Day 16
Found the PEM 🙁 Today was pretty crappy; I threw up my empty-stomach pills this morning, slept an extra 5 hours after that, and the rest of the day's been a daze. I'm a bit discouraged right now, but also experiencing some noticeable mood symptoms, so that's certainly not helping anything. Hopefully I'll be mentally clearer tomorrow, and able to formulate questions tomorrow about how best to proceed; something something should I continue to bump up x, y, or z; something something am I letting something important slide by accident; something something should I go try enterovirus testing again, etc.
It's been a consistent worry in the back of my mind that the present improvements have been mostly or entirely placebo, and more a result of "I think I can do more" than "I think I need to do even less". This episode indicates to me that either that is true, or some alteration in my execution of the protocol has messed up something fundamental, or both. (Third option, it's been primarily placebo because of unknown enterovirus co-infection?)