54 yr old with 32 years of CH cycles every 18 months for about 4-6 weeks. Last several cycles manageable, Verap (160mg per day) and O2 gets me thru (I have a 50L bottle delivered 1x per week and a smaller backup). After 4 PFDAN's leading up to xmas I tried a few beers and some local Rakia to no effect. Excited, I dropped the Verap straight away (I hate how it makes me feel, even this relatively light dose). I must have been too greedy since a few days later another/same cycle started. I started up my Verap to 160 right away to no effect and pushed it to 240 the next day (40mg x6). This seemed to settle things down slightly after a few 6's & 7's. Getting hit every 1-2 hours during the night (but oxygen normally takes care of these pretty easily) and a few mid to late morning every 2nd -3rd day. Not horrible right?

Well adding the first cycle together, I just passed week 7 when normally I would be PF by now. I decided to try the D3 regimen (which I avoided since it seemed most people reacted after several weeks which I optimistically thought would be too late to really help me).

I'm on Day 6 of D3 (10k D3 day 1, 20k day 2-5 plus 50K day 5)
No help yet and then last night at 2 & 4am 2 level 7's and a level 6 at 6am
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Here is the list of supplements:
1. I'm using Liquid D3 (I assume this is fine/better?)
2. 2-3K Omega 3
3. No calcium yet (verapamil)
4. Magnesium 400K + Bcomplex +Vit E (German brand can't find the details of which form of Magnesium)

Trying to work through the variables for yesterday
1. Is the 50K (+20K) dose related to the bad night?
2. Took the Magnesium for the first time. Could that be it?
3. Had some chocolate last evening (Paranoid?)
4. I switched my Verap to 80mg x 3 (instead of 40mg x 6) which means I took 80mg at midnight just before bed. I already have low blood pressure (100 over 60). Did the Verap slow me down so much it impacted the severity of the headache (ie. not deep enough breathing)? I know this dosage seems very light for many of you but Verap seems really strong to me.

I usually sleep fairly lightly and the first sign of pressure I almost auto wake up, hit the O2 and 5 minutes later I can try to get back to sleep.

Any ideas?
1. I will keep up the D3 regimen (no super dose for a week anyway).
2. Go find a new Magnesium (citrate I guess?) 400mg source.
3. Go back to 40mg of Verap at a time.
4. I'll also look for the other Supplements. I have a bunch of Megs Men 50+ but I don't regularly take and not at all during the cycles. Too many variables and not the right mix for the regimen I think.

By the way, my Vit D blood test showed 38.8 mg/dL in late August. I'll check it again next week.

Mark

Thanks for the info Batch.

I added the Magnesium (citrate) the last two days and went back to 40mg x 6 Verap (vs. 80 x 3) to keep my blood pressure up a little bit more during the night (only guessing here).

So far 2 PFDAN's in a row. WOOOOOOP!! Actually slept over 6 hours in a row both nights. Fingers crossed.

I will look for the Super K and B50 but for now just the D3, Magnesium & Fish Oil. No calcium due to Verap. Hope to work it in slowly.

littlee