Are You a Day Dreamer and a Night Thinker? Sleeplessness Sucks!

SLEEP!  Oh how we all need it so much!  Many factors come into play as to what prevents us from sleeping well.  FOMO (fear of missing out), working night shifts, health conditions, worry, anxiety, over indulging, being a single parent, having a newborn, or not making sleep a priority to name a few!

I spent YEARS as an insomniac.  Mine started when I was pregnant.  My first marriage was crumbling, I was uncomfortable, and had to tinkle like every 30 minutes.  Just when I thought I might sleep again, a newborn needing only 20 minute power naps hit my scene.  After that... divorce, anxiety, depression.  Then again, just as I started sleeping again, GRIEF!  My father passed away, midnight phone calls started as my aging grandparents were declining, then they moved in and then more grief as Grandpa passed away, then Grandma, and then finally my mother.  All of this over a 4 year period.  Just when I thought I'd start sleeping again, apartment life in the form of upstairs neighbors along with a teenage daughter and all the joy that brings.  Just when I thought I'd start sleeping again, I remarried!  This brought the joy of another non-sleeper and restless legs into my life.

I was flipping T I R E D!  After over 20 years of getting no restful or healing sleep, I was a mess.  Anxiety liked to rear it's ugly head as did silly insecurities and just plain irrational fears and thoughts.  Not sleeping will literally mess you up!

I mentioned I remarried a non-sleeper.  Poor thing had developed restless legs in his late 30's and had been struggling with sleeping well or for more than a few hours every night.  He must have woken up every hour and a half or so.  Not enough to get that dreamy REM sleep we all need.  So after we married, on upstairs neighbor quiet nights, I was awakened as hubby awoke (I'm a very light sleeper).  The movement of the restlessness legs don't bother me, it's just hearing him get up to get a snack, a drink, play solitaire on his tablet is what wakes me.

As I was recovering from my daughter's teenage years, moving on from grief, and really seeking the Lord for healing of anxiety I was so ready to sleep.  Honey was taking Ambien on a nightly basis for over a year.  That stuff is horrible!  I took it here and there but my GP would not let me have more than 10 at a time and I took 1/2 a pill if I took it (usually after 5 or more days of poor sleep).  When we first got married, honey was still waking after taking Ambien and he was sleep eating.  He put on about 20 pounds the first 2 years that I knew him before we married and right after.  We both put on weight after we married.  Yeah, maybe some was bliss, but I am sure lack of good sleep played a big role.

So... I think I've painted a good picture of our crappy sleep for the past several years.  But then I got really, really sick this past January.  While I was home sick, social media was my main company for a month.  I was also tiring of my lack of progress with the current direct selling company I was with, the leadership being inconsistent and using shaming and the law of attraction (not my direct upline - I love her still), and the company really not making it any advantage to be a customer or rep.  We still love the products and use them, but again, I began researching for a new MLM to supplement our income.

I had been praying and searching and I came across an insta friend named Judy in my feed that I had seen promoting a few MLM companies over the previous 2 years.  One was a wine club.  So I reached out to her and asked her if she was making any money from it.  She said "NO!" but was currently with another MLM and was having a crazy successful go with it.  Then she started telling me about the product!  I was amazed at all of the medical benefits and testimonies with the use of CBD oil!  I was a bit hesitant due to the stigma associated with this, but she  helped me understand  how pure this product is, non GMO, organically grown hemp in Kentucky, and LEGAL.  NO high, all health!  I got over myself quickly in order to get my husband some relief and sleep.

I totally signed up and bought our first bottle of Hempworx CBD Oil and got my husband on them right away!  I mean, it was only $20 to start my business with or after the purchase of his drops and there was a 30 day money back guarantee on the product.  I had nothing to lose and everything to gain at that point.

First, I was shocked at how quickly the shipment arrived, how lovely of a lady and new friend that I had made in Judy, and just the sweet  and humble spirits in our leadership.  NO SHAMING as a form of "motivation".  Just consistent and useful training!

My 2nd shock came about 2 or 3 days after my husband started using the drops.  He started slow with about 5 drops under his tongue morning and then again at night.  But then this happened day 3... He rested better than ever and all through the night!!  Then another night, then another night!  HOLY CRAP!!! He's resting incredibly well!  Praise God!  I still cry tears of joy when I share this as I thought I'd sleep again when I was dead.  Oh! how wonderful it is to hear him in deep rest.  It's also helping with the pain.  We won't even know what else it may be helping with his health until his annual check up this summer.

All this to say, if you are also a day dreamer and a night thinker or you could benefit by finding calm,  healthier skin, reduced pain, improved cardiovascular health, improved cartilage and joint functions, healthier energy levels, healthier digestion, more stable moods, healthier immune functions, healthier blood sugar, and improved focus and clarity, let's talk!

I'd love to hear your sleep and health testimonies too with this amazing product!  I'm an encourager by nature and want to help people be the best they can be.  I'm a caregiver so I'm ready to help the world feel better 10 drops at a time!

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I've Had Endometriosis For Almost 40 Years!

Did I grab your attention?

Let me tell you first of all, if I have any dude readers, you may want to put on your "ick" alert and move on.

Those of you that also have endometriosis, painful and extremely heavy periods, and hormonal migraines, stay tuned.  I promise I have possible hope for you at the end of my story.

Let's start at the beginning.  I was born...ha ha!  Okay not that far back, but almost.  I was pretty young when I started my period.  I was 11.  I was a FAT kid, put on weight watchers at age 9, and have struggled with my weight and body image since!  But that's a different story.  The reason I bring up being a fat kid is that I was told that was why I started my period so young. ???  This was back in 1980 so medicine has come a long way since then.

So there I was, 11 years old, with severe cramps, heavy bleeding through my clothes, and headaches to kill someone in Elementary School (back then, 6th grade was still in Elementary School).  My mother was a nurse, so therefore seemed unsympathetic to us kids and gone a lot because she worked nights and usually about 60 hours a week.  So I figured this out on my own the best I could with the help of my older sister.

I remember being at my grandma's house, in Florida, one summer and being so sick because of my period.  I must have been about 13 years old at the time.  We were raised to not talk about "lady things" and also to not complain, so I just tried to suffer in silence.  Well that was until I started puking my guts up.  She was like, "Do you have your menses?"  What in the world is that, I thought?   It sort of sounded like the word menstruation that was taught to us in sex ed (in 6th grade), so I said weakly, "yes.".  She put me to bed with a heating pad.  Oh wow, that felt a little better.  I never was without a heating pad after that.  When I got up from a rest and felt a little better, she gave me a little glass of wine for my cramps.  Now we're talking.

When I got home from Florida, I told my mom what had happened and how much better I felt.  She seemed unimpressed, but I was a kid.  Who knows what she was really thinking.  I'm guessing she was thinking that she needed a month at her mom's too.

Fast forward to my sophomore year of high school.  My period symptoms just got worse and worse if you can possibly imagine.  On day 2 of my period, I'd get faint in 5th period Spanish II.  My teacher approached me at the door and asked if I had really bad periods.  I started crying.  "YES!  I get so sick, they are awful!".  This was the first time I talked to anyone, except my sister and grandma, about my period.  I felt shame because we weren't supposed to talk about those things and I also felt relieved because Mrs. Ball seemed to understand!  I loved that woman.  My grade in Spanish improved greatly after that.  As did my attendance by the end of the day once a month.  She must have called my mom because not long after the 3rd time this happened, I found my self at my mom's gynecologist.

So here I was, 16 years old,  diagnosed with endometriosis, put on the pill for treatment, and scheduled for a laser laparoscopy, the first week of summer vacation, to burn off the scar tissue.  This was in 1986.  Back then, I took the pill every day and didn't have my period for a few years.  This was to simulate pregnancy and give the uterus a break I guess.  It was nice for a while.  I didn't mind that treatment at all.

Fast forward just a few more years and newly moved to Florida but due to my condition, needing a specialist gynecologist to continue my treatment (birth control pills mind you).  This new doctor was the best, but in my opinion he was horrible.  Hardly spoke English, so I had difficulty understanding him (I was just a kid) and he told me I was no spring chicken and if I wanted kids, I better hurry up.  (I was 19!)  Well this along with some other issues, I felt basically pressured to take the first one interested in me and do I did.  I found myself 23 years old, newly married, unhappy and wanting a baby.  Guess what?  It's hard to get pregnant with endometriosis.  I found another doctor though.  A woman who at least knew how cramps felt.  She performed my 2nd laser laparoscopy and a year later, I was miraculously pregnant!  (That marriage quickly dissolved not soon after, seeing as how I mainly got married because I was "no spring chicken" but I still got my miracle baby and oh! how I love that girl, well young woman).

Fast forward 30 more years.  I was 48, still taking the pill as treatment for endometriosis as for some reason my doctor won't give me a hysterectomy.  The pill isn't the best treatment.  It helps, don't get me wrong, but I still experience severe cramps that radiate down my legs, bad back pain, pressure on my bladder and bowels, and migraines.  I still felt weird about drinking alcohol for medicinal needs until like 8 years ago (have a teenager).  Now I don't care.  Judge away, but if you had my cramps, you'd see aleve doesn't cut it and a glass of wine does!

So what does this have to do with hope for you if you have a problems with your periods?  Here's what happened.  If you've been reading my blog, you'll know that I got really sick in late January.  Best they can figure is that I got the B strain flu and I'm currently still in recovery.  But while I was in the height of being sick, I had a lot of time to myself.  I went searching for a new online business and came across a product that I wanted to get for my husband to try for an arthritic back, hip, and restless legs.  He had great relief almost immediately and he started sleeping (which means, I started getting sleep!).  I got so excited, I became an affiliate.  I wanted others to find this relief.  I wanted to be the best affiliate possible and part of that is believing in your product and the only way to do that is to have your own testimony.

Here's part of my testimony:  I started taking the product in April in hopes of it boosting my immune system and helping with the uncomfortable swollen glands and fatigue that I've been experiencing since late January.  I've slowly been improving (as I was told it could take up to a year to recover), but I discovered some interesting side effects from taking this product.  I'm sleeping better too (not just because hubby is sleeping), I'm really calm, I haven't had issues with riding in the car or being on a boat, I haven't had a severe debilitating pain in my head in a few months!  (check out these stories here and here to understand my pain journey), and (drum roll here) I stopped having  unpleasant side effects associated with my period!   I'm 49 years old now and looking into endometrial ablation or some other form of birth control besides the pill, but in the meantime, I am thoroughly liking this not having period related discomfort.

If you are interested in learning more, please drop me an email and let me know you read my blog post on endometriosis.

I decided to share my story as it doesn't seem to be so taboo to talk about these things anymore.  I see that several bloggers now share in detail along with fashion tips for the endometriosis sufferer.  I thought I'd offer something a little different... HOPE!