I’ve been wearing my pheros every day, as usual, but I’ve noticed a change in how I feel & act over the past couple of months. I’m kinda confused. It could be related to a bunch of different things, so I’m gonna try to put everything together here and see if anyone has come insight I haven’t thought of…
I absolutely LOVE LOVE LOVE MX135 and can’t wait until it’s available in chocolatini scent again. SteveO, April… dontcha think it might be time for a field trip to China or something to get this mess straightened out?? LOL. j/k
I used to wear 5-6 sprays of MX135 every day and almost NOTHING could bring me down. I’d also wear 5-6 drops of EoW and 3-4 sprays of IS/B and whatever else I felt like experimenting with at the time… And I was the center of attention in my little cube world. hahahahaha. Sounds like a lot of cops & stuff, but I’m 41 now and had most of one ovary removed when I was 20 (TMI?), so my own production needs some artificial boosting.
I like MX235, but it’s just not the same. I still use the same mix of stuff I mentioned above, but I’m not feeling the same. I still get the attention I want from da menz , but I just don’t feel the same inside.
Some other stuff changed during the time I started noticing this change:
I had to switch to a different type of birth control - the Depo shot. So now I have a different hormone load.
I’m in in an actual relationship now. Though not exclusive (long, drawn out story… working on it.), the emotional involvement is there on both sides.
I’m getting a lot less tolerant of stupidity or lack of common sense. LOL. I’m a technical support specialist for a line of clinical chemistry instruments, and some customers have been finding that very last nerve I have hidden somewhere pretty damned quickly lately! I’m not usually that touchy.
Now, I’m wondering if my body is getting used to the MX135 mix of pheros (I read about this in one of the men’s journals, I think) and I need to up my number of sprays. Or, am I getting run down and fatigued and that feeling is overriding the effects I get from the pheros? Or is the addition of bc hormones foreign enough to my body that it’s reacting differently to their effects? Any ideas, guys & gals???
I can’t speak on the difference Depo might be making, maybe someone else can. But I had something similar happen not long ago, and here is what I did:
I stopped using pheros for a few days. I think I went four.
I started supplementing with L-Phenylalanine and L-Tyrosine. Some recommend against taking both at the same time as phenylalanine is converted into tyrosine, but unless you are taking massive doses, it should not negatively affect you. I took 500mg of each per day in the am. I also took Schizandra and Rhodiola in the am and with dinner. I don’t remember the dose I took of those, but I followed the manufacturer’s (Nature’s Way) recommendations. I also took 5-HTP in the evening not long before bed.
These supplements help recharge your neurotransmitters which can become overloaded from all the pheros you are throwing at them day after day. A few people have talked on the board in the past about “peptide preloading” (https://pheromonetalk.com/t/help-advice-a314-is/565/8)and I think a couple swear by Life Enhancement’s FastBlast (Life Enhancement:: Product > FastBLAST™), but I prefer to keep my caffeine intake to a minimum, and that product is also a lot more expensive per serving than just buying a bottle of L-Phenylalanine and/or L-Tyrosine and taking it as needed. YMMV.
You could also try just limiting the pheros you use to something uplifting for the time being, like Instant Female Magic, Instant Shine, or straight TAA.
Well first off you really should take a break from mones a few days a week. It keeps you from becoming accustomed. Just like anything else i life when you exposed to it everyday you get used to it and dont notice it is much.
MX235 dosnt pack the punch that MX135 does. They scent of MX135 is part of the attraction in my opinion.
Fastblast or peptide preloading can be beneficial. Be sure to read up on it and see if that interests you.
Lastly, Depo… changing your hormones can make you feel out of sorts for a while and that may be part of the problem as well. A adjustment in dosage of mones may be nessasary. This happened to me but for a slightly different reason. I have used mones for years and the dosage that worked for me when I start dosnt work for me now because as we age hormone levels change.
Dang!! There was some stupid problem during the Essure procedure & the doc ended up having to do a laparoscopic tubal ligation. Yet another couple of poke scars on my poor belly… & one in my brand new belly button. lol. Watch, after all I’ve done not to get pregnant, I’ll probably find out I’ve been sterile all my life. lol. Ummmm… can I have a refund for all the birth control crap I’ve used for the past 23 years???
Anyway, I have a big chunk of time off work now and, as suggested above, I’m not wearing pheros as much as possible. We’ll see if this helps. Hope so… keeping my fingers crossed.
You may also be going through perimenopause. That ‘just not right’ feeling can be an effect of your hormones naturally declining. I find for myself that I need higher doses of some of the pheromones for self effect, probably for that very reason.
But definitely try the preloading and definitely take a pheromone holiday for a while. Sometimes you can become accustomed to the pheromones, and sometimes you can have a rebound effect. I take 2 to 3 days off a week and that seems to do the trick for me.
Let us know what you decide to do and how you are faring!
Doing just fine, thanks Diane! Funny, my throat hurt more from that stoooopid breathing tube than my belly did from the actual procedure. Go figure.
I’ll have to look into the preloading a bit more. I digest differently after the gastric bypass. Things that are normally absorbed in the upper part of the small intestine (e.g. vitamin B12) are not absorbed normally any more. By now, almost 3 years out, the rest of my digestion/absorbtion should be close to normal, perhaps a little less than normal.
And I completely agree on the peri-menopause issue, Diane. Only in hindsight can a doctor say that you were definitely in peri-menopause during a certain time in your life. I think I’ve been going through the early stages of it for the last couple of years. My Mom went through menopause at age 56 (good thing Mom doesn’t read this website, huh?!?), but her Mom when through it at age 33. Being 41 now, it’s completely possible that I’m going through it myself now. Especially since I haven’t had any children. My twin sisters are 5 1/2 years younger than me, have both had children, and to the best of my knowledge are not going thru peri-menopause. I should prolly share this info with them, tho, huh?
Perimenopause can last as long as ten years, Darling! I’ve been having intermittent hot flashes for about 7 or 8 years, myself. And yeah, I think it does make a difference, especially if you were on the dual hormone type of birth control earlier. I went off birth control pills at 40 and it is just different.
It could be related to a bunch of different things, so I’m gonna try to put everything together here and see if anyone has come insight I haven’t thought of…
, but I just don’t feel the same inside.
lol. Watch, after all I’ve done not to get pregnant, I’ll probably find out I’ve been sterile all my life. lol. Ummmm… can I have a refund for all the birth control crap I’ve used for the past 23 years???
Go figure.