Bests & Worsts Reviews from Amazon

I have been experimenting off and on with several AS products since 2018. My condition is complex and it took me a while to figure out a good combination. I have Mast Cell Activation Syndrome, MTHFR, IBS-C, and I'm one of THOSE people who could write a book of all my debillitating symptoms and system quirks ongoing since childhood, yet according to typical doctor's tests, I've always been fine. I had a concussion, and mono twice as a child and constant strep throat until they removed my tonsils at 13, but so much damage had been done and I never truly recovered good health. I struggled through my teens and 20's and then after my second child in my early 30's, my gallbladder was removed, I had mold exposure, I crashed hard, and have been essentially home bound since. That year was the perfect storm. Vertigo, brain fog, chronic fatigue, anxiety, and chronic, severe muscle pain and tension stand out as my most debillating symptoms (although as you who can relate know, there are many, many more that could be listed). Still, all my tests were normal. I came to highly suspect histamine intolerance and adopted a strict elimination diet which improved the vertigo by 70%. I was "better" but when you come from so far in the negative healthwise, "better" can still be quite debillitated. The elimination diet mostly maintained a status quo and at least stopped me from getting worse. Finally in 2019, after I had deviated quite a bit from my original elimination diet, I had a severe deterioration and a couple of months of daily trigeminal neuralgia type symptoms plus constant throat tightness, numbness and swelling/closing. I was diagnosed with MCAS, at the ripe old age of 40, along with several acute actual food allergies that had never been tested before. I'm incredibly grateful to that team of allergy specialists and how thorough they have been. Ultimately there isn't much they can do for me other than get me wasted on anti-histamines, but they at least found a tangible, measurable foe for me to spar with. Much better to know your enemy! I took the anti-histamines for a few months until the acute, more life-threatening symptoms subsided, but I've mostly quit them since because it's a pick-your-poison situation. The side effects of such mega doses of anti-histamines are no better than my typical daily MCAS symptoms, (they actually seem worse to me) so I'd rather do without unless I have a particularly bad day. Also, spraying Ancient Minerals Magnesium directly on my throat (on the outside) several times a week really helps keep it more relaxed and not tighten up as badly. So, with alllll that background, when it came to AS products which we discovered in 2018, I wholeheartedly believe in them and saw intermittent benefits, but overall I struggled to digest them properly. They'd cause acid reflux; they'd add to my histamine load, even with Seeking Health DAO; they'd sit heavy in my stomach or throat; or they'd give me unpleasant side effects like dizziness, anxiety or shakiness or just general malaise. This led to very inconsistent use. I have tried many different kinds of digestive aids over the years but *finally* just recently discovered Dr Amy's HCl. Just plain HCl, no extras. It's so hard to find stuff with no extras!! This has been KEY to finally unlocking the power of AS. Several AS are still too strong for me right now, so after a little trial and error I finally hit upon 1 Intestines, 1 Spleen, 1 Colostrum right after a meal with Dr Amy's HCl. No side effects, felt great. Sometimes that is a coincidence so I didn't let my hopes get up too high. Next day, same regimen, no side effects, felt great. And on each day it went!!! I couldn't help becoming very hopeful at this point. I upped that combo to twice a day and then quickly added 1 Heart, 2 Thymus, 2 Collagen once a day as well. Immediate Benefits: 1) Nasal passages cleared. No mouth breathing even though I have started this right smack in the middle of spring allergy season. 2 Doctor's Best Serrapeptase does a great job clearing the sinuses first thing in the AM, but this combo, especially Thymus, keeps them clear all day. If something does block me up again, 2 Thymus will clear it within the hour. 2) Increased energy. I'm starting from such a negative in the energy department that an improvement still leaves me in the negative. I'm not about to run any marathons. I am still doing the same minimal amount of housework as before, with a lot of rests and breaks (it's a little ridiculous to the average person!). I still have to pace myself and choose what is urgent and what can be put off one more day. BUT, throughout the day and in the evening I am experiencing a more normal level of tired. It isn't the one-foot-in-the-grave, deep cell-level, anxiety and dizziness-provoking fatigue that I used to have. It's a much more normal, tolerable, and calmer level of fatigue. This is huge; it's such an encouraging improvement and it happened quickly. 3) Raised blood pressure. My BP always sat a little low at 90/50, anytime I tested at home or at a doctor's office. I've had nurses ask if I feel ok and I'd say "well I feel a little dizzy, but I always feel a little dizzy." Within 2 days of adding in 1 Heart to the regimen my blood pressure came up to 100-110/60-70. With shocking consistency. I check at random times during the day and where I always would have seen 90/50 before, I've not seen it once since starting Heart. That's with just one a day. It's almost unbelievable. With that, a good portion of my daily dizziness is gone. I didn't realize until now how much of it was caused by low blood pressure. I can stand and sit, move and turn my head without having to baby my dizziness so much. (NOTE: Many of the Heart reviews attest to lowering their high blood pressure with this, so the Heart adapts to doing whatever it is your heart needs.) This is a review that is 2 years into discovering AS but it is 2 weeks into finally finding what's working for me. The Kidney is still breaking my heart a little. People report such improvement in histamine reactions that I really want to take it but it is too strong for me. I end up dizzy and "histaminey" which is the opposite of what it is supposed to do. Brian suggested I try the Organs because it has 80% less Kidney in it. That worked, (thank you!) so now I have added 1 Organs as well and will try to build it up. I anticipate any significant healing to take several years with a health history like mine but these beginning improvements are more encouraging than anything else I have ever tried. (And I am stubborn! I have tried a lot.) (Although this review encompasses several products, I've placed it here because the Organs probably have the highest visibility. I've given many details because I know what it's like to be so desperate and needing so badly to hear encouraging stories with details you can relate to.)