging out from under their ribcages, pushing their subcutaneous fat stores out even further. Not a healthy sight, and it's ALL OVER the produce section of Whole Foods and Trader Joe's.
It's usually promoting some kind of product to "flush your liver," and at other times to urge a vegetarian diet. A lot of sincere and wanna-be-helpful people have fallen for the BS, and encourage it. It's still BS.
The body is DESIGNED to filter and discard toxins. What it has trouble dealing with, it sequesters instead. Your conscious part of the process is primarily to AVOID CONSUMING TOXINS IN THE FIRST PLACE. Subsequently, when successful dieting may set some free, your power lies in knowing that your nasty symptoms come from the released substance and not that LCing itself is at fault for making you feel bad.
Like candida die-off symptoms, it can happen. Does this mean we need to increase our sugar intake, so the candida can be fat and happy again? ...Hardly.
Analogous to "new vegan high," when you change your input, some of the results are not direct cause-and-affect. Do you REALLY want to make your liver happy? (...'Cause it's actually pretty easy and pleasant.) Lay off the omega-6 oils. Avoid fructose and be careful with the alcohol. Eat plenty of nice clean saturated fats. Go for the organic and grassfed end of the "healthy foods" spectrum.
Apparently, traditional cultures have been cognizant of the importance of the liver for a long time -- only the modern world has come to neglect it so horribly. What i see when i go out in public ... right and left, people with fatty livers hanging out from under their ribcages, pushing their subcutaneous fat stores out even further. Not a healthy sight, and it's ALL OVER the produce section of Whole Foods and Trader Joe's.
Monday, August 26, 2013
observations continue and diet purity begins again
Despite the lack of rain here, the mold reading in St. Louis is back up to high, as are the pollen levels of grass and ragweed. Since "Dysonizing*" the entire second floor of the house and "Idylisizing" the bedroom, my allergies/histamine issues have been much better. When i stepped out into the backyard, though, the fatigue recommenced -- the steamy, motionless air and relentless sunshine just flattened me. I've been forgoing wine (one short Campari-and-soda yesterday) most days but had some mushrooms during the course of the week. Heigh-ho, life is a balancing act....
My husband announced last night, over our dinner of leftovers, that he was going to start induction again today, so we're both back on the wagon. Just as well -- with our busy year and many recent trips, my weight has inched up two or three pounds with each excursion till my "skinny" size 6 jeans are on the snug side. (I completely wore out my "fat 8s" so there's no going back.) So my breakfast was bulletproof coffee (and J had his favorite scramble), then we went to Schnuck's and Costco and stocked up on dietary staples: ground beef, strip steaks, rib roast, chicken breasts and deli meat (to make breadless turkey clubs), pork rinds, eggs, cream cheese, and so on. J is banging around the kitchen as i type this, concocting meatloaf. There's both a duckling and a rack of lamb thawing in the sink.
Compare this to how i USED to feel going on a diet before LCHF! Dread and a grim tightening of the belt, as i anticipated hunger and dissatisfaction, and miserable hours on the treadmill or stationary bicycle. Thank all the gods that i got curious about that Atkins guy!
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* OMG i can't believe how much dust and hair that machine can pick up! i've been using a vintage Kirby, and it's been completely put to shame. The two bedside rugs from the rarely-used best guest room yielded as much debris to the Dyson as our bedroom historically surrendered to the old vacuum....
My husband announced last night, over our dinner of leftovers, that he was going to start induction again today, so we're both back on the wagon. Just as well -- with our busy year and many recent trips, my weight has inched up two or three pounds with each excursion till my "skinny" size 6 jeans are on the snug side. (I completely wore out my "fat 8s" so there's no going back.) So my breakfast was bulletproof coffee (and J had his favorite scramble), then we went to Schnuck's and Costco and stocked up on dietary staples: ground beef, strip steaks, rib roast, chicken breasts and deli meat (to make breadless turkey clubs), pork rinds, eggs, cream cheese, and so on. J is banging around the kitchen as i type this, concocting meatloaf. There's both a duckling and a rack of lamb thawing in the sink.
Compare this to how i USED to feel going on a diet before LCHF! Dread and a grim tightening of the belt, as i anticipated hunger and dissatisfaction, and miserable hours on the treadmill or stationary bicycle. Thank all the gods that i got curious about that Atkins guy!
_________
* OMG i can't believe how much dust and hair that machine can pick up! i've been using a vintage Kirby, and it's been completely put to shame. The two bedside rugs from the rarely-used best guest room yielded as much debris to the Dyson as our bedroom historically surrendered to the old vacuum....
Friday, August 23, 2013
is it this, that or the other thing?
Frustratingly, my allergy issues are continuing, despite my attempts to minimize histamine triggers. I'm glad that our area has a very good resource to help track environmental irritants -- most cities probably have some such resource, but i seem to recall that the one i accessed in Salt Lake City wasn't nearly as good as St. Louis'....
Last night after i turned out my reading-lamp, i got up again and visited the "medicine cabinet" one last time, taking an additional dose of my anti-inflammatory systemic enzymes and even a squirt of nasal decongestant to prophylactically combat the irritation of my sinus passages. This morning i woke with gummy eyes, and the tender throat that confirms the drainage issues that were irritating my stomach yesterday. During allergy season, "it's always something." :-P The DOH website says the mold levels are still "moderate" but that ragweed- and grass-pollens have moved into "high."
I'm going to have to be even more of a purist with my diet today, and probably use the neti-pot more, too. Nothing gets rid of internal pollutants (of nasal passages) better! More tea-tree-oil-laden steam as the gentlest form of "sterilizing" the sinuses. Perhaps the addition of zinc lozenges for the throat. NO WINE (i had a little syrah with my steak last night) -- but i reserve the option of some Campari for the sake of my stomach. The mushrooms waiting in the fridge will have to wait a little longer, and "real" cheese is out of the question. GOK what i'll make for supper -- white meat poultry with a cream sauce of some sort would probably be the least burdensome, and carrots Vichy...?
At least the weather forecast is for dry, very warm weather. That won't inhibit the pollen, but the mold situation should get better!
Last night after i turned out my reading-lamp, i got up again and visited the "medicine cabinet" one last time, taking an additional dose of my anti-inflammatory systemic enzymes and even a squirt of nasal decongestant to prophylactically combat the irritation of my sinus passages. This morning i woke with gummy eyes, and the tender throat that confirms the drainage issues that were irritating my stomach yesterday. During allergy season, "it's always something." :-P The DOH website says the mold levels are still "moderate" but that ragweed- and grass-pollens have moved into "high."
I'm going to have to be even more of a purist with my diet today, and probably use the neti-pot more, too. Nothing gets rid of internal pollutants (of nasal passages) better! More tea-tree-oil-laden steam as the gentlest form of "sterilizing" the sinuses. Perhaps the addition of zinc lozenges for the throat. NO WINE (i had a little syrah with my steak last night) -- but i reserve the option of some Campari for the sake of my stomach. The mushrooms waiting in the fridge will have to wait a little longer, and "real" cheese is out of the question. GOK what i'll make for supper -- white meat poultry with a cream sauce of some sort would probably be the least burdensome, and carrots Vichy...?
At least the weather forecast is for dry, very warm weather. That won't inhibit the pollen, but the mold situation should get better!
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