saladnut
05-26-2009, 03:57 PM
I turned 56 this year, and while I'd been sustaining fairly well, this year I began feeling very old, tired, etc. My journey began in childhood, when I had many chronic infections. Back then they removed tonsils, and my ENT prided himself in prescribing the strongest antibiotics available. We got a shot and pills with every cold. This was the beginning of my candida and other issues, although I think it may have even started at birth, as I know in retrospect that my mother had candida, and someone said I screamed a lot as a baby, so I'm speculating. When my kids were born, even though I breastfed (or maybe because), they suffered non-stop colic for years and still today, struggle with my same candida issues, just not as badly. Let me back up to age 20 when I not only ate SAD all my life with tons of sugar, but at this point I celebrated my newly found freedom by gorging on donuts and coffee and other fast food junk.
Another turning point was at this time I began seeing a dermatologist for acne, where I was prescribed continual antibiotics. After this really destroyed my digestive track, they did take me off the antibiotics. Age 28, I gave birth to my first daughter, and as mentioned earlier, miserable colic that went on for years. Almost 30 when daughter #2 arrived, only to be much worse than #1. Note that I had to take antibiotics and have a root canal while in 8th mo pregnancy due to tooth infection. Breastfed again, but gave up after 5 mos due to exhaustion and fear that I was causing the colic. At this point, the hormone changes fed my yeast uncontrollably, and I was wracked with daily headaches, flu-like symptoms, chronic sinus infections, and more symptoms than I have time to describe. Diagnosis: It's stress, honey. Take these antidepressants and get some rest. WRONG! Those didn't work, and I knew this wasn't in my head, as they seemed to think.
Over the years as I read books and researched health food stores, I discovered candida, which was phase 1 in recovery. Phase 2 was discovering all my allergies and finding alternatives there. Phase 3, I became vegan vegetarian for ~7 years, however, eventually too many carbs fed my yeast, and I went back to meat. I did okay on meat for many years, but I always found it to make me tired and sluggish. I bounced between meat and vegetarian for a while, though mostly meat. I read about raw a couple of years ago and attended a raw retreat. I felt wonderful when I left there, but I had difficulty making it work at home. Then I came upon Alissa's program, which I find very doable, and 28 days ago when I finally went back to reading her book, I impulsively just started doing this. I'm on Day 28, and I will describe more on that elsewhere, but so far I am amazed with the changes in my body. The only cheats I have are coffee, which I will eventually give up, and my Ranch dressing (infrequently), which I make with kefir. I do this maybe once/wk, and it doesn't bother me. I did also have a tad aspirin to get me through day 2 and 3 with detox. I've been wanting to introduced myself, but I never seem to get around to it. This is an awesome site from what I've seen. Thank you, Alissa! Somehow I believe raw is my future 'purpose', but that vision is still forming. Thanks for listening!
Sign me, 'Excited to be raw!!!'
Another turning point was at this time I began seeing a dermatologist for acne, where I was prescribed continual antibiotics. After this really destroyed my digestive track, they did take me off the antibiotics. Age 28, I gave birth to my first daughter, and as mentioned earlier, miserable colic that went on for years. Almost 30 when daughter #2 arrived, only to be much worse than #1. Note that I had to take antibiotics and have a root canal while in 8th mo pregnancy due to tooth infection. Breastfed again, but gave up after 5 mos due to exhaustion and fear that I was causing the colic. At this point, the hormone changes fed my yeast uncontrollably, and I was wracked with daily headaches, flu-like symptoms, chronic sinus infections, and more symptoms than I have time to describe. Diagnosis: It's stress, honey. Take these antidepressants and get some rest. WRONG! Those didn't work, and I knew this wasn't in my head, as they seemed to think.
Over the years as I read books and researched health food stores, I discovered candida, which was phase 1 in recovery. Phase 2 was discovering all my allergies and finding alternatives there. Phase 3, I became vegan vegetarian for ~7 years, however, eventually too many carbs fed my yeast, and I went back to meat. I did okay on meat for many years, but I always found it to make me tired and sluggish. I bounced between meat and vegetarian for a while, though mostly meat. I read about raw a couple of years ago and attended a raw retreat. I felt wonderful when I left there, but I had difficulty making it work at home. Then I came upon Alissa's program, which I find very doable, and 28 days ago when I finally went back to reading her book, I impulsively just started doing this. I'm on Day 28, and I will describe more on that elsewhere, but so far I am amazed with the changes in my body. The only cheats I have are coffee, which I will eventually give up, and my Ranch dressing (infrequently), which I make with kefir. I do this maybe once/wk, and it doesn't bother me. I did also have a tad aspirin to get me through day 2 and 3 with detox. I've been wanting to introduced myself, but I never seem to get around to it. This is an awesome site from what I've seen. Thank you, Alissa! Somehow I believe raw is my future 'purpose', but that vision is still forming. Thanks for listening!
Sign me, 'Excited to be raw!!!'