May 062011
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[...] and let my excitement show in my writing, but on the one hand I still suffer from Candida – The One Cause Of My Health Problems. And on the other hand, I’m still not as good at writing and spreading my enthusiasm as [...]
Hey Kiddo
I’m very happy to see the progress you are making with the health issues……..I have found in the last 4 months that a probiotic and fiber supplement helps a lot with my digestive issues…….since I had a gastric bypass over 20 years ago (when they were new) my internal arrangement is surgically altered and so may not be a guide to another with similar issues…….
Still, sharing information and being willing to speak honestly about oneself are qualities, while realizing that what works for oneself may not be the solution for another, is an admirable way of being in my estimation…..and for that I give you huge props
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Hi, cool to see you commenting here again. Gastric bypass doesn’t sound like a lot of fun. I’m glad that I don’t need any complicated operation or very strong meds or something.
I wished I made more progress regarding my health problems. Currently I’m suffering from nasty breathing problems. Not getting enough air through my nose. It’s probably the main health factor that made me depressed. A lack of oxygen rips all fun and enjoyment out of everything
Currently I’m trying a self-treatment with grapefruit seed extract.
My digestive problems are relatively mild. Problem is: It’s hard to say how much a probiotic helps in the long run. The cheap probiotic I’m currently taking doesn’t seem to be really effective. I still need to find out where my gut flora can be tested in detail here in Germany. The standard test from my general practitioner is a joke and only showed a minimal amount of Candida Albicans (no other Candida types were tested).
This blog post seems to explain the problem I had this morning (toilet problem). I am thinking I might have leaky gut syndrome, in reading your other posts. The previous night I stayed up all night playing games (due to some unexplainable impulse that I wanted to fulfill; I also have experienced depression and burnt-out, but that’s of more relevance to other posts). I went to sleep around 4AM after playing for about 6 hours. And then I woke up eventually around 2 PM with some short intermittent waking-up’s. Then gradually I had this lower stomach pain that eventually led me to spend about 30 minutes of eliminating toxins out of my body.
BTW, I am in the mid-stage of my undergraduate university life, but I actually find quite a lot of things common to things from the blogger’s experience. I decided to withdrew from the university for the semester that I was in for this past Spring. But the details of this would be quite long, and would be more relevant for the post ‘University drop out’. Also, how I ended up finding your blog is a story to be told later.
Anyways, I did have sinus problem as a kid. And in fact, they told me I had dust-mite allergy, too. I was quite glad that there was someone like me in the world, since I have not seen a person around me who had sinus problems except my dad (there may have been a genetic role played also, but I’m not sure). Then the allergic symptoms (like runny nose, sinus swelling) have gone away mostly ever since I moved from South Korea (where I was born and where my childhood memories are) to United States. But the sinus problem is still there, just milder than before. I cannot pinpoint the reason for that, and I am just happy that my nose is near to normal now, even though it does blow up, when it gets triggered.
I am beginning to come to a belief that I have a lot in common with this blogger. And I am actually learning stuff from this blog, which I have not learned anywhere in my university life yet.
Hi Gitae. Thanks for sharing your experiences here. The problem you had today also could be a more acute gut infection. In Germany there’s this EHEC epidemic running around (thankfully I have been spared by that nasty E. Coli strain). If your problem appeared more often it might very well be a gut dysbiosis. Recently, I’ve found this very information rich source on that problem: http://www.drmyhill.co.uk/wiki/Fermentation_in_the_gut_and_CFS
Occasionally, I can’t sleep through and wake up in the middle of the night due to some nasty feeling in my gut. It feels like it’s on strike. It’s not painful, or just minimally so, but it’s bad enough to rid me off my sleep. Meanwhile, I’ve let my doctor make a simple test on Candida Albicans, but it only showed minimal concentrations. But those tests aren’t very reliable when it comes to detecting a Candida infection in the small intestine. Getting a clear diagnosis for gut problems is rather difficult (and costly).
It’s rather intriguing that you had experiences in your life that resemble my own experiences. What have you studied? And how did you find this blog?
Btw: Currently I’m building up my new personal development site/blog Become Unrestricted. There’s not too much content there yet, but what’s already on the site is high quality stuff.
When I first entered university, I wanted to study physics. After the first semester, I was very quickly disillusioned that I would need to understand some maths. Moreover, I realized that I wasn’t able to understand why applying force at the point away from the center of mass, which is torque, would not only create rotational motion about the CM but also a translational motion along the direction the force was applied. This gave me quite hard time to digest. When doing problem sets, I came to this realization. But there was no time to fully contemplate on the issue why this has to be this way. I thought torque would only give rise to a rotational motion! When I asked the Teaching Assistant, he just mentioned that it follows from Newton’s law; “It’s just Newton’s law”. When I kept insisting whether there was any other way to make sense of this “by-then” counter-intuitive (it’s still somewhat counter-intuitive), I was told to torque something like a rod and see it myself. So I did it, and it happened the way it should, ignoring the friction with table. Still, is that just it? Just run the experiments. I wanted something else. Well, there was no time to stop. I just had to accept it, and move on.
So after the exams were done, I thought about that last issue about torques, and tried to at least come to an intuitive explanation to convince myself of the fact. Eventually, I thought this would make me feel comfortable with the idea:
a torque was a force to start with, so if the torque was applied to some body, then the body has got to carry that momentum (at least some part of its body initially, and eventually all over its body since it’s connected) depending on the time the force was applied. But then, simultaneously, while all this is happening, the fact that the body was hit somewhere other than its CM point so as to be interpreted as a non-zero torque, would very likely to give rise to a rotational motion (even though the “why” of this issue was never mentioned when taking the course; it’s just a fact together with a “likelihood” intuition with combination of experimental result). If we accept that this rotation happens anyhow, then we’re able to somewhat understand the aftermath of rotation, which just happened. Since the CM point happens to be the point where masses are balanced from that point, when rotation is already assumed, all parts of the body is rotating around the CM point. Then, thinking about these rotating parts of the body as actually translating perpendicularly (as a snapshot), linear momentum stuff in sum is somehow all conserved at all points in total. And my death-rant has ended.
So I put that issue that way, and tried to make myself feel secure. And the second semester started, and I was sitting in the next-sequence course in physics. It was an early morning class, and I never felt right waking up quite early like that, and be mentally prepared. The class right after that physics class was a math course, which was titled Transition to Higher Mathematics. This course hooked me. I had never experienced the formalism of maths in high school (I just thought math was a cool thing with crazy symbols and cool meanings, and I had no clue what it was about. And maybe that’s why I liked physics more than maths by then). Since then, I didn’t look back at physics. I think I lost some things along my way of abandoning formal study of physics, but I think it was good idea to admit my limit in quick understanding of physics principle.
And before I move on too much, let me wrap up the story quick, and post a comment that led me to my depression in your other posts like University drop-out. So what happened after all this was that I now tried to become a math major after me falling for the formalisms. And then, I was trying to move on too fast. I even forfeited my social aspect of being a math major by being selfish and such. And then, I got a little low on moods when things didn’t work out in the math courses I was taking. Eventually, by the fourth semester, I got to the second disillusionment that I was mistaken in my actions/behaviors in studying maths despite my good intentions to study math in love of formalisms. And since those days, I need to start counting “spoons” (“energy”; see the blogger’s other post ‘The Story of Myself’) everyday. I think I have been counting my “spoons” ever since childhood (I think I was a very unsecure kid and even now, not that I have problems physically or mentally, but just was pretty meticulous and picky/too observant). But, as I grew up, I would sometimes drop my spoons out of my clumsiness.
Thanks for writing down that story. Yeah, physics and mathematics can be hard to grasp. The human brain isn’t optimized for doing that. It’s very difficult to find out how to learn/teach physics or mathematics the right way. Because of that, it’s often done the wrong way, which causes a lot of frustration, drains spoons and so on. Having a good time/energy management system is crucial when facing such difficult challenges – especially when dealing with nasty health problems.
When studying, ideally, you would work together with people who are a little bit better than you and can help you out if you are struggling. Unfortunately, I wasn’t really good at teaming up with fitting people. Hanging around at the university had a high energy cost for me, so I rather tended to go back home as soon as possible.
Mathematics and its formal elegance can be totally fascinating. But I always want to know that there is some possible application for what I learn (otherwise I’m not perfectly motivated). Even if it’s just some elusive stuff like philosophy.
Oh, and how I found your post happened like two days ago. I was googling something like “recover from burnout mathematics”. I don’t exactly know how I ended up in your blog, but the first post I read was with the title University Drop Out. So I knew at that instant, it had to be something similar to me. And double the excitement, it was about mathematics, physics, and philosophy, so I started reading, and I could understand what you are talking about. And I’m starting to enjoy reading your blog.
Cool, you can understand what I’m talking about? That’s great! It’s really great to read that you enjoy reading my blog. It’s a bit chaotic, and I’m not writing any new posts here, but it’s good to see that there are still people who profit from this blog.
There’s an interesting documentary that I saw yesterday that seems relevant to this. It said stress turns down the immune system, resulting in easy infection. That makes sense with the factor that you had there as a possible cause of candida overgrowth. So I am suspecting that playing game all night long and going hungry made me vulnerable to bacterial overgrowth in my body. Just guessing.
here is link to the documentary:
http://topdocumentaryfilms.com/stress-portrait-of-a-killer/
Interesting. It’s widely known that stress is pretty harmful. Also, not getting enough sleep can compromise the immune system. I have noticed that the amount of sleep I get is the most important factor for my overall health. If I get plenty of sleep, and avoid all kinds of stress all my symptoms disappear almost completely.
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What health problems would a person face on a purely meat or cannibal diet as seen in ‘The Road’ movie?