Post by Alice on Jul 15, 2012 20:53:18 GMT -5
I'm sure many know I've lived with fibromyalgia since I was fourteen years old.
I've experimented with a myriad of solutions, but the best I could find reduced a crippling condition which was putting my life on hold to merely a debilitating condition which interferes with day to day function and drastically lowers my quality of life.
Recent "studies", more likely informal experimentation by people such as myself, have shown that our old pal dextromethorphan has great potential in the treatment of fibromyalgia symptoms. The effective dose for most seems to be around 90 milligrams give or take.
Our own AOZ brought this information to my attention, so I gave it a shot under her guidance. It did help with the pain more than anything I've previously taken except opiates, but left me loopy and unable to function normally for just a little longer than it reduced the pain. It was even harder to get any work done.
I found that it wasn't worth it except on the very worst of days, when I wasn't getting anything done anyway. On such days, it didn't kill the pain entirely, it still only took the edge off.
Overall, I didn't like the results at that dose.
Lorn, an extremely gifted psychic healer and herbalist, provided us with some new insight.
He theorizes that fibromyalgia symptoms, in my case if not in every case, are caused by the brain itself rather than the nervous system. That the part of the brain which controls the pain receptors becomes overstimulated and reacts by causing the receptors to misfire.
Not a new theory I'm sure, but there are a lot of theories and no one seems to have any that get us closer to a solution.
The standard fibro treatment is "pain management", which is code for addiction to prescription pain killers that only make the pain bearable anyway.
In much higher doses, dextromethorphan is neuroprotective. It actually creates a barrier around the brain which protects against certain neurological disorders and degeneration such as dementia and alzheimer's.
Lorn theorizes is that this neuroprotective property will also subdue the oversensitive parts of the brain and ease fibro symptoms.
So the other day I took around 300 milligrams of the stuff. Naturally I spent the rest of the day high, and as an interesting side note it made me quite a bit more psychic than usual...
Once I came down, I stayed virtually pain free for almost three days. It was marvelous.
Yesterday, I tried just 150 milligrams, and the results were less stellar. I spent the whole night fluctuating between painless and worse than average, and the following day absolutely miserable. Conclusion, has to be more than one bottle.
I plan to continue these high doses about once a week and see what happens.
May you find what you seek,
Alice
I've experimented with a myriad of solutions, but the best I could find reduced a crippling condition which was putting my life on hold to merely a debilitating condition which interferes with day to day function and drastically lowers my quality of life.
Recent "studies", more likely informal experimentation by people such as myself, have shown that our old pal dextromethorphan has great potential in the treatment of fibromyalgia symptoms. The effective dose for most seems to be around 90 milligrams give or take.
Our own AOZ brought this information to my attention, so I gave it a shot under her guidance. It did help with the pain more than anything I've previously taken except opiates, but left me loopy and unable to function normally for just a little longer than it reduced the pain. It was even harder to get any work done.
I found that it wasn't worth it except on the very worst of days, when I wasn't getting anything done anyway. On such days, it didn't kill the pain entirely, it still only took the edge off.
Overall, I didn't like the results at that dose.
Lorn, an extremely gifted psychic healer and herbalist, provided us with some new insight.
He theorizes that fibromyalgia symptoms, in my case if not in every case, are caused by the brain itself rather than the nervous system. That the part of the brain which controls the pain receptors becomes overstimulated and reacts by causing the receptors to misfire.
Not a new theory I'm sure, but there are a lot of theories and no one seems to have any that get us closer to a solution.
The standard fibro treatment is "pain management", which is code for addiction to prescription pain killers that only make the pain bearable anyway.
In much higher doses, dextromethorphan is neuroprotective. It actually creates a barrier around the brain which protects against certain neurological disorders and degeneration such as dementia and alzheimer's.
Lorn theorizes is that this neuroprotective property will also subdue the oversensitive parts of the brain and ease fibro symptoms.
So the other day I took around 300 milligrams of the stuff. Naturally I spent the rest of the day high, and as an interesting side note it made me quite a bit more psychic than usual...
Once I came down, I stayed virtually pain free for almost three days. It was marvelous.
Yesterday, I tried just 150 milligrams, and the results were less stellar. I spent the whole night fluctuating between painless and worse than average, and the following day absolutely miserable. Conclusion, has to be more than one bottle.
I plan to continue these high doses about once a week and see what happens.
May you find what you seek,
Alice
