IbuActin - Sweet Sleep and Pain Free (Month 2, Day 46)

This will be my third day taking IbuActin.  I gotta tell ya...I LOVE THIS STUFF!  If I take it right before bed (after my INH pill) I sleep through the night so well, wake up rested and my hands are mostly pain-free! My little pinkies are still crampy/achey, but I'm pretty happy with the results.  'Course, I don't want to be taking this for the entire time I'm on INH.  Sigh...I probably wouldn't mind except it costs like 20 bucks a bottle.

The Cycle: For Ladies Only
This month was pretty horrible for me on my cycle.  For my diet being as clean as it is, my breasts were incredibly sore, and I had some of the worst cramps I've had in years. I actually went home 3 hours early the other day because I couldn't sit down...could only pace and was incredibly nauseous from the pain. I did take some Ibruprofin, about 400 mg (2 200's) and it helped some.  I put a super duper hot heating pad on my belly and veged in front of the TV.   Later that night I took IbuActin and the next day felt back to 100%.  I think that it must have only men publishing the symptoms list for INH because I bet I'm not the only one realizing that menstruation and INH don't really mix!

The histamine diet - still on it.

Today:
B-Manna bread with cashew butter. 32 oz water. 2 IbuActin
S- 3 carrots and goddess dressing
L-Black Beans, Artichoke hearts, hearts of palm, sweet potatoes with a brown rice tortilla
S-Goji Berries and lots of tea, chips and apples salsa
D-Mashed Sweet potatoes and Salad with homemade goddess dressing
Shave and an INH, white pill
2 IbuActin

No Vitamins but Tingling Fingers (Month 2, Day 42)

I have decided to drop my dear six-a-day vitamin for a week or so.  In fact, I've decided to drop practically everything I'm taking and start from scratch.  My last day taking vitamins was Friday (albeit not consciously)...today's Monday.  And can I tell you something - I think my hands might be feeling a tad better!  I figure, I started with my multi around the same time as INH - eliminate the possibilities.  Who knows, maybe something in my multi is adversely affecting me, or interacting with INH, OR creating a massive amount of histamines, OR just plain funky.

I am getting some tingling of the fingers...but I know how to solve that - just add back in the B6.  It's not really an intense tingling.  What really happens is a kind of electric shock that occurs right on the end of my soft pad on maybe one or two fingers.  It lasts less than a minute and while it doesn't hurt, it is uncomfortable, and a new sensation.  Imagine sticking your tongue on the end of a 9Volt battery - now transfer that feeling to your finger...

I'm not sure when I want to start back on them or on the B6.  I think for now I want to just see what happens then slowly start adding things back in.

Course, last night I also took a pain reliever for cramps (started my cycle) so I could try to sleep through the night.  Seemed to work marvelously and it's possible that what I'm experiencing is a remnant of that.  I took a sample of something I got from Sunflower Market -IbuActin by Solaray.  Ingredients include: White Willow (Similar to Aspirin but doesn't irritate the stomach lining) and turmeric.

Was slightly worried because I hadn't read anything about Aspirin, just Tylenol and Ibuprofin.  After scouring the web for at least 15 minutes, I finally found this: "Salicylate has previously been shown to reduce the susceptibility of Mycobacterium tuberculosis to several drugs in vitro. In this study, aspirin, a salicylate anti-inflammatory, antagonized isoniazid treatment of murine pulmonary tuberculosis, whereas the nonsalicylate ibuprofen did not."

Of course, I didn't actually take aspirin, I took the natural form of Willow Bark.  Since there is a distinct lack of evidence on this, I see no reason to NOT take it...Not like I'll be taking it every day for 9 months or something...

Diet:
Water
1 slice manna, bowl of granola with almond milk
Apple
Rice and Cauliflower Dal (leftovers)
Gojiberries snack
Chips and apples salsa
Cabbage Salad (Toasted hazelnuts, shredded cabbage, dressing)
Figs
INH pill
1 ibuprofin

Picture: Aspirin