24 hours...

I made it!

Honestly, not terribly difficult. It just took water and electrolytes to get through it. If that's all it took, I shoulda done this years ago. Will probably do this from time to time going forward too.

However.

What I said about Hawaiian food? Yeah...I went to a local Hawaiian restaurant (read: 20 minutes away) and got a kalua pork meal and a pass-o-guava juice. The kalua pork tasted like it had been braised in liquid smoke and nothing else. I had to add regular barbecue sauce to it after a while. Not so good. The rice was fine, but hello...rice! Hard to screw that up, and I'm glad they didn't. The mac salad was...okay. Nothing to write home about. The juice was lovely, but of course. I'd give the place maybe one more go-around, with chicken katsu. If that sucks, then it's back to L&L, which is the gold standard and always lovely. Plus they have haupia.

In other news, I've been reading on something interesting called mitochondrial hepatopathies. Usually diagnosed in children and a serious issue at that point, they are a series of genetic diseases that manifest as liver disease of all sorts. They also include—get this—SEIZURES as part of the pathology. Suddenly, it's a major consideration. If this is what I'm dealing with, it's definitely a mild form of it, but still something to contend with.

Here was the first site I stumbled across today that pointed toward this issue. First case: suspected Wilson's disease (I had suspected it too back in 2015, but it has been ruled out), then status epilepticus. Yipes! Further cases include both liver issues and seizures. In at least one case, valproic acid (Depakote or the like) was a trigger for advanced disease, including megacolon. Scary. I think Depakote was a possible drug for me all those years ago, but I started on Dilantin instead. Dodged a bullet there, if indeed I am dealing with a minor form of mitochondrial hepatopathy.

Anyhow, here's another interesting article about it.

Self-treatment? Take yer vitamins. Avoid fatty food. Avoid not eating for long periods (oops). And get plenty of exercise. No surprise there. So.

I think I'm going to have to get an exercise regimen of some sort started again.