Norketotifen

Super interesting. I'm ultra sensitive and had small stomach issues when i started ketotifen, but then took to it well. It has never made me drowsy but I'm not at full dose. My gaba is also low and my glutamate is also high, so perhaps with my brain being more tended toward excitotoxicity I don't have the same issues with sleepiness.

Since reading up on symptoms of the latest COVID variant going around, I've come to strongly suspect that's what this is. As the day wears on, he's developing an increasingly more severe headache. He has a dry cough that is very mild but has been increasing gradually in intensity, and he intermittently gulps breaths of air.

The symptoms really do seem like the onset of something acute, not the flare up of something chronic.

I'm glad I got him ramped up on his full dose of Ketotifen before this happened.

I can't bring myself to stick a long swab up his nose when he feels awful. If I get sick--which I probably will very shortly, if it really is COVID--then I'll test myself.

pinkblossom said...
Hi Bailey, do you mind sharing more about how you know your gaba is low and glutamate high and what you do to increase gaba and reduce glutamate or anything you’ve tried in the past? As this is an area I’m really interested in! Thank you

To be honest, my lab results haven't been interpreted by a doctor so I'm not completely sure if the test means what I think it means. However, my doctor ordered AMINO AC QUANT LCMS P test on my blood and my glutamic acid came back high. Gaba came non existent, though non existent is part of normal measures range.

I have light sensitivity particularly in my right eye. It took me a long time to connect why then some things help it and other things don't, but eventually I realized anything that increases the gaba effects of the gaba glutamate balance helps. Many of them crested other issues for me though so only a small number have been kept. I'll list the ones i remember below

Licorice: helps vision, created mcas issues
Lemon balm: helps vision created mcas issues
Chamomile: helps vision created brain inflammation issues
Klonopin: helps vision, drops bp and it's a controlled substance
L theonine: creates licorice like mcas issues
Gaba: creates licorice like mcas issues
Taurine: I use this regularly
Magnesium: works but not strongly
Bpc 157: works wonders, but created mcas issues
Kpv: helps but created mcas issues
Tb4 frag: works but created mcas issues
Amlexanox: works, but not as well as other peptides, and drops blood sugar and blood pressure

Artemisnin??? : I used it years ago, and didn't have much noticeably help, but recently tried tiny amount and it broke tons of biofilm and made my right eye vision improve. I read one paper that made me think it might affect gaba

Vitamin k2: sort of temporarily helps vision bt it's unclear if it's because it helps gaba production. It might have more to do with increasing vascular flexibility in my case because of my ijv compression and eagles

Atorvastain: helps my vision temporarily but might have nothing to do with gaba, and more to do with aforementioned vascular flexibility and ijv compression etc

Inulin: helps me vision, breaks down biofilm, it's unclear if this is promoting gaba or is helium by some other mechanism

Tributyrin: helps vision but unclear if it is being producing keep gaba, increasing vascular flexibility, or helping mitochondria. It also drops my blood pressure and like other many mito encouraging compounds gives me headaches

Benagene: helps my vision by means of gaba (or at least that's why my docs gave it to me, but technically it could just be helping my mito). As mentioned above it could be helping vision because of helping mitochondria but, it also seems to encourage headaches

That's all I can remember at the moment.

Thank you so much Bailey and Michigan Lymie for sharing your experiences and suggestions re gaba and glutamate, it is really helpful! This is definitely something I want to look into more and gives a great starting point for things to look in to!

You're quite welcome pinkblossom. Somewhere in my ramblings maybe there will be a helpful clue or lead, or perhaps not. I ramble on just in case it helps somebody some time ;)

The illness has finally cleared up. One week of a variety of nasty symptoms, followed by one week of a dry bronchial cough. It definitely wasn't babesia. It was definitely a virus. The dose of Ketotifen probably isn't high enough to affect babesia, anyway.

Relatives all over the country, from Pennsylvania to Wisconsin to California, have said they became sick with a very nasty bug that was neither influenza nor COVID (some had their doctors test them). I'm thinking it may have been an adenovirus, because adenoviruses aren't tested for or tracked. They cause 75% of viral pink eye. He had pink eye as one of his symptoms.