Mold and extreme insomnia
It took me years to connect my miserable sleep issues to water-damaged buildings. (1665 words)
Articles for category: self-experiment, chronic unexplained illness, symptoms
Annoying crap people will say re: your mystery health issue
After you’ve spent a few months/years wandering through the medical system with a complaint no one can help you with — hair loss, psoriasis, fatigue, dizzy spells, insomnia, whatever — you start to hear the same refrains from supposedly well-meaning doctors and civilians.
Chronic illness and “nice” people
(Updated April 2024.) In 2013 I began thinking again about a phenomenon I first experienced at the nadir of my health woes in my early thirties, and several times since. I wondered briefly about it each time it happened, but was too beleaguered and distracted to dwell on it. On several occasions I developed noticeable, ...
Seven things I’ve learned from chronic, undiagnosed illness
During the years I was figuring out the celiac-nutritional deficiencies-liver damage thang, I had a few revelations that probably otherwise wouldn’t have been visited unto me until later in life. Several of these were a result of aphasia episodes, wherein my speech became slow and halting and would occasionally just stop mid-sentence. 1. People listen ...
SSRI withdrawal, sleep paralysis, and pseudo-alien abduction attempts
As I’ve learned more about prescription meds I have re-evaluated the disastrous health symptoms that led me to switch to a gluten-free diet 14 years ago. At the time I had just stopped Zoloft after 18 months. I knew nothing about SSRI withdrawal except that it could make you feel briefly worse if you didn’t ...
Conditions to consider if you’ve been mysteriously sub-par for a long time
Here’s a list of conditions I’ve investigated over the years as I tried to solve my health problems. You’ve no doubt heard of some of them but might think the symptoms don’t apply to you, or might have been given the wrong test or had your test results evaluated with the wrong lab ranges. All ...
A mystery that’s getting really old:
perpetual exhaustion that isn’t chronic fatigue
Last updated April 2023. This is a record of what I did prior to figuring out that you should not live in water-damaged buildings, and that iron supplements are really, really bad for some people.
