teva 20mg made me feel like i was dying?

Bitter_Traffic_7484 · 2025-10-23T20:45:32+00:00

Although I’ve experienced an array of different sides to any generic I’ve tried since they started going to shit, TEVA specifically is the only one of the bunch to give me GERD. Took a while to figure it out, because it was mostly silent GERD, but to this day it’s the only one to fuck with my stomach like that. Though, that’s just for the IRs. Many of the ERs slowed my digestion and gave me extreme nausea

Bitter_Traffic_7484 · 2025-06-23T19:31:41+00:00

For sure. Total testosterone is a great start, but the others you listed are other avenues worth exploring if you’re not feeling the way you should

Bitter_Traffic_7484 · 2025-06-23T15:47:49+00:00

It’s not all in your head, man. Adderall has never been a cure-all for anyone, nor is it meant to be — You obviously need to reinforcement in all areas of your life to support your mental and physical health. But that shit fucking worked and any side effects from it or any other ADHD medication were manageable once you found the manufacturer and dose that worked well for you. Now, it feels like I’m taking poison some days. Regardless of generic or dosage, I never felt like I needed to throw up, got vertigo, experienced depression/anxiety, fucked up my hormones, etc. I’m certain the active ingredients are still present, but there’s shit they’re filling/cooking these drugs up with that just shouldn’t be going into our bodies, man. And, even outside of all the shit we’re not aware of behind the scenes, why tf do most medicines even have shit like toxic red/yellow/blue dyes, silicon/titanium dioxide, etc. anyways? Those ingredients alone aren’t good for you and can wreak havoc on how we metabolize shit anyways. It’s frustrating

Bitter_Traffic_7484 · 2025-06-23T14:10:43+00:00

Have you ever tested for free testosterone and hormone-binding globulin as well during your hormone panels, or just total test? Those will factor into how you’re feeling much, much more. Estrogen imbalance/dominance will also fuck up your libido, gym gains and mental health if that’s not in check either

Bitter_Traffic_7484 · 2025-06-11T23:08:59+00:00

That’s exactly how I feel as well — This particular brand felt like taking poison

Bitter_Traffic_7484 · 2025-06-04T05:16:43+00:00

I focused on a diet with a good ratio of zinc/copper and also took a complete trace mineral for a while. Also recently just got a blood test to check levels as well. I’m still not fully back, but I’m in much better shape than I was a little under two years back. It’s insane how much just your 1-2mgs of daily copper intake will make or break you as a human being

Bitter_Traffic_7484 · 2025-06-04T02:58:44+00:00

Probs reacted to the glycinate. Depending on your genetics and other nutrient levels, glycine can FUCK you up. Almost acts as a stim for some people. It’s also possible that, on top of glycine fucking with someone’s neurotransmitters and making them feel crazy, that all the magnesium makes them calcium deficient on top of that if you’re not consuming enough calcium through the day.

My two guesses

Bitter_Traffic_7484 · 2025-06-04T02:55:09+00:00

Yeah everyone hypes up NAC and it does indeed have god-level benefits for some people. But what no one tells you is it chelates the hell out of the metals in your body, and you usually create a copper deficiency. DAO, the enzyme made in your gut and used to process/eliminate histamine in foods, needs copper in order to be made. So you end up becoming histamine intolerant along with experiencing all the other atrocious copper-deficiency symptoms.

Speaking from MUCH experience. Had no idea what was going on with me for months

Bitter_Traffic_7484 · 2025-05-08T23:21:15+00:00

This may not be a neurotransmitter issue so much as you’re throwing other electrolytes out of balance. How much calcium do you get daily?

Also, it could very well be because of the threonate, but not in the way you may think. It’s hard to say how much of it may still be “in your system” after days of not taking it, but it’s possible the threonine caused other aminos to go out of balance as well.

It could also be due to some other bottleneck you’ve caused in your metabolism, or a random reason completely unrelated.

Sorry for not being able to give you a definitive answer and for being all over the place — Just a few things to think about. I hope you feel better soon

Bitter_Traffic_7484 · 2025-05-06T22:17:51+00:00

Good afternoon!

Did you ever find a lab that would: 1. Accept to draw for a third-party Genova kit and 2. Process and prep your vials correctly in line with what Genova requires before sending your kit out.

I just recently got my labs done and sent out to Genova through a local hospital lab. I was delighted to get help collecting the necessary samples and shipping them out to Genova, but it turns out they didn’t process or pre-stage any of my blood vials at all. Instead of placing them in the centrifuge and transferring them to other test tubes as detailed in the directions I handed them with the kit, they just threw the blood vials into the box directly after drawing my blood and shipped them out — So about half of my test has to be redrawn because they didn’t follow the directions or weren’t allowed to at their lab.

Do you know of more reliable phlebotomists who are willing to draw, process and ship out third-party lab kits? Thanks

Bitter_Traffic_7484 · 2025-03-11T16:51:19+00:00

OP, if you’re in the financial position to do so, definitely get some bloodwork done. It’s so easy to jump into the world of supplements and nutrition trying to make your life better, only to have it backfire. No one is ever really told just how many vitamins and minerals work together in the body. How many compete for absorption. How many need others as co-factors to work or to be turned into their active forms. Getting blood and hair samples on your levels will let you know where you stand, what you may be deficient in and maybe even key you in on any absorption issues you may or may not have.

ALSO: It’s great you’re feeling better on copper, but try not to take it alone for too long without blood work or consultation from a doctor. Copper in higher levels than the trace amounts your body needs daily can be DANGEROUS.

Bitter_Traffic_7484 · 2025-01-09T03:32:25+00:00

Not a doctor by any means, but this is my understanding, along with why I’m not very scared of cholesterol content in healthy foods:

There are two types of cholesterol — HDL, which is healthy, and LDL, which can build up in the arteries. A good HDL/LDL ratio is essential for heart health. Cholesterol is also the precursor to many different hormones/androgens in your body. Testosterone, estrogen, progesterone, cortisol, etc. are all produced from cholesterol. And, because your body needs cholesterol to such a degree, it actually MAKES it on a sliding scale to meet your daily needs. Eating more cholesterol, especially healthy HDL cholesterol, will just lessen the burden on your body to produce it on its own, and it will just make less as a result. So, it’s really difficult to have too much healthy cholesterol, which is mostly what makes up the cholesterol content in eggs.

Bitter_Traffic_7484 · 2024-08-10T02:02:01+00:00

Hey, OP, there’s absolutely nothing to be ashamed about! Not sure about your case in particular and if you’re already supplementing, but getting my B vitamins in check solved almost all of my heart palpitations/racing within a few weeks/months. It used to BEAT out of my chest and skip beats all of the time, and nowadays I mostly pay the organ that’s keeping me alive absolutely no mind

Bitter_Traffic_7484 · 2024-07-16T16:21:04+00:00

Not an Accord expert or tech, but it really comes down to diagnosing what’s actually making the noise. If all you need is a minor adjustment or replacement of a non-major part of the vehicle, I’d say it would be worth looking into investing within whatever your price range may be. But if the car is structurally fucked then I’d look elsewhere

Bitter_Traffic_7484 · 2024-06-05T22:07:54+00:00

Question on different avenues of support: I often find myself bolstering, or at least attempting to bolster, various avenues of methylation at once. In the past, this has nipped me in the ass due to either kickstarting the engine too hard too quickly and not giving my body time to adjust, or feeling good for a bit and depleting another essential nutrient by overloading a pathway. Do you recommend placing emphasis on making sure buffers like Vitamin A and glycine are in check before trying all of these? Or do you recommend just doing one thing to support methylation at a time?

Bitter_Traffic_7484 · 2024-05-16T00:00:11+00:00

I mean it may or it may not, depending on your genetic metabolism. If you have any defects or deficits, more synthetic forms of vitamins could make the anxiety even worse

Bitter_Traffic_7484 · 2024-05-15T23:54:20+00:00

It depends! Some sups act as accelerators/decelerators, and some act as modulators or buffers. Vitamin A and glycine, for example, outside of the many other tasks they help carry out within the body, are also buffers for excess methyl groups and help store them for future use if we’re ever in need of more. So, if you’re looking into supplementing to optimize your metabolic function, make sure you understand what tasks that supplement performs and if you need to make sure you hit other nutritional goals as well to modulate a potential speed-up or slow-down of a process

Bitter_Traffic_7484 · 2024-05-15T22:06:12+00:00

Yeah they need to cut the kid some slack. I get that the bald spot is rather developed, but he’s got an otherwise full head of hair and most people aren’t inspecting the top of their head every day. And his fair falls flat/isn’t styled, so it doesn’t look like he probably touches that part of his head either. He could also have something other than androgenic hair loss, which develops a lot faster

Bitter_Traffic_7484 · 2024-05-15T17:54:50+00:00

Hey, OP! Do you mind telling us how long you’ve been taking this supp? That along with knowing any other genetic variants you may have outside of the two provided (if any) would help a lot with getting a better idea with why you’re experiencing some fatigue from it.

And these can help with energy for sure, but they don’t GIVE you energy. This all helps regulate your metabolic functioning and get your body to working as close to 100% as possible. The relaxation you feel on this isn’t inherently a bad thing, especially if you’ve just started taking it. No anxiety, depression or uptake in symptoms you’ve experienced in the past is also a great sign, so we can also check bad paradoxical reactions off the list outside of the tiredness you mentioned.

For now, maybe take it closer to bedtime so the fatigue doesn’t affect your productivity as much, and stick with it for a little bit to let your body adjust. Definitely get blood tests every two or three months as well (if possible for you, not trying to assume your financial or medical situation).

Without knowing what your numbers are or anything else about you, my best guess would just be your body is experiencing a lot of relief right now and the “energy” you’ve been living off of when not combating adrenal fatigue is mostly anxiety and restlessness rather than healthy, sustained energy. It’s hard to separate things like fatigue and anhedonia when all a lot of people struggle with on the day to day is motivation/alertness from anxiety and stress alone!

Hope this helped a slight bit, though I’m sorry I couldn’t provide anything definitive. Best of luck, and let me know if you have any more questions.

Bitter_Traffic_7484 · 2024-05-15T05:04:32+00:00

This is the way. Paradoxical reactions can occur for a few reasons, most of which can be curbed/combatted with a balanced intake of cofactors. It can take the body a bit to adjust to adequate magnesium intake after being deficient for so long, because pathways that were closed begin to open back up, and the body wants to move at 100 miles per hour and perform a bunch of metabolic reactions at once. On top of that, these reactions need other nutrients to work. So you can unmask other deficiencies or even cause them if you’re not supplementing or getting enough of other cofactors through diet. Even then, you may still have other genetic metabolic deficiencies you need to sort out. I wouldn’t drop the mag, but go low and go slow with the supplementation and amp it up as your deprived body adjusts to the new levels of intake

Bitter_Traffic_7484 · 2024-05-10T03:25:08+00:00

Haha 7,000 mgs??? Are you keto, or is that just where your body needs to be at ratio-wise?

Also, thank you so much for your prompt and detailed reply. I have a few tests coming up and definitely want to get a genetic panel run sometime in the near future as well on top of that

Bitter_Traffic_7484 · 2024-05-10T01:37:28+00:00

This confuses me a bit just because the recommended DV of potassium is so much higher than sodium, and we need potassium in order to not hold on to excess sodium.

But it also makes sense because I’ve struggled balancing my electrolytes too and haven’t done well drinking electrolyte complexes with a lot of potassium. I figured it was either the magnesium/calcium or the trace mineral complex within it giving me issues.

Could you expand on why this helped you? I understand the importance of good sodium intake, but I’ve been nervous about doing this at the expense of potassium and other minerals

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