This seems interesting - anyone doing the Keto Diet?
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I feel better mentally when I do keto, but it aggravates my diverticular disease. I can see this being worthwhile. Personally I’m just happy to see you posting @SzAdmin - we were worrying you’d been kidnapped by a biker gang or something like that.
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I get constipation from keto. Also I start binging coffee so I get diarrhea. My stomach doesn’t work at all on keto.
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I have often thought about trying a keto diet. I understand that there is a little bit of keto flu that happens as your body transfers it’s fuel resource.
I’ve been wondering about this 
My cousin sells keto drinks and I’ve been debating on trying it…
I’ve tried it a number of times. It always makes me feel better and want to be active, but I get fast food cravings after a while and generally have a hard time sticking to it.
I’m doing keto, as I was writing on the forum already. It’s too early to say, I’m fluctuating quite a lot anyway, but I’m carefully enthusiastic. I’m off meds now.
On the diet, my mind seems…mine again? I’m mostly relaxed, happy, social (for my introvert standards) and the scary thoughts are gone. My mind is stable, both in feeling and thinking. I did feel slightly euphoric and wondered if it could turn to hypomania. It didn’t get weird, but I’m sometimes wondering if I’m not overlooking bad things now. Whereas normally I would be overwhelmed by them.
I cheated for two days. And quickly started to slide. My mood was different. Traumatic experiences came back to me. I was somewhat sad, anxious, negative. And started to become paranoid. I read a few triggering things as well. But it was such a noticeble difference. I needed haldol these two days.
Now I’m back on. And I start to feel good again. I’m relaxed, happy and the smooth thinking returned. It’s difficult to explain, but delusional thoughts are just…gone. I’m off meds again. It feels secure.
I’m amazed. I don’t know if it’s the ketosis - i didn’t test. Or if I’m blocking out certain triggerfoods for me, like gluten. But I will continue this.
Will report if I still feel the same in a couple of months.
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I wonder what happens to cholesterol levels on this diet. I already have elevated cholesterol (5.9 mmol/L)
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How many grams of carbs do you consume daily?
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Diets can cause one to feel guilty if you ‘slide’. that probably increased your stress and got a bit of symptoms.
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Nope. It is really easy to come out of ketosis.
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@CopperKettle, I don’t know about the cholesterol… I still have to check that. I asked with my pdoc and GP if it was okay to follow this diet, and both were fine with it. But I don’t think they know much.
I don’t count exact grams. I just watch that I don’t eat a lot of carbs. I suspect I’m on the upperside (40-50 grams). So technically I don’t know whether I’m in ketosis, but I can feel differences. Like I’m suddenly thirsty and with a dry mouth. I have read that the level of ketosis also might make a difference to MH symptoms, so might have to count.
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@LevelJ1, thanks. I really don’t think that was it though. I wasn’t feeling very stressed about it. I just started to feel very sad inside about my past. And then paranoid. And then anxious. And then I took haldol. As @AhmShere says: more than +/- 50 grams of carbs, and you are kicked out of ketosis.
Ofc there are all sorts of other factors possible (coincidence, placebo). But the difference is so clear to feel, that I tend to believe it’s really the difference between being in ketosis or not. (Or perhaps eating gluten or not, or something like that).
I must say my mother already suspected when I was a kid, that I responded badly (hyperactive, emotional) to certain foods. So perhaps I’m sensitive to something.
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