Comments | naamah_darling: Health Post: Contains Girly TMI.

naamah_darling

Health Post: Contains Girly TMI.

Mar 24, 2006 16:36

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dollface74128 March 24 2006, 23:15:50 UTC

You should check out http://www.mymonthlycycles.com. There's all sorts of annoying fertility crap that I wish I didn't have to look at, but there's a basic period tracker that I've found pretty handy. You can log daily symptoms and all sorts of other TMI stuff.

dollface74128 March 24 2006, 23:21:33 UTC

By the way...the last time I had a cold my mom gave me some noxious cocktail she came up with out of a book called "Prescription for Natural Healing". I took echinacea, zinc, some little pellet things that I can visualize but not name (oscillum maybe? that doesn't seem long enough), and some god awful liquid that I put in a shot glass and tried to convince myself was just a shot made by a really lousy bartender. It was nasty, but I felt considerably better after 48 hours.

naamah_darling March 25 2006, 02:04:55 UTC

Heh. I'm downing herb pellets myself. Echinacea and zinc help, though I'm thinking I should apply liberal amounts of alcohol to at least put myself to SLEEP.

ms_daisy_cutter April 3 2006, 15:28:19 UTC

Years ago, an herbalist in Cambridge gave me home recipes for decongestants. One was mainly pungent spices (such as pepper) in a honey paste, meant to be taken as a spoonful. The other was herbs that you throw into a bowl, which you then fill with hot water and stick your towel-draped head over. I'll see if I can dig those up for you and Naamah. A few of the herbs were a bit obscure, though (elecampane, for example).

(Vicks Vaporub in a bowlful of hot water also does the trick.)

naamah_darling April 3 2006, 19:28:55 UTC

Ooo.

If you happen to run across them at some point, let me know. I'd be interested in seeing the formula.

I shouldn't have trouble getting weird herbs -- there's a decent shop not far from me.

stormofzen March 24 2006, 23:30:31 UTC

I was actually talking in class just today about how the Catholic church decided that women had souls eight hundred years after they decided that dogs had souls.

Silly, silly people.

naamah_darling March 25 2006, 02:05:44 UTC

I hadn't known they ever decided dogs had souls!

mistressbanshee March 25 2006, 02:23:07 UTC

Why Naamah, didn't you know... *queue bad punny joke*

All dogs go to heaven?

*ducks*

naamah_darling March 25 2006, 06:25:50 UTC

D'oh!

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mschaos March 24 2006, 23:34:03 UTC

even tho I HATE having to bleed I still wish I would have them monthly...becuase of me having endometriosis which causes me to fall over and twitch everytime I have a period if I am on regular BC, I am now on the 3 month on and one week off program...which causes all sorts of chaos with my bosy as it is not sure what the hell is going on so even on that week off, I still more than likely won't get a period

now granted, this sometimes makes me rather nervous, buecause....well...what if I accidently got preggers? (be thankful I don't live in SD for one thing) but having that monthly cycle always told me that everything was OK...

except for the falling down and twitching part, that kind of sucks

naamah_darling March 25 2006, 02:08:16 UTC

I was like that on BC as well. My uterus was like "Period? What? Where?!" And then it would produce fountains of blood at inappropriate intervals.

Fucking thing.

ms_daisy_cutter April 3 2006, 15:18:54 UTC

And then it would produce fountains of blood at inappropriate intervals.

You really needed the "Eat My Sushi" icon for that comment...

voyeurprincess March 24 2006, 23:37:28 UTC

Heh. I thought I was the only one who thought to track my cycle by my bitchy LJ posts.