03-04-2012, 06:13 PM
In answer to your queries, I have woken in the small hours a couple of times after taking two Valerian tablets, but have gone to sleep again easily. Our house is two hundred years old and built of wood, and produces all sorts of weird noises at night, sometimes assisted by our dog and cat, and our parrot, which regards its cage as one big percussion set, not to speak of squirrels, foxes and other surrounding wild life. J. (I find 'my wife' gets a bit impersonal) sometimes wakes me up when a noise particularly bothers her, but on the whole she thinks they don't bother me enough. Before the valerian, I woke with my brain active but not anxious. I haven't noticed being calmer since starting PM. If, as I suspect and hope soon to find out, I was in a low T state before starting PM and since I was already taking phytoestrogens. there maybe wasn't much calming to do. At any rate it should guard against osteoporosis if nothing else.
The odd taste seems largely to have faded away. I haven't recently started anything else new, and the only other herb I am currently taking is horse chestnut, which I have taken for years, does a great job in conjunction with pressure socks in treating the CVI (chronic venous insufficiency) in my lower legs and feet. and preventing oedema. It is also supposed to be good in treating varicose veins, spider veins and haemorrhoids and doesn't seem to interact with anything else. Other than that, I take what is to my mind far too many pharmaceuticals, most of which seem to interact with either or both grapefruit juice and licorice, so that I have to avoid these. These include digoxin, ACE inhibitor, diuretics Spironolactone and HCT, calcium channel blocker, beta blocker, terazosin (expensive and not very effective), warfarin, and allopurinol just to stop the others causing gout. Many things interact with warfarin, but I have INR tests every few weeks to test for this. The only things seriously to affect the INR to date have been other drugs that I no longer take.
I'm sorry that this is all a bit me-me-me, but you did ask. Anxiety and depression haven't been a big problem for me, at least compared with J., but if PM works to help you in this as well as growing boobs, that's great
AP
"Experience is what you have just after you needed it most".
The odd taste seems largely to have faded away. I haven't recently started anything else new, and the only other herb I am currently taking is horse chestnut, which I have taken for years, does a great job in conjunction with pressure socks in treating the CVI (chronic venous insufficiency) in my lower legs and feet. and preventing oedema. It is also supposed to be good in treating varicose veins, spider veins and haemorrhoids and doesn't seem to interact with anything else. Other than that, I take what is to my mind far too many pharmaceuticals, most of which seem to interact with either or both grapefruit juice and licorice, so that I have to avoid these. These include digoxin, ACE inhibitor, diuretics Spironolactone and HCT, calcium channel blocker, beta blocker, terazosin (expensive and not very effective), warfarin, and allopurinol just to stop the others causing gout. Many things interact with warfarin, but I have INR tests every few weeks to test for this. The only things seriously to affect the INR to date have been other drugs that I no longer take.
I'm sorry that this is all a bit me-me-me, but you did ask. Anxiety and depression haven't been a big problem for me, at least compared with J., but if PM works to help you in this as well as growing boobs, that's great
AP
"Experience is what you have just after you needed it most".