{"id":10851,"date":"2024-12-20T23:09:25","date_gmt":"2024-12-20T15:09:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nutritional-humility.me\/oxystaging\/?p=10851"},"modified":"2025-01-03T08:21:14","modified_gmt":"2025-01-03T00:21:14","slug":"annual-food-for-thoughts-2024-2-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nutritional-humility.me\/oxystaging\/annual-food-for-thoughts-2024-2-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Annual Food For Thoughts 2024 2\/3"},"content":{"rendered":"

Following from Part 1, here is what I have been experiencing. The sudden pains surrounding my left flank, for months October onwards.\u00a0<\/i><\/p>\n

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Speculation: what started it all. Never a problem before. But suddenly problematic.<\/p><\/div>\n

October - December 2024 (potentially onwards).<\/b><\/h2>\n

It all began when I finished an Extended fasting 40+ hours<\/strong> mid October. Feature meal as PWO (post workout) and breaking the fast ~ pasta meal with tomato paste. Something I haven't had for quite some time. <\/i><\/p>\n

All of a sudden things slowly turn south. <\/i>A day or two after I felt radiating, nagging pains, notably on left side of middle<\/strong><\/em> quadrant.<\/p>\n

First week was mild. But fast forward next two month(s) - quite debilitating that even made walking short distances difficult without short burst of spasms or jolts of pain resembling a disc slip (post trauma \/ training injury).\u00a0But here's the strange thing ~ it came out of nowhere. There was no \"injury\" nor impact trauma per-se.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

Yet a day or two after that feature meal, the pains emerged. Out of the blue.<\/p>\n

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Given my long term condition (AS) ~ I am very well aware of the overall pain distinction. <\/strong>Much less (thankfully) of a \"freezing\" jolt of shock through the entire spine. However, even though I \\remain tense, almost constantly on a daily basis<\/strong>\u00a0to anticipate its pain whenever I laterally-flex (eg. bending at the hips laterally, pressing on the obliques)<\/strong> .<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

What I did was the following, from most to least obvious. Immediately upon the first few days of notice:<\/p>\n

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  1. Continue Eliminating all oxalate foods. (Which I already reduce as an overall intake in recent \/ prior years anyway).<\/em><\/li>\n
  2. Complete elimination of Vitamin D.<\/em><\/li>\n
  3. High emphasis on calcium intake. Mostly from cheese and yoghurts.<\/em><\/li>\n
  4. High(er) water intake. 4 to 5+ litres. Per day.<\/em><\/li>\n
  5. High magnesium dosages - combining both the oxides and chelated, with Vitamin B6.<\/em><\/li>\n
  6. HIGH Magnesium citrate and potassium\u00a0 citrate (powder).\u00a0<\/em><\/li>\n
  7. (On later weeks) ~ higher potassium (chloride) supplementation.<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    Within as little as five days I felt relief and even training sessions went unaffected. However came next week, even while maintaining all the above ~ the pain returned. And things got progressively worse.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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    Sleeping became painful as even a minor torso rotation, back and forth ~ triggered the same burst <\/em>jolt of pain on the flank. This soon became a daily thing.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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    My imaging results and what the \u201cconventionals\u201d say<\/span><\/h2>\n

    I managed to secure both Ultrasound, CT (and later on - MRI) scans about one and quarter month of this pain. And what \u201cthey\u201d, the contracted GPs of Updoc\u00ae\u00a0<\/a> had to say left me feeling mixed. <\/span><\/p>\n

    Ultrasound did not come up with anything unusual.\u00a0 <\/span>Likewise with the CT scan.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

    On one hand it is half comforting to hear that my case is not that of typical renal stones. Apparently, the pain should be so overwhelming ~ I\u2019d be immobilized. I suspect it'd be to the level of\u00a0 Dr Eric Berg\u2019s experience - rounds of tylenols, and hours of lying flat on the ground.<\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

    There are however interesting cues for me to look up and learn. Though be forewarned ~ these are just for my own speculative insight.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

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