Jean Gould
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I know now that I live with ME for 35 years, maybe more. In the early 1980s, after a glandular fever which lay down me 4 days in the emergency room, I never was what I was before. I had a diagnostic of ME, 17 years after, July 2001, the doctor found a chronical infection with CMV, a Herpes' family member. I had 2 months of IV treatments with Ganciclovir, two times. I try everything, diets, supplements, acupuncture with some success each time. With year my resistance is lower and lower but my health is more stable. Now I follow a "standard" diet: gluten free, dairy free, sugar-free, no alcohol, no industrial foods and kefir water, which helped me, at least it is better than an oral probiotic.
One year ago a radiologist found a light fatty liver. Yes, I am a little bit overweight at 57,75 kg, 1m70 (128lbs, 5'8, male), no diabetes and no alcohol so I don't have risk factors. Fatty liver touches 25% of the American population, but without risk factor, it is around 1%. My doctor had sent me for this test because I had intercoastal pain, right side. In the same time, I lost power with the right arm and I had pain in right shoulder since one or two years. I see since then an osteopathic doctor with some relief. But the main problem was and reminds insomnia, a specific kind. I think it is linked to the liver, because a glass of wine as a guest or MSG as a restaurant patron, I stop to sleep for 3 nights with a headache. Just meat or beans at home stop me to sleep for a night.
What matters? Recently a Naturopathic Doctor tries some liver helpers: milk thistle tincture, ultra gamma E complex, inositol and choline. I feel strong reactions: white night. My therapist told me to slow down the supplement because ''my liver doesn't take it''. I am upset and disappeared because since 35 years all kind of therapists told me the same: "your liver can't take it". Where to begin? Should I only have herbal tea? Are we at least on the right path? It seems clear that I have a metabolic issue. Is it with sugar or methylation?
My main concern is about sleeping. What a surprise! I stop to sleep around 12 am to 1 am and resume after 4 am. It seems to me that insomnia is linked with food. For Chinese medicine, 1 to 3 am is the ''liver time''. In biology, there is no simple causal link. Where think begins and finishes, it is not clear. It is a logical effect of ME? Or a sideshow? Are we in the good paradigm? There is someone who has the same experience?
One year ago a radiologist found a light fatty liver. Yes, I am a little bit overweight at 57,75 kg, 1m70 (128lbs, 5'8, male), no diabetes and no alcohol so I don't have risk factors. Fatty liver touches 25% of the American population, but without risk factor, it is around 1%. My doctor had sent me for this test because I had intercoastal pain, right side. In the same time, I lost power with the right arm and I had pain in right shoulder since one or two years. I see since then an osteopathic doctor with some relief. But the main problem was and reminds insomnia, a specific kind. I think it is linked to the liver, because a glass of wine as a guest or MSG as a restaurant patron, I stop to sleep for 3 nights with a headache. Just meat or beans at home stop me to sleep for a night.
What matters? Recently a Naturopathic Doctor tries some liver helpers: milk thistle tincture, ultra gamma E complex, inositol and choline. I feel strong reactions: white night. My therapist told me to slow down the supplement because ''my liver doesn't take it''. I am upset and disappeared because since 35 years all kind of therapists told me the same: "your liver can't take it". Where to begin? Should I only have herbal tea? Are we at least on the right path? It seems clear that I have a metabolic issue. Is it with sugar or methylation?
My main concern is about sleeping. What a surprise! I stop to sleep around 12 am to 1 am and resume after 4 am. It seems to me that insomnia is linked with food. For Chinese medicine, 1 to 3 am is the ''liver time''. In biology, there is no simple causal link. Where think begins and finishes, it is not clear. It is a logical effect of ME? Or a sideshow? Are we in the good paradigm? There is someone who has the same experience?