Lynn- I'd love to have some candy lilies if you have any left (none of my seedlings survived) - and if you have mints that are good for eating, I'd love your advice and/or anything you're willing to part with. -Alexis

I just bought a bleeding heart root from wal mart, it had started sending out some fresh roots in the package on one of the roots (it was a 2 root pack) but the second one wasnt sending out any nice white roots yet. i set them in a tub of water for overnight then planted them with the long root looking things down. ill keep this updated to let everyone know how they turn out. they are in a container so if they dont start doing anything within a week or so ill dig around see if anything is happening under the soil.

Hi everyone! My story is horrible. I bled for 3 months, half of it heavy with large clots. I lost half my blood over that time and became severely anemic. I was measuring ALL the blood plus clots and it was about 3-6 cups per "period" which is about 3 to 4 blood donations worth! I was sick as a dog. Did my research and started eating chicken liver every day. It is the MOST EASILY ABSORBED IRON AVAILABLE and not a pill. So that has helped but I dread the next one. I know I have a cyst on my ovary, you can tell if you have breast pain and cervical mucus. This is a common issue in perimenopause. The cyst will continue to grow and release estrogen so that you have far too MUCH estrogen which then makes the uterus linking thick and then the heavy periods! It is beyond compare. I cannot wait until the estrogen finally dr op s. I don't care about the osteoporosis or hot flashes. Anything BUT the heavy bleeding would be preferable. It is not healthy to bleed cups of blood at a time! I have been 48 days since the last bleed stopped and live in fear of when the next will hit. No invasive treatment for me and no pills, just chicken liver and lots of fortified cereals for the iron and hope for the best. Ladies before us survived. Then again they weren't exposed to the same toxins and stress that we modern gals are! I'm 46 and and had an AMH test at age 41 which predicts my full menopause should hit between ages 45 and 47.5. You can get the AMH test and it will predict with good accuracy when you will hit menopause. This is the most miserable and scary thing ever! I thought I was going to die, seriously. I could barely crawl up my stairs or even drive. My hemoglobin was a level 7 and my iron was a 19! I don't know what the level is now my dr said wait 6 weeks and recheck bit after 3 weeks with no bleed I started feeling better. I'm tired of my stupid ovaries. They are what produces the extra estrogen and that is what causes the heavy bleeds. They will not stop doing that until the egg follicles are used up and simply cannot produce any more estrogen. That is when you hit menopause. The AMH test measures how much eggs you have left. I will post some links here that explain all this. Your body wants estrogen so badly that it will do ANYTHING to get it. It will expend the ovaries till they are finished. Then it will take from your fat and cortisol. It will also steal the last of your progesterone and then finally it will raise your cholesterol and use THAT to make estrogen! It is like a desparate drug addict. .. the brain is what is trying so desparatly to give the body estrogen but it hyperstimulates the ovaries and that causes the cysts the thick lining and heavy bleeds the breast pain and cervical mucus etc. Not to mention pms headaches and all the other BS. I am so sick of it. I started having weird symptoms and irregular cycles at age 38. Intensified at age 40. Heavy bleeding and missed periods at age 45. So it seems I would be getting closer but who the hell knows? It's like a cruel twist of fate and design that our last remaining "good years" would be plagued by this crap!

Hi there, My husband and I had the same exact thing happen when we painted the trim on our barn. We were going crazy --> we would prime, paint...then the stains would appear again...prime, paint...then the stains would appear again. Long story short, we learned it was the tannin in the wood. We finally used BIN primer under the paint. Finally! No more bleeding. Like paintguy said, use BIN. We use this on ALL our woodwork now. No more worrying about those blotches. BIN is super stinky and runny in comparison to regular primer. It took some getting used to...but it is worth it. Below link with more background on tannin. Here is a link that might be useful: Tannin staining