Yes I had down days or even the occasional struggly week but I could tell I was on a different level to usual and felt overall optimistic. ![]() ![]() Over the summer, I felt more together, more predictable in my health, “less ADHD or autistic” in the sense of the more problematic aspects of those two factors of who I am (which enabled me then to reap the many benefits and plus-sides of my neurodivergent wiring, of which there are many!), also more social, more generally outgoing and “up” for life and overall more robust in my mindset and body (my hypermobility seemed to be at a three year low, which was much appreciated). In that very first article on the topic, I talked about how very low B1 levels may be associated with autism and they are also implicated in various chronic health conditions. This year, as regulars will know (see my original post on the topic), I embarked on a high dose vitamin B1 protocol (as Thiamine Tetrahydrofurfuryl Disulfide (TTFD) and Benfotiamine) and, as far as I can tell, it has been doing great things for me until I had any reason to take pause, about a month ago. This time, some of those supplements felt like they were part of the problem and so, to give myself a much needed break, I decided to stop them all for a while (noticing as I did so just how daunting that was, and thus how heavily I have come to rely on them for some sort of reassurance that I’m doing all the right things). Because, akin to many people with chronic issues, I am one of those who take fistfuls of carefully planned supplements and add-ons per days, which is a way I have had to live for years since I first got ill with fibromyalgia and chronic fatigue syndrome and, though the stack of supplements has slowly evolved, the sheer number has not reduced. To summarise, these issues with my gut were so severe this time that I decided to take a complete holiday from all of my supplements. It has also flagged up a whole lot of new thinking about ND traits and how they relate to the gut, including high sensitivity, diet challenges and all my experiences of various healing and eating protocols, many of which seem to work well for other people but not so well for me (I covered this once before) or at least, not unless I modify them and go in very cautiously and slooow!Īs ever, I will start with the specific (what happened to me) and then get onto the more general topic of neurodivergence and gut issues, as I have come to see them. Its all par for the course of my life (when have I not had stomach issues) but this episode has been especially rattling to my daily routines, which I lean on quite heavily as you might expect if you are a fellow neurodivergent (ND) person (and I’m using the broader label here as I’m speaking of much more than autism). This past few weeks, I’ve been having some pretty severe issues with my digestive system.
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