Posted by Steph Smith on
URL: https://www.es-forum.com/Symptom-relief-tp4023046p4023096.html

Hi Snoeshoe

I experienced what you have written about here for the first time in the 5 years that I have known about being ES - a panic attack/racing heart combo in the middle of the night where I was awake for a good couple of hours in the middle of the night, unable to get back to sleep and aware of being subject to a frequency that was affecting my  body that I could feel and could also hear and also aware of the racing heart and panicy feeling that I objectively knew there was no cause for internal to me - it was the scariest night i have ever had and has left me feeling beyond exhausted. What you say about the amygdala is interesting - a couple of years ago I started to look into a little bit Ashok Gupta's stuff on "amygdala retraining" for ME/CFS - but didn't go much further with it because I didn't know whether it was just another form of "CBT" that Gupta was packaging up with yoga and meditatiion in order to make money. But I defintely believe the amygdala
 has a role to play in all of this sickness. 

Steph


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 From: snoshoe_2 <[hidden email]>
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Sent: Monday, 10 September 2012, 1:12
Subject: [eSens] Symptom relief
 

 
Since we were just listing our many symptoms, and some of mine
have become worse recently, it got me thinking.

A lot of our symptoms, like heart palpitations, etc. are similar/same
as if we were in a panic situation.
(Okay, so our body already knows it is, lol.)

So what part of the nervous system works with that, at least some
of these symptoms seem to originate with the amygdala.

Since we know the brain is inflamed or overcharged from the emf, I looked to see if there are studies showing microwave effect on the brain.
Well, we know it is affecting the whole body, but anyway...

I think someone else posted this Turkish study recently?
http://willthomasonline.net/turkish%20cell%20phone%20study%20confirms%20brain%20impacts.htm

"Repeated elevated levels of "feel good" dopamine in the mood-regulating amygdala means habitual cell phone users need a fix as often as cigarette smokers. But after many calls, lesions and shrinkage in the amygdala makes heavy "users" more anxious, depressed, dumber, forgetful – and aggressive.z"

Lesions, isn't that nice, since CFS/ME/fibro already causes those.

http://www.whale.to/b/mcmurtrey.html There's a few bits in amongst this page too. I wonder how they know a rat is hallucinating, or just freaking out? lol.

Anyway, I think even though it is not a fix, if we find which supplements damp down the amygdala, it would at least give some more symptom relief, which would be a nice thing.

GABA being one, but I don't know if all the ones we've found previously are all applicable here or not. Other than becoming a bunch of alcoholics; http://alcoholism.about.com/cs/effect/a/blscr040304.htm

There may be others, if someone wants to hunt around for that more?

It does have the NMDA receptors that have been looked at before, though I never checked what all parts of the brain they were in, but I think there has to be something else in this section that could have the transmissions damped down.

~ Snoshoe


 

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