Re: RE Armour

I'm right there with you! I am fortunate because I am retired from work and stay at home so I can rest as much or as often as I need to so. I know I *should* exercise and walk a bit on my treadmill, but it SO wears me out I just don't do it. [I live out in the country so if I took a walk on the road I'd be roadkill!]

Still, I have household chores to do and animals to feed and farm type chores to do every day. I have maybe 30 minutes to an hour of 'energy' and then I'm spent for the day. What sleep I do manage to get is not restorative at all. I alternate sleeping pills with my homemade natural tonic to try to get to sleep and stay asleep.

Anyhow, what I think is being missed here is the TRANSITIONAL stages. If we are already on drugs or medications for issues, but want off them, we have to do so gradually. We can't just STOP the drugs one day and START the natural stuff the next. I totally stopped by progesterone cream one day and started the adaptogens the next and got my hot flashes, mood swings, etc. back pretty quick. After a few months I said, enough of this crap, and started the progesterone cream again. BUT if and when the adaptogens 'kick in' I'll wean myself from the progesterone cream because, per HV's advice, it's not something I want to continue to use forever.

That's how I think we should approach these things. I've never gotten to try Armour YET but I'm not against trying it with the goal of getting off of it when no longer needed. I still take sleeping pills sometimes because I need them, even though I don't LIKE taking them and wish I didn't have to.

Why not do everything we can naturally and then eventually, hopefully, we can be weaned from the drugs? I have no issues with drugs when needed, I just want a better healthy way and not have to stay on drugs my whole life. I take them when I need them!

Hang in there, kiddo!


Marci