Posted by JLx on November 24, 2003, at 9:03:01
In reply to Re: I HAVE LANDED A JOB!!!! » JLx, posted by Larry Hoover on November 23, 2003, at 7:30:25
> Be cautious about making projections about trends from short-term experience, OK? Sure, it's important....data points on the graph...but you've had some rather important and emotive events over the last few days, as well.
Yes, good point.
> > I was just reading back on the archives a bit, and correct me if I'm wrong....SAMe is in some way serotonergic? So, TMG is too?
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> By implication (as a promoter of innate SAMe production), yes.Ok, good to know.
> > If so, then I need to take that into consideration in what I'm trying to achieve in the way of a dopamine/serotonin balance.
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> Maybe you need a day off thinking....a mental health day....get some peace back in your mind.Well, as I've said before, I've been pretty desperate to pull my life together, and have been gratified in the last few months that things are going basically much better. So, I'm scared of every little downturn...that it signals another major decline. Once I lose my house, I have no where to go if I can't work. (Welfare is nonextistent in my state for a single person of my age, and the two people I'm closest to already told me they wouldn't take me in...so it's a homelss shelter for me if I can't work to support myself.)
> > My joints are aching, I've got muscle tension in my neck and shoulders....along with the increased lethargy and anxiety (which feels like a knot in my chest), sleepy eyes yet unable to sleep...this reminds me of being on Zoloft.
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> Or being wound up.Who me??? ;)
> I'm just trying to suggest an alternative interpretation. Maybe you need to tweak. But maybe you need to snuggle in front of a fire (example, for illustration purposes).
Point taken, but I feel better today after taking more tyrosine yesterday and less TMG. (Didn't sleep as well though.)
> I think there is....or the enzyme induction gets up to full speed. That's not a scientific conclusion, it's my opinion.Ok, well, the good thing about these things that I'm tweaking is that they're fast acting, so the effect of more or less is noticeable.
> > I just hate these things where you feel good for a short time and then start to sink again.
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> Or you get used to it, increase your activity, and overdo it. Go gentle. Go, but go gentle.Yes, that's true, I have a problem with setting realistic goals.
> > It feels like having the possiblity of a "normal life" dangled before my eyes only to have to snatched back just when I reach for it.
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> Expectation adjustments may be necessary, on an ongoing basis.
True.> I do a daily "energy inventory", which assesses whether or not I have reserve energy, active energy (the feeling I can accomplish things today, right now), and the things on my "list of things to do". I then propose to myself a tentative energy budget for the day, and I check the inventory again as I move along. If I slip into reserve energy, I must reduce my activities, or I pay a heavy price (forced rest) while I rebuild my reserves. There will always be a list (of things to do). But sometimes addressing the list just isn't on my list at all.
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> I do this all subconsciously, or with minimal consciousness, but that's the mechanism that maximizes my own functioning.Sounds like you have a good handle on things there.
> Well, ya, but....I just read an article (just published) that suggests that selenium has a complex effect on thyroid function, suppressing T3 in some people. You need selenium, absolutely, for proper thyroid function, but the new information suggests it is not an absolute benefit.Ok, good to know; is that something that would happen over time, or relatively quickly? So far, it seems to me it's helping, so perhaps I'm not one of those people. I never had problems until middle age and then my thyroid problems were helped a lot just by magnesium, I suspect.
> More than maddening. It's friggin incompetency. The problem is in the standardization from which they developed the "normal range" of hormone levels. It has been *proven* that hypothyroid people were part of the normalization pool, but they still use the faulty numbers. In-friggin-credible, but true.Well, as least the normals were recently revised drastically, weren't they?
> Isn't it incredibly empowering to take this into your own hands, in any case? I think so.Oh, definitely. I hope to never see another doctor the rest of my life! (ESPECIALLY a psychiatrist.)
Thanks for the feedback and encouraging word. :)
JL
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