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upped milk thistle to 3 caps at a time.. lots of milk thistle
added back st john's wort twice daily at 575 mg
added back flax oil 500 mg x 3/day
added alfalfa 1000 mg x 3/day
added gingko 40 mg x 2/day

been miserable lately; done with the work-related stress; created tons of relationship stress... broken out... weight at 126 (which is neither good nor bad)... going on the trip on tue... i hope i haven't done irreparable damage to the relationship but i won't find out til after the trip.. transition off st john's was rough... going back on it since i'm not sure if i can handle him being distant as he is now, and be sufficiently cheerful on the trip, and not bottle myself in... well... all i can do at this point is do the best i can from now on..
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Unread postMar 25, 2007#32

- multivit
- cal/mag
- acidophilus
- need to replace my borage oil, "essential woman oils" for now
- st john's wort 350 mg x 3/day
- GABA 500 mg x 1/day
- bupleurum liver cleanse (herbal blend) 530 mg x 6/day

- fenugreek 620 mg x 3/day
- fennel 480 mg x 3/day
- red clover 200 mg x 3/day
- saw palmetto 585 x 1/day to start with...

massage: cocoa butter lotion with fennel and wild yam extracts 1-2 times a day

the current program appears to be working well.. thinking of taking one day off right around ovulation time
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Unread postMar 26, 2007#33

- multivit
- cal/mag
- acidophilus
- need to replace my borage oil, "essential woman oils" for now
- st john's wort 350 mg x 3/day
- GABA 500 mg x 1/day
- bupleurum liver cleanse (herbal blend) 530 mg x 6/day

- fenugreek 620 mg x 3/day
- fennel 480 mg x 3/day
- red clover 200 mg x 3/day
- saw palmetto 585 x 1/day to start with...

massage: cocoa butter lotion with fennel and wild yam extracts 1-2 times a day

for day off: milk thistle, nettle tops, yellow dock, burdock, aloe juice?
drop kelp, as exacerbates acne
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Unread postMar 27, 2007#34

- multivit
- cal/mag
- acidophilus
- need to replace my borage oil, "essential woman oils" for now
- st john's wort 350 mg x 3/day
- GABA 500 mg x 1/day
- bupleurum liver cleanse (herbal blend) 530 mg x 6/day

- fenugreek 620 mg x 3/day
- fennel 480 mg x 3/day
- red clover 200 mg x 3/day
- saw palmetto 585 x 1/day to start with...

massage: cocoa butter lotion with fennel and wild yam extracts 1-2 times a day

terrible, terrible acne. can't help but wonder where i went wrong... and whether i should quit everything for a while. thinking it may be the iron tab as extra iron decreases zinc absorption and zinc deficiency does cause acne... thought i might need the extra iron cuz of the veg diet. everything else i've added lately should be kosher. but dang. tit acne. neck acne. it's unbearable. the thought of having the man see/touch this makes me wanna die.

taking out chlorella, taking out iron. craziness. going on a trip. packing all the daypacks of pills... sheer lunacy.
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Unread postApr 18, 2007#35

- multivit
- cal/mag
- acidophilus
- need to replace my borage oil, "essential woman oils" for now
- st john's wort 350 mg x 3/day
- GABA 500 mg x 1/day
- bupleurum liver cleanse (herbal blend) 530 mg x 6/day

- fenugreek 620 mg x 3/day
- fennel 480 mg x 3/day
- red clover 200 mg x 3/day
- saw palmetto 585 x 1/day to start with...

massage: cocoa butter lotion with fennel and wild yam extracts 1-2 times a day

okay, most of vacation was a long-needed break which in part made me reassess my whole approach.. some volume was lost, along with some weight (came back @ 122lbs), but didn't seem catastrophic... period started on second day of being back (4-9), conveniently enough for me to start a new, somewhat simplified program as follows:

multivit x 2/day
yellow dock 475 x 3/day
burdock 430 x 2/day
GABA 750 once in the eve
acidophilus once daily
flax - 500 mg x 3/day
borage - 1000 mg in the eve
calmag x 2/day
ginkgo 40 mg x 2/day
sjw - 575 x 3/day (don't do so well without, yet)
holy basil - 450 x 3/day
mt - 575 x 3/day
fennel - 575 x 3/day
fenugreek - 575 x 3/day
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Unread postApr 18, 2007#36

- multivit
- cal/mag
- acidophilus
- need to replace my borage oil, "essential woman oils" for now
- st john's wort 350 mg x 3/day
- GABA 500 mg x 1/day
- bupleurum liver cleanse (herbal blend) 530 mg x 6/day

- fenugreek 620 mg x 3/day
- fennel 480 mg x 3/day
- red clover 200 mg x 3/day
- saw palmetto 585 x 1/day to start with...

massage: cocoa butter lotion with fennel and wild yam extracts 1-2 times a day

seem to be doing well enough on the current program (i'm a little sore anyway, and it's only the 8th day of the cycle and i've even been smoking and drinking loads of caffeine); i think the break was a very good thing..

equivocal info out there on burdock; not sure whether to ditch it or not - some sources say it decreases blood estrogen (at the same time being an estrogen precursor - go figure) though it's apparently great for breasts in general, improving lymph drainage, decreasing fibrocysts etc

ditto with holy basil - not sure whether to ditch it or not... it decreases estrogen for sure but it also reduces stress, and i'm reading that stress causes HIGH estrogen and therefore estrogen-dominance.. and it's obvious enough that stress is bad for breast growth... i'm not super stressed now but i do tend towards anxiety... not sure if i'd do better with or without
maybe i'll try hops for anxiety, hehe

will try to (very gradually, this time!@!) reduce sjw

the current plan is to futz minimally; i think i'm going to try adding one herb per cycle (alfalfa, i think, and then licorice) and above all be patient as it seems like most quick changes aren't lasting but very gradually and through ups and downs something does change.

i'm hopeful because there are slight/subtle cognitive changes that go on for me at the same time and i believe the shape of the body has lots to do with one's self-perception and general outlook.
it's also encouraging that, while the formula vanity has received bad reviews, i did, in fact, have noticeable growth while on it for ~4 months (though after not taking it for a while it went away) - it tells me that i have pretty good growth potential

the other thing, breaks seem to be a good thing - perhaps something like 3.5 cycles on and 1/2 cycle off? or maybe try a more thorough break of a cycle and a half next time?
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Unread postApr 20, 2007#37

- multivit
- cal/mag
- acidophilus
- need to replace my borage oil, "essential woman oils" for now
- st john's wort 350 mg x 3/day
- GABA 500 mg x 1/day
- bupleurum liver cleanse (herbal blend) 530 mg x 6/day

- fenugreek 620 mg x 3/day
- fennel 480 mg x 3/day
- red clover 200 mg x 3/day
- saw palmetto 585 x 1/day to start with...

massage: cocoa butter lotion with fennel and wild yam extracts 1-2 times a day

okay, well, it seems like too many cigs => shrinkage. also switching burdock for alfalfa (1000mg x 3/day) starting sat.
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Unread postApr 27, 2007#38

- multivit
- cal/mag
- acidophilus
- need to replace my borage oil, "essential woman oils" for now
- st john's wort 350 mg x 3/day
- GABA 500 mg x 1/day
- bupleurum liver cleanse (herbal blend) 530 mg x 6/day

- fenugreek 620 mg x 3/day
- fennel 480 mg x 3/day
- red clover 200 mg x 3/day
- saw palmetto 585 x 1/day to start with...

massage: cocoa butter lotion with fennel and wild yam extracts 1-2 times a day

ditched the alfalfa, brought back the burdock. acne was looking like it was about to turn into a nasty breakout, though i wasn't exactly sure whether to attribute it to any herbs or drinking like a fish or smoking or overeating (been bad about that all week). at any rate, i did have a bad acne outbreak just over a month ago when i started alfalfa and again while it's really hard to say whether it was it or something else i took or something else i did, i've eliminated it again for now.
not having that good a luck this cycle (for a dozen potential reasons why :-\), though it does look like i have about half an inch lasting growth so far.
started incorporating some of the grow yours massage techniques, to be seen how much of those i'll end up doing. i'm not so sure i'm into the whole semi-permanent lactation idea, but i will see how it goes.
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Unread postMay 06, 2007#39

- multivit
- cal/mag
- acidophilus
- need to replace my borage oil, "essential woman oils" for now
- st john's wort 350 mg x 3/day
- GABA 500 mg x 1/day
- bupleurum liver cleanse (herbal blend) 530 mg x 6/day

- fenugreek 620 mg x 3/day
- fennel 480 mg x 3/day
- red clover 200 mg x 3/day
- saw palmetto 585 x 1/day to start with...

massage: cocoa butter lotion with fennel and wild yam extracts 1-2 times a day

ginseng - or nettle leaf - or both - cause shrinkage
coconut oil in lotion also under suspicion
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Unread postMay 08, 2007#40

- multivit
- cal/mag
- acidophilus
- need to replace my borage oil, "essential woman oils" for now
- st john's wort 350 mg x 3/day
- GABA 500 mg x 1/day
- bupleurum liver cleanse (herbal blend) 530 mg x 6/day

- fenugreek 620 mg x 3/day
- fennel 480 mg x 3/day
- red clover 200 mg x 3/day
- saw palmetto 585 x 1/day to start with...

massage: cocoa butter lotion with fennel and wild yam extracts 1-2 times a day

some mods: ditched ginseng, though i enjoyed its effect on my mood/energy
added ginger 400 mg 3/day
added hops 200 mg once in the eve
new cycle
contemplating adding oats; don't want to add too many things at once