Q: CURT: (Health) “Was there anything that led to a breakthrough?” Just ’cause y

Q: CURT: (Health) “Was there anything that led to a breakthrough?”

Just ’cause you asked, and just cause I’m feeling hypersocial and and relaxed at the moment…. I’ll overshare in the hopes someone finds something personally useful:

Problem: Genetic defect > Allergies > Aspieness > Cancer and busted immune system (twice)> vulnerability to respiratory infections both head and chest > Gradual exhaustion and decline without recovery > tendency to obsessively overwork and cause vulnerability to all the above until crashing. By March 2023 I couldn’t walk more than half a block. I was sleeping all but four to six hours a day.

There was no ‘breakthrough’ as much as Dr’s Brad, Nichols, and Miller just worked with me a little at a time over two and a half years, to incrementally fix each problem until the sum of the fixes got me to the point where I was healthy enough that could finally change aspie-nerd meds and feel like myself again. 😉 Now I just gotta lose the 30lbs I gained between covid and this illness. And then I’ll do something stupid like take on more work than I can handle like decide I have time, energy, and attention for another startup (already sorta did) because I’m a biz junkie and I sorta miss my ferrari and have poor competitive self regulation like a dog that chases trucks and can’t help it. 😉

1 – Time? Mostly just sleep and time to get over long covid (I think) My immune system was just working overtime and wiping me out.

2- Again, mostly diet and dramatically reducing allergic reaction which let me both sleep, breathe, and reduce all the stress. This was a far bigger problem than I understood. I’m cutting out bread right now as much as possible, and I need to stay as paleo as possible and carnivore when I can.

3 – I had been running a 200/160 blood pressure for more than six months, and it was damaging my kidneys. So I had to give up coffee (fixes the adhd, ocd a bit). I also got a bit triggered and lit by a famlily legal issue and for some reason I couldn’t downregulate that stress (fury). You might have to realize how much I hate the irresponsibility and malfeasance of the government to grasp the depth of my anger.

4 – I had (again, just as I did in seattle in 2008, and ukraine in 2016) multiple therapy resistant infections both fungal and bacterial. (And we’re still going to try the parasitic purge too.) The fungal is a genetic vulnerability and there is some relation to allergies, asthma, sun, and vitamin d. The bacterial (pneumonia) I fight all the time and have since my first cancer operation in 2001. That op, six hours on the table, did something not good to my respiratory system, or gave me a hospital bug we can’t fully cure. Worse, as my faculties declined I started to fear I wasn’t going to be able to complete my work on the law. This put me in a bit of a tailspin. But I kept working at it anyway- but progress was slow. And it made me even more exhausted to work for just two hours a day. I thank all my friends here and in real life for helping me through that mess.

5 – A decent therapist that agreed that my ocd meds which pretty much fix my autism’s difficulty changing contexts, when combined with my age, was downregulating me enough that it needed replacing with a stimulant. I couldn’t try that until I had my blood pressure under control. Couldn’t get my blood pressure under control without changing blood pressure medications on the on hand and destressing myself from the litigation on the other. As well as stabilizing my immune system from both the allergies and infections. And then migrating from the calming OCD med to the stimulating ADHD med – a med I had tried in just before covid appeared. And while it was awesome I really didn’t like or trust the doctor enough to be dependent on him for my well being, and because I still assumed at that time I would want to return to europe and getting these ADHD med over there is all but impossible. So I didn’t want to get stuck on a prescription that would cause me problems, and stopped it.

Anyway, long story short, I had to downregulate an immune system that was out of control and exhausting me constantly to the point where I wasn’t sure I was going to be around.

Not sure anyone wants to read that, but hey. If it helps someone that’s great. It’s kinda nice to both get through this mess and get it off my chest in prose as well.

Thanks for asking.
Cheers

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