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Fri Sep 07, 2007 10:33 pm |
I am very reluctant to share my experience because I realize my case is probably rare, even though extreme, and I don't want to scare anyone. However, if someone is going through what I went through, I'd like to help them put two and two together much faster than I did.
I started using Browtox in April of last year. I used it until the bottle was empty. I didn't think it did much and decided not to reorder. After a month went by I noticed that the "11" creases between my brows became very evident. I realized the Browtox had been working. The affects were accumulative so I didn't notice dramatic results until I stopped the product. I ordered it again and used it everyday.
After a few months I started noticing I didn't feel right, like something was off but I couldn't put my finger on it. As I was rubbing the Browtox into my "3rd eye" the thought crossed my mind, "I wonder if this stuff is affecting my senses and/or my intuition?" I brushed aside the thought, not wanting it to be true, because it was working so well and it didn't really seem possible.
At the end of January, this year, I was at a convention and walking very briskly from the parking structure to the convention center carrying a relatively heavy bag in each hand plus my purse when I started to get this deep pain in my chest and it felt so tight I had to stop because it felt like something inside me was going to break. After a couple of minutes the pain went away and I was fine. This happened 3 or 4 times over the weekend walking quickly to the convention center, and then it didn't happen again until 5 months later. I just assumed I wasn't used to carrying heavy things and walking fast and it was a strain on my body.
In the meantime my energy levels started to fade and my motivation for everything I love was disappearing. I was having a hard time making simple decisions, I felt mentally foggy, my stress levels were rising rapidly and I really started to feel bad. The muscles in my throat and neck were getting tired just talking and I got out of breath walking up one flight of stairs or just making the bed. So I went to the health food store looking for something to help with the stress and give me energy because I didn't feel like my healthy, bubbly, happy, motivated, spiritual, creative self. I got a very popular cleanse for the entire body to help the liver and other organs. I used this and it cleaned me out but still no energy.
It got to the point where I would get up in the morning and could barely make it through the day. I felt so tired and unmotivated, all I could do is sleep, sleep, sleep. I would get a little energy from sleeping and try to walk on the treadmill and do some work but that's about it. I'd go to bed and start over the next day. I had no desire to do anything that I like or love to do. Everything felt like a chore and my life seemed useless. I was seriously considering quitting my career, the biggest passion in my life. Soooooooo not like me!
On the 4th of July, when the fireworks ended, to get ahead of the mobs of people, we started hauling butt back to the car about 2 or 3 blocks. I was walking so fast to keep up with my S.O., I was almost running and the pain in my chest came back so strong and this time it took a long time to subside and didn't go away completely until the next day. I tried getting on the treadmill two days later and the tightness in my chest came quickly and didn't go away. I was freaking out. I was thinking there's definitely something seriously wrong and I was probably going to die of heart failure or something. I went to my doctor and he ran every test possible for my symptoms, including EKG, blood work, x-rays, the works. Everything came back perfect. No sign of anything wrong. I'm in excellent health. The doctor gave me a prescription for an inhaler, (maybe it's asthma) and some drugs for anxiety and a stack of papers on panic disorder. I had many of the symptoms but my life is so good and I'm so healthy otherwise, I knew deep down these were not the cause of my symptoms. I never used the inhaler or the anxiety pills.
I started to look at everything I was doing because I was so miserable, I was crying every day. I'm such a healthy person and so careful about what I put in and on my body, the only thing I could think of was the Browtox. My S.O. called our good friend who's a doctor and is always very helpful in desperate situations and asked him about Browtox. He looked it up and gathered all the info he could and called back and said "Yes. This could definitely be causing the problem." He said it's controversial because some people say it doesn't work and others do. Basically if it works, it's getting into your system. Even though it's supposed to be localized, it's still getting into the bloodstream and affecting your body. He thought because it affected the muscles in my face, it affected my entire system because I was more sensitive to it. He said it was possible it was inhibiting all the neuro-receptors in my body not just the ones in my face. And, because it's accumulative it would take a while to really affect me adversely. Well that made sense. Finally an answer.
At the beginning of August, I stopped using it immediately and after a couple of days my energy started to return.
Less than 2 weeks later, I took a trip, cross country, to visit my good friend. My first plane was delayed due to bad weather and I was short of time to catch my connecting flight. When I got off the plane, I only had about 10 minutes before my next flight was leaving and the gate was way on the other side of the airport. I grabbed my bags and ran to the gate while talking on the phone to my S.O. Half way there I realized.... I was running and talking and I had no pain, no chest tightness, and when I got to the gate (just made it in time) I was only a little out of breath. I was amazed, he was amazed and I wasn't even tired.
After about 3 weeks, I started to feel more alive and my personality started to come back. I felt like I could make decisions again. My muscles started to loosen up and I wasn't feeling a tug in my throat while talking. I felt like I could relax and the things that I love became of interest to me again. I felt motivated and started cleaning and organizing. I felt happy and joyful. I felt like myself again. I felt like I was back in touch with reality and my senses were crisp.
It's now early September, and I still don't have my creative desires back, which scares me. I'm hoping it's because the stuff isn't completely out of my system yet and that it will be soon and I'll be completely back to normal. I never would believe this could happen and I'm still having a hard time wrapping my head around it.
Like I said in the beginning, I don't want to scare anyone away from using the product, I just want to help anyone who might be experiencing the same thing. I would have given anything to have this information before it got as far as it did. I feel like I lost an entire year of my life that I'll never get back.
For those who aren't sensitive like me, the product does work. So just be careful and be aware of what you're putting in and on your body. |
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Fri Jun 13, 2008 11:56 pm |
racheli wrote: |
how is this possible? i have heard so many times, that cosmetics ingredients DONT go into the system, because there is a natural barrier, they cant break...
because of this barrier(s) all the skincare will always turn out to be something superficial, not really long lasting...
with the BOTOX (rumour(?), going to the brain) i can better understand, as it is injected UNDER the skin (for all i know), but with some serum applied on top?
is it really possible, that skincare, applied onto your skin, goes into the system
anyone has infos, ideas? |
What "natural barrier" are you talking about, racheli? Skin has pores and is, thus, porous.
Transdermal (thru the skin) is one form of delivering medicine into the body. Just as your skin is your largest organ of elimination, it also can be a delivery system for medication. So, take care of your skin and be careful what you put on it!
Cloe, I hope you reported your experience to the FDA. I'm surprised that any topical would be allowed to have curare in it!!!! Topicals once they penetrate the skin don't necessarily just affect the local area - they can get into your blood stream, enter other body systems, etc.
I think I would avoid anything with *tox in the name: Botox, Browtox, .... Tox is short for toxic. Who knows what the long term results of all these people using botox for "beauty" will be? I definitely don't want to be the guinea pig. I understand if you have to use botox for medical necessity -- but for vanity, no thanks. |
_________________ 42yo, natural strawberry blonde so fair skin, blue-eyed, and dry skin |
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