Please help What could this be?

[Crystl-jade]

Quickly, i will tell you.

l had sore shoulder muscles for about a week. Then sorta a "lump in the throat" feeling a few days later. Now, last night I had a scratch throat when drinking water . I also had itchy skin and light skin breakouts. I had itchy and watery eyes and itchy, sorta painful but not really too painful ears, and, uh, well, a bowel problem (for lack of a more tactful term, but hopefully you get my drift, sorry if that is offensive) for about three days, not this morning I woke up to a chilly feeling, and my voice is hoarse and I feel so tired., No cough so far.

My diet has essentially been 100% raw for a year, excluding my hot teas in the morning. I have not had a major detox nor a cold or any sickness since I began all raw last April.

I started drinking my fresh squeezed organge juice every morning here for the past week or so, then I suddely notice these strange occurrance in my body, BTW, this was not organic orange juice, just regular. Anyway, So, basically I am wondering what do you think is happening to me and how can I tell if it's the flu, a cold or detox?? Is this something I need to take to the Dr. about, or is my hypocondria setting in?

please help me? Thank you all in advance in case I find myself stuck in my bed sipping tea and uanable to move for awhile.

THANK YOU FOR HELPING ME AND READING THIS POST.


crysti-jade :)

[ljannise]

Ok, are you aware that while we are Raw, our body is reversing? I say this because ppl have "revisited" certain events in their lives... major sunburn, & other things that have been harsh on our body/system. Detox isnt completely over with in our first few months. I see it as "walls" we are knocking down. Things have happd in our lives that we need to be cleansed from & they came at different times.

There are some ppl out there with really amazing reversing stories.

I'm not saying this happened to you, but it could also be just another mountain you are climbing in your raw food journey. A year is a good long time, but comparing it to the 5-7 years ppl speak of, you/I are still just little children in this whole cleansing process.

[Crystl-jade]

Thank you~ hopefully i'll feel better and reply to your post later as this is requiring me to just sit and rest for awhile,not doing much. Im off to sleep again, just soooooooooooooooooo tired.

Crystl-jade

[jaurequi]

Did your symptoms coincide with the intake of the orange juice? There could be some contamination in the product itself, or a reaction to a chemical, if it's not organic.

You could just be catching a cold; your symptoms sound very much like a flu coming on, and treating it as such couldn't hurt.

Hypochondria could be a possibility -- do you know what triggers yours? Has anything occurred recently or the past weeks or so to prompt you to consider it may be?

Take care and good idea to rest.

Best,

[dreamrawalwz]

It could be a "healing crisis" and the orange juice is helping you detox deeper and faster? Just my thought...

[swingbolder]

It could be a "healing crisis" and the orange juice is helping you detox deeper and faster? Just my thought...

That's what I'm thinking. It sounds like classic detox to me. Healing crises happen even to people who have been longterm raw fooders. It's just new and different to you bc you haven't had one before.

Were you overweight when you started out raw? Alissa says in her book that sometimes people who are very overweight don't experience detox right away bc all their toxins are stored deep in their fat cells, and it might take awhile for the body to begin cleaning those out, can take months.

[RawMagnolia]

I would say that it's your body cleansing itself of something. Either something from before (SAD days) or even some invading thing now... flu. Either way the only thing that a doctor will do is possibly prescribe drugs (IMHO) which will only thwart your bodies ability to heal itself. I'd just let it run it's course... and on the other side you should feel like a million bucks.

BIG congrats on being RAW for 1 year... I'm a complete newbie!!!

Sandra

[rawpriestess]

First, CONGRATULATIONS on being raw for one year, how marvelous is that!!!

and all colds and flue ARE detox, just to be clear here.

our bodies go through cycles, and detox goes through cycles, I always trust my body in it's infinite wisdom to heal what needs to be healed at any given moment,

so when I am losing weight, I know that THAT is the thing that will most heal my body at that moment, when I am having sinus drainage, I know that THAT is the thing that will most heal my body at that moment,

when I am needing alot of sleep compared to normal, I know that THAT is the most healing thing for my body at THAT particular moment.

so, although you are feeling poorly, (sorry to hear that) this will pass and you will feel better, probably better than you ever have.

so rest, drink lots of fluids, and call us in the morning LOL

again, so sorry you are feeling not perfect today.

[Crystl-jade]

THANK YOU ALL FOR YOUR LOVING HELP. I FEEL SO LOVED :) perhaps that is making me feel so much better?

Still tired, going to lay down again, or maybe have some more water before that and then go lay down.

Feeling better :D


Crystl-jade

[Crystl-jade]

Its now nighty night time and I am feeling marvelous, daaaaaling, LOL! :D


Must have been the prayers and love I am getting from cyber world ((HUGS)) and from my homestead which include my DH and the boys.

Hopefully all detoxes will be like this. Short and sweet...well, not so sweet, but short, LOL



Crystl-jade

[surfergrrl]

hi, all. so sorry to hear about the "side effeects" of whatever is going on. one thing we know, it will pass...

a little tangential to this but the orange juice got me thinking. i recently read a fact about citrus fruits and simultaneously experienced this for myself. i read that there are the most concentrated amount of citrus bioflavanoids in the white pith of the fruit and this is very useful in helping with menstrual cramps and blood flow. just start eating citrus fruits prior to and during your cycle and it should lessen the discomfort considerably.
what happened was i had just read this and began to eat a few oranges. i can't accurately track my cycle because it jumps around by a few days, up to week sometimes. that evening i got my period and except for some soreness in my legs, no pain at all.

i love free, natural remedies, don't you?

and then there's the one about rubbing the inside of a citrus fruit on underarms instead of deodorant. remove the juicy parts left over from juicing and get down to the pith (read that it contains strong anti--bacterial properties). it really works! ;)