I’ve been considering adding shatavari, fenugreek, or goats rue. In the end I decided to buy fenugreek AND goats rue and a percussion massage gun too.
I may have gone overboard and I hope this doesn’t somehow give me high prolactin.
Just in case my post about prolactin wasn’t clear, I think a slight boost of prolactin is probably fine and might be helpful, but high prolactin is probably always bad for NBE unless you are on a prolactin-only program and you don’t mind potentially having to follow a maintenance program for the rest of your life. I’m not sure how easy it is to push prolactin into the high end of the range using herbs and massage alone. I suspect that it’s actually pretty difficult. At least I hope so.
<meta charset="UTF-8">My hands are too weak to give myself a good massage for more than a few minutes, but I’ve always suspected that vibrating massagers aren’t good enough for NBE unless you really push the massager deep into the breast tissue and smoosh it around like you would do with your hands. That’s why I decided to get a percussive massager instead. It pushes deep into the tissue on its own, but you do still have to move it around. My percussive massage gun has a soft head, which is very important because massage guns can be dangerous to use on boney areas and my chest is very boney. It’s also dangerous to use a massage gun over nerve and artery bundles like the one that’s just in front of the armpit. It can cause neuralgia if it’s pushed into a nerve bundle too hard for too long, and my armpit nerve area is already under a lot of pressure from pumping. So I’ll be completely avoiding the area near my armpit.
Fenugreek and goats rue can both lower blood sugar, but mk677 can raise blood sugar especially in people who are insulin resistant. I thought that the mk677 might have been making my blood sugar shoot up too high, so I stopped taking it, but I never confirmed my sugar levels with a blood test. I’m going to start taking my mk677 again along with the fenugreek and goats rue and I’ll be using a blood sugar tester to see what’s happening to my blood sugar levels. I ran out of both my inositols, and haven’t been using them, but I might not buy them again because they also lower blood sugar. I also want to keep my program relatively simple. I might stop taking all my anti-androgens except reishi, just so I won’t have to swallow so many supplements.
That’s a lot of changes and it’s pretty confusing, so I’ll summarize my new program in the next post.