Prenatal vitamins are the best for any woman. nm

• Which vitamin for hair and nails? - Country MT
  • Prenatal vitamins are the best for any woman. nm - LMT
  • I take Biotin which is a B vitamin. - pc
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    • Oh okay. Thanks-thought - Country MT
      • Fermodyl #7 from beauty supply store - hair will come in within a couple of months
      • i take hair, skin & nails w/biotin. - get it at walmart. nm

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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?

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. 

This has nothing to do with being a christian, it has more to do with group dynamics. I have to deal with it all the time with 6 women in an in-law situation. They are narrow-minded Bible-thumping bigots.I happen to be of another "denomination" and I do attend every function of theirs, weddings, funerals, all of it, receive their communion. I have had my parents die, lost my younger sister and many things happen where they could have reciprocated, yet they will not "step foot" in my church. So where is all their faith, they certainly are not practicing the do unto others. I can relate, it is a horrible way to live. Thank God, I had psychology courses and know about group dynamics, I am in the middle of a herd mentality. I could go on forever, they even have "interventions" when someone in their family wants to marry or date someone not from their denomination. They are awful. I know your pain! It's not your imagination, they hide behind their cohesive "numbers game," one speaks and all the others agree in unison. No one has a chance against this mob. It's tough to be your own person, lots of tears. And guys think it's all in our heads - NOT!  Hang in, perhaps you'll have a Divine Intervention somehow.

Spend some time together.

Give each little young lady a handmade card/voucher that she can cash in to spend time with you one-on-one, whether it be at the hair salon, lunch, walking in the park, just doing regular shopping stuff, going to a play or just sitting, talking, having a cup of tea and looking through family albums....It's the special time that'll be cherished. 

Oh, and 50-ish is not old.....I know 70 to 85-yo young ladies who can run circles around me with their enthusiasm, drive, ambition and joy for life.   Cat 

graduated college last year?  She was all over the news, GOD BLESS HER!!  Had all her wits about her......just old looking is all....

Education doesn't stop until we die - so by all means 40+ is still young in that many change career directions many times in ones' life...

That an employee told her to use the MRI machine at the zoo?

When a 5-foot, 275-pound woman found out she had a tumor on her spine, she was told by her local hospital to go the zoo to have a MRI because a regular MRI machine could not hold her weight, myfoxkc.com reported.

Carolyn Ragan told the television station she discovered the tumor two years ago and, after the hospital told her she could not use their MRI machine, a medical assistant said he would help her find a solution.

“So he suggested the Kansas City Zoo,” Ragan said. “I thought, I know I’m big, but I’m not as big as an elephant. And my husband got mad.”

The University of Kansas Hospital would not comment on Ragan’s claim, but said its MRI department does not know of any animal MRI in the Kansas City area that would scan a human.

Ragan’s problem was two-fold: She was too heavy for the table and too wide to slide through the opening.

Medical Imaging in Kansas City North, which has both closed and open MRI machines can typically hold up to 440 pounds, but sometimes a person who weighs less can still be out of luck, according to an MRI technician.

“It depends on how they are built a lot of times and what part of their body we’re scanning,” said technician Sarah Abbott of Medical Imaging. “(The machine) can only be so open before the magnetic field dissipates into the room.”

Ragan, who ended up having two surgeries and some paralysis, said she finally found an open MRI machine that held her weight, but it was embarrassing and frustrating.

“They should have machines that fit most everybody,” she said.

My kids were out of clothes.  Yes, I'm behind on laundry.  So I wash some stuff, toss it in the dryer and I hear something going "ping" and it won't turn on.  I just pulled it completely apart, put it back together and it's working.  Yeah me!  A screw had come out and fallen down inside of it.  I can't believe how full of lint the inside was too.    I do, however, have 6 extra screws that should be in there somewhere lol.

Ok, so when we were kids, my brothers would go to the barber.  They get their hair cut and he put this stuff on their hair that smelled so good.  Like a finishing cream or something.  I am trying to find some of this for my hubby and son for after their hair cuts (I am the barber of the family).  Does anyone have any idea what this could be?  I don't even know what to search for.  It wasn't gel, hairspray, or anything like that.  It wasn't stiff.  Just smelled really good.  Would be wonderful if you could help me find it or give me suggestions of what it could have been.

Thanks!

That is what she told Sharon when she was begging for her life and the life of her unborn son.  Then she and one of her buddies proceeded to stab Sharon 16 times and slaughtered all of her houseguests.  Then wrote words on the walls in Sharon's blood.  They also shot a teenager 4 times who was just leaving. Then the next night they (I don't think Atkins was involved in that this one though) went out again and killed 2 more people and wrote words on the walls with the victims blood again.   There were more killings also before that.

These people were worse than animals, killed for no reason whatsoever.   That "the devil made me do it" thing don't fly.  They knew right from wrong.  Linda Kasabian proved that by not following Manson's orders and sabataging his plans.  She was totally in love with Manson at the time too.   Atkins was originally sentenced death but somehow it was ruled unconstitutional and her sentence was reduced to life with parole.

We seem to have a lot of guys out there, with their ranks constantly expanding, whose only purpose in being in a relationship is to do as little as possible in exchange for a much as possible.  Their sense of entitlement is huge - they expect the woman to be breadwinner or equal earner, cook and housekeeper, social secretary, financial guru, babysitter, the list goes on forever.  In exchange they must be begged to do the simplest tasks like taking out the garbage or yardwork - often they just flat refuse to do anything at all and the woman ends up doing everything.  The couch potato guys get their way and end up doing nothing but being a housepet or overgrown child, and eventually the woman realizes these guys are bringing nothing, and I mean nothing!, to the relationship but mess, hassle and arguments.  She realizes she doesn't need him - and that's the way he wants it to stay.  These men engineer their own divorce, and deserve it, by refusing to be a partner in any sense of the word.

I know she is just a kid.  Probably in her head you son was supposed to wait around for her and their love could withstand and outlast anything..Kind of like those romance novels you read.  He let her down by breaking up with her and then to add salt to the wounds started dating again.  So this is just her way of getting back.  She feels like he made her disposable. 

Actually, don't get me wrong, I am not dissing on your son.  He is a kid too and life is too short to wait around for 1 girl.  He has the rest of his life ahead of him.   He shouldn't  worry too much about what this girl is saying.  In a few years when he is out of school, college she will be history.   If the other girl "Sadie Hawkins Dance" girl was so easily persuaded then she probably wasn't worth his time anyway. 

Just my take on it anyway.  I am in no way an expert.  I really think this is typical teen behavior, both sides.  They are half adult, half child.  I would never go back to that place for a million bucks.