20-05-2011, 21:00
sounds like you have had a rough couple of weeks! 
Are you on DIM? I notice that works for me when I get a headache, or other signs of estrogen dominance.
Having such extreme changes to your body like extreme acne outbreaks definitely points towards an imbalance of hormones. I even started to get some minor acne towards the end of my last cycle (but took DIM and then it went away).
It seems like it's quite difficult to get the hormone balance right in your body so that growth can occur. If you are too dominant or not in a hormone that does seem to affect your growth. Last year when I first started NBE I had lots of peach fuzz hair growing on my body because I ate lots of sugary food and was too androgen dominant. After a few months of cutting out sugar, that has gone away. I notice that some girls on BO are still reporting no aches, no growth etc. I am wondering whether they experience symptoms of having too much or too little of certain hormones.
With detox, I'm a bit skeptical of 'detox products'. Having taken some detox products last year, all I ended up with was diarhorrea!!!! Surely just removing a substance from your body, drinking a reasonable amount of water, skin brushing, exercise should help your body detoxify. Sorry to hear you had such a bad time using milk thistle!
Good luck on the BB pills again. If you are getting estrogen dominance symptoms (see Dr Lee's hormone imbalance website), then DIM seems to work very well.
Also, what you can do is make a chart like on Excel, and put your cycle days down one column, then next to it write any symptoms you have had that day. If you do that for a month or two, you may notice at certain times of your cycle you experience certain symptoms. That coudl be a way of understanding the natural highs and lows of certain hormones in your cycle. For example, last year I kept a symptom chart for about 8 months, and it was fascinating to see how certain things happened at certain times of my cycle each cycle, like clockwork! One of them was about day 5 of my cycle I would always get weird splotch marks on my face. Anyhow, charting symptoms is recommended in the Dr Lee book that I've got, although his chart is pretty comprehensive and has cycle days, and then lists about 20 symptoms that you can tick if you've experienced.
Are you on DIM? I notice that works for me when I get a headache, or other signs of estrogen dominance.
Having such extreme changes to your body like extreme acne outbreaks definitely points towards an imbalance of hormones. I even started to get some minor acne towards the end of my last cycle (but took DIM and then it went away).
It seems like it's quite difficult to get the hormone balance right in your body so that growth can occur. If you are too dominant or not in a hormone that does seem to affect your growth. Last year when I first started NBE I had lots of peach fuzz hair growing on my body because I ate lots of sugary food and was too androgen dominant. After a few months of cutting out sugar, that has gone away. I notice that some girls on BO are still reporting no aches, no growth etc. I am wondering whether they experience symptoms of having too much or too little of certain hormones.
With detox, I'm a bit skeptical of 'detox products'. Having taken some detox products last year, all I ended up with was diarhorrea!!!! Surely just removing a substance from your body, drinking a reasonable amount of water, skin brushing, exercise should help your body detoxify. Sorry to hear you had such a bad time using milk thistle!
Good luck on the BB pills again. If you are getting estrogen dominance symptoms (see Dr Lee's hormone imbalance website), then DIM seems to work very well.
Also, what you can do is make a chart like on Excel, and put your cycle days down one column, then next to it write any symptoms you have had that day. If you do that for a month or two, you may notice at certain times of your cycle you experience certain symptoms. That coudl be a way of understanding the natural highs and lows of certain hormones in your cycle. For example, last year I kept a symptom chart for about 8 months, and it was fascinating to see how certain things happened at certain times of my cycle each cycle, like clockwork! One of them was about day 5 of my cycle I would always get weird splotch marks on my face. Anyhow, charting symptoms is recommended in the Dr Lee book that I've got, although his chart is pretty comprehensive and has cycle days, and then lists about 20 symptoms that you can tick if you've experienced.