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I have been prescribed or directed to take high dose b vitamins, nac, cq10, choline etc. That naturpath believed i had bad deficiencies along with inflammation. She mentioned you cant clear histamine and your body does weird things ti make energy / nad. What's the term for this?

Do any of you practitioners have experience with thjs? How long to start feeling the effects if you have had dizzyness, clumsiness, brainfog, etc

I took ttfd last week and it made me sleep all weekend.

Symptoms

39 m 6'2 200 lbs active - decent diet

Around the new year I got the sickest I have ever been for about a week. Flu vomiting etc, in retrospect I should have put myself in the hospital. I bounced back and then did a ski hut trip where in retrospect I over exerted myself. About four days later I felt dizzy and like everything was a dream. Brain fog worsened. Started feeling even weaker and dizzier through February despite seeing multiple Dr's. I have had wierd tremors on right side of body. Scalp tingling, worsening tinnitus. Still feeling, fatigued, less coordinated though dizziness is largely gone, emotionally flat, reduced memory.

Brainscans are clear as are blood tests.

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39 m 6'2 200 lbs active - decent diet

Around the new year I got the sickest I have ever been for about a week. Flu vomiting etc, in retrospect I should have put myself in the hospital. I bounced back and then did a ski hut trip where in retrospect I over exerted myself. About four days later I felt dizzy and like everything was a dream. Brain fog worsened. Started feeling even weaker and dizzier through February despite seeing multiple Dr's. I have had wierd tremors on right side of body. Scalp tingling, worsening tinnitus. Still feeling, fatigued, less coordinated though dizziness is largely gone, emotionally flat, reduced memory.

Brainscans are clear as are blood tests.

Doctors cant figure it out.

Can you? I am really struggling and my health keeps plummeting..

TW: abortion

I need advice on what is the most natural / least harmful / least toxic abortion option esp. as I am still breast-feeding a 1.5 year old (who also eats solids but has breastmilk every 2-4 hours and overnight to comfort back to sleep). I don’t want to be talked out of this. I am already devastated that I need to do this, I cannot take more guilt, judgment, preaching, criticism, etc. I’m hard enough on myself about it.

I only now need to decide which is the most natural / least harmful of the following two abortion options available to me:

Option 1: medical abortion at home, where you take mifepristone and 24 to 48 hours later you take misoprostol and you basically bleed out the baby.

Option 2: in office option where you have to take antibiotics, pain medications, anti-anxiety relaxants like Ativan / lorexopan, then they put lidocaine on your cervix and put a tool through through, and suction all the tissue out.

The first one felt like a more natural option because women report that it feels more like a natural miscarriage and I don’t want anyone probing through my body and I certainly don’t want to take antibiotics that in the past messed up my microbiome, and most likely led to a very serious digestive issue which I suffered from for several years.

But these two pills may be disastrous and too systemic /unsafe for my nursing baby. Is there 100% proven evidence that this will not negatively harm my 1.5 year old who I am still breast-feeding? Of course the conventional medical system never wants to commit to that. Risk is on you!

I asked what type of antibiotic is given and at what dosage but I haven’t heard back yet. I asked if I can take natural antibiotics and apparently there is no flexibility on this.

I will only be about 6 weeks pregnant during the procedure so it’s just like a tadpole at this stage but I also wonder if there’s any possibility of pain and if so, which would be less for the embryo. Some research says I believe pain starts at 9 weeks, but really, how do they know? So I would want the method where their death is more instant.

I almost wish there was some kind of natural herbs I could take at home to just do this entirely on my own, which would also bypass the required ultrasound which I hate to do, but I don’t know if I want to mess with that when it comes to something this serious.

I also read that the chance of breast cancer goes up with abortions, but that could be because there’s extra breast cells created that don’t have a job anymore, I don’t think that applies in my case since I’m breast-feeding.

My friend said she did both options and that the first option was way more painful, like as if she was in actual labor for like four hours, but she thinks that her situation might be specific, like something getting stuck maybe. In general, it seems like a foreign object being inserted into your body unnaturally (like without a natural cervix dilation process) has a much higher risk, but I don’t know, I’m just confused at this point.

Thank you very much for the guidance.

I struggle with fairly debilitating anxiety and depression, currently I get 5 Ativan per year for my worst panic attacks (due to addition running in my family) and my family doctor has suggested Lexapro.

I’ve been hearing a lot about Saffron being compared to SSRI’s and I’m wondering if anyone has tried it? Has it been successful or not?

Also what brand is best and what should I be looking for specifically? I’d love to give it a try before resorting to SSRI’s.

I currently take Zinc, Magnesium Glycinate, Vitamin C and a probiotic.

Six years ago I'd have rolled my eyes at this question. After getting deep into naturopathic health for my own situation and seeing real recovery, I'm convinced 90% of hair loss is systemic, and the body fixes it on its own once you get out of its way.

But "systemic" is huge. There's diet. There's lymphatic work. There's stress. Sleep. Glandular support. Gut healing. Most people who recover do it through some combination of all of these.

Curious what others' experience has been. If you've actually seen regrowth — what was the one thing that mattered most? Was there a single shift that unlocked everything else, or was it more about doing fifteen things consistently for a year?

Asking partly out of personal interest. If you'd like to know what I did, lmk.

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