Snownoir
01-07-2007, 02:09 AM
Hallo everyone!
My name is Claire. I'm 21, 4th year college student in California (born and raised). I don't drink, no drugs (ever), and have been free of caffeine (since I was 11 or so, except for tea every now and then), msg (close to 3 years), aspartame (3 years), high fructose corn syrup (4-5 years), and hydrogenated oils (for the last 6 months). I've been researching detoxing/cleansing and health in general very intently for a good 3 years now.
It's funny, having read through almost all of the "Discussion" archives by this point, that I've been pointing myself to the Raw way for quite some time now. There is a lot that has happened to me since I was a really young girl (around 10) that woke me up to a lot of aspects about health and the bodies methods of healing. I would never take medicine because I understood that every symptom that I was feeling was a way for my body to be taking care of itself and if I covered it up (I understood that that is all medicine does) then I would be making it harder for my body to fight whatever it was, and then if it ever had to fight it again, it'd be harder for it. Low and behold, I've only gotten "sick" 7 times. And I really think that had a lot to do with allowing my body to take care of itself and truly build up its immune response to things. I was able to sense (around the same age) that certain things that I would eat would change how I felt. I understood that the body gets clogged up, but I couldn't really explain it beyond what I mulled around in my head.
Years later, looking back on this, I wish that I thought more about it as time kept going by. If I did, I would have found what you guys are indulging in a long time ago. =]
Even with my understanding of the immune response, I didn't understand toxins then. I got "feeling clogged somewhere," but didn't equate that to poison. I was constantly feeling aches and pains as a young child (once again, starting around age 10). My mom eventually just called me a hypochondriac and thought that I was just wishing for something to be wrong with me. But it wasn't self manifestation. There really was, and still is, something wrong with my body. I would go days without having to relieve my bowls, and when I did, I was usually constipated. My arm and leg muscles felt like there was something chewing on the bones with just gums. Around 14, I got this headache that has still not left me. Fifteen or so, is when the breathing problems started. They've really escalated in the past 5 years to the point of ER trips and two incidents that I SWEAR were heart attacks. Doctors say I'm fine. One cardiologist wouldn't even look at my papers in front of me, but asked what my GP said, and said "you're much too young for something to be seriously wrong with you. If he says you're fine, I'm sure you are." He came in to speak to me before the nurse was done with her prelim questions about medical history. He left the room and she was still asking the starting questions. This was shortly after what I felt was my second heart attack. There was a "bleep" on last ECG that didn't look normal but not abnormal enough for my GP to pay enough attention to is. So when I told the cardiologist this, and tried to explain the "heart attack" he glanced, literally, at the page and repeated what he said about my age. I just about cried. Something is wrong with me, and has been for years. I have a headache (in one spot on my head, that has never moved from there); I can not breathe in deep without wanted to cry from the pain; I bend over sometimes and it feels like someone is choking me; I have a smokers/emphysema cough that leaves a metallic/bloody taste in my mouth that is triggered by anything, especially laughing; I can't run more then a mile because my lungs close up (but I've medically diagnosed with NOT having asthma); I black out if I laugh too much; my blood pressure is very low; I'm almost always light headed; I'm very prone to severe blood pressure drops that take my feet from under me; I (not so much anymore) suffer from IBS-C; my memory has gotten worse; my hands and feet are always really cold, I feel cold most the time, but my body will produce extreme heat (where it's uncomfortable for my boyfriend to sit too close to me because it makes him sweat)...
Anywho, like I said, the docs have no clue what is wrong with me. I used to think I had cancer. I still wouldnÂ’t put it past me.
I self-diagnosed myself with IBS-C and fibromalagia. And now, I shall clean myself from them. =] All of your stories and communal support have greatly encouraged me to take this on. IÂ’m going to do a 7-day juice fast/cleanse, starting in the morning and then follow that by the 30 day challenge. I know that my ailments will not have been filtered out in that short amount of time, but I am one that needs to be able to take it slow. So IÂ’ll just keep doing challenge after challenge until I have year 1 under my belt, and keep going from there. =]
A friend told me, “If you really want to get somewhere, just keep putting one foot down in front of the other. Its always easy to do that. And then in no time, you’ll look back and be amazed at how far you’ve come.” So that’s what I’m going to do. One day at a time, one foot after the other. You can’t help but move forward if you do that.
So, this is why IÂ’m here, pretty much. I will do this because:
I want to wake up and not have a headache
and for my muscles to feel normal
and be able to breath without being in pain
for my heart to not feel stressed
to not come close to passing out every time I stand up or laugh
to not have a smokers cough (when I don't smoke and never have)
to not have my lungs hurting all the time
for my joints to not feel like they're on fire
I will do this.
Please help. =]
~Love, Claire
My name is Claire. I'm 21, 4th year college student in California (born and raised). I don't drink, no drugs (ever), and have been free of caffeine (since I was 11 or so, except for tea every now and then), msg (close to 3 years), aspartame (3 years), high fructose corn syrup (4-5 years), and hydrogenated oils (for the last 6 months). I've been researching detoxing/cleansing and health in general very intently for a good 3 years now.
It's funny, having read through almost all of the "Discussion" archives by this point, that I've been pointing myself to the Raw way for quite some time now. There is a lot that has happened to me since I was a really young girl (around 10) that woke me up to a lot of aspects about health and the bodies methods of healing. I would never take medicine because I understood that every symptom that I was feeling was a way for my body to be taking care of itself and if I covered it up (I understood that that is all medicine does) then I would be making it harder for my body to fight whatever it was, and then if it ever had to fight it again, it'd be harder for it. Low and behold, I've only gotten "sick" 7 times. And I really think that had a lot to do with allowing my body to take care of itself and truly build up its immune response to things. I was able to sense (around the same age) that certain things that I would eat would change how I felt. I understood that the body gets clogged up, but I couldn't really explain it beyond what I mulled around in my head.
Years later, looking back on this, I wish that I thought more about it as time kept going by. If I did, I would have found what you guys are indulging in a long time ago. =]
Even with my understanding of the immune response, I didn't understand toxins then. I got "feeling clogged somewhere," but didn't equate that to poison. I was constantly feeling aches and pains as a young child (once again, starting around age 10). My mom eventually just called me a hypochondriac and thought that I was just wishing for something to be wrong with me. But it wasn't self manifestation. There really was, and still is, something wrong with my body. I would go days without having to relieve my bowls, and when I did, I was usually constipated. My arm and leg muscles felt like there was something chewing on the bones with just gums. Around 14, I got this headache that has still not left me. Fifteen or so, is when the breathing problems started. They've really escalated in the past 5 years to the point of ER trips and two incidents that I SWEAR were heart attacks. Doctors say I'm fine. One cardiologist wouldn't even look at my papers in front of me, but asked what my GP said, and said "you're much too young for something to be seriously wrong with you. If he says you're fine, I'm sure you are." He came in to speak to me before the nurse was done with her prelim questions about medical history. He left the room and she was still asking the starting questions. This was shortly after what I felt was my second heart attack. There was a "bleep" on last ECG that didn't look normal but not abnormal enough for my GP to pay enough attention to is. So when I told the cardiologist this, and tried to explain the "heart attack" he glanced, literally, at the page and repeated what he said about my age. I just about cried. Something is wrong with me, and has been for years. I have a headache (in one spot on my head, that has never moved from there); I can not breathe in deep without wanted to cry from the pain; I bend over sometimes and it feels like someone is choking me; I have a smokers/emphysema cough that leaves a metallic/bloody taste in my mouth that is triggered by anything, especially laughing; I can't run more then a mile because my lungs close up (but I've medically diagnosed with NOT having asthma); I black out if I laugh too much; my blood pressure is very low; I'm almost always light headed; I'm very prone to severe blood pressure drops that take my feet from under me; I (not so much anymore) suffer from IBS-C; my memory has gotten worse; my hands and feet are always really cold, I feel cold most the time, but my body will produce extreme heat (where it's uncomfortable for my boyfriend to sit too close to me because it makes him sweat)...
Anywho, like I said, the docs have no clue what is wrong with me. I used to think I had cancer. I still wouldnÂ’t put it past me.
I self-diagnosed myself with IBS-C and fibromalagia. And now, I shall clean myself from them. =] All of your stories and communal support have greatly encouraged me to take this on. IÂ’m going to do a 7-day juice fast/cleanse, starting in the morning and then follow that by the 30 day challenge. I know that my ailments will not have been filtered out in that short amount of time, but I am one that needs to be able to take it slow. So IÂ’ll just keep doing challenge after challenge until I have year 1 under my belt, and keep going from there. =]
A friend told me, “If you really want to get somewhere, just keep putting one foot down in front of the other. Its always easy to do that. And then in no time, you’ll look back and be amazed at how far you’ve come.” So that’s what I’m going to do. One day at a time, one foot after the other. You can’t help but move forward if you do that.
So, this is why IÂ’m here, pretty much. I will do this because:
I want to wake up and not have a headache
and for my muscles to feel normal
and be able to breath without being in pain
for my heart to not feel stressed
to not come close to passing out every time I stand up or laugh
to not have a smokers cough (when I don't smoke and never have)
to not have my lungs hurting all the time
for my joints to not feel like they're on fire
I will do this.
Please help. =]
~Love, Claire