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So I added Melatonin…

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Today I needed to give you an update to my guinea pig status. So even though I started the L-Serine I wasn’t feeling all the love with it, all the time. I was getting pretty much a dosage of what felt like taking an NSAID for a few short hours. So, I decided to dig deep into my arsenal of vitamins and dig out the Melatonin.

Recently I had did an article for Newsbreak, explaining the benefits of many different vitamin supplements. One article in particular I decided to do was on Bone pain and Melatonin. Let me tell you, my osteoarthritis is my knees and the joints in my hands have hurt for DAYS…and even when I pulled out my TENS unit to use on my shoulders and the muscle pain, I still wasn’t getting the bone pain relief and it’s been a struggle to sleep.

Even when the kids were much younger and it was suggested I try Melatonin for my ADHD child, I tried taking a 10mg tablet just to see the effects for myself and never really paid attention to the fact of what it did then, even though it didn’t make me want to sleep at all. However last night, I took the 50mg dose, I swallowed five of those little pills. Let me tell you, I haven’t felt that kind of completely relaxed state in my joints or muscles in so long, it felt like I sank deep into a pillow of cotton candy, I was floating… my body was completely in homeostasis. No muscle or joint pain whatsoever as I let sleep take over. I laid there and let it set in. I was still half awake and half asleep, but I achieved that analgesic effect I have not had since one of my major surgeries.

So this morning, with my morning vitamins, I went ahead and took 10 mg of Melatonin. Just to see if it would help or assist in that same feeling, because after a shower, my shoulders hurt again. My joints aren’t agitated yet. So far, not really the same feeling as last night, but I do feel “relaxed”. My joints and hands sure don’t hurt as much, so there is something to assisting with bone pain, and I’m good with that. I hate that ache I get when it feels like “it’s going to rain” and then it perpetuates for days. So I’ll accept that. In the meantime, I’ll take the L-Serine for the shoulder/muscle pain and keep at 10 mg doses during the day for the joints. I believe I’m going to like those results. A little relief is better than no relief.

I’ll be very honest though; it’d be nice to have all these supplements in just a fraction of the pills I swallow. When mainly my breakfast seems to be supplements, until I get hungry again around 10. If you know you know. I’d rather swallow a bazillion supplements if I have to rather than a bunch of medications that I have to navigate through side effects from. Happy Monday!

***UPDATE: when dosing melatonin, do it only AS needed for pain, so far I’m a week in, I have found myself only using them when I need them most, especially the higher dose at night.***

Another L-Serine Update**

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Recently I have been doing a lot of series work on Fibromyalgia for Newsbreak. I have been sharing a lot of information there on the research I had recently done. One thing that during my research I discovered a lack of L-Serine was discovered in Fibro patients’ urine. L-Serine is an amino acid that our bodies use daily, and usually produce, and there is a block. In true fashion, I have been the guinea pig, so you can reference previous posts.

On June 23rd, I had posted that I was making some great progress. I had to leave town for approximately 10 days shortly after that post, and I decided that would be the time to stop using L-Serine to see if there was a noticeable difference. Let me tell you now, I regretted every minute of being of L-Serine. The first few days didn’t seem to be that bad, in fact for the first 4 days or so, I couldn’t tell an issue at all. However, I stayed in mainly a controlled type of environment and temperature most of the time, however we were close to Chicago and the Canadian Fire Particulates contaminated the air we were breathing. When I say controlled environment, I mean hotel, even 72 degrees, and event was also a controlled 72 degrees, not heavy activity, mainly brain power was used.

Camping stock photo from: xuanduongvan87/Pixabay

Well fast forward to the July 4th weekend, and I changed locations with the family and went camping in Kentucky. I was out in the heat, humidity, and storms that decided to grace our family “adventures”. Lovingly my mother has coined our family vacations with “family adventures” because nothing ever goes to plan. During the flash flood at our campground, the pain started to sneak up on me. First it was the knees, and by the time I drove home, then this morning, I was full blown burning and aching. In fact, I woke up with the burning and aching in the neck and back of my shoulders, headache….the works. I actually had a bit of brain fog this afternoon which hasn’t happened in what seems like forever, I found myself searching for a few simple words.

Before I sat down to write this, I took a dose of L-Serine . Waiting for some of the pain to subside now. So, for the ones who incorporate L-Serine into their regimen, trust me, you are going to know it if you forget it for too long. Praying for relief quickly.