RSHagen's Journal

It has been about a month since my last entry,  and I saw my pharmacyst.. he deals in holistic medicine, and is a compounding Pharm.  He is very smart... he confirmed my yeast infection.. my orange tongue... I am glad I started off doing the right things. but my efforts seemed to produce little results..  He told me that when your body is infected as bad as mine is, I needed to take large doses of Omega 3's.  I was already taking them, just not enough.

This week  I am not doing well in avoiding sweets,  since I am still very tired,  too tired to cook balanced meals, so I wont get hungry before the next meal and end up eating the wrong things.   Also.. I increased my Vit D to 2000-3000 mg/day. I am not getting out enough since the cooler weather arrived,  I cant seem to get warm enough.. so the last thing on my mind is walking in the cold wind and rain.

    I had noticed a decrease in my pain overall, but this week, since I fell off the wagon and have been eating chocolates... gggrrr -  darn my hormones.   hahaha,  I have been having lots of headaches and shoulder pain. my own fault,   I hope tomorrow will be better. 

 If I can get up and get started, I wont be too tired to eat right.      Inevitably,   this yoyo diet has done little for weight loss..   I know that will change once I am more faithful to physical activities...  I have been shut in for so long.. I dont find much interest in doing exercises alone.   Too bad we dont have a live group session on here...  exercise classes we can take part in together...   that would be fun...  I am fortunate though to have been excepted into a physio pool class on Fridays.   It will be good for me to get out, do something possitive and make some friends.   

   Aside from the struggles though I do feel fairly possitive about how I have been able to make some lifestyle changes.  

  I plan to keep on it.. so that I can be an inspiration to my friends on here... 

I am still not eating yeast products...  no risen breads...  I use whole wheat tortillas... and make wraps..  using meat/eggs and vegies..  for snacks, I eat rice crackers instead of chips, and I eat yogurt instead of Icecream...  I will be honest though I have had the occasional treat...  I know that if I fall back into this kind of eating, I will have troubles again...

   I am thankful for the trials that have changed my life...   a burned out stomach from NSAIDs... so I avoid fats and dairy, a good thing because coronary disease is big in my family,..   now yeast... so I avoid fermented products as well as yeast and sugar.

 I do eat fruit... I try to stay away from the overly sweet ones like grapes...  chosing bananas and apples instead or berries.  I am trying to increase my vitamins and suppliments at least till I can get back ontop of this disease...   there are some things I had to avoid for a while...  my calcium suppliments had magnesium.. which I needed... but it interfered with the Gabapentin... now I only take that at night. so I am free to regain that part of my treatments.   Omegas in large doses, to help with the yeast infection, and also for the arthritis and Dry Eye syndrome.   I had hoped it would have helped my eyes more by now, but maybe soon.  Vit D, and megadose of B vit.s  as my nerves have been off kilter for far too long.    I had challenged myself to be over the hump by fall, I missed my goal.. but I am not giving up...  maybe Christmas will be the time.. or spring.. God knows... and I am trusting Him to help me thru all of it.   I wouldnt be able to do any of this without His strength.   I thought I was going to die in depression, but God lifted my spirit, and He lead me to the right people to get help and answers, and now my mind is clear enough that I can think again.

   This year I have encountered new struggles in my home... family fallout.. failed efforts in raising my daughter...  It has been my biggest heartbreak, but I am trusting the Lord will guide her back to our family, I hope before her baby is born.   It was always my greatest hope to help my girls with their children, coaching them thru deliveries..  I just hope that they remember how much I love them when their babies demand the ultimate sacrifices from them.   I raised my children to be servants.. to think of others needs, to be watchful when an oportunity arose to step in and be a blessing.   I hope that it went deep enough into their hearts and minds. that even though I am no longer near to them, that they will carry on their lives with integrity and compassion.

       I hope all my friends are blessed this week, that they will find a door to walk thru that will give them new strength and insite into their abilities to lift themselves up out of the despair that keeps us hurting and sad.   God Bless you all.. so very much... that it will overflow onto all those you touch.   xoxoxox R