It's not 100% every single time effective, but it works!
So for the past few months, I've been making regular trips to wound care. It's a long trip each way, and though there's an element of social anxiety doing this, there are probably many other factors that I don't quite understand and I'm not sure I'll ever figure out. When I get back, I'm really tired. The next day, however, I'm EXHAUSTED! Like really bad exhausted. It's a miserable feeling, and it stays with me for days, or in one case, a whole week! The week-long one was paired with a meltdown though, so it's not typical, but usually a few days of this.
What's happening is that my body is easily provoked into producing adrenaline. After being flooded with adrenaline for so long, other.. chemicals? Enzymes? Hormones? ......Other make-bun-tired-bits start being produced in large numbers as the adrenaline thins out, and it takes days to recover. This makes attending social events difficult as I have to plan around the exhaustion that will cause afterwards. These wound care trips had been giving me a lot of trouble since so much of my time after getting treated is spent recovering from this drain.
So! On a whim, I decided to drink some Tension Tamer tea on the way to wound care. I didn't have high hopes. Everything I've tried to mitigate the drain has been unsuccessful, although vitamins do help a small bit but not substantially. To my surprise, my drain after this only lasted ONE day. That's huge! Next time, I drank some tension tamer as soon as we set out. Last time I was slowly sipping it all the way there. I finished it quickly this time, and after treatment, I spent the next evening in the drain, but not the rest of the day. HALF a day of drain!
On my most recent trip, I waited until we got some distance on the road, then drank it all. Any guess what would happen after that was completely wrong. I had.. ZERO.. post crisis drain. NONE! I was tired when I got back, but I was only regular-tired. At no point AT ALL did I feel any exhaustion, and the next day, I was feeling back to normal.
I'm also taking metoprol, which I understand has some effect on how adrenaline affects the heart. I'm not sure if it's contributing to this, but it didn't seem to have any effect on how it triggered post-crisis drain afterwards, so I'm inclined to believe the tea did all the work.
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11 Apr 2025 19:52 CEST
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