tldr: Is there something I can do to make sure my stomach/body is processing/working/metabolizing properly?
I've posted before regarding my back and forth with Kava. ie. Whether it's gonna "work" or not.
Gradually I started to realize that just THINGS IN GENERAL weren't "working", or at least something wasn't clicking.
K@ helped me through a pretty rough season and I quit it cold-turkey (5 days of no sleep, RLS, the whole deal - sense of dread out of this world... all the while holding onto HOPE (because that's where people get desperate, and succumb to sad outcomes)).
After getting back to "where I was", I started looking at anti-depressants because it truly felt like something is lacking in me. It's why I turned to K@ to begin with. (Long story short: Sertraline (Zoloft), Wellbutrin, and Effexor did not help. Effexor in particular made me feel weird and "floaty".)
So I started back with K@, this time not approaching the serving amounts (my starting "dose" was around 7g - way too high - 3-5g is a "dose" now).
Kava for me, when things work, is like that warm friend at the end of the day that helps the stress melt away, and gives me that nice feeling of "Oh I'm probably gonna sleep WELL tonight!"
Here's the situation: My stomach/body/system doesn't *SEEM* to be processing things the way it's supposed to.
Not just the Kava, but K@, Delta8, seemingly any substance that qualifies as an anxiolytic or mood lift product.
I keep a journal, and one thing that keeps happening is I'll read "THIS MIGHT BE IT!" (Like after I got more serious about supplementing with L-Tyrosine, Inositol, L-Theanine, etc.) but things swing back around. One time I thought adding MCT Oil was a "THIS MIGHT BE IT!" moment... because for that week or so, K@, Kava, all of it - worked WELL.
(NOTE: One common occurrence is that I can bank on any time I'm feeling this way, motility / bathroom experience will be bad. Like passing gravel. And I don't know which causes the other - if I've managed to NOT drink enough water, for example, and that causes my GI stuff which causes mood disorder / depression stuff.)
The most recent was the addition of a Vitamin B-12 liquid. I began to wonder if I was deficient, based on general absorption/nutrition connections I read related to B12.
So because I was "BACK WORKING RIGHT" again, I was all excited, thinking I had landed on the right supplement combination.
Same thing when I discovered DIGESTIVE ENZYMES... I thought "This seems to really help!"
But no... I'm back to where I've been so many times. I seem to waver between these two places in a cycle, and I really really want to be stable.
My last doctor visit was a colonoscopy, so now I'm looking going the other direction - a stomach scope.
Before doing that, I felt like one last attempt here... grasping for something to CLICK... something that could really help.
I've posted before regarding my back and forth with Kava. ie. Whether it's gonna "work" or not.
Gradually I started to realize that just THINGS IN GENERAL weren't "working", or at least something wasn't clicking.
K@ helped me through a pretty rough season and I quit it cold-turkey (5 days of no sleep, RLS, the whole deal - sense of dread out of this world... all the while holding onto HOPE (because that's where people get desperate, and succumb to sad outcomes)).
After getting back to "where I was", I started looking at anti-depressants because it truly felt like something is lacking in me. It's why I turned to K@ to begin with. (Long story short: Sertraline (Zoloft), Wellbutrin, and Effexor did not help. Effexor in particular made me feel weird and "floaty".)
So I started back with K@, this time not approaching the serving amounts (my starting "dose" was around 7g - way too high - 3-5g is a "dose" now).
Kava for me, when things work, is like that warm friend at the end of the day that helps the stress melt away, and gives me that nice feeling of "Oh I'm probably gonna sleep WELL tonight!"
Here's the situation: My stomach/body/system doesn't *SEEM* to be processing things the way it's supposed to.
Not just the Kava, but K@, Delta8, seemingly any substance that qualifies as an anxiolytic or mood lift product.
I keep a journal, and one thing that keeps happening is I'll read "THIS MIGHT BE IT!" (Like after I got more serious about supplementing with L-Tyrosine, Inositol, L-Theanine, etc.) but things swing back around. One time I thought adding MCT Oil was a "THIS MIGHT BE IT!" moment... because for that week or so, K@, Kava, all of it - worked WELL.
(NOTE: One common occurrence is that I can bank on any time I'm feeling this way, motility / bathroom experience will be bad. Like passing gravel. And I don't know which causes the other - if I've managed to NOT drink enough water, for example, and that causes my GI stuff which causes mood disorder / depression stuff.)
The most recent was the addition of a Vitamin B-12 liquid. I began to wonder if I was deficient, based on general absorption/nutrition connections I read related to B12.
So because I was "BACK WORKING RIGHT" again, I was all excited, thinking I had landed on the right supplement combination.
Same thing when I discovered DIGESTIVE ENZYMES... I thought "This seems to really help!"
But no... I'm back to where I've been so many times. I seem to waver between these two places in a cycle, and I really really want to be stable.
My last doctor visit was a colonoscopy, so now I'm looking going the other direction - a stomach scope.
Before doing that, I felt like one last attempt here... grasping for something to CLICK... something that could really help.
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