Wow. I took no meds last night.

I am a regular on Crestor, Levoxyl, Claritin, Clonazapam and Ibuprofen all at night for a pretty potent sleeping aid between the Clonaz for anxiety and Ibuprofen for chronic pain.

Taking a 10 day break from the other meds will not affect my overall health.

Anticipated not being able to sleep at all. I was very surprised.

My sleep was relatively fitful but only had a couple of awakenings with anxiety thoughts racing through the brain.

I did do the SWF yesterday evening and very grateful that I did. It took about an hour before acting and then was a mild reaction.

Meanwhile I had awful menstrual cramping yesterday and this AM.

Finally got up saw that my period had started and decided I could not feel much worse and so did another SWF. 10 minutes later a wonderful and COMPLETE reaction occurred that rid me of the menstrual cramping almost completely.

Interesting how fluid rentention can make a woman feel that much worse and removing it frees the body to function so much better.

It must allow the chi to flow unimpeded.

As bad as that SWF is I will continue to do it every morning because it is very effective.

Also had 5 swallows of black coffee. I do not want to contend with a caffeine withdrawal headache today and will have only 2 swallows tomorrow.

If I have to extend the MC for a day or two, so be it.

I am receiving allergy shots this week but will confer with the nurse regarding the MC first.

Weight today is down 7 lbs from yesterday. Totally the monthly retention thing.

All together a good first 24 hours and looking forward to buying the tea today and trying that tonight.

I feel like my mind is clearing for the first time in a long time. Probably won’t continue but as another MCer wrote “take one day at a time.”

Great process for mindful observation of thought, feelings, emotions…on with day two.