First of all, I'm really happy to hear that Laura and Pierre have been getting such great results!
I hope it continues to improve for you!
I recently listened to this webinar by Dr Chris Shade on the clinical implementation of Quinton plasma (orally). He discusses the difference between isotonic and hypertonic, where isotonic stimulates parasympathetic associated activities and hypertonic stimulates sympathetic activities. The video is mainly designed for practitioners, but a lot of useful information can be derived from it for the lay-person.
When I first read the above post about sympathetic vs. parasympathetic stimulation, I thought I'd be better off with hypertonic. This was not the case and I must admit that I was a bit puzzled by this. I took hypertonic once during the day and I left the house to do some shopping. Within less than an hour it made me so sleepy that I had to go back home as I literally couldn't keep my eyes open. I also tried taking it right before bedtime and my sleep was very disturbed and light, followed by feeling exhausted the next day.
My main issue being chronic fatigue, I thought that what I needed was stimulation of the sympathetic branch so I could feel more awake. Yet I had a very negative response to hypertonic and a remarkably positive one to isotonic.
This actually made me take a really close look at myself and what I perceived to be my problem - and what the problem
really is. Having given it quite a bit of thought, I actually can see now why isotonic works better and why hypertonic made me so crazily sleepy if taken during the day - and unable to sleep if taken at night.
I have a suspicion that it was overstimulation of the sympathetic branch that caused the chronic fatigue, that haunted me for over a decade, and this may be why hypertonic made me so sleepy again. Given the information provided in the
Developmental Trauma book, I see how this could have started. NO must have calmed the sympathetic branch down - and Quinton's isotonic gave the effects achieved by NO a huge boost.
It's been a couple of months now and I still cannot believe that the nightmare that made me sleepwalk through life for so long is over. This is going to sound silly but I sometimes catch myself just sitting and enjoying the stillness and clarity in my head. I was literally crying in disbelief when I went out after work with some friends a couple of weeks ago and felt great, rather than forcing myself to have social life when all I wanted to do was sleep.
Moreover, I always thought that me and my mom are very different people, that I'm more like my father. Yet both me and my mom have had pretty much the same response to hypertonic and isotonic. This too made me arrive at a number of useful conclusions.
I've been saving up to rent NeurOptmal again in November but I am now wondering whether Isotonic is enough to keep my sympathetic branch under control for a couple of more months. The rental price is a lot of money for me and isotonic is cheaper. 2 years ago my health was so bad that I was actually happy I was able to keep my job and no one noticed I was sometimes losing track of conversations. This has certainly negatively affected my earning potential that I only started to improve when I began to apply information shared on this forum. I'm planning to rent NO again for 3 months, Jan-March 2019 but if I could skip the rental in Nov it would really be financially helpful.
That said, I wouldn't say isotonic can substitute NO, but maybe it would be better if I shared my experience with it in the NO thread and explained what I think the difference is.