In September, I stopped taking the supplements that I had started taking the previous year to deal with the stress response caused by my inner ear damage. I’m not sure what changed to cause me to feel worse taking them,… Continue Reading…

In order to deal with the symptoms caused by the inner ear damage, I found I had to add supplements that target the stress response to what I was already taking to control the glutamate and GABA imbalance. Things seem… Continue Reading…

Through research and trying different supplements, I believe I uncovered a possible cause of my continuing vestibular symptoms, glutamate excess. I’m hopeful the solution I found to control the glutamate excess will result in improvement in my vestibular symptoms.

I just had my ferritin checked on December 30th, and it was in the normal range!

On October 1st, I decided to recheck my iron on my own to make sure things were improving. Three months after stopping the calcium + vitamin D supplement, my ferritin had increased! I was happy to have found the cause… Continue Reading…

My last appointment with the hematologist I was seeing was at the beginning of this month, July 2020. While I’m happy that I no longer have to go to her for regular appointments, I was surprised since my iron was… Continue Reading…

It seems like today, many people are being turned away from synthetic supplements toward more “natural” versions, but are these versions necessarily better? They may have “cleaner” ingredients and supposedly better forms of the nutrients, but what about the actual… Continue Reading…

I recently made more changes to my supplement regimen due to low-dose supplements that were causing problems. Many people tout the dangers of supplementing at high doses, but even at low doses and even in a multivitamin, supplements you don’t… Continue Reading…

Over time, stopping my multivitamin and other supplements last year caused me to become iron deficient and anemic. My iron deficiency also caused issues with my thyroid medication. Getting back on the right supplements I believe has helped my anemia… Continue Reading…

Folic acid is effective and has been used safely for many years, and I’m someone who has been helped by it. I’ve never had problems with folic acid my entire life, even now, despite the fact that I’m compound heterozygous… Continue Reading…