Over the past two days, I've increased olive leaf to 12 capsules per day, divided into 4 doses. This is the last time I am increasing it for awhile, as I think this is more than a high enough dose.
After I went to bed last night, I experienced the short, sharp spikes of pain in my skull with intensity that I hadn't had since I first started this treatment. It felt like electric shocks going through my face, and with each shock it felt like my jaw was trying to slam shut or burst open. The experience was excruciating and scary, to the point where I almost had a panic attack...and I've never had a panic attack before. The pain spikes began to slowly subside just a few minute after they started, getting less severe each time. After about 20 minutes I still was experiencing the spikes but they were significantly less severe by then, eventually fading away to barely perceptable severity.
It seemed like lying on my back was actually making the spikes of pain worse, while lying on my side they seemed to subside. I don't know why, as I would have though lying on my back would keep my spine straight and in alignment and would be better for me.
I still have the cracking joints in my neck, and still have that feeling when I move my head that I described earlier--the one I compared to a creaky hinge on a door. I even have even started to have that creaky feeling in other joins. I've noticed it in my knees, fingers, and toes.
Another new strange symptom is a tapping sound in one ear. It is similar to when you can hear your hearbeat in your ear, but this was much more rapid at around 4 to 5 pulses per second. It lasts for several hours at a time. Fortunately it is merely annoying rather than excruciating like the spikes of pain, but it makes it hard to fall back asleep whenever I wake up.
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