GypsiAnsara
01-11-2008, 12:57 AM
Hi guys,
Tomorrow will be my 4th day of a juice feast. I'm doing it because of what seemed to be a cold coming on. I'm getting worse and worse here - my chiro/naturopath dr said today that it is a bacterial infection in my sinuses (which has happened before, and I always ended up taking antibiotics for it although I'm not really much of a conventional medicine kind of gal). So I was pretty determined now that I've gone raw not to go on the antibiotics for things anymore. I really don't want to feel that it is my only option. I want to believe that my body can heal itself. I was really feeling positive about it working until today, just getting worse and worse, and I came home from work and got in bed and found myself wondering if I would need antibiotics, and really not wanting to go there, so I went into the kitchen and cut up about half a bulb of garlic and blended it up and drank it. I mean, I can't even do the neti pot because the water just won't go through. I've been trying to do all the right things, like I always had - and this time I'm raw so I was really thinking I could avoid this.
I think I wrote this on here somewhere already, but the reason I get so stressed about colds is that 2 years ago at this time of year I was hit with bout after bout of colds which turned into an undiagnosed sinus infection (I had no clue what one was) and also bronchitis and then pneumonia, which took about 7 weeks to properly diagnose, at which point I had cracked 8 ribs and had pleurisy as well. Seriously, I almost died. it was really bad.
Since then I've had trouble with just about all my colds turning into sinus infections, and then gurgles in my lungs and I take the antibiotics.
So I did get through one cold already while raw, then fought off a second with juice feasting, and now this one is progressing somewhere I'm not very happy about. I don't even really know what posting this will do, I just know there are some of you out there who have gotten through a lot worse than what I'm dealing with. I forgot to say that after no relief with the garlic I took sudafed. :( :( I want to be able to sleep.
Tomorrow will be my 4th day of a juice feast. I'm doing it because of what seemed to be a cold coming on. I'm getting worse and worse here - my chiro/naturopath dr said today that it is a bacterial infection in my sinuses (which has happened before, and I always ended up taking antibiotics for it although I'm not really much of a conventional medicine kind of gal). So I was pretty determined now that I've gone raw not to go on the antibiotics for things anymore. I really don't want to feel that it is my only option. I want to believe that my body can heal itself. I was really feeling positive about it working until today, just getting worse and worse, and I came home from work and got in bed and found myself wondering if I would need antibiotics, and really not wanting to go there, so I went into the kitchen and cut up about half a bulb of garlic and blended it up and drank it. I mean, I can't even do the neti pot because the water just won't go through. I've been trying to do all the right things, like I always had - and this time I'm raw so I was really thinking I could avoid this.
I think I wrote this on here somewhere already, but the reason I get so stressed about colds is that 2 years ago at this time of year I was hit with bout after bout of colds which turned into an undiagnosed sinus infection (I had no clue what one was) and also bronchitis and then pneumonia, which took about 7 weeks to properly diagnose, at which point I had cracked 8 ribs and had pleurisy as well. Seriously, I almost died. it was really bad.
Since then I've had trouble with just about all my colds turning into sinus infections, and then gurgles in my lungs and I take the antibiotics.
So I did get through one cold already while raw, then fought off a second with juice feasting, and now this one is progressing somewhere I'm not very happy about. I don't even really know what posting this will do, I just know there are some of you out there who have gotten through a lot worse than what I'm dealing with. I forgot to say that after no relief with the garlic I took sudafed. :( :( I want to be able to sleep.