I started a few days ago on 8 grams a day and since today with 3 grams of glucose on top. I feel strange. Jittery. With heat flashes. Mentally bad. All in all it feels like stopping to take antidepressants so I hope it’s not somehow interfering with the Venlafaxin my doctor prescribed.

But it’s the first time in a long while that I’m feeling anything from anything I tried so I will keep taking it a while longer.

Here’s a study on the subject. https://www.deutschesgesundheitsportal.de/2024/06/03/long-covid-symptomlinderung-mit-kreatin-plus-glukose/

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    3 months ago

    I jokingly refer to it as Ketamin and wonder if someone took me seriously and snuck it in there.

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    Try taking a few grams of taurine a day on top of that and let me know how you go. I’ve recently discovered it’s very important as a mitochondrial antioxidant, significantly improves how I feel and I’m blown away that I haven’t seen any research or patient groups trying it

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      7 days ago

      I’m already way ahead of you. It doesn’t make me feel much better, but at least helps make my PEM feel less severe.

      But I always seem to forget that I take it at all and just list it under “supplements”. Although it has been the first thing that had any positive effect.

      The other day I accidentally took my morning pills in the evening as well and felt really good the next morning. I have since been experimenting to see which one of them it was that helped so well. I thought it was the Famotidin because it’s “real medicine”. And it does seem to help me to take double dosage. But the taurine is definitely getting the same treatment tonight.

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        6 days ago

        What’s PEM?

        I taurine morning and night, 1g, I feel bigger and with more energy if that makes any sense

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          6 days ago

          What’s PEM?

          Post Exertional Malaise, number 1 symptom of Myalgic Encephalomyelitis, what this community is about.

          I’m not trying to bulk up. I’m trying to leave my bed. 😁

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            5 days ago

            Interesting, for me the symptoms start within seconds of exercise beginning. I suspect it’s some kind of mitochondrial disorder but it goes away when I get sick like with a cold