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[profion]

Hello

I am new to this interresting forum and im going to share my story, on how this irritating state that i am in now occourd.

 

I had recently finished my crossfit education and was now looking for work. Finding a job was hard, and i took the last resort out... Working as a mover, moving boxes and pianos and replacing people into their new homes. The job would require me to run 5floors and pick up boxes of 30kg and sometimes two of them. We would even have to carry pianos at 300kg down 5floors, using each other and a strap inbetween

 

5first days were fine untill i got my big toe crushed in the lift! I was rushed to the hospital where i had my first episode of "Confusion / dizzyness" This happend after the doc have me a shot tetanus vaccine. It might have been anxiety more then anything, and it did pass away quite fast.

 

After about a month of recovery I would start working again. The work was hard and i had to skip my meals, i would normally eat around 7times aday, but this forced me to eat 2times within 10hour OF MAX EFFORT HUMAN WORK. The symptoms started to occour, mental confusion, brain fog, loss of balance, feeling bad and simply as if i wasent in myself... Eventhough it made me feel bad, i would continue working. Allthough working my ass off, i would come home consume a preworkout "Energy powder" and hit the gym lifting heavy aswell... come home and consume the second meal of the day

 

One day i gave up. I went to the doctor and my bloodpressure was meassured 170/90-80... I said off my job, and started to recover.
The symptoms were brain fog, confusion, and if light was alittle brigher then normal... Some where along the way i even cought a cold, that made a watery sound in my ear. A sound that i had for a week and went with the doctors with, they said it would pass. + i quite using amino acids and preoworkout powders as they may have been the reason to the increased BP

 

Sound passed and was replaced with a small amount of tinnitus! after amonth of getting the tinnitus, my symptoms slowly went away or completely vanished! My blood pressure was meassured 115-80-75 wich is very good! But some symptoms still persists.

 

- Tinnitus

- Brain fog

- As if im not 100% myself yet

- floaters in eye

 

- Symptom that has surpassed "light sensativity"

- Symptom that has surpassed "balance problem"

 

I dont know if i suffer from stress and/or anxiety after having had such high blood pressure. This might be the reason i am feeling abit off? nevertheless, is there anything out there that would help me to start focus and think clearly again... Before all this i was a philosophier, i would write and think about life in different ways... But now im like brain-dead, im only able to focus on "im feeling alittle off" or jeese i cant focus as before.

 

Any ideas guys?

[Luminosity]

I'm sorry you had that experience.  Working as a mover and lifting weights too can just be too much for some people, especially of they aren't eating enough.  

 

I wonder if there are any weight-lifting supplements that have contributed to this, especially steroids, anything like a steroid, testosterone, anything like a hormone, stimulants or caffeine?  If you are taking anything like that, I'd stop.  If you consume caffeine, chocolate or a lot of sugar at all, I'd think about stopping for now.  Don't skip meals unless you feel too sick to eat.  Eat balanced meals.    

 

Chinese Medicine can cure tinnitus and probably your other symptoms.  You'd need to see a good acupuncturist/Chinese herbalist.  Below is a thread to my link on Chinese Medicine that says how to find a good acupuncturist and how to live in accordance with Chinese Medicine.  Don't overdo, look for balance and moderation, and listen to your body.

 

 

Edited by Luminosity, 15 April 2014 - 06:11 AM.

[profion]

Thanks for a good answer

 

Most of the symptoms are gone, i just feel as if im in shock and thereby sitting in alittle brainfog/anxiety. Ive been work free 3month now and have focused on getting my life back on track! So far i just hear alittle tinnitus, nothing serious though... And it is as if im in alittle brainfog still, maybe im still in a bit of a shock state due to the stress/BP monitoring that i saw "that really made me anxiues" im VERY happy that things are back to normal health wise.

 

- Im back eating healthy

- Ive started to juice "3times a day many carrots,apples,ginger and so on"

- Cardio has been put into my workout

- Ive been supplement free for 3month

- Im doing yoga again

- Im trying to be in nature as much as possible, atleast when its sunshine "some times i do yoga outdoors"

 

Nevertheless my lifting is a sport for me, 210kg deadlifts and 200kg squats ect. Ive held back alittle to give my body some room to breath!

 

Ive heard alot of people recommend "Yerba Mate" its a tea/caffine/coca beverage that should work as medicine!

 

[Luminosity]

Sounds like you're doing great.  Do they recommend Yerba Mate for tinnitus?  I think it has caffeine or something like it.  Is that good for tinnitus?  It would not be good for high blood presssure.  

[profion]

My BP is 115 now, wich is very good.

 

Funny thing is that ive met a person that is experiencing alot of the same symptoms after he cought a sinus infection... The biggest complain that he has is the foggyness and balance problems when sitting down, nevertheless ive heard from others that they´ve encountered others in the same city that had cought T after a cold infection

 

I dont think that caffiene interferes with my Tinnitus, the only reason i would assume that people think it does might be due to the increase in adrenaline/noradrenilin - wich would thereby cause an increase in anxiety --> wich would lead to more focus on the sound a person is hearing, increasing it.

 

There are some supps that i would like to start using; Ginko bilboa, Fish oil, Q10, Yerba mate.. but economy is a little tight these days

 

 

 

 

[gamesguru]

Maybe skipping meals makes you hypoglycemic. That could explain the anxiety, inability to concentrate, high systolic pressure, shakes, tinnitus, and loss of balance.

[dudmuck]

There are some supps that i would like to start using; Ginko bilboa, Fish oil, Q10, Yerba mate.. but economy is a little tight these days

 

 

 

 

 

You're on the right track with Ginkgo.

There are plenty of threads on here about tinnitus and supplementing Zinc and possibly magnesium, along with B vitamins.

 

"At least one study has noted that 50mg zinc supplementation daily for two months is able to reduce the severity of tinnitus in 82% of patients given the supplement, with no significant reduction seen in placebo.", but it seems like that much zinc would cause problems with other minerals like copper.   And strangely, melatonin is reported to help, but probably only with people who need sleep improvement.

[StevesPetRat]

Sounds like a little bit of neuroinflammation and excitotoxicity from a combination of psychological and physical stress and then the viral attack on your system. Consider acetyl glutathione 300 mg X 3 daily. Pricey, but I find it quiets my tinnitus considerably and helps with the brain fog. The vasodilators can help with tinnitus too. Melatonin is neuroprotective, antioxidant, and anti inflammatory so that's probably why it helps - not to mention the improved sleep which also is good for the brain!


Your immune system likes to throw fibrin on infected tissue
http://www.ncbi.nlm....ubmed/17635705/
Not the best link but it supports my point and I am lazy. My guess is that the fibrin can impair cerebral blood flow. Plus infection itself impairs cognition, and viral infections can take a lot longer to clear than you think. http://www.ncbi.nlm....pubmed/23530151
Lactoferrin is the best OTC antiviral I know of.

I think the other recommendations here are fine too. Good luck. Some of us get sick and then stay that way...

[platypus]

Floaters are normal, do not mind them nor concentrate on them. I have the same advice about tinnitus, the less you "listen" to it or obsess about it the less it will bother you. I have mild tinnitus all the time but 96% of the time I do not notice it at all, as i'm not paying attention to it. 

Edited by platypus, 18 April 2014 - 11:45 AM.