New Member from Hamburg, Germany
Posted: Tue Jun 25, 2019 11:01 am
Hi, just wanted to check in here and thank you for existing.
I'm currently 34 years old and recently (last two years especially) struggled badly with my cognition, deteriorating to the point where I was constantly depressed, where my light and sound sensitivity were dialled up to eleven, where my creativity had died away completely, and I had poor sleep quality. [ Edit: In an impressive display of pure irony, I forgot to mention memory problems. Would forget things that I'd decided five seconds earlier. This is much better now! ] I had to escalate the matter to a(n initially very dismissive) neurologist.
The current diagnosis is a vitamin B12 deficiency, but I assume this is a warning shot across the bow, since I still struggle finding the right words for things (used to be a hobby author, can currently barely string together anything that sounds marginally poetic, nor come up with good metaphors for things - #firstworldproblems, yes, but it's really noticeable for me and it has me worried).
That said, vitamin B12 supplements entirely on their own have been a fantastic help. I already feel about fifteen years younger. I can sleep through birdsong again, my creativity is back (even if the results aren't great, it lets me enjoy my life again), and I can concentrate on my book while sitting in a train and people are talking. My quality of life has really gone up.
I recently read The End of Alzheimer's and am starting to, even without a diagnosis, tweak some of those dials. I'm trying to get onto the Ketoflex 12/3 diet (which aligns a lot with what I want to be eating, anyway, but due to the vitamin B12 deficiency I spent the past two and a half months eating primarily a meat-based diet, since I was panicking about it) and as I'm very convinced that I have a leaky gut am trying to actively fix that (bone broth, etc).
I'm probably going to be mostly invisible here since my case is strange, borderline pre-symptomatic, and I don't have any lab reports to cite yet (since I live in Germany I'm not even sure where to get them, honestly, but it's on my to do list), but I mostly wanted to reveal this account is a real person, and express my gratitude that this place exists.
I'm currently 34 years old and recently (last two years especially) struggled badly with my cognition, deteriorating to the point where I was constantly depressed, where my light and sound sensitivity were dialled up to eleven, where my creativity had died away completely, and I had poor sleep quality. [ Edit: In an impressive display of pure irony, I forgot to mention memory problems. Would forget things that I'd decided five seconds earlier. This is much better now! ] I had to escalate the matter to a(n initially very dismissive) neurologist.
The current diagnosis is a vitamin B12 deficiency, but I assume this is a warning shot across the bow, since I still struggle finding the right words for things (used to be a hobby author, can currently barely string together anything that sounds marginally poetic, nor come up with good metaphors for things - #firstworldproblems, yes, but it's really noticeable for me and it has me worried).
That said, vitamin B12 supplements entirely on their own have been a fantastic help. I already feel about fifteen years younger. I can sleep through birdsong again, my creativity is back (even if the results aren't great, it lets me enjoy my life again), and I can concentrate on my book while sitting in a train and people are talking. My quality of life has really gone up.
I recently read The End of Alzheimer's and am starting to, even without a diagnosis, tweak some of those dials. I'm trying to get onto the Ketoflex 12/3 diet (which aligns a lot with what I want to be eating, anyway, but due to the vitamin B12 deficiency I spent the past two and a half months eating primarily a meat-based diet, since I was panicking about it) and as I'm very convinced that I have a leaky gut am trying to actively fix that (bone broth, etc).
I'm probably going to be mostly invisible here since my case is strange, borderline pre-symptomatic, and I don't have any lab reports to cite yet (since I live in Germany I'm not even sure where to get them, honestly, but it's on my to do list), but I mostly wanted to reveal this account is a real person, and express my gratitude that this place exists.