I think that some days are just low energy days, and occasionally I have “sky is falling “ days, but mostly, I am on a pretty level basis. I think that taking the supplements helps me a lot. I take 400-500 mg of magnesium morning and night, plus the melatonin at night, and B+ complex vitamins off and on during the day as well as my regular AM/PM vitamins and minerals. Also, I feel a whole lot happier when i eat mainly low carb, and skip foods made with flour, and I think that helps my gut to produce the good things like serotonin and dopamine. I am reading health-oriented books to try and learn which vitamins and minerals have which health benefits, but even so, some days I have more energy and enthusiasm than others. Just sitting outside in the sunshine in my ZeroWater-gravity recliner in as few clothes pas is decent and soaking up all of the sunshine I can really helps relax me and helps my mood a lot, too. I think that the stress of worrying about the election and concern about the future of America has stressed all of us to some extent, and hopefully, that will get better if some of the cost of living get better, too. I am looking forward to that. I am also following more of the health people on X, and learning from that.
Natural B vitamins and a magnesium complex helps a lot of things. I agree on the diet. We went to a friend's spaghetti dinner and I could barely walk afterwards. Carbs and sugar deplete vitamins and minerals already in your body.
I have posted in the past that I found B100 supplement helped me a lot when I had a high stress job. It helped relieve the grouchiness I felt when I came home, and at work as well. I attributed it to B6, but it has a lot of B1 as well. I just know that regular "B supplements" didn't do the same thing that B100 did/does. I now take it daily. I have never taken Ashwagandha though
I'm glad that's over (MRI). They ask me Before I went in the tube, If I wanted blindfolds, "yes please". After they put the IV in me they flushed it with a saline solution. I told the nurse I can taste it and smell it. She said that's normal. The test was 30 minutes straight with no moving, no breaks. They put a headset on me to listen to music during the test. I could feel the "bed" rolling into the tube, I didn’t want to know how far I was in the tube. At one point over the headset came ;try to stay still your moving." Up until then I thought I was as still as a statue. The only thing was my breathing which at times was heavy due to nerves. After a long spell I'm Thinking "should be over any second now", just then the headset comes on "just 8 minutes more for the contrast". I came out of there tired, thirsty, hungry--- The first thing I said to my wife is I'm never doing that again. I was planning on doing some work outside today after the test but I am completely drained. I'm gonna take a nap instead. That was my day so far. Hope the rest is better.
Tony, for my MRI, I had on ear protection (muffs), but no music. I could hear all of the noise the MRI machine made. I'd had music before when I had an MRI done on my hip and one shoulder. I definitely prefer the music. No eye covering either. I pretty much kept my eyes closed during the whole thing. The one time I did open them, for a split second, I could see the top of the big ring that I was in. The Tech congratulated/thanked me for "not moving a muscle during the entire time". Like yourself, I was very hungry and thirsty after it was done. I got my MRI results back online and printed them out. Don't know completely how to read them, but it did say "likely" for prostate cancer, but that's better than "very likely", I guess. This coming Monday I have an appointment, with my wife with me, to discuss the MRI results with the Urologist DO. I know I'm not very excited about getting a biopsy, but. I already have the antibiotics to take before it happens.
I hope all goes well for both @Tony Page and @Cody Fousnaugh. When I have complex MRIs, I once practiced meditation, and I can still do it when necessary. It a meditative state, you can remain motionless for hours if necessary, and the anxiety associated with it is gone as well.
Cody, The music was a plus. I was figuring a song on average is about 4 minutes, I was using that to calculate how long I was progessing. I hope your test find you healthy. You will be in my thoughts and prayers. I feel I won't be far behind you, with follow up test.
I'll add a tidbit to my "feeling overwhelmed." My husband has been a smoker for 40 years and I worry about that. On his last visit with his PCP, she recommended a CT scan of his lungs because of his smoking history, so he had the scan last week. He got the results today and his lungs are "all clear." What a relief. (And somewhat surprise.)
Oh how I understand that ! Mark still smokes and and am at my breaking point of insisting he quit. We can Not afford that seriously and his cough is a reminder . His x-rays did come back clear, but still !
I had open MRI several years back. 2 valium, blind fold, and country music with headphones, I survived. Very claustrophobic !
The last MRI they gave me was around 2002, and it took me six tries, before I could do it; bet my BP was to the moon. They told me if you don't do it this time, we're rescheduling you. I just kept trying to fool myself inside that thing, saying over and over; you on the beach and it will be over soon. I have bad cluster phobia along with white coat syndrome, "NOT GOOD", for me. Also Tony and Cody. I hope all is well with you both.