The HGH Experiment

And just like that 2 weeks/cycles of treatment are past. I'm...intrigued. The gel has been on backorder since April when I ordered (bright side, I got my order in right as the company, which is very new, got so slammed with orders that it's initial production of the gel was wiped out. They had to stop shipping, reconfigure the company to handle the order volume/customer service on a much larger scale than they anticipated, find new manufactures that could meet the demand, etc before they could start shipping again. They still are not filling new orders, so even though it took 3 months to get mine, at least I beat the shutdown period!). I also didn't have the mood swings that I normally get (they tend to be tied to the headaches, which anyone with a house full of active kids and sound/light sensitive headache/migraine suffers will totally understand!). I started the gel, as it turns out, the same week my cycle started. Between the QEST sessions and the gel, something is di...

Part 2 In the past four or five years I’ve begun to transition into perimenopause. My anxiety began to increase. Panic attacks became a new and not so fun thing. My headaches became increasingly migraine like. I fell into times of exhaustion where just getting out of bed was a struggle. I used to be a nightowl - now an early bedtime and sleeping for 13 or 14 hours could easily be my norm. The concept of feeling wide awake or having energy is rare.  Worst of all, I began losing my memory. At first it was only in times of stress and was so spotty it seemed perfectly normal. But gradually it worsened. Over the past 5 years it’s become increasingly serious - and scary - to a point of sometimes being debilitating. At my worst I can’t copy information correctly to a calendar or correctly take accurate notes. With 5 kids and a business to run, I began to make increasingly serious mistakes. The anxiety of wondering what the next mistake I would make snowballed as the stress and te...