Waiting for DH to appear around here. Just past 8am (Central) he took the kids to pick up a trailer so we can throw all the boards/etc from the old deck there and he'll haul them to the dump. It's quarter to 10 and they aren't here (and the deck planks still are). Puzzled. Really long breakfast?
And thanks for the nice words. I sorta knew 10,000 was coming, but it was still something of a shock, and really, I've gone blah-blah-blah that often? Because I don't really feel like an expert at anything.
Still no DH, no kids. Strange. Bet they'll be back really soon, hopefully with full tummies and bearing leftovers (taco cabana, a local chain--gonna miss TC when we move to Colorado. No idea on timing of said move, positive thinking at this point, but still, it's the plan).
Oh, and interesting. This morning, when I woke late, I took my temp, it was 98.0F. Went to the bathroom, washed my face, came back and it was 98.2F. These are better, higher numbers than I've seen in a long time. The 2nd number was higher than the first--sometimes if your adrenals are messed up, your body temp can drop below your BBT, when you first get up/get going, and take maybe half an hour to go up to its regular daytime temp, whatever that may be. I have no idea if this happens for other people, it seems analogous to dropping BP upon standing, but I don't know if it happens to others.
This is a nice thing for me. My plummeting body temp was one of the things that kept me sane early on; I KNEW something physical, something real was wrong when I saw that my BBTs were in the high 95s, low 96s, and my daytime temps were always in the 96F range. I didn't break 97.0 for a couple years there. So this is very cool.
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 He is already taking vit c. 1/4 tsp of the Now brand sodium ascorbate. Can't get up right now to see how much that is. Is this a good form of vit c for him? Is it enough? I chose this bc he reacted to the other vit c we had tried and someone suggested it as an alternative for me (maybe tanya?) Ds doctor thought this might give him too much sodium but I am not convinced.
The amount he needs might've gone up with the products you're using. DS runs higher than most kids, for most of the time he was a baby/young toddler, somewhere aorund 8 grams was good, but when I've done things to mobilize metals (our nemesis), it has skyrocketed. Don't know how high you're comfortable going, I'm not thrilled that he's at 30 grams/day right now, but 1/4 tsp is just 1 gram I think. The sodium in the SA hasn't acted like salt for me, I think Momtezuma Tuatara's explanation of how it's being immediately used for something else is right (and we'd steal the body's sodium if it wasn't SA). I've had times when supplemental salt made me feel better, and SA has never done that at roughly comparable levels of sodium. FWIW hmmmm... we have been trying to support methylation for some time. ds was muscle tested for dosing on some VERY expensive methyl b12 and adeno b12 drops and folinic acid that we used for a few months. I think these really helped his reactions lessen and eventually stop. Just in the past week or so I have changed to using less expensive options. Now he is taking Natural Factors sublingual b12 (1 tab 1x per day) and thorne mthf folate (1 capsule 1x per day). So it looks like he is getting way more folate than what you are suggesting. I can't remember now how much is in the thorne supp and again, can't get up right now to check. Maybe I need to cut that back? Also, he chews the sublingual tab, is this ok? I am considering getting the expensive drops just for him and keeping myself and the girls on the other supps. At least the expensive stuff would last longer then and I could keep him on the dose and forms that he was muscle tested for and have been working well. Have you seen mamafish's link to a cheaper b12 drop? I've got some mega b12 hydroxy drops coming in the mail, cheaper than any other B12 product we've used, I think the ingredients look ok (for us, check for you), and economical. I like economical. You could always buy a bottle and ask your HCP to muscle-test it, either before you use it, or after you've been using it a while, see if the results you get are comparable. kathy... have a great weekend with your party! Sending healthy, strong and healing thoughts your way! anyway... i really want to try some clay tomarrow (today) so I can sleep tonight. can someone help me out in that department, please! Finding local good clay is tricky. Search for Panserbjorne's name (with the double dots over the o) and sodium bentonite and calcium bentonite. I forget which one you want but she explains it. One's only for external use and it's the easier-to-find one. thanks as always for your guidance and support! jen |
Still no DH, no kids. Strange. Bet they'll be back really soon, hopefully with full tummies and bearing leftovers (taco cabana, a local chain--gonna miss TC when we move to Colorado. No idea on timing of said move, positive thinking at this point, but still, it's the plan).
Oh, and interesting. This morning, when I woke late, I took my temp, it was 98.0F. Went to the bathroom, washed my face, came back and it was 98.2F. These are better, higher numbers than I've seen in a long time. The 2nd number was higher than the first--sometimes if your adrenals are messed up, your body temp can drop below your BBT, when you first get up/get going, and take maybe half an hour to go up to its regular daytime temp, whatever that may be. I have no idea if this happens for other people, it seems analogous to dropping BP upon standing, but I don't know if it happens to others.
This is a nice thing for me. My plummeting body temp was one of the things that kept me sane early on; I KNEW something physical, something real was wrong when I saw that my BBTs were in the high 95s, low 96s, and my daytime temps were always in the 96F range. I didn't break 97.0 for a couple years there. So this is very cool.
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