Finding normal....PRO ESTROBLOCK

I need to get back in the groove, last year bought many turmoils, but alas, God is there and you just keep going !
  Started the new year with perhaps another autoimmune disease that is making me well known of limitations and pain that came on, been researching and hope to maintain.

  If any of you ladies are going through hormonal issues, or going off the pill, I recommend PRO Estroblock if you are having acne.  It will get worse first and take a few months to get hormones back on track.  I tried it 3 months ago after hysterectomy and yaz and still dealing with a lot skin issues, oil.  I feel it was not adequate as I still had cysts after 4 months, getting frustrated, so I contacted Estroblock and they said to try doubling it to 4, so I have tried and getting some relief, AND when your urine is dark you are still getting rid of toxins (It doesn't tell you that anywhere I seen, the rep said that)  Natural product, available at amazon a bit cheaper, but I use a pro strength and it is a little more.

  Arnica is great for bruises,mild pain , but not in the side of strong pain...I like to use herbal when I can and will.  Alas, the pain I'm having of thinking its ankloysing spondylitis is not taking kindly to the truce.  I pray for the many that have chronic health conditions, pain and suffering and to them please keep hanging in there!  It helps to know others have that endurance.

 For those looking to help others I recommend  www.heronetwork.com.  We can always help and love others!
Stay blessed, stay well, and God be with you !

in memory of my dear mom Nov 22, 2012 "fly away"

after enough suffering on this earth, it was time for God to take her away ...age 64, we will miss you .
She has 10 grandchildren, and was so glad that in the last of her life she got to see some of them that she had not known for 15 years.  God indeed has our lives planned to that last minute...

In memory of Grant Arterburn , a loss, a friend...

Cancer has yet taken another life today of a younger person, friend we knew.  This younger family has 4 children under 13.  Unexpected as he had started chemo not long ago, was diagnosed in October of this year, had to get foot amputated few weeks ago, and I had just spoke to his wife 10 days ago saying he was in good spirits, just sick from the chemo.
  How indeed fragile life is and never known how long our time is here in earth, just a whisper .
 In prayers to be wrapped around this grieving family, his widow, 3 boys and 1 girl, plus the other relatives around them.
 In pain no more and he will be missed by many.

2012 cancers in family, friends...and diseases , keep fighting!

Friend just diagnosed oct 2012 , primary bone cancer, foot amputated, 4 kids under 13

 Uncle diagnosed Jan. 2012 , took treatments.

 Fibromyalgia , mom has had for many years ..

Brother in law prostate cancer 2012, treatments.

Lupus, me started appearing 2012 ? Also Hashimoto's thyroiditis 

Mom, heart blockage sept 2012 , surgery.

Stroke dad, brain stem 2005 , doing great! 

 Parents neighbor diagnosed 2012 early

 Brother in law early 2012 , took treatment 

Parents neighbor diagnosed 2012 

Me, 2012 onset ? , also have Hashimoto's thyroiditis 

 M

A poem... Lupus, autoimmune disease , and just well..feeling crappy!

Its not my imagination by Liz R


My right eye’s always twitching.

My legs are filled with lead.

I am forever dropping things.

And they say it’s in my head.

I have six pairs of glasses

With no two quite the same.

And I wear each one on different days

‘Cuz my eyes keep playing games.

I have this buzzing feeling

Deep inside my head.

And a jolt of electricity

Just made my feet fly off the bed.

Sometimes my throat won’t swallow.

Sometimes I pee my pants.

When I ask the docs, “Is this MS?”

They just say “There’s a chance.”

When my tongue went into spasm

It did a u-turn in my throat

And blocked my life’s-breath airway.

The doc said, “Make a note.”

My legs went numb and swollen

And doctors shook their head.

But they won’t put a label on it

Until I’m good and dead.k

The vertigo is dreadful,

The burning skin’s a pain.

The doctor give me lots of pills

And says, “Come back again!”

It isn’t diabetes

Or syphilis, or a tumor.

But they won’t tell me what it is

And I’m almost out of humor.

One neuro just shook his head

And said, “See Dr. House.”

Another actually said, “Get laid.”

A third, “Redecorate your house.”

I am not a hypochondriac.

This whimsical thing is real

So please just give me a definite name

For the crappy way I feel!

Liz R.

Hidden cause of feeling sick , Hyperparathyroidism! Autoimmune disease

I would have to say I came across a speed bump this month of June being the worst, going back to Jan. Thinking it was a blood clot with such leg pain that also spread to the chest, tested and was not. Pains of sometimes fairly bad off and on in diffent places, and the energy of a sloth on tranquilizers.


I have autoimmune thyroiditis also called Hashimoto's disease and then came multi glandular thyroid that has kept one side of the thyroid lumpy, bumpy and out of whack. Then I was becoming sun sensitive as getting headaches different than migraines when being in the sun even with a hat on, debilitating fatigue, auras like before a migraine that I have not had for years,heart racing, pains again, and a blush of red that sits on my top of cheeks, so I forgo the blush these days. This was pointing to Lupus, and these have turned out negative, but the dr. Says you can still present the disease as the ANA and tests can go that way. So you don't get medicated for that disease, but monitor for changes. It is frustrating and I have read a lot of other sufferers stories.


for those suffering, please have your doctor check your calcium level in your blood, for years I have dragged back and forth with those lovely little things called parathyroid that are the size of a grain of rice that sit within that thyroid, yet again that THYROID has become enemy here, and can mimic such problems as the other autoimmune diseases. You can have many combined, and I have seen the sufferings of those that have the combo.



so I am coming back years later here again with high calcium levels, that can be dangerous itself, and waiting for the PTH to come back. That is the testing of the parathyroid gland. I am waiting in hope as this terrible feeling of barely making it is such a drag literally.

Prayers for all those suffering autoimmune diseases, fibromyalgia, and the incapacitating disorders .


Here is where you can get more info on this overlooked condition:


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http://www.localhealth.com/article/hyperparathyroidism-1/symptoms




God bless!

70% Americans do not know CPR...

Learn two-step method of CPR to save lives Marilynn Ann Yates, McClatchy Newspapers "Anyone can learn CPR -- and everyone should!" proclaims the American Heart Association on its website. Because 70 percent of Americans do not know how to perform cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR), the American Heart Association is encouraging everyone to learn Hands-Only CPR during the first week of June, National CPR and AED Awareness Week. We chatted with representatives from the AHA recently to find out more about what to do if we ever witnessed someone collapse and go into sudden cardiac arrest. Hands-Only CPR is performed with chest compressions but without the mouth-to-mouth breathing done in conventional CPR. In recent years, the American Heart Association has simplified the procedure to two steps. When you see an adult suddenly collapse who is not breathing normally: 1. Call 9-1-1 2. Push hard and fast in the center of the chest at the rate of 100 pumps per minute (like the beat of the Bee Gees' "Stayin' Alive" song) Begin CPR as soon as possible after the sudden cardiac arrest because the risk of permanent damage to the victim is greater after four minutes. Continue CPR until an automated external defibrillator (AED) or emergency worker arrives. Heart disease is the No. 1 killer of Americans. And more than 1,000 out-of-hospital cardiac arrests occur every day in the U.S., says Dr. Sreenivas Gudimetla, president of the board of directors for the Tarrant County American Heart Association. More than 80 percent of those cardiac arrests happen at home, so the most likely person you will give CPR to is someone you love, says Gudimetla, who is also a cardiologist at Texas Health Harris Methodist Fort Worth Hospital. Most people worry that they might do something wrong helping an adult who has a sudden cardiac arrest, so only 32 percent of victims get CPR from a bystander, which leads to unnecessary deaths. Learning Hands-Only CPR gives people the confidence to act quickly to help a loved one or a stranger in an emergency and increase their survival rates, the AHA says. If more people learn CPR, the chance that someone can help an adult who suddenly collapses increases. Kathryn Bashaw, communications director for the American Heart Association in Tarrant County, Texas, says the AHA is asking Texas legislators to consider CPR training as a high school graduation requirement so our next generation will be prepared to save even more lives. Only 5.2 percent of people who have a cardiac arrest outside of a hospital survive, says the AHA. That number increases to 8 percent when mouth-to-mouth CPR is given. But when a person administers Hands-Only CPR, the victim's chance of survival doubles, Gudimetla says. Hands-Only CPR with just chest compressions is as effective as CPR with breaths in helping adult victims of cardiac arrest, says the American Heart Association. And the two-step method is easier to remember than the traditional method of chest compressions combined with breathing. People hesitant to give mouth-to-mouth resuscitation to strangers are more likely to administer just chest compressions. Gudimetla says our breaths contain carbon dioxide when we exhale, which is not as beneficial to the victim as chest compressions. When an adult in sudden cardiac arrest collapses, his lungs and blood still contain oxygen. Chest compressions help to pump this oxygenated blood to the brain and the heart. So the best thing a bystander can do for a cardiac arrest victim is to give high-quality chest compressions with minimal interruptions until medical services personnel arrive. If you are one of the 70 percent of Americans who don't know CPR, here are ways to learn: Watch a video: See a one-minute video on how to perform Hands-Only CPR at handsonlycpr.org. Studies show that people who watch this video are more willing to administer CPR during an emergency. Go to www.heart.org/cpr, then choose Community Training/National CPR and AED Awareness Week to see Hands-Only CPR in action to the Bee Gees' "Stayin' Alive." Order a CPR kit: The CPR Anytime Kit uses the American Heart Association's "practice while watching" technique. Users watch an instructional DVD while practicing CPR on a mannequin. This 22-minute training kit can be used by individuals in their homes and shared with family and friends. Schools, community groups and workplaces can complete the training in large groups. Order the kit at cpranytime.org. Download an app: Go to http://handsonlycpr.org to download the American Heart Association's free app for your smartphone. Take a class: Find an instructor-led class by date or location at www.heart.org/cpr. Or call 1-877-AHA-4CPR (877-242-4277). Play interactive games: The American Heart Association has a Be the Beat interactive website with games, videos and a playlist of 100-beat-per-minute songs to help teens learn how to be a lifesaver. Check out http://bethebeat.heart.org. (c)2012 Fort Worth Star-Telegram Visit the Fort Worth Star-Telegram at www.star-telegram.com Distributed by MCT Information Services "All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy, for what we leave behind us is a part of ourselves; we must die to one life before we can enter into another." - Anatole France