I achieved a few hours of frequently interrupted sleep. Extremely hungry even though I ate 4 eggs, red rice, and some raw veggies just a few hours earlier before laying down. The disseminated pain is slightly reduced (although still significant enough to repeatedly wake me up). And the brain effects changed from fog to headache. Now in addition to the slightly diminishing aching pain, I also have a cramp (as opposed to an ache) on front, left side and my right arm feels like someone kicked it. In summary, feels like the flare-up is trending ever so slightly positively. The “cramp” (or “stitch”) I’m referring to is analogous to the effect of jogging too soon after eating. Not so painful. Aching (dull) pain feels like a bone and muscle bruise and it hurts more when pressure is applied, e.g. the hamstring aches deeply (deep to the bone) when the my hamstring is hanging over the edge of the chair. Note that seems to match the muscloskeletal pain described for fibromyalgia. The strangest symptom was I had an annoyingly strong erection all throughout this flare-up. It’s like I had taken Viagra. Lack of (or lack of strong) erections has been a feature of my chronic illness. When the aching pain was at its peak, I was miserable and couldn’t sleep at all. This is approaching tolerable/cope-able by now.

Amazing how much the immune and endocrine system is all tied up in the G.I. system. We don’t realize this when we are young and healthy.

EDIT next day: Our fatty liver is caused by autoimmunity. Is gut dysbiosys causing or concomitant with the autoimmunity? Gut dysbiosis is correlated with NAFLD, and I have read some info on how it may cause NAFLD via autoimmunity.

I suspect FMT (fecal transplants) is the best possible shot of curing this, if a sustained outdoor sunshine, exercise, balanced diet lifestyle does not.

I will likely pursue traditional colonoscopy, endoscopy and/or capsule endoscopy, so they can see and sample tissues inside the G.I. tract. The capsule endoscopy can take 50,000 imagines and capture the duodenal area that can’t be seen with traditional colonoscopy or endoscopy. That was the area where my ulcer burst in 2012 which caused me to end up ER and ICU. Note duodenal cancer has a survival rate of less than 20% for 2 years.

Someone put me in touch with a former high school gf who is now practicing natural medicine in Napa valley, CA, USA. Hopefully she can help me obtain a fecal donor and perhaps also refer me to some doctors in the USA/Mexico.

I am about to shift my daily lifestyle as I ramp down the number of hours per day I am on the computer to perhaps 4 to 6 hours at most (for a few weeks for this lifestyle test).

It’s perplexing that I could go from such a horrible condition last night to having a very athletic heavy bag boxing workout this evening. My legs do still ache intensely (and feels like I might not be able to sleep again), but my upper body was strong and my endurance was spectacular compared to recent times. Normally I lose energy on the heavy bag after roughly a minute or less ever since I was stricken chronically ill. This evening I was able to go 3 minutes per round non-stop punching. The snap on my punches was astounding for my age. Actually I was cracking the bag fiercely with my stronger right hand (much stronger than other videos I have shared). I was just amazed and thinking this is not me, I am dreaming. I wish somone would have been there to video it. Would have been interesting to share. This rollercoaster health ride is very confusing. That is why sometimes I am too ambitious because I feel great sometimes. I seem to decline by working 10 hours daily on the computer. I will probably be ill again later or tomorrow. In this moment I am lucid.

My body weight is still maintained at a svelte 155 lbs (70.5 kg).

EDIT after sleeping again:With a fresher mind I can pinpoint that these aches resemble the feeling of lactic acid accumulation. I know it well from my past experience of overexertion sprinting on the track. I’ve been supplementing Magnesium past two days.

If that is the actual mechanism, what deceived me from identifying it as lactic acid accumulation was the aches being up into my lower back muscles. And the extended duration that the lactic acid was not vacated.

Yet that could be the plausible explanation for why I was able to be otherwise athletic in my upper body last night as I mentioned in the prior message quoted below.

Note I did not sleep well again last night because of the aches.

I just finished jogging 1.5 miles in this blistering 10am tropical heat. Very achy sore in my hamstrings during the run but feel good so far after cooling off in the aircon. I normally feel good for at least an hour or two after exercise.

My near-term strategy is to test the lifestyle change I mentioned before.

So lactic acidosis can be caused by liver failure:

https://www.journal-of-hepatology.eu/article/S0168-8278(17)32131-1/pdf

https://livertox.nih.gov/Phenotypes_lact.html

Apparently can die very suddenly from this condition:

http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:DA-Z-vrgKJ8J:www.thoracic.org/professionals/clinical-resources/clinical-cases/liver-dysfunction-and-severe-lactic-acidosis-in-a-previously-healthy-man.php+&cd=13&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=ph

I concur that at the worst the night before yesterday the onset of shock to the body is rather severe. It hadn’t impacted my breathing but it did reach up into my hips and lower back.

So that it seems this is very likely a sign of advancing liver disease in my case.