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Serious start:11 September 2019
@sarabeth-matilsky thanks for the detailed post. I will investigate locally to see if there are any good companies doing this here, very curious to see how the house reports. Where I am in Canada, the winters are long and very dry, house humidity is below 30% for about 6 months of the year, but summers are warm and humid requiring AC.
@sarabeth-matilsky. This is amazing, thank you. I am working hard to keep the place dry but it is a battle. I manage to bring the humidity of the rooms to 46% for a few hours but it always goes to 57% over night. It is a constant battle and as I will not be moving houses anytime soon, all I can do is try to control it; it is so hard this year. We have a soggy, heavy, wet and warm December and I miss the crisp cold and dry air.
@beata If humidity goes over 50% this puts you in parasympathetic mode. I have observed this on my own body, assuming the hygrometer was right. Amazing how it just happens over a couple of degrees of humidity, it does not need a lot over the 50%, for me 51% did the trick.
In itself this should not be bad, but our bodies are supposed to fluctuate between parasympathetic and sympathetic modes, regularly. If humidity is forcing the body into one position it tries to compensate and this becomes exhausting.
I had the same problem you have with humidity and I solved this using a de-humidifier, and I had to add a second one as well. I took care to take a model which zilches mold spores.
I used a de-humidifier for yachts, small, cheap and working well never had problems with them. https://www.amazon.co.uk/Meaco-DD8L-Junior-Desiccant-Dehumidifier/dp/B0060MY2KQ
You can add a timer on the plug to fine tune the dessiccation.
@ourania I have never thought about humidity and the parasympathetic system in this way. I have always felt much better in a dry climate (or in the summer here) and always wondered why. Maybe you just gave me an answer.
Would you be able to direct me to the source of this information, so I could study further?
I have been running my dehumidifier constantly and the air in my bedroom feels very dry to the point of my nostrils feeling like a a paper. But it still fluctuate from about 45 - 55% . Thankfully, I did not notice any mold spots.
I really like the one you suggested. Thank you. I will try to run mine diligently and together with an air purifier that zaps anything nasty floating in the air.
@beata I don't remember who told me about the switch from sympathetic to parasympathetic with humidity. In some yoga ashram years ago. But it came to my attention when I was checking humidity in my house for altogether another reason. I had small hygrometers in every room to find out exactly where the humidity was coming from and I realized with the precise meters to the switch did occur! I could find out because the breath switched nostrils.
I liked that dehumidifier because it does not use up a lot of electricity and also it cleans the air by rotation of a clay/chalk? wheel, no ozone involved.
Good luck.
Every little bit helps.
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27 May, 2021
It has been a pretty eventful time since my last post. I had some serious issues following introduction of fresh onion as a side dish. I went through a serious depression and anxiety period until I realised that it was onion that was causing these symptoms. What followed was sudden intense dislike of all plant matter. Meat (beef, lamb and chicken) and beans are my daily food now.
After that, a period of relative calm was disturbed by a pain in the neck! Yes, literally. I thought that I slept wrong and the pain will go away within a day or two. It didn’t and it actually spread up my left side of head and down to my upper back. My back started to feel armoured.
What I did differently before this happened was that I lowered the dose of ascorbic acid which I have been taking at 6-8g for about year, and stopped the magnesium supplement. I quickly returned to the previous doses and also used my massage chair. The armoured feeling subsided but the pain is still present. For a day it “went” to my ride side of head just above the neck and it is still in my left side of neck and upper back. It is not debilitating and I hope that it will sort itself out.
My sleep once more started to be rather difficult with falling asleep and very light sleep throughout the night. I decided to have a coffee enema on two consecutive days and this seems to really helped. For the past two nights I have been falling asleep easily and sleeping soundly.
My energy levels fluctuate and seem to be very tightly related to the weather. Since we have had the coldest May in 25 years, I have been less energetic that I would like to be.
The tinnitus is as loud as ever or louder. My nostrils are still very dried. I started the Ayurveda treatment placing a small amount of warm mustard oil into the navel. I have amazing deep meditations during this treatment; my occasionally cold abdomen is no more. The mustard oil is supposed to be good for moisturising dried eyes and nose membranes. I will continue this for at least a month and see if it works.
Sorry to hear that you’ve been having a difficult time. That amount of ascorbic acid will slow the detox enzymes so perhaps stopping it caused a massive spurt in detox? I don’t know just an idea.
Whoah, I would wean yourself off that Vitamin C. It could be resulting in significant endogenous oxalate production, which could be draining your magnesium and other electrolytes and leading to the tinnitus. My own tinnitus resolved on a low oxalate diet, which was accompanied by magnesium supplementation. Vitamin C looks to be pro-inflammatory in large (supplemented) amounts, and as Jenny suggested, it is likely inhibiting detox pathways at those large doses.
Beata, I started a thread about spine/back/neck/muscle-spasm type problems.
Electrolyte changes are involved I believe. I'm sure that VA has us try to build things back there badly.
I need a pillow to sleep on my side, but when I'm on my back I push the pillow away. Tim has posted about pillow-free sleeping. My spine seems to really like laying perfectly flat a few times per night.
I hope that people can post lots of ideas for these problems on the thread because it can be miserable. We can all access it when the "pain in the neck" (or back) arrives. Rachel-2 has put some exercise ideas there already.
https://ggenereux.blog/discussion/topic/back-or-neck-spasm-disk-problems-back-went-out/
Quote from wavygravygadzooks on May 27, 2021, 10:08 amWhoah, I would wean yourself off that Vitamin C. It could be resulting in significant endogenous oxalate production, which could be draining your magnesium and other electrolytes and leading to the tinnitus. My own tinnitus resolved on a low oxalate diet, which was accompanied by magnesium supplementation. Vitamin C looks to be pro-inflammatory in large (supplemented) amounts, and as Jenny suggested, it is likely inhibiting detox pathways at those large doses.
I have been struggling with this for a while. I started to take large doses of Vitamin C to deal with a sudden toothache that started during the first lockdown. The toothache resolved entirely. Also, I have had bleeding gums for years that also resolved with supplementation of vit.C. There must be a Goldilocks ratio that I have not yet found.
I think that there might be something in what you said and I will try your suggestion. Thank you.
@wavygravygadzooks, I am adding this a little later. Could you tell me more about your tinnitus? How long, how much magnesium did you take, how soon did it resolve? Mine is pretty recent and it does correspond to my high dosing with vit. C so I have some hope.