So the mental effects from this “echo wave” are all gone and only minor peripheral nerve issues, what’s left I s is in order to maintain regular power levels I need 15g creatine a day, 36mg (200% RDV) iron gluconate, and to stand up and move around to get blood pumping up to the top of my body, I think blood pressure might’ve actually been the “long” effect of my third case, back before the 1st even wore off completely \u2013 that would line up with the first time I fainted (with the 2nd, at the same goddamn bar, an “echo” from my 4th or 5th case).
Also the apparent increase in testosterone might be downstream of the 1st case brain stuff but if not the testes could’ve been 4th or 5th.
I don’t think the way my blood pressure went up last time I was manic was the same thing though, that coincided with a return of the mental effects of anxiety (which suck), which makes me think maybe the “anxiety zeroing” was a matter of the first brain case cutting off an overactive sympathetic nervous system (and then in mania reactivating?)
Even incorporating all this the pattern holds that the overall tendency is for the “echoes” of previous cases to be fainter when they recur and the new effects to be weaker, so maybe I’ll be acclimated after 1-3 more?
Like, the 2nd case where I needed creatine to patch energy deficit (by enabling more fat-burning; as this keeps up I’m appreciably slimming) went from 0 to near-torpor in 10 minutes, the recent iron stuff came on over 3 or 4 days so by the end I was dragging and a little mentally foggy trying to find the vitamin aisle for supplements, but I had time (I had been lucky enough to already have creatine on hand).
And as a reader with medical training explained, if I can absorb iron supplements my body should be able to scavenge blood cells and shortage would only be an issue if I was regularly bleeding out.
No objection! And yet, quite reliably, if I don’t take iron I begin to feel a sapping heaviness so specifically in my blood I can locate major vessels in my limbs by the feel, but if I do there’s a light relief immediately that proceeds to a full normalization in 3-5 hours. I dunno, man.
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