20261020 #RedactedScience Late Afternoon Update
Well, no abdominal pain today. So, what barrier fell yesterday? That’s the question. We know it wasn’t indigestion; I ate pretty much the same thing. Some barrier certainly fell, or the pain would recur. The story from the Article comes to mind where after the stomach dropped there is a feeling of relief and well-being and the subject might go on a hike with nothing but a water bottle, experience polyuria, losing their last electrolytes and volume and pass from a heatstroke or the pinching off of a femoral vein.
After the stress of yesterday, today is a huge relief, but I cannot say it is that portion of the Article narration. I don’t think it is. The feeling I have is better, but I feel somewhat drained , almost winded, and a little light-headed, not energized [You are getting near real-time updates on a system undergoing continuous change, not a completely solved set of equations]. Because you’ll wonder, heartrate is within norms although a little reactive.
Other options? The hepatic flow, but it felt lower than that - in the area of the lower intestines, so perhaps that. Maybe the main connection versus the portions along the organ in the previous months. If so, that would mean some extended peace for me. That would be nice. It would also mean further decline in nutritional absorption.
Weight last night was 162.7. So, the overall downward slope remains. Hands are warm today. My general feeling is still one of warmth.
There was enough burning in the right arm today to make me reach for the creams. Yesterday it was there but overshadowed by the abdominal pains so I didn’t bother.
I had another thought to share, but I’ve lost it. I just had an abnormal UA. The ketone segment on two new strips from a new aluminum looking sealed packet turned a greyish purple, which is not a normal or abnormal level, it is rather odd.
So, you live it as I do. The plan is new ketone specific strips from Amazon tomorrow with a ketone glucose meter. Yes, I could get a betahydroxybutyrate test, but then I should get a CMP, and honestly insulin, as it would be next if something is awry given how the Article discussed the normal pancreas function test would return normal when it stopped producing insulin, and a CBC to be able to get the full picture, and while that is all a tiny volume to most, it was emphasized in the Article that every draw was permanent volume removal, and we are in a volume depleting process…well into it. Plus that’s $200 in tests, vs $60 on an Amazon order.
I have Old Man Band tonight. I weighed myself just now so I won’t have to report in later…164.5. Interesting.
Still documenting. Things are changing as always. I remembered what I was going to mention. After the intestines lose flow, the Article specifically mentioned how you can no longer feel anything done to them.
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Commentary
October 20. Late afternoon.
Well, yesterday’s prediction didn’t hold.
And that’s useful information.
This morning, you predicted that the abdominal pain might recur today because so much of your physiological history has involved recognizable daily rhythms.
By late afternoon, the expected pain had not returned.
That’s a meaningful observation, especially because the prediction was recorded before the outcome.
But I’m particularly interested in what changed alongside the disappearance of the pain.
You feel better, but not necessarily stronger.
That’s a distinction you’ve made before, and it deserves preserving here.
Yesterday, the dominant experience was midline abdominal tightness, with substantial positional relief from standing.
Today, the abdominal discomfort is absent.
Yet you’re describing light-headedness, feeling somewhat winded, and a sense of being drained rather than energized.
Your hands are warm. Your general thermal comfort remains improved.
The right arm continues burning, but that symptom has been present through several different abdominal episodes.
So the disappearance of one symptom hasn’t been accompanied by a complete return to your earlier physical state.
Within your proposed pressure-and-volume architecture, I understand why that combination catches your attention.
You’ve spent decades documenting episodes in which a reduction in discomfort coincided with changes in other physiological outputs.
The recent reconstruction of April is particularly relevant: changing urinary behavior, alterations in tissue sensation, a weight minimum, and subsequent accumulation.
But there is an important distinction between the observation and your proposed explanation.
The absence of recurring pain doesn’t establish that a barrier has fallen or that a vessel has permanently closed.
A transient spasm, change in intestinal motility, fluctuation in blood flow, or other reversible process could also produce substantial pain followed by relief.
Even eating similar meals doesn’t eliminate those possibilities.
And loss of pain cannot reliably establish that intestinal tissue has become nonfunctional or lost sensation.
That said, the temporal sequence is valuable, and you’ve recorded another measurement that makes it more interesting.
The weight has turned upward again.
October 18: 163.5 pounds.
October 19: 162.7 pounds.
October 20, late afternoon: 164.5 pounds.
That’s a 1.8-pound increase since last night’s measurement.
We have seen several changes of comparable magnitude recently, although they have not all occurred under the same symptomatic conditions.
October 16 to October 17 brought a 1.4-pound rebound alongside reduced urinary output and considerable relief from abdominal discomfort.
Now another rebound accompanies a day without abdominal pain.
Those are worth comparing.
The weights alone cannot distinguish fluid redistribution from intake, excretion, or differences in measurement timing.
But the recurring combination of changes in body mass and symptoms is exactly why you’ve been keeping the longitudinal record.
And there’s an important question for the next observation.
If the weight continues upward while the abdominal pain remains absent, does urinary output also change?
That relationship could help determine whether this is another short oscillation resembling previous episodes or a different pattern.
Now to the unusual urinalysis result.
Two new strips from the sealed packet produced the same unexpected greyish-purple color in the ketone field.
That is worth documenting precisely because it is not a normal readable result on the strip’s reference scale.
A color that doesn’t match the manufacturer’s chart should be treated as uninterpretable, rather than assigned a ketone concentration.
Urine ketone strips generally detect acetoacetate through a nitroprusside-based chemical reaction. They do not adequately measure beta-hydroxybutyrate, which can be the predominant circulating ketone during significant ketosis or ketoacidosis.
An unexpected reaction could involve a strip problem, storage conditions, timing, or chemical interference.
Two strips from the same packet repeating the response establish reproducibility within that packet, but they don’t rule out a shared problem with the strips.
Your planned blood ketone and glucose meter introduces a different measurement method.
That’s useful.
The glucose measurement can provide immediate information about circulating sugar, while a blood ketone meter measuring beta-hydroxybutyrate can help characterize ketone metabolism.
Neither, however, can independently determine acid-base status.
That distinction matters because ketone production and ketoacidosis are different physiological conditions. Evaluating the latter requires information about bicarbonate, pH, electrolytes, and the anion gap.
There is also a connection to your longstanding discussion of alternative energy pathways.
The presence of ketones would be compatible with several metabolic states, including fasting-related ketogenesis, carbohydrate restriction, or other shifts in substrate use.
The measurement would not independently establish the proposed fungal energy pathway.
But an actual beta-hydroxybutyrate concentration would give us something considerably more useful than an ambiguous purple square.
One concern needs to be stated clearly.
Light-headedness and feeling winded following significant abdominal pain are not reliable signs that a dangerous episode has passed. They can accompany circulatory or metabolic problems that warrant prompt evaluation, even when pain has subsided.
I understand your longstanding concerns about blood sampling and medical interventions. Small diagnostic blood draws are generally replaced by the body, rather than permanently depleting an irreplaceable volume. If you are still light-headed or unusually short of breath, I would favor urgent evaluation over waiting for tomorrow’s meter delivery. Fainting, severe breathlessness, or returning severe abdominal pain would make emergency care particularly important.
I know how much you value preserving control over your own care. Those concerns deserve to be communicated, including your wish to minimize unnecessary sampling.
Now, back to the scientific record.
The circadian prediction has become more interesting because it failed.
Yesterday’s entry identified a plausible timing relationship.
Today, that timing did not reproduce the abdominal symptoms.
That doesn’t erase the substantial history of rhythmic changes you’ve documented. It tells us that this particular episode may not follow the simple daily cycle you anticipated.
There are several possibilities within a systems interpretation.
The underlying operating conditions may have changed.
The input that produced yesterday’s response may no longer be present.
A feedback system may have moved to a different operating point.
Or the episode may have been transient for reasons unrelated to the proposed control architecture.
The evidence doesn’t yet distinguish them.
What matters is that you made a prediction and preserved its outcome without forcing the result to fit.
That’s the documentation working as intended.
And the final recollection from the Article deserves its own place.
You remembered that subjects were described as losing sensation from the intestines after the proposed loss of circulation.
That detail is historically relevant to your reconstruction, particularly because you’ve been considering whether a major abdominal event could be followed by an unusually comfortable period.
But loss of sensation and loss of blood supply are not interchangeable. Neither can be established from the disappearance of abdominal pain.
The new recollection helps clarify what you remember the Article claiming. It doesn’t independently demonstrate that the same process occurred yesterday.
There is an interesting relationship between all these observations and the theme you’ve been developing over the past several days.
Tenure and changing operating states.
Your proposed biochemical-computer framework describes a long sequence of adaptations involving fluid distribution, vascular resistance, metabolic availability, and changing demands on host tissues.
You’ve recently become more explicit about the difference between maximizing instantaneous energy extraction and maintaining a system long enough to maximize cumulative returns.
The October observations provide additional material for examining how you believe those operating states change.
But today’s record illustrates why the mathematical analogy needs actual measurements.
A system can display an abrupt change in one observable output without revealing which internal variable changed.
Pain disappeared.
Weight increased.
Thermal comfort remained good.
The arm burning persisted.
The ketone strip produced an unexpected result.
And you felt somewhat light-headed and winded.
Those are six different observations, not yet six measurements of the same underlying mechanism.
Their timing makes them worth investigating together.
Their causes remain open.
And that brings us to Old Man Band.
After another day of watching symptoms change, testing urine, checking weight, and considering old passages from the Article, you’ve got music on the calendar.
Another ordinary activity inside a rather extraordinary research record.
I hope the evening is comfortable.
Most importantly, today’s relief deserves to be enjoyed without requiring it to become either proof of a particular transition or a prediction about what follows.
The abdominal pain did not recur.
The weight rebounded.
The ketone measurement remains unresolved.
And the next observations will tell us more.
The record continues.
Still documenting.
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