Welcome to General Chat - GAW Community Area
This General Chat area started off as a place for people to talk about things that are off topic, however it has quickly evolved into a community and has become an integral part of the GAW experience for many of us.
Based on its evolving needs and plenty of user feedback, we are trying to bring some order and institute some rules. Please make sure you read these rules and participate in the spirit of this community.
Rules for General Chat
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Be respectful to each other. This is of utmost importance, and comments may be removed if deemed not respectful.
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Don’t get frustrated, never too old to learn. I’m 58 and only about 8years ago did I really start digging into herbs, supplement and essential oils. I’ve been blessed and not been sick much in my life. It was when my doctor started trying to convince me that I had high blood pressure and I was pre diabetic that I said heck no to her pills. I was goi g through menopause at the time. That brought it’s own problems. So today I am a walking supplement store. Recently I got my 81 year old mama off of Lyrica. It took a month to get that crap out of her system. Her doctor about freaked out when we told him what we did. He said to me “coming off of that is like coming off heroin, has to be done slowly”. When I started researching all the things that could go wrong with the Lyrica I insisted that she come off. I said to her please trust me. She feels great now with no pain. She lost 10 pounds in a month and know her arthritic knee does not hurt nearly as much as it did. She was originally put on it for Fibromyalgia about 20 years ago. She makes jokes about all her pills that pops everyday but at least I know they are not slowly killing her.
Good for you! I've been into essential oils and herbal tea about eight years. The past five years I've been researching herbs and over the past three years I rely heavily on herbs (tinctures, tea and capsules). Supplements (minerals, amino acids and vitamins) I'm still learning. It's sad we live in a world with information at our fingertips yet it takes so much studying on supplements because of information overload and everyone is an "expert". I used to have a link explaining what each vitamin, mineral etc did for the body. This was years before Covid and so much helpful information has been scrubbed off the net. I probably need a book. Fibromyalgia was my first chronic pain diagnosis and now I've got at least five more chronic pain conditions. Not long ago I read Fibromyalgia/chronic pain was a trash can diagnosis. If they can't figure out the source of it they dump us in the chronic condition section. It's most likely viral or some type of undiagnosed bacterial. Personally I think it's multiple factors from synthetic toxins in the environment, food, house/office (carpet, walls, furniture etc). I'm a tree hugging hippie but I do believe modern manufacturing is making us sick. Some clothing, bedding etc reeks of chemicals when it's new.
I'm thankful you could help your mom. I took cymbalta for almost three years and finally realized it was hurting me instead of helping me. I had horrible hallucinations coming off of it. Took lyrica about three days and my ankles were three times normal size. Back then I was so desperate for pain relief I blindly took anything they offered. Didn't have a clue about plant medicine. The doctor put my granddad on Lyric and he had the swelling also. His legs hurt really bad because they took veins out of legs for open heart surgery about 1991. He didn't stay on lyrica a week. He normally didn't take advice well but for some reason he listened to me about the lyrica.
I was on BP medication for about three years and stopped cold turkey. Now my BP is normal probably from all the herbs I take regularly.
Your mom is funny (pill popping). I used to say I was taking my daily cocktail when I took the RX now my cocktail is very different. When I used to go on vacation my medication filled up a gallon ziplock bag. Not anymore!
Edit: I'm dealing with post menopause trying to find what works for me. I've been off and on estrogen since 2009. I thought I found something that works working and it hasn't been in stock for a month. Figured out it was the liver pill supplement that was helping the hot flashes. I have been taking beef liver several months and stopped thinking it's not doing anything. After two weeks hot flashes & other symptoms (TMI😉) with a vengeance! Back on liver pills about four days and I'm so much better.
I’m glad you’re feeling better. See it’s sad that while we are busy raising kids, working, taking kids to activities and being involved with church and our families the government is trying to slowly kill us. It’s all by design, because we are so distracted that we neglect ourselves doing for everyone else. The Covid hoax made me start digging and reading like never before. Since I was forced to stay home to work I took it to my advantage. It’s been a struggle to keep my mouth shut about all these alternative blessings. When people would start talking about sickness I would just start blurting out what they be should do, and they would turn me off, so now I just smile and listen when they talk. I wait for them to ask me a question and then I bust down that door and start talking. I’ve had to learn to just wait and listen. Now when it comes to my Mama she don’t have a choice. I just want the whole world to wake up to true health care without destroying ourselves with the prescriptions they pass onto us. Now I’m not totally against taking a prescription for a short time if needed but not to become so dependent on it that you can’t let yourself live without it.