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Feb. 23rd, 2009 02:14 pmIt was a pretty rough weekend, what with working myself into the ground to distract myself from the birthday. (Usually the roughest day of the year.) But, I'm here and taking it easy today.
I'm also tentatively encouraged that hitting the B vitamins hard is actually starting to help, since I seemed to have more energy to work off. I'm also not noticing the probably-Wernicke's eye movement weirdness as much; thank goodness I caught this before the Korsakoff bit kicked in! It's also good to find out why I've lost so much muscle mass/strength in spite of efforts to the contrary, and am getting worse orthostatic hypotension, among other things. Looking at prognosis, the eye weirdness is likely to get better, though ataxia only improves in 40% with treatment. Yep, this is still looking pretty frightening!
Yesterday, I felt slightly absurd washing down my beans and brown rice lunch (smothered in nutritional yeast flakes)--and Magnesium-OK tablet--with diluted strange-but-tasty multivitamin juice blend. But, needs must.
Since thiamine deficiency directly messes with glucose metabolism, I do have to wonder if that might have been making my blood sugar control much worse, thus making the kidneys overfilter more thiamine and worsening the deficiency, in another vicious cycle. If so, I wasn't able to find any relevant research with some quick searching.
We do have the new stove now. It's sitting right outside the kitchen. :/
( Yet more fun with appliances )
I'm also tentatively encouraged that hitting the B vitamins hard is actually starting to help, since I seemed to have more energy to work off. I'm also not noticing the probably-Wernicke's eye movement weirdness as much; thank goodness I caught this before the Korsakoff bit kicked in! It's also good to find out why I've lost so much muscle mass/strength in spite of efforts to the contrary, and am getting worse orthostatic hypotension, among other things. Looking at prognosis, the eye weirdness is likely to get better, though ataxia only improves in 40% with treatment. Yep, this is still looking pretty frightening!
Yesterday, I felt slightly absurd washing down my beans and brown rice lunch (smothered in nutritional yeast flakes)--and Magnesium-OK tablet--with diluted strange-but-tasty multivitamin juice blend. But, needs must.
Since thiamine deficiency directly messes with glucose metabolism, I do have to wonder if that might have been making my blood sugar control much worse, thus making the kidneys overfilter more thiamine and worsening the deficiency, in another vicious cycle. If so, I wasn't able to find any relevant research with some quick searching.
We do have the new stove now. It's sitting right outside the kitchen. :/
( Yet more fun with appliances )
