Showing posts with label memory problems. Show all posts
Showing posts with label memory problems. Show all posts

Sunday, May 30, 2010

Another Supplement for the balance of the brain.

I started taking CatecholaCalm a product by designs for health on 5/12. It had an immediate effect. Brought up the mood, stabilized the emotions. I am taking three a day.
After I got out of the hospital Dr. Dan put me on 25 squirts ( it comes in a squirt bottle) of a product called pHlavor by pH Mircle,LLC out of Valley Center, CA each morning. This is a strong dosing of mineral salts. I began to feel better in about four days. I was cautioned to stay within 70 to 80 ounces of water a day. This is hard for me because I was so used to drinking something, anything to keep the body hydrated that I think I had an oral fixation. You know, that "put something in your mouth makes you feel better" thing. But it just takes retraining and a little time.
I am continuing to research the Candida Yeast problem. I have finished the ebook by Linda Allen. It is what I needed to know at this time. She has other info in the ebook package and I am now going through that. I continue to spit yellow gunk from my system each morning. This is after a clean brushing of the teeth each night. So something is very wrong in that area. Has been for years, but hey now that I know, I can continue to pursue it.
I took a survey to assay current health problems that was in part put together by Dr.Fernandez. It is much the same that was put together by Mark Hyman MD. When taking the survey at first I answered it without considering that I take a suppository for bowel movement each morning. That was wrong. This suppository thing pointed to the fact of my own system not being able to push out the toxins. Even with eating good foods and taking fiber and drinking enough water. So something is wrong there. Dr. F
is going to help me there. It could mean that my liver and kidneys are not working up to par.
Also I am having problems with inflamed gums. With the problems I have noticed my memory has gone downhill a bit. I am irritable and cranky as well.
But let us remember what has been done:
I am off of my medications for now. The body is finally healing from that for this time.
My emotions for overall are less like the ocean in a hurricane and more like a lake with white caps rippling across it. Still there, but not so violent.
I am now looking at my body as a detective looks at a crime scene. Very in depth and looking for cause and effect from what I eat, what I come in contact with physically, what stressors I have psychologically. When I take it all in and study it, I am now beginning to understand what combinations will work for me. I am angry and pissed that it has happened to me. But God gave me a brain to deduct this with and I am going to use that brain to try, try to find health. And then give what I have learned to others to help them to strive for health.



Wednesday, September 12, 2007

Information Quest

The Cymbalta upgrade did the trick. I can now remember when I have been happy. (Having to have a drug to remember when I was happy.) Over the past month Dave and I have gone to LA to celebrate our 30th anniversary and we had the best time. It is the quality of life that I am after.  On the vacation the colors seemed so rich, so vivid, and they had a quality of cuteness about them that had me laughing. Upon returning to the daily routine of work the depression came on strong again. I tried to recall the vacation experience, and the colors were less vivid. Some of the images were not all there. Partial images floated around in my memory. I manually put the colors back into the memory and the depression decreased.
The Cyberonics Corp. has paired me with an insurance specialist by the name of Cheryl and she has sent more paperwork for me to follow up on. The folks at Dr. Figeuroa's office have sent info in to Cheryl and I will follow up on my end. When I tried to contact therapist Anne Bercik I could not get in touch with her. Her phone number(s) are not working. But I will try through the State of Florida licensing board. Cheryl wants a list of the pharmaceutical medications that I have been on and the people at Walgreens said that all I needed was an ID and they could research it for me. I will also find out what I need to know on how I am to get my hospital records of when I went in for psychiatric problems.
I know that I have not had as much a problem as some people in the area of hospitalization, but there are and were days that I should have gone in, but I felt that others would stigmatize me for that.



Saturday, June 30, 2007

Trying to Talk to Friend

I am documenting my dealing with depression in order to let others know just what this disease is about and how other people in my circle deal with what I tell them. I mention that I have had a medication failure. And my friends know that this occurs about once a year. I have a "down" time. This is a time of intense deep depression and frustration. A period of why is it here again, what can I do to stop it. I think that I have some part of depression always. I don't have memories that are incensed with pleasure. In fact my memory is so bad that I can't remember much of what happens from day to day. People say, that memory problems are experienced by every one. But I can not remember pleasurable things when the depression is at its deepest. And if I remember anything, on a day to day level, pleasure is not at all intense.
On to other's reactions. My Christian friend, Annie, says that I am at fault by not trusting God enough. I must trust Him to heal me in His own time. I should get involved with others and my own problems will seem small as I open myself to others. Well, this is good advice, but when I look at no motivation, no energy, and a black pit surrounding me, it gets harder.
On the other extreme, the other friend, who is bi-polar, Vanessa, says that how can I do anything, I am depressed. Period. She has at least suffered the depression that I have.
But I do not want to wear it as a badge. But everyday comes the challenge to do my best.