Why this pain?

[RawMagnolia]

Hello everyone. I'm working on keeping things raw "most" of my day. I usually eat raw all the way up until suppertime... and then I might keep it raw even then, but more often I try to eat something that is close. Like burritos, b/c they have lots of veggies in them... at least mine do :p

Anyways, when I first got started back in January (I wasn't quite as raw) I started having ear aches. I hadn't had an ear ache since I was a child. Back then I had terrible problems with my ears, requiring lots of surgeries to put "tubes" in them... and eventually they said I have "a floppy right eardrum" and they were done with me.

Today, more than a month later, I am experiencing symptoms that I would say are "carpal tunnel" in nature. My right wrist & fingers are very painful today. Can't take any weight, etc. and is just aching and snapping. When I was a young girl I used to have "severe" wrist pains just like this. And before that... growing up... I had "severe" growing pains in my legs... throbbing that would have me crying for days.

It was my understanding that I should experience detox in a "rewind" motion. That being; I should feel symptoms from things more recent, and as time goes by then I should feel symptoms from progressively longer and longer ago. And to be quite honest I wasn't sure if I'd even be feeling detox since I'm not 100% raw.

I know and fully believe that raw is the correct path to take... but that age old mindset is kinda saying to me "you are experiencing pain... so something you're doing is not right!".

Anyone have experience with this type stuff? Any words of wisdom??

Thanks,
Sandra

[Revvell]

Yup! It's called retracing. I'm not going to go through it here again yet, if you peruse my posts, there's one where I explain all the pain I went through. Advice? Allow yourself to go through it; experience all that needs to be experienced ~ no drugs. It may take a few days, it may take a few weeks and it even may take a few months. During that time, it will change. Another suggestion ~ write about it. Journal everything that happens so you'll notice the changes and down the line you'll be able to relate your experiences to others here. :)

Revvell

[Indi]

Hi Rm
A month before christmas I dammaged my hand/ wrist lifting a heavy washing machine.
It was very difficult to grip anything for a couple of weeks.
By christmas it was almost healed. I also had a heavy cold.

I started high raw in january, total raw, a month ago.
Three days ago I started to experience mild cold symptoms and the pain (although milder) has returned in my wrist!

I wondered if this might be the re wind that people mention!
Anyway, I have noted it in my diary.

I like Raw, so many new interesting ideas, thoughts and patterns to play with!
Its so exciting!

[Sheryl]

I didn't know it had a name! Thanks Revvell!

I did a supervised one week fast years ago (I think just before I started on raw). On the third or forth day I had three separate episodes of pain from injuries from decades earlier. All were injury sites that occasionally bothered me, and none have ever hurt since. How amazing is that?

The common explanation given is that the body is going back and healing old injury sites... certainly seems to have been true for me given that pains in those areas never returned after!

Cheers,
Sheryl

[dreamrawalwz]

After going raw I had a really tight scar become smooth after pulling pain inside. Havn't felt it since. I also had episodes of my tendonitis flare up, but getting much better. I'm sure there are more but I can't remember right now.