Big "H" strikes again

Well, as i'm sure you already know, i've been on the ME "choco treatment" just for curiosity's sake (you never know, right?) and also started taking L-Lysine as i heard that might actually be good against Oral Herpes. Well here comes the irony, since three days ago i've developed a pretty bad case of oral Herpes and have even gotten a "fat lip" from it. Been quite a while since i got one of those so i figured it had something to do with the newly added L-Lysine or the choco treatment and stopped taking both. I will start taking just L-Lysine again later on when the herpes outbreak has passed, to be able to isolate exactly which one of the two that actually caused it. Might have been both for all i know.

The day before yesterday i started a 15 day treatment with Valtrex to try and get rid of this Herpes outbreak and already i feel slightly better. It means that it still has a positive and strong effect on me. Guess that's a good thing because i sure do need my Valtrex considering what a inefficient immune system i seem to have.

List of treatment/medication added

Just thought i'd let you know that i have now added a list called "Treatment/Medication" of all the medication etc that i am taking, to the sidebar on the right.

Hopefully someone will find something in there and have some use for it.

Later.

Chocolate CAN be good for you?

Based on the eledged postitive findings of a pilot study to test the theory that a daily portion of dark high percentage chocolate reduces the effects of fatigue (Chocolate 'can be good for you', York Press, 3 October 2007) over at Hull Royal Infirmary, i set out to try for myself despite the criticism found here - http://listserv.nodak.edu/cgi-bin/wa.exe?A2=ind0710a&L=co-cure&T=0&O=D&P=2655

Yesterday evening, a "DARK 70% GREEN & BLACK's ORGANIC" dark chocolate bar reached me. I have since realised the study included a 85% dark choco bar, but the only 85% dark choco bar that mom could find was not organic and therefore not an option. And hey, could a 15% difference really add up to all that much in terms of result? Well, since yesterday i've had a few small pieces and will continue to consume it for the eight weeks the study lasted and report back to you as time passes.

I don't really expect any postive results but hey, it's a health-reason to eat chocolate for cryin' out loud :-)

On another subject, i plan on adding all the medication i take to the sidebar to the right of the Blog under my symptoms later on this evening. Maybe my progress, especially in regards to my pain as well as general improvement in fatigue compared to 2 years ago, can help someone else this far gone in ME out there. Obviously i have a looong way to go as i'm still bed-bound, but it's progress nonetheless and very noticeable at that. I used to not even be able to use a urination bottle by myself. It was that bad and i'm grateful for the improvement since then to say the least, despite the fact that my progress still hasn't gotten me out of this bed. Yet.

Take care.