Third Installment:
The doctor said that my prognosis from my brain injury was very good. In fact, he felt the biggest problem I might experience would be feeling a bit weird when I would no longer have to rely on the compensatory skills I had developed over the years. He had seen this before where people actually felt like something was wrong because they felt so much better but were not doing all the things they had learned to do to stay balanced.
I felt that would be a good trade! I've said over the years, I wish I could get a new set of problems!
Actually over the years, I did get rid of many symptoms and others definitely had improved.
But the ones that ALWAYS showed up when I cycled into an episode always bothered me; really weird feelings of anxiety, insomnia and depression. Those I wanted to trade for sure.
The doc described how the auto accident had basically damaged areas of my brain that were now under active.
We needed to turn these areas back on.
He said that the first thing we needed to do was feed the brain nutrients and supplements to support the meds I would need. These supplements would not fix the problem but they would make everything else work that much better.
He handed me a list of supplements. It included a few that were sort of exotic, like phosphatidyl serine and alpha lipoic acid. After scanning the list, I told him I was already taking every single supplement on the list, just not as much as he wanted me to take in most cases.
He laughed and said, why does that not surprise me? I had pieced my puzzle together as best I could. I knew I had the symptoms the supplements could help but I did not know the reason why I had the symptoms.
I did not know my brain had been injured and I needed Rx meds. The message here is that nutritional supplements and Rx meds can work hand in and, one supporting the other.
I say in , and often here on this blog that I am not against pharmaceuticals and allopathic medicine.
Most sites that sell nutritionals take a very harsh view of pharmaceuticals and mainstream docs. Personally, I think there are really good things in both the Allopathic and Alternative worlds. People who are chronically ill should take advantage of everything available to them, exercising their discretion in the process.
Everything an MD says is not automatically correct. I have proven that. Everything an alternative doc says is not correct either.
I have met really good and really bad doctors in both worlds.
Basically, he told me to take per day:
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The good thing was that Jigsaw Health could supply everything here except the amount of Alpha Lipoic Acid and a little more Vitamin C than is in our Antioxidant product.
In fact, I could get everything he recommended to me in only 3 products from Jigsaw Health; ,
As I looked more carefully at the formula for our Brain Support product I realized what a great product it really is. It has a Ginkgo Extract that is very pure and is the exact extract ratio that is typically used in all the . It also has:
150mg's of which is a very expensive ingredient.
100mg's a .
100mg's of pure
25mgs of
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I was taking Brain Support but not even close to the amounts that the recommended. As I increased the amount I began to experience an number of the benefits listed in the Database above.
One of the problems I have had in the past has been Sometimes when my blood would be drawn for a test, it would hardly come out. It was a real problem but no longer. Recently, I had to have several vials drawn and the blood came out readily and yet coagulates fine when I get a cut or scrape.
Ginkgo dramatically helps to increase blood flow though out the body, especially the brain.
My experience with Ginkgo makes me wonder if studies on nutritionals sometimes fail simply because they don't use enough or the version that they are using is simply poor. I think this may be more common than not.
(But doing quite well now!) Interests in Health, Politics, Faith, Business, Golf, and Flying. Resident of Scottsdale, Arizona.
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