Hello all :-)
I don't have a diagnosis of dysautonomia. But, I'm a 38 y/o guy and I have had a bradycardia for 3 years, along with pain in the neck at the left carotid. So, the autonomic / parasympathetic / vagus system is obviously involved. It has been an honest-to-god nightmare. The main problem is trying to do academic work. But I get fatigue and excess sleepiness.
It was all much more handleable when I was still smoking cigarettes (nicotine stimulation and vasoconstriction). But I managed to stop that 5 weeks ago, and since then the fatigue / difficulty doing work has been a mega challenge. I have hardly done any work since then if I'm honest, despite continuous attempts, and trying every single supplement (to boost sympathetic / inotropic / chronotropic activity) I can get my hands on.
So I decided to go back to my old trick I found on the various dysautonomia websites shortly after my problem started, of drinking 1 pint of hot water with salt, followed by another pint of water. This stops me from having to repeatedly sleep throughout the day. I just use regular sea salt. Now that I have stopped smoking I have found I need roughly twice the amount I used to (so 12 grams instead of 6 grams) for it to have an effect.
I hate having to take salt because:
It makes me bloated and look tubby despite being trim
It makes me sweat like crazy if I do exercise, e.g. at a social dance event - I like dancing
This could be my imagination, but it seems to dry out my skin and makes me look at least 5 years older
Does anyone else find this with salt? I am just an upset person at the end of their tether looking for some camaraderie!
Does anyone have any tips on how to mitigate these problems with using salt?
Does anyone have any supplements they use in combination which allows them to reduce their salt load?
Thank you,
Danny