Looking for cures for other things

[Ancient Weaver]

I feel a bit of a fraud registering here, as I have actually found the cure for my excessive anxiety and panic attacks.
However, I am still looking for something that will help my sleep problems and ADHD related memory problems, as well as perhaps something that will help keep me from babbling. But I suspect that has something to do with the structure of the prefrontal cortex rather than dopamine deficiency, so may not be cureable at all.
To cut a long story short, I've very recently found that eggs (or a small dose of inisotol) in the morning, helps me stay asleep at night. It's not the total solution though, as I still sometime have episodes of desperately needing to sleep in the daytime, and I know from experience a couple of months ago that it is possible for me to sleep a whole eight hours at night and not be stupidly tired at all in the daytime.
I am absolutely sure I can achieve this through normal food, I just have to figure out what!

I was going to leave this intro there, but I do just want to add that I am both rather pis.. ahem! cross and distinctly freaked out, that after years of suffering, and some godawful experiences with badly prescribed medications, I find that most of my problems are vanishing like the morning mist simply by changing my diet! And it was ME that had to figure it out, the doctors did touch on the subject, but not one in over 20 years, ever pursued it beyond asking if I ate a decent balanced diet.

Ok, I do recall one specialist mentioning when I asked him what had diet got to do with anything, that protein was important for providing neurotransmitters, but even he didn't say anything about even possibly needing more when under stress, or because I was/am overweight. . .etc. etc. Meh!
/end rant

[venusbluejeans]

Hiya Ancient Weaver and welcome to NMP

Why not take a look at our articles on our home page, they contain a wealth of information and are a great starting place for your time on the forum.

I hope you find the as site helpful and informative as I have and that you get the help and support you need here and hope that you meet a few friends along the way

[Rick(amateur)]

Hi and to the forum!

You mustn't feel like a fraud here. It's commendable that you are willing to help people out with their problems so I hope you help changes some lives here.

As for sleep problems, have you considered exercising? I find exercising and good diet are both essential to your body functioning properly. As for babbling, I think keeping a journal might help since you can get it on paper.

I hope you enjoy your stay here and make some friends in the process!

[Ancient Weaver]

Thanks for the welcomes and encouragement. I certainly hope that my experiences and discoveries will help a least a few people.

My diet WAS good, as I said, not even one of the many doctors I have seen over the years found fault with it. It wasn't even far off the bog standard RDIs that are on packaged food (UK/EU), but one size doesn't fit all.

According to US recommendations (eta: for protein intake), I was well short of what I should have been eating at my current weight, and the shock of the discrepancy combined with the knowledge that neurotransmitters are made from protein and are actually used up more than reused made me determined to almost double my protein intake, at least for a week or so, to see if it would help.
I was quite surprised that after just a couple of days, I really did feel brighter, less tired and much less 'agitated' about things than previously. It was even more benefit than I had had from methylphenidate, and after a while I stopped bothering with it.

Uk guidelines also make no allowance for stress or exercise, even though it is well known among body building and athletic communities that they need to eat more protein, and not doing so will result in fatigue and low mood.

I recently experienced this for myself, after a very active day in the garden, and despite eating at least 100g of protein that day, it took the better part of three days to recover.
I have never found even more moderate amounts of exercise, to correlate with any benefit, other than the obvious feeling of accomplishment but that can be achieved by other means without endangering my mental or physical state.
I strongly suspect that any apparent benefit from exercise is actually either psychosomatic or from increased protein intake taken to aid recovery.

Babbling, is the ADHD type of not being able to shut up on cue, rather than talking nonsense.