I was doing the induction phase of the Atkin's diet. It works by getting your body into Ketosis, which I don't know much about. I lost 20 lbs in 3 weeks. My dr doesn't think that it has anything to do with it, but I'm still afraid to go back on the diet. (Even though I really want to because I've gained 15 lbs back due to stress eating.) Also, lots of unemployment stress.
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Ketosis Weight Loss: Atkins Induction
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ytewestGo99
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I was unemployed and frustrated with my life in general. I actually started twitching while I was relaxing at the pool. Funny, I didn;t "feel" stressed but when a take inventory of the things going on in my life at that time, I was REALLY stressed. So beings I never did anything to correct that (yoga, prayer, exercise, counseling) My body reacted to the stress by twitching.
furballfury
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My life was a pressure cooker.
I was struggling to impress people in a job I really didn't love. My wife had one miscarriage, and we were raising our first child, something I wasn't very comfortable I could do well. I felt like everything was on me - earning a living, performing as a dad, watching my parents separate, watching friends one by one either move away or get too busy in their own worlds. Life was becoming hard, lonely and stressful.
My twitching also started fairly innocuously, I remember about two weeks the month prior where my right eyelid would not quit. Then it went away. Then about two days of my right thigh, just above my knee, and I wondered if I should see a doctor - maybe there's a treatment or a pill that quiets things down. Instead, the next day, at work, I googled twitching, and the rest is history. I wonder to this day if I had just gone to the doctor instead, and had him/her tell me eyelid/leg twitching is normal - just ride it out - where I'd be today. Maybe I'd know the association between that symptom and **S. And maybe not. Well, no use crying over spilt milk.
Suffice to say, there was stress, pressure, and I believe either self-loathing, or at least a ton of self-doubt setting in. Whether these are the magic ingredients that bring us here or not, it seems a lot of us fit in that camp.
JG
I was struggling to impress people in a job I really didn't love. My wife had one miscarriage, and we were raising our first child, something I wasn't very comfortable I could do well. I felt like everything was on me - earning a living, performing as a dad, watching my parents separate, watching friends one by one either move away or get too busy in their own worlds. Life was becoming hard, lonely and stressful.
My twitching also started fairly innocuously, I remember about two weeks the month prior where my right eyelid would not quit. Then it went away. Then about two days of my right thigh, just above my knee, and I wondered if I should see a doctor - maybe there's a treatment or a pill that quiets things down. Instead, the next day, at work, I googled twitching, and the rest is history. I wonder to this day if I had just gone to the doctor instead, and had him/her tell me eyelid/leg twitching is normal - just ride it out - where I'd be today. Maybe I'd know the association between that symptom and **S. And maybe not. Well, no use crying over spilt milk.
Suffice to say, there was stress, pressure, and I believe either self-loathing, or at least a ton of self-doubt setting in. Whether these are the magic ingredients that bring us here or not, it seems a lot of us fit in that camp.
JG
999ychelsea45999
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Extreme anxiety followed by a cold virus.
We had just had our fourth child, plus I had extreme health anxiety. Upon some therapy visits about the anxiety, we sort of arrived at the conclusion that I had some post traumatic stress extenuating from my cancer of 20 years earlier. In december of 05, I saw an opthalmogist due to some visiual problems I was having--turned out it was just acephalgic migraines (migraines with the headaches!). But, at the very end of the exam, he suddenly referred me to a Neuro-opthalmologist to make sure it wasn't a "tumor". It was devasting words to me(especially once who has already had cancer) and brought me right back to all of the bad stuff from my first cancer. I believe that most of this BFS was caused by this anxiety, the anxiey was so strong that I now have physical issues (i.e. BFS).
Eric
We had just had our fourth child, plus I had extreme health anxiety. Upon some therapy visits about the anxiety, we sort of arrived at the conclusion that I had some post traumatic stress extenuating from my cancer of 20 years earlier. In december of 05, I saw an opthalmogist due to some visiual problems I was having--turned out it was just acephalgic migraines (migraines with the headaches!). But, at the very end of the exam, he suddenly referred me to a Neuro-opthalmologist to make sure it wasn't a "tumor". It was devasting words to me(especially once who has already had cancer) and brought me right back to all of the bad stuff from my first cancer. I believe that most of this BFS was caused by this anxiety, the anxiey was so strong that I now have physical issues (i.e. BFS).
Eric
I had a bunch of things seem to happen all at once... severe iron deficiency anemia, chronic diarrhea, right facial weakness and odd sensations in the cheek (still awaiting a diagnosis on that one, but it involves the facial nerve), ringing in the right ear.
I now believe that the irritation of my facial nerve probably set the stage for my BFS attack. I read a book about the immune system and was really fascinated by the whole thing. Here's a brief summary of how an autoimmune response can happen.
T-lymphocytes are cells of the immune system that are designed to set up an attack against invader cells with a particular molecular pattern that is determined randomly (it's kind of like our body has a random number generator - pretty cool!) Most of the time T-lymphocytes won't match up with any of the cells from our own bodies because those get filtered out by the thymus gland, but sometimes there are "rogue" lymphocytes that slip through the screening process. When there is inflammation anywhere in the body, lymphocytes rush to the scene in large numbers to try to find cells with matching molecular patterns (their cognate antigen). So, if you happen to have a rogue T-lymphocyte that happens to match up with your VGKC cells, AND there is an inflammatory process going on at a nerve site (which is where the VGKC cells live), that can be the beginning of a lovely experience we call BFS.
Jodi
I now believe that the irritation of my facial nerve probably set the stage for my BFS attack. I read a book about the immune system and was really fascinated by the whole thing. Here's a brief summary of how an autoimmune response can happen.
T-lymphocytes are cells of the immune system that are designed to set up an attack against invader cells with a particular molecular pattern that is determined randomly (it's kind of like our body has a random number generator - pretty cool!) Most of the time T-lymphocytes won't match up with any of the cells from our own bodies because those get filtered out by the thymus gland, but sometimes there are "rogue" lymphocytes that slip through the screening process. When there is inflammation anywhere in the body, lymphocytes rush to the scene in large numbers to try to find cells with matching molecular patterns (their cognate antigen). So, if you happen to have a rogue T-lymphocyte that happens to match up with your VGKC cells, AND there is an inflammatory process going on at a nerve site (which is where the VGKC cells live), that can be the beginning of a lovely experience we call BFS.
Jodi
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