07-06-2014, 04:49 PM
I do not post a whole lot, but I thought I would share this. I am not totally clear on what happened in this, but it is a good cautionary tale.
I had been on and off of PM for about 8-9 months now. I have only been taking PM and my max doses were 1000mg a day. I usually take it for a couple months and take a couple week break in between. I have been pretty sensitive to PM as I might be close to a small B I think.
Ok, so come last week I had been back on PM for about a week and a half and only taking 500mg at night. i got the usual tingles and pains when starting up. So I decided to add some Reishi to the mix. On a Wednesday I started with the recommendation on the bottle, which is 2 capsules 2 times a day. So I took 2 in the evening, 1 in the morning on thursday, and 2 more in the evening on thurs. This is while still taking my PM dose. Well on thursday and friday I had really really light colored stool and was pretty alarmed. Knowing it could be a number of things like diet or even liver damage I stopped the Reishi. I started developing discomfort in my right upper abdomen over the weekend, and come monday I was miserable. Ringing in the ears, nausea, lethargic, chill/sweats, etc. I thought for sure I had a drug induced liver injury (DILI) after spending hours researching Google lol. I swear, anytime you are feeling bad and want to make it worse, look it up on google! So I got into my doctor on Tues., she did an abdominal exam and I was a little tender over my gallbladder. She ordered some liver enzyme tests and scheduled an ultrasound on Thurs. I didn't mention that I was taking PM cause I was just not ready to share that. Even though, when I took off my shirt to have her listen to my lungs, I felt very naked with my little boobs hanging out LOL. She didn't say a word about it though.
Now through the week I had gotten better every day since Monday, it was gradually better, but I am 100% Today. I got my test results back and everything is normal! No sign of liver impairment, gallstones, blockages, toxicity, nothing! I had a conversation with my doctor who said it was probably the Reishi and that I am probably pretty sensitive to it. I got to thinking and was like, "why did it start out with so many of the reishi just because the bottle said to do so?", knowing I am sensitive to other herbals. I probably should have taken just 1 to see how I react.
Now....I was looking at my symptoms and a lot of them seemed to be similar to estrogen dominance. Maybe some more experienced members could chime in on this. Since there was no apparent liver malfunction or damage, could I have driven myself into dominance?
I was miserable that monday, but things progressively subsided since.
I had been on and off of PM for about 8-9 months now. I have only been taking PM and my max doses were 1000mg a day. I usually take it for a couple months and take a couple week break in between. I have been pretty sensitive to PM as I might be close to a small B I think.
Ok, so come last week I had been back on PM for about a week and a half and only taking 500mg at night. i got the usual tingles and pains when starting up. So I decided to add some Reishi to the mix. On a Wednesday I started with the recommendation on the bottle, which is 2 capsules 2 times a day. So I took 2 in the evening, 1 in the morning on thursday, and 2 more in the evening on thurs. This is while still taking my PM dose. Well on thursday and friday I had really really light colored stool and was pretty alarmed. Knowing it could be a number of things like diet or even liver damage I stopped the Reishi. I started developing discomfort in my right upper abdomen over the weekend, and come monday I was miserable. Ringing in the ears, nausea, lethargic, chill/sweats, etc. I thought for sure I had a drug induced liver injury (DILI) after spending hours researching Google lol. I swear, anytime you are feeling bad and want to make it worse, look it up on google! So I got into my doctor on Tues., she did an abdominal exam and I was a little tender over my gallbladder. She ordered some liver enzyme tests and scheduled an ultrasound on Thurs. I didn't mention that I was taking PM cause I was just not ready to share that. Even though, when I took off my shirt to have her listen to my lungs, I felt very naked with my little boobs hanging out LOL. She didn't say a word about it though.
Now through the week I had gotten better every day since Monday, it was gradually better, but I am 100% Today. I got my test results back and everything is normal! No sign of liver impairment, gallstones, blockages, toxicity, nothing! I had a conversation with my doctor who said it was probably the Reishi and that I am probably pretty sensitive to it. I got to thinking and was like, "why did it start out with so many of the reishi just because the bottle said to do so?", knowing I am sensitive to other herbals. I probably should have taken just 1 to see how I react.
Now....I was looking at my symptoms and a lot of them seemed to be similar to estrogen dominance. Maybe some more experienced members could chime in on this. Since there was no apparent liver malfunction or damage, could I have driven myself into dominance?
I was miserable that monday, but things progressively subsided since.