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[MangekyōPeter]

I would like to get an educated guess from you guys regarding my physical symptoms.

Age : 20
Male
from Latvia
eating healthy most of the time
smoking weed daily (for the past 5 years)

Starting off -
I have strained my neck 2 times in my life when I was younger 8 - 12 so it's prone to "getting strained" and I still feel it is pretty weak overall.

When I was young I used to hold my breath and breath out while holding the air in as to make myself as red as possible for amusement reasons (never once blacked out or had any major side effects from doing that, apart from becoming very very red in the face).


NOW TO THE PROBLEM -
I have social anxiety as well as ADHD and this has made "everything that is public and demanding" to make me go red... and I mean super red... this happens when my emotions are high, be it anger or extreme joy and sometimes the more appropriate emotion - shame. In general, I can feel that once blood rushed to my head, it seems to have some problems getting back down elsewhere to my body so when an episode of this occurs I am usually left in a tomato state for quiet some time afterwards (30 minutes at least)...

This also happens after exercise (to be expected) but obviously is a very annoying thing... But I'm wondering if it's also a symptom of some damage that I may have done earlier on in my life because lately its becoming harder and harder to be upside down for even the slightest of moments, I mean once my head is below my body I start feeling pressure and my eyes start to itch...

For instance right now I just did some pushups (as i'm on my first ever cerebrolysin cycle and want to include some exercises as well) and towards the end of the 30th rep I feel upper lip numbness that leaves once I stand up for 20 - 30 seconds...



OTHER THING: Over the past year I've seemed to have lost my GRIP as a whole as well as strenght, and how this manifests is that I can do the first rep of everything just as I could before but once I rest a little and try to do the second rep there simply isn't any strenght in my "any body part" .. i mean that for example if i do pull ups i can only do 1 set of 10-13 and maybe the second set to 4-6 but a year ago I could do like 2 sets of 10-13 and then like loads of mini sets of at least 3-5 pullups before I lost all strenght .. but now it happens A LOT more faster..

What I think has made this muscular weakness is that I jogged for 4 months for 20-30 minutes 4-5 times a week and didn't do any strenght training so I'm hoping it's just that i've lost my muscle mass from running as this is aronud the same time I lost my strenght.




I KNOW THIS HAS BEEN A WALL OF TEXT but what are your thoughts after reading this? what could be the problem?

P.S and I also feel my hands or any extremities going numb if I bend them the wrong way very fast (but they don't go numb if I am sitting normally or doing anything else normally but it's like my nerves have "shrunken" or something...)


EDIT: BY THE WAY ONE MAJOR THING THAT I REMEMBERED EVER SINCE MY CHILDHOOD...

I've always been VERY overwhelmed by adrenaline if something happens.. it's like I get a whole lot more than necessary... and I remember when I still was I child that I got so much emotions in me all the time, and often when something bad or good happend (not both) i would both cry and laugh at the same time...

Edited by marekso, 27 February 2012 - 05:43 PM.

[Now]

I don't think there is a link between your actions in the past and the blushing now because:

1. Severe blushing is common in people who suffer social anxiety.
2. Many people blush (me too) and they/I haven't done those actions in the past.
3. Young people are more likely to blush and blush more intensively.

About the numb extremities: do you bend them when you're having stress? Because maybe it isn't caused by the bending but by Raynaud's phenomenon.

But I'm just a layman, so I hope you will get more responses.

Oh, and remember: Charles Darwin described blushing as the most peculiar and most human of all expressions.

[MangekyōPeter]

Hi Now,
and thanks for your response..

And Yeah I do bend them all the time... and I spend most of my time in front of a computer about 8+ hours a day.. but I do walk around every hour or so for a few mins around the house...

And I bend them as it just feels "normal" I hide my hands in my crotch (bent) when I'm watching something.. and I like to keep my legs crossed as well somehow as it just feels more comfortable...

And another important thing : I can't stand cold weather nearly as easily as I could 5 years ago... cold just seems to go through my bones a lot faster ( I live in a climate where it tends to drop to -4 Fahrenheit, which it did a few weeks ago)... and I get SOO cold ... SOO fast... But I've never had major discoloration of any extremities...

Edited by marekso, 27 February 2012 - 06:57 PM.

[niner]

I spend most of my time in front of a computer about 8+ hours a day.. but I do walk around every hour or so for a few mins around the house...

More movement, and exercise in general would probably help.

And I bend them as it just feels "normal" I hide my hands in my crotch (bent) when I'm watching something.. and I like to keep my legs crossed as well somehow as it just feels more comfortable...

This is fairly common. Somehow squishing yourself in various ways has an anti-anxiety effect. I do this too.

And another important thing : I can't stand cold weather nearly as easily as I could 5 years ago... cold just seems to go through my bones a lot faster ( I live in a climate where it tends to drop to -4 Fahrenheit, which it did a few weeks ago)... and I get SOO cold ... SOO fast... But I've never had major discoloration of any extremities...

Hmm. For the past 5 years you've been smoking weed every day. Connection? I don't know. Just a thought. I would guess that the weed use is basically self-medicating for anxiety. It might be working in that regard, but I don't think it gets the Longecity seal of approval in terms of your overall health.

The extremities going numb might be related to some sort of nerve damage or a carpal tunnel-like problem caused by the frequent bending. If you could minimize the bending, possibly by wearing some sort of brace, things might have a chance to heal.

You mentioned that you eat healthy most of the time; what does your diet look like? Do you take a multivitamin or any other supplements? Are you using any medications?

[MangekyōPeter]

Hi niner, thanks for your response.

More movement, and exercise in general would probably help.

Okay, I WILL implement some form of exercise in my routine.

This is fairly common. Somehow squishing yourself in various ways has an anti-anxiety effect. I do this too.

Yes, it most certainly does now that I think of it.

Hmm. For the past 5 years you've been smoking weed every day. Connection? I don't know. Just a thought. I would guess that the weed use is basically self-medicating for anxiety. It might be working in that regard, but I don't think it gets the Longecity seal of approval in terms of your overall health.

The weed is self medicating for both my ADHD and the Anxiety (although it sometimes backfires for the latter one if I get a strain that is racy and if I smoke a little too much I get increased anxiety, but this didn't happen nearly as often back when I hadn't abused Benzos for a while.)

The extremities going numb might be related to some sort of nerve damage or a carpal tunnel-like problem caused by the frequent bending. If you could minimize the bending, possibly by wearing some sort of brace, things might have a chance to heal.

Okay, I will deliberately try to not bend any extremities throughout the day. And by the way last year (when I was jogging for 4 months) I also took a COLD/HOT shower after, always.... as I was trying to maybe restore some blood circulation as I thought that was the problem. And by the way my Blood perssure is 140/90 usually (this is the average reading for the past 4 years that I remember.. always around 140 but the lower one is usually good just the higher one a little heightened.... but yesterday (In a great while) when I measured my BP it was 120/80 (remember that I'm on my very first Cerebrolysin cycle 10ml IV daily so this might've stabilized my BP finally somehow) ohh and had a full blood test recently and the only small issue that doctor said that I exhibited was anemia, but it was ALMOST normal just a tad below the norm...

You mentioned that you eat healthy most of the time; what does your diet look like? Do you take a multivitamin or any other supplements? Are you using any medications?

Well, seeing how I'm home 95% of the time and I live in Latvia (where I tend to think that food still has some purity left)..

I eat rice with ghee butter or boiled potatoes or pasta (I know, this is somewhat unhealthy) and add whatever is around the house (but all the things are mostly healthy) like
curd
cream
mustard
horseradish
eggs
completely raw milk (when I get the chance, about 1x a week)
black tea
sausages (unhealth-ish but we tend to buy the one's that are actually more on the naturally made side not the complete synthethic who-knows-whats-in-them types..


then lettuce, tomato, cucumbers are almost always present to some extent...

I have blood group B

NOW ON THE SUPPLEMENTS THAT I TAKE
For the past 4 months I've been taking Accutane 20mg/day for my prolonged and unresponsive acne that i've tried to medicate with tropical oitments and what not without much success (although when I smeared benzyl peroxide everyday on my face the acne did go away, but returned just as fast once i stopped applying it).

Then theres Omega 3 (I drink cod oil one TABLESPOON a day).

Then there's ginko baloba (started 5 days ago)

Magnesium and various group B vitamins that I get from dissolving one of those tasty capsules in water and drinking it in the evening.

Then there's piracetam (only started 2 weeks ago @ 800mg/day usually, which I know is nowhere near the normal amount, I'll order some powder once I get some money)

Noopept (been taknig for the last month but seems to only cause brain fog, but on 10% of the occassions it WORKS and I do feel a big cognitive enhancement, which is weird)

Then theres Silymarin which I take like once every 3 days just to keep my liver at max capacity (the recent blood test also showed that both my liver and spleen is working awesomely).

And then there's Modafinil (which I take like once every 4 days as otherwise toletrance kicks in fast and the weird thing is that modafinil too works only 50% of the time, and when it DOES it's absolutely wonderful for focus but when it doesn't i just get brain fog again, similar to noopept...

And that's basically it, and this has AGAIN been a very long post but I hope you read through it.

Edited by marekso, 28 February 2012 - 07:50 AM.