Hello Berlin, I am very glad for you and your situation, I am glad that you are lucky in life.
Because with a difficult pois and cfg it is very difficult to find a girl who will understand (she would have to understand and bear the great burden of a relationship and marriage), start a family, start a business, keep a good job.
A lot depends on the happiness and the country in which you were born.
I have been planning to come to Germany for 5 years to work for a long time, but my difficult POIS together with difficult
CFS has kept me from progress for almost my whole life.
So I couldn't be diagnosed with CFS in Germany either?
If I could get a diagnosis, maybe I could find some “easy” job that I could
deal with POIS and CFS.
The last time I was in Germany was 18-20 years ago,
when I was full of optimism and hope as a young man starting my own small car business ...
but then slowly POIS CFS took away my opportunities for progress in life.
I really regret now calling it "CFS" because reading about your situation (also previously in forum and situation of others) I indeed have it much better and easier.
Maybe I should call it "problem with energy production mixed with a certain kind of lack of motivation depression"?
I'm indeed lucky to be born in Germany and I'm also lucky I had parents who pushed me to go to school and then to university (I'm the first one to go to university in my family, my parents had mid/lower education only). This lead me to a position of job where I can do basically everything remotely.
What brought me in a lot of trouble (sturborness) also helped me with school and work I guess (=> ability for problem solving). This maybe also leads to my attitude that my health issues I can solve myself (after dissapointment with different doctors) by just finding the right life style choices and the right supplements.
Side story: A woman/girl I know in my age has "real" CFS (the women version, CFS is more likely in women) and I asked her: "What about simple meaures like taking a Vitamin B complex pill or mitochondrial supplements like Q10 or Carnintine"?
She: "I don't know. I never tried those. My doctor and the media said i'm unlikely to have a deficiency, I have a varied diet"
THIS IS BAFFLING TO ME. I probably tried 50+ different supplements because of my "can do" engineer attitude and she has not even tried the most basic thing which you can get at every bigger grocery store in the world?(Please don't anyone take this personal please, this is just my view of things. There's a reason one of the forum threads here is called:
Vitamin supplementation WORKS - start taking them!Regarding finding a girl: Best is to find someone who is also
introverted (my wife is) so the flow in the relationship is the same.
What I should mention also: In the last years (many years) I almost never felt sad or sad-depressed. I can feel lethargic. I can feel post-POIS pain or post exercational malaise. I can feel super unmotivated. I can feel brain foggy. But never sad.
I had periods in life where I was feeling really sad depressed very often and for long times. I thought life was bad, I'll never find my love, I'm not attractive etc etc. I was driving people away with my self pity.
I don't really know/when this stopped. For sure my diet must have improved or some gut bacteria might have changed.
BUT... I also had several trips with
magic mushrooms (psilocybin) over the years when I was maybe between 24 and 30. I also took LSD maybe 3 times.
So draw your own conclusions from that please, in a safe setting this probably changed my life :-)
(In general because of differences with dopamine etc, I feel a lot of POISers are keen for drugs. I tried Amphetamine, Ketamine, I used to love alcohol etc. But magic mushrooms are different, they are more for feeling yourself and feeling nature, they are not for going for that extroverted party dancing action. Nowadays I don't even drink alcohol anymore, I get hungover very easily (CFS symptom?) and I'm a family guy now)
Germany is one of the last places you would want to go for CFS diagnosis or treatment. Germany is like most eastern Europe countries, where ME/CFS is considered non-disease and is usually diagnosed as somatoform syndrome/somatization.
Or as some kind of depression?
When I was at urologist once and explained him POIS, he said he can't find this disease in his books/system so he cannot do anything for me (errrr
) but asked me to take a self-paid vitamin D test.. I was with low vitamin D, but as we all know from this forum this is just one part of our phenotype, you can't fix POIS with it.
When I was at a
Heilpraktiker she diagnosed me with underlying infections. This sounds more likely for POIS...
