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Supercharged Erections

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You clicked on this article, so join me in laughing. I’m cracking up at the advertising for Butea Superba…

The fact that advertising for something as awesome as this herb makes me just laugh. To convince people that something is good enough, we have to promise a huge erection. Instead of the fact that it ameliorates (improves) cognition… wrap your mind around that one. It blows me away that erections are more important to our society than our main ECUs (our brains), but then again, you probably didn’t live the demented life like I have.

My focus has solely been the fact that I’m losing family and friends to cognition issues left and right it seems. That there is an epidemic of people that are literally going to leave this earth with Alzheimer’s and Dementia in the near future, but no one is talking about that. After my experience, I’m set out to tell others what I have experienced, and what I have found that helps me. I am an anomaly to science, and even my neurologist says so.

I visited my neurologist post pandemic and hadn’t seen him since 2019. He literally questioned if I was the same patient he had seen before, so I had to SHOW him the photos on my phone, my ID and proof that it was still the same patient he had been treating. He couldn’t believe his eyes, and then encouraged me to “Write that book!” So here I am. Blogging, Researching, and Writing.

Butea Superba available on Amazon!

“These results indicate that BS (Butea Superba) ameliorates not only cognition dysfunction via normalizing synaptic plasticity-related signaling and facilitating central cholinergic systems but also depression-like behavior via a mechanism differing from that implicated in BS amelioration of cognitive function in OBX animals.”

Mizuki D, Qi Z, Tanaka K, Fujiwara H, Ishikawa T, Higuchi Y, Matsumoto K. Butea superba-induced amelioration of cognitive and emotional deficits in olfactory bulbectomized mice and putative mechanisms underlying its actions. J Pharmacol Sci. 2014;124(4):457-67. doi: 10.1254/jphs.13252fp. Epub 2014 Mar 19. PMID: 24646653.

I’m not a doctor, and I will never claim to be, but after taking it for a day, I feel laser focused. I’m the guinea pig, I’ll continue to do it too. Therefore, you know if something helps you or not. My mission is to heal my brain so that I can get my body back.

Happy Holidays and All The Best

Today I need to take a few minutes and give my readers an update on life. Life has been a struggle for others recently, I have taken time out from writing, authoring, and blogging to actually assist family in their time of need. I actually had to return to my previous position before I became unwell 6…

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Mental & Emotional Journey of Fibromyalgia

Fibromyalgia from a patient’s perspective is probably one of the hardest syndromes to navigate. Not only for patients but also for doctors. What was once thought to be a dysfunction of the peripheral muscoskeletal system has now become an obvious disorder of the entire muscoskeletal and peripheral nervous system. This leads to chronic widespread pain,…

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Why do we not know about this? Black Seed Oil

A few days ago, I ended up with this lovely sinus migraine. Now remember, my journey is slightly different than most. Mast Cell Activation can make all kinds of things swell and inflame when they are agitated. My ears were feeling clogged, my drainage tubes in my neck hurt, my whole head hurt. Not acetaminophen…

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I’m the guinea pig…

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My venture into being my own lab rat…

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Butea Superba is an herbal supplement that I recently discovered. Let me tell you if you click the link above, you can purchase and partake in the said herb. Throughout my venture of getting better I’ve came across various supplements that have helped me in my journey, some that I continue to take, and some that only helped for a little while, but not for the long term.

I’ve been a on a specific hunt to heal my brain, and improve my cognitive function, knowing that eventually I may actually have to relent to dementia or Alzheimer’s at an early age. I still leave that in the back of my mind. The MRIs don’t lie. I have a lot of black space in there, from the various abuses I sustained over my lifetime in my early years before I turned 28, that basically results in damage. Science has proven, that abuse in many forms is just as damaging to the brain just as much as the many concussions that I have suffered in my lifetime. I can at least count 5 maybe 6 total that I did suffer, that I remember.

My husband is also 18 years my senior. Don’t worry we were well beyond the ages of we didn’t give a shit when we fell in love, and age wasn’t a consideration, and still isn’t today. When it comes to my venture into the world of supplements, he’s been ALL in for choosing this over the millions of doctor appointments and tests that had not been getting me anywhere.

I became essentially my own guinea pig, and I’ve been following a regimen for over a year now, and when I stopped the regimen, I suffered memory loss, cognitive dysfunction, headaches and the like, I recently returned to my regimen before I was confident in finishing the book I was writing and beginning the blog you are now participating in reading.

I very well may be on this supplement train forever, but not without all the research that led me to the supplements I’m on. Remember, I’m allergic to just about everything. I have to carefully find things, that are peanut, shellfish, yeast free and gluten free for the most part. I also have to avoid medications and supplements with ACIDS (lets not forget my bladder disease).

Today, my husband and I have ventured onto the train of Butea Superba, because PubMed has literally published articles, verifying that this tubular root, has the potential to literally be a turning point in Alzheimer’s Disease treatment and prevention. So, sign us up, no questions asked. The various other articles tell you about how it helps erectile dysfunction as well as it being nontoxic to the various patients that were tested, and so on.

With our hereditary backgrounds, we know that it very well be in the cards for us, so cognitive decline is what we are preventing. So, we have chosen this supplement specifically. I’ve done the studying, and I’m not a doctor, but it never hurts to try.

Yes, that black space is not supposed to be there, that’s supposed to be full of white matter.

Learning to Survive

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The hardest part of living with chronic illnesses is learning to survive it.

These photos are about a month apart in 2019. On the right you can actually see I still had purple in my hair, but as you can also see, there’s significant swelling in my face. Not to mention my eyelids, chronic inflammation is no joke, but it occurs.

Dark circles are a thing that I now live with as well, and “Painting on my Personality” is the phrase I use now, because most of my eyebrows fell out (or turned white), even my eyelashes would follow suit a few times. Lucky for me though, I had a few beard hairs show up as well, three more in fact. Insert my dad into pointing out that I had a beard hair under my chin that I never knew I had at 16, while we are hanging out with my boyfriend out of town at an electronics store. If you want to really torture your teen, do that, thanks Dad. Ha Ha! So, for everyone’s enjoyment in understanding my facial expressions, I do have to reapply my eyebrows when venturing out into public.

Learning to survive was hard though, not the superficial stuff. It was the depression. The never-ending list of growing symptoms. I even had to reach out to a friend for inspiration in how I just didn’t throw in the towel entirely. Their advice, “Find a hobby, keep yourself busy, and find God.” This time, I WANTED TO LISTEN, BECAUSE I WANTED TO LIVE.

I picked up a crochet hook and FORCED myself to crochet and learn to. If I couldn’t speak, and my hands couldn’t make cake, I kept telling myself I would FORCE my tremoring hands to do physical therapy of rebuilding dexterity by crocheting for something to do. I obsessively crochet and still do when it strikes my fancy. Simply teaching myself a pattern and do it long enough so that my hands gained muscle memory was just what I needed.

Then I began to change my outlook and approach as I accomplished just one simple project at a time. As I obsessively crocheted, I told myself, “If you can do this, it’s time that we approach your meds and life differently.” I began to change my mindset, just by simply crocheting a few scarves.

By 2019 my list of diagnosis went like this: Early Onset Dementia, Interstitial Cystitis of the Bladder, PCOS, Endometriosis, Fibroids (Although, I did have to dispose of all those unnecessary female parts in 2018 because my Uterus had grown 7 times the size that caused the permanent damage to my bladder), Chronic Inflammatory Response, Edema, High Blood Pressure, Fatty Liver, High Cholesterol, Fibromyalgia, Paresthesia of my Veins and Carotid Arteries, Tremors, Seizures, Osteoarthritis **There may be a few more that I had forgotten.**

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Marrying your spouse off before you die…

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Memory Loss had impacted me the most.

I know that unless you have lost a loved one to Dementia or Alzheimer’s you may not connect with, or even consider memory loss as a problem. This was a mainstay of my systemic illnesses. It was a huge impact on my life. There are still a few years that I won’t recover of memories. Then again, it was brought to my attention, that quiet possibly anyone who went through the Covid pandemic can relate to. Of time lost with family and friends.

As I sit here now, it literally is still incomprehensible that my niece is nine years old. That I missed some valuable years of her life, at least in my mind they are lost. That I cannot ever recover memories that either weren’t created or existed, not for my recall at least. We lost time, actually I was losing time before the pandemic. I was trapped inside my own head for a time being, where the memories just weren’t there. Yet, I still existed.

I was told I had dementia at age 40…. I’m now 45. How did I manage to lose nearly three years of awesomeness, yet I still am here on this earth to tell you this story? Your guess is as good as mine. Personally, I literally chalk it up to my family, my friends, for toting me around like nothing happened, like I was still a human even though I was trapped in my head.

One of my besties recant stories to me, where I married off my husband to her. My instructions were that I had told her that she was to marry husband if I died, I made her promise. Yes, I did that, and somedays I think she’s totally okay with that option. *Insert giggle* Then there are the friends that recant the stories of how I reminded them of family struggling with Alzheimer’s or Dementia, where they saw me in public and saw the glimpse of recognition in my eyes, but the question of not knowing them, so they didn’t bother to stop to actually talk to me. I still sit in awe of those moments that I don’t recall.

Memory loss was a thing, and it’s still a thing that I think will bug me just a little for the rest of my days. There’s always a possibility I may find my way back into that hole. For a moment, I want to enlighten you, that if you have family that have Dementia, or Alzheimer’s that, it’s most important that you continue to act and behave as though they are your loved ones. It’s most important to make them know and feel that you still believe they are the people that they have always been to you. Coming from someone who was trapped in her head with no way to communicate, I truly have come to appreciate everyone who did interact with me or was there for me even in the worst of times for myself, it gave me a reason to live, it gave me the reason to fight.

Honestly, at that point in my life, I now know so many others who may find their demise the same way, and I’m not any doctor, but I can literally say, just because someone tells you that you are going to die of XYZ, doesn’t solidly mean that you lose all comprehension at that point. The little time that your loved one has on this earth, you should still respect them for the human that they are. Little do you know that some of them just may hear you. My thoughts come from having a great grandmother with Alzheimer’s, a grandmother with Dementia, and a grandfather that had ALS. Trust me when I say, after losing my grandfather to ALS and knowing that even though his body was shutting down around him, knowing that his mind had never shut off, or shut down, and that everything was dying around him, I’m almost blessed to have the insight I do right now. Love your loved ones, just as they are, just as much as you can.

I’m lucky enough to say, EVERY single person who knew that I was sick, had an understanding, and had a loving hand when it came to taking care of me as I fought within my own head to break back out to be here today. Not one gave up the fight, as I have never had a spirit that was willing to quit.