I can't stand those stinky B vitamins

but I guess I should start taking them and see if that is helpful.  I'll just hold my nose. Yuck!

Thanks for the suggestion. 

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Help, hubbie's feet stink and not just normal sweaty stink, but really bad! He woke up this morning with feet very red on the bottom and when he stepped on the wood floor he said they felt like they were sticking, not like sweat but like something oozing from them. Sorry for the graphic description, but we can't figure out what it might be. Anyone with any thoughts or suggestions on what he should do would be appreciated. I, of course told him he should go to the doctor, but he is a man and is very stubborn about this unless he is dying! I should note he has a cyst on one foot that he refuses to seek treatment for because he does not want to take the time off of work as he will ultimately have to have it removed surgically, but could this be part of the problem and why both feet now?

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If you don't already take one, you might just try a good multivitamin rather than a B complex.  I hated the B complex.  Stinky is right.  Plus it looked like I had eaten a canary when I peed.  Okay, that was TMI.  Sorry. 

Definitely get the thyroid checked out.  Low thyroid can give you lots of symptoms that can mimic menopause and depression is one of them.  If your hair is thinning a little bit and your skin feels like it's drier than it used to be, those can all be symptoms of a low thyroid.

I was on Effexor for a while and hated it.  I didn't feel any less depressed, but I didn't care because I was asleep all the time.  I basically slept through December.  Which actually worked well in the grand scheme of things, but was not very productive.

Back to the thyroid, though.  That may very well be an underlying cause for your depression.  Probably not the only one, but it could be contributing.  Some things to think about -   What are your eating habits like and have they changed drastically in the last year with all the stress?   If you eat lots of prepared foods, that definitely is affecting things.  Try getting rid of anything white in your diet - white bread, flour, potatoes, etc.  It's hard, but you'll be AMAZED at how different you feel.    I actually went one step further and try to eat a raw diet as much as possible.  This is new for me, but it's astonishing at how much better I feel. 

Exercise is also a very important key in helping to combat depression.   Sunlight is another very important key.  Even if it's only to walk down to the end of the street, try to do that once a day.  You need to get the Vitamin D from the sunlight and the fresh air will help.

If you think a low thyroid may be a factor, here are a couple of things I discovered.  Iodine is a very important nutrient in thyroid health.  The only way you can get iodine is if you eat fish or use iodized salt.  I don't do either.  I started taking a kelp supplement for the iodine.  If you use artificial sweeteners at all, they can lodge in the thyroid and hamper its effectiveness.  Fluoride in water is another biggie.  Fluoride mimics estrogen and also inhibits thyroid function.  A Brita water filter, or any similar one DOES NOT remove fluoride.  You have to get a separate fluoride filter for that.  I take kelp, stay away from diet sodas (I used to drink diet Pepsi by the gallon, practically) and have the fluoride filter on the sink.  I then put that water through the Brita filter.  I also take another herbal supplement called Ashwaganda that helps promote thyroid health.

I have been taking the vitamins and supplements really consistently for the past couple of weeks, and I feel better now than when I was on levothyroxine and Effexor combined.

Good luck.  I hope you find a regimen that works for you.

i had been bying vitamins from wal-mart.  then i went to GNC and talk the gal that works there and she recommended GNC brand ultra gold which i do take when i think about it.  but their vitamins are so big, they almost gag me, even the smell gags me.  supposed to take two a day.  they are loaded with stuff.  just wondered what ya'll take.

ps:  can't tell a difference in my energy level when i take GNC vitamins. 

I'm looking for a good multivitamin.  I'm in my late 40's and I also take extra calcium with D but I'm wondering if the generic vitamins are just as good as the expensive ones?

I married older because I thought he would have his you-know-what together.  WRONG!  He went down, financially-speaking, and took me down with him.  I heard he's in the middle of divorcing his third wife (I was his second).

But...boy, did I love him.

Her daughter called and maybe she did think her mom was upset, but the fact that her mom got annoyed by this is just insane.  If she was on an important phone call with her dying aunt, why she bothered to answer her other phone, no matter who was calling, is beyond me.  As a result, she posted this topic about whether she should let the answering machine get the phone or she should disconnect her phone. That is a no brainer.  If you don't want to talk to someone or are on another important call, let the answering machine get it.    She made mention that she might let the answering machine pick up all of her daughter's calls and not call back just to see what her daughter will think.....isn't that a bit childish.

So I don't know her whole family history and maybe her son is an ungrateful turd.  If he won't talk to his mom because she got money he thought he deserved, that is his problem.  But for her to not be the adult and bigger person by at least trying to mend that relationship......as far as I'm concerned, she can't blame everything on him if she isn't willing to mend it either.

As for her happiness and family getting her down....sounds to me as if she is the one who thinks her family owes her something since she bailed her son out of jail and paid for her daughter's college.  If she is so happy with her laugh and content, why in the world she is posting on here about whether or not she should let the answering machine pick up her daughter's phone calls? 

I have no sympathy for someone who isn't smart enough to make the decision of whether or not to answer her telephone. 

Why do our companies never stand up to dictators like this?  I have one who honestly sounds like he's drunk and he speaks English as a first language!  I call him smushmouth because all I can understand is smusha-smusha-smusha at any speed level.  I had one at an old hopsital who had narcolepsy!  He would literally fall asleep while dictating so you'd have to sit there and wait for him to wake back up and then he'd start over or start in the middle of a sentence he never began.  Drives me nuts.

What kills me too is that one of my in-laws is from Russia.  Her mom was a doctor there.  She can't become a doctor here because she says her English isn't good enough and it costs so much money to take the tests to get her reciprocal certification.  Heck her English is 10 times better than half the idiots we get so how do THEY pass the test?  Sorry needed to vent today!

I watch MAYBE 1 hour a week of regular ol' TV and that is just local news blurbs.  I am a big movie fanatic though.

What I really can't stand about the crap coming over the airways is the constant barrage of DRUG ADS--whether they are for prescription drugs or OTC stuff.  It's just too much.

I saw a spot on the news about how stores are contemplating putting in little LCD screens into those "kiddie carts" that the adult can plug $1 into, put the kid in the plastic car/cart thing, so the kid basically can stay numbly tuned into some show while the parents shops in quiet comfort. 

Heaven forbid kids are made to behave while out in public.  Oh don't even get me going on the sheer retardedness of it all...