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★★★★★
Turned my world right-side up
I've been suffering from crippling mental fatigue for many years, and of course doctors were useless. Nothing they ever had me try made any difference whatsoever. 3mg iodine helped for a couple weeks, until (I'm guessing) my TSH levels went back down to normal and I stopped bouncing off walls. Wellbutrin helped for several months, and also gradually made me forget almost everything that had ever happened to me, and stop caring about everything that *was* happening to me, so I took myself off of it. After taking myself off that stuff a couple years ago, I'd pretty much given up trying and become a terrible curmudgeon who never did anything or went anywhere unless she absolutely had to. It was pretty serious. And then I went to go see my dying grandmother. At some point, I realized that she was 87, and lying on her deathbed with two failed kidneys and not enough oxygen, and she *STILL* had more energy--and definitely a better memory--than me. After that ordeal, I was suddenly interested in figuring out my problem again. I started researching symptoms and biochemistry again, and after a few days, chose DHEA as my next experiment. Right around Day 7 on this stuff, I suddenly re-joined the land of the living. I went from wondering how all my friends can just perpetually *do things* and needing a couple days to recover from doing a given thing or talking to people, to bouncing like Tigger in my chair at work, finding absolutely everything hilarious, and needing to jog a block to the store to get rid of the excess energy (and giggles). And then I spent the next few days *looking* for things to do. Between my two 2-mile walks and my three trips to the store, I was cleaning one thing or another. Which is totally awesome, but my muscles are now complaining at me that they can't sustain that kind of mania, so I think I'll probably need to play with the dose a bit, so I'll probably be switching to a powder. In any case, great stuff! [EDIT Jul 13 2019] I've been on it for a couple years now. The effects felt extreme for the first few weeks, probably because I wasn't used to having normal hormone levels. In addition to returning my mental and physical energy levels to normal, this stuff kept solving long-standing issues for me--joint pain, dry eye, delayed sleep phase, complete lack of hunger, extreme pre-menstrual dysphoria, brain fog, burnout... the list goes on and on. I had no idea they were related. I really must have needed this stuff pretty badly!
July 2017 · Health and Household · verified purchase
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