The Lazy Person's Guide to Nervous System Regulation 

Happy to be of help Doc!

@@fitalfa I need your valuable counsel regarding a curious and frustrating symptom complex I have -- intense penile burning and lancinating pain followed by rectal and perineal aching/throbbing that starts minutes after I pee (the voiding is pretty much painless). What's worse, this almost always happens just before I go to bed, ruining my sleep. It can go on for hours and all I can do is lie still and weep silently -- a sixty-one year old professional at the mercy of this invisible monster. Simply knowing this is the brain playing tricks (predictive coding, conditioned reflex, useless 'safety messages', 'a distraction strategy', hardwiring of circuits in the insula, medical prefrontal cortex, insula, amygdala) doesn't help. The suffering is real, the pain is real and there is only so much a mortal can endure. Thanks again.

You’re absolutely welcome 🙏🏻

Yessir! Many names for this process & many ways to explain it 🤓

Brain fog is no fun. A telltale of inflammation. Sadly doctors are way behind. What’s the plan for you?

@@fitalfa I'm being seen by about 6 different departments currently but I'm in the physio stage and gallium is a radioactive tracer they put in you to track during scans Flared my bladder up incredibly for about 3 days then slowly subsided Was definitely added stress but I know what that ends up being

@@fitalfa plan for me is to keep going with physio, I'm on a low fod map diet currently working with dietitian and 4 or 5 other departments like cola rectal as I've had to have heamerroids removed from the constant urination which has added complexity. Saw gastro team Saw cola rectal team Saw physio Psychologist Psychiatrist Probably 8 or 9 GP's There was a long phase with mine of thinking it was actually an infection as spirochetes were found in my colon and my fever etc I had but I'm not sure what it is anymore I know anxiety flares it a bit but isn't the cause or baseline But yeah it's been a year and 6 months now I think and it's just been a year of getting surprised looks and put in the too hard basket So much I'm not thinking of, brain fog from inflammation interesting I'll try to look more into that It's as you know non stop and 1 step forward 3 back