Share :)

This is gonna be a short post because everyone always hears from me.  I want to hear from you!  I want to know if any of you have had success with your natural stuff, if so, what do you use and how much?  What is your story?  There are people from all over the world that read this blog and I would love some feedback and to know other experiences!!!  If you are too shy to post, feel free to email me :)  I won't share, but I would love to learn from and hear from you!  My email is hyperprolactinoma@gmail.com

Some of you do post, but I cannot view your blog or profile...if you don't want 

me to that is fine, but I'd love to get to know some of you better :)  

(does that sound scary or what!)

P.S.  I would love some good healthy recipes too if you have any to share!!!  

No refined sugar, or milk and whole grains are good!

Clove

Clove is my oil of the week :)  It is the first oil I am rotating into my regime.  I am rotating 5 or 6 different oils into my regime to hopefully increase the results of my prolactin levels and help my tumor shrink even more. I've been taking it for a few days now and I've been learning about it as much as I can!  Clove's major constituent is Phenols and 85% of that should be a constituent called Eugenol.  Eugenol is amazing!!!  It is cancer-preventative, anti-inflammatory and an anti-oxidant.  All these things can help reduce tumors!  Phenols are very strong though and should be used for only a short period of time.  There is a pretty good article I read on Eugenol and Melanoma.  You can find it here.  I put clove in a capsule as it is way too strong for me to take in my mouth.  I take 4 or 5 drops in a capsule twice a day, morning and night.  I also rinse my mouth with clove oil after I brush my teeth because clove is VERY good for your teeth!  If you have a toothache or anything clove will help numb it (or pretty much anything you may need to numb)  It's very good for infections, especially skin infections.  It stimulates the immune system and is a very strong antiseptic  :)  Does anyone have anything to add?  I hope this was informative and not too boring!  Enjoy clove!

Essential Oils convention and eating better :(

I went to an essential oils convention a few weeks ago and learned soooooooooooooooooo much!  I learned alot about hormones, eating healthy and all sorts of good stuff!  I talked to Dr. Hill who is a medical doctor and also one of the most knowledgeable people about essential oils in the world!  I had talked to him before, but I wanted to ask him specifically about my prolactin levels and how they were plateauing.  He remembered me almost immediately (I know he talks to hundreds and maybe thousands of people a month!  I couldn't believe he remembered me as I had met him once several months ago...)  He asked about my baby (oh that's probably why :)  my babe is definitely one most people remember...he's just so cute) and my husband and proceeded to explain that I should cycle in other oils weekly that also have anti-tumor properties, but to keep taking the frankincense all the time as that one is the best.  So, i will be cycling in Wild Orange, Clove, Lavender, Sandlewood, Patchouli, and grapefruit!  As I do so, I will try to write about each on as i do research on them and explain what they have in them that will help me and stuff like that!  This week I am taking clove...so I will do research and fill you in on it :)

So the eating health part....I learned that tumors thrive on refined sugar and milk and stuff like that.  *tears*  I am a steak and potato girl.  I grew up on a farm and I love me some whole milk, homemade ice cream, and just good, homestyle fatty, sugary food!  There is no way I can just turn into some sort of health freak!  (ok, some of you are chuckling right now cuz you think I already am a healthy hippy chick who used oils and wears hemp and chaccos)  well, I do love my chaccos and I try to be earth friendly and pick litter up if I see it, but that is about as far as i go although, I am trying to be better!  (I really want a compost, but that will come once we are remodeled...etc)  Anyway, back to the food thing....if it don't taste good, I won't eat it.  If it don't taste good my hubby won't eat it...end of discussion.  So, here is what I am going to do.  We are going to eat as much raw fruits and veggies as possible (we really love those) and I am going to try to cook and eat mostly whole grains, no milk and cut out refined sugar as much as possible.  I am going to post the recipes that both of us like under a new thing-a-ma-bobber (the tab things at the top of my blog)  That way the gross recipes will never see the light of day and you can enjoy the things we enjoy!  We already have a couple of good ice cream recipes that are delicious!  So, yeah, trying to eat better.  I'll try to keep my enthusiasm for that part of my life safely contained on that new tab, thing-a-ma-bopper!  I don't think it will be too hard!

So far behind!!!!

Oh, where to start!!!  Oh wait, I'm STILL trying to keep stress levels down, so I won't stress about it, I will just type :)  I've learned so much in the last month and I can't wait to share it ALL, but alas, baby steps.  So, update on stress.  I've let go my main stress and am happy to report that I can breathe and i don't feel the huge knot in my gut!  Don't get me wrong...I still have plenty to do, but now I can do it instead of having my life completely sucked into one never ending project!  I have been getting lots more sleep as well, and I have learned that sleep majorly reduces stress!  So get some sleep!  In fact, as soon as you are done reading this, take a nap :)  You most likely deserve it.

My levels are back down to 103 as of a month ago.  I really want to break that 100 mark!  I went to see the endo and we had a nice chat.  He spent 45 minutes with me answering questions and having me explain what I have been doing.  He said that he can't argue with the fact that the Frankincense has been lowering my levels and shrinking my tumor.  He says to keep taking the frankincense.  After all, it is what the wisemen gave to Baby Jesus, so it must be good stuff!  (He actually said that).  He wanted me to go on Cabergoline and just try it out as he is worried that I haven't had more than 5 periods in about that many years!  I learned that us prolactinoma people are at high risk for osteoporosis since our estrogen/progesterone cycles are few and far between!  I haven't started cycling again since I stopped nursing so I was stressing about it too!  I really hated bromo and couldn't stand to be on it so I really didn't want to take Cabergoline either...  I have heard horror stories about it and so I drug my feet and thunk and prayed about it.  I finally decided to go on it for a month and try it out along with my essential oils and see how it went.  So far, massive headaches (my hubby thinks I'm having my first migraines ever) that last for days, dizziness, near blackouts, sinus crap.....yeah, it sucks.  I'm using the oils to try to counteract the side effects and they dull them, but the medicine induced headaches suck.  I have another appt. in a couple weeks.