The HGH Experiment

Obviously haven't kept up much. I'll make this short and sweet. Enough difference that I'm still on the gel. Not enough difference (for me) that I'm willing to say "yep, absolutely 100% try this". Mainly because of the price. It's not cheap stuff. It does seem to last a while (I'd say close to 60 days - if you do ever try it, make sure to cut your bottle in half when you think it's out. Annoyingly (for the price) I get probably another WEEK out of a bottle after it stops pumping). Here's why I'm still on it: *I've started wanting to work out again. As in, I feel like I have the energy that I actually not only CAN but WANT to. That doesn't mean I've been getting in regular workouts yet, but I have the energy to and just need to get back in the habit. What I have been doing is catching up - all those projects and things I know need to be done but have been on the back shelf because I'm just too tired to do them. *My inflam...

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...

Part 1 I have an invisible illness.   It’s nameless.   Looking back, I’ve struggled my entire life with symptoms of allergies, depression and anxiety, sleeping and breathing issues…but it wasn’t until my 20’s that my symptoms began to skyrocket. I first thought I had sprained my ankle but couldn’t remember hurting it. My right foot was swollen and an achy painfulness. It never went away. At the time we had no health insurance so I iced and elevated and the swelling would come and go with varying degrees of severity. It was a few years until I was able to go to a doctor. A course of steroids later I was told they had no diagnosis. “You just swell”. I tried another doctor. X-rays, veinous dopplars, blood work and more for the same non-diagnosis. I was out of money, frustrated and grossed out by my own body.   Years passed. I had kids and the swelling got worse. Somedays I could literally sink my finger all the way into my foot. Doctor’s still couldn’t give ...