Last week I had a slight relapse with my progress, I felt so good and pain-free after I had done my anti-inflammatory month. It got me so excited, that I was quick to jump the gun with reducing my tablets, and ended up causing myself quite a lot of pain. Although I felt so low and depressed after working so hard, the realisation of how bad the pain was made me want to push harder and get back to that pain-free point again.
I seem to have a constant battle with whether or not to seek medical advice. I sometimes feel that most doctors never take my situation that seriously and do not want to hear about the other options I have been trying. I feel scared to tell them of what I have been doing recently, and how I know that certain foods and elements help reduce to my pain. This caused me to make my own stupid decision about my tablets, which caused me a lot of problems.
I decided to seek some professional medical advice, and just be honest with what I felt and had been doing. Surprisingly, from this GP, I got a really positive response, (especially for a Saturday morning), and he took notes on what foods worked for me, and wanted to look into 'The Myers Way' for himself. He talked me through starting the drugs back on a full dose, then very very slowly decreasing them down. He also booked me in for blood tests, to re-test me for coeliac disease! I also went for some hand therapy at the hospital. I imagined to be a room full of candles and hot oils, being massaged into me by a tall dark handsome male - but I was wrong of course! I was made a couple of different splints that allow my joints to rest as well as, helping to straighten them out.
I have also realised the importance of supplements over the past couple of months. Every morning I set myself up with a combination of different supplements, normally fish oils, vitamin D, krill oil, magnesium and a couple others! These help in reducing my inflammation as well as aiding my general health. It always surprises me how scared people seem of supplements, when no-one ever really questions the drugs that are handed to us by Doctors.
The definition for supplement is- "a thing added to something else in order to complete or enhance it."
And the definition for drugs are - "a medicine or other substance which has a physiological effect when ingested or otherwise introduced into the body."
Supplements should not be the tablets we are questioning. Most people are normally lacking in something and supplements are there to help fill that gap. Whether its your memory, your joints, heart health, menopause, digestive or bone problems - supplements are there to aid our recovery and health.
People are often too quick to believe and follow everything the read on the back of the bottle regarding supplement dosage. These dosages are offered as just a minimum - the problem being taking the guided amount is a very small proportion of what you should really being taking. I am pretty sure that no-one has ever died from a fish oil overdose. In an ideal world a well balanced whole food diet will be enough to have no need for dietary supplements. However centuries of over farming and poor feed quality given to livestock, means that our food sources do not contain the nutrients we need! So supplements help to compensate for this.
I am not anti-drugs by the way, I just like to find an alternative natural way to help me. The drugs which I take do help me, and this was proved recently when I came off them too quickly. We see so many people cured of illness because of the magic of medicine - I defintily don't believe in todays world we could ever manage without it.
My autoimmune disease works differently due to the fact my immune system is attacking itself, so I am trying to fix it in the most natural way possible!
A combination of good diet, exercise, supplementation should help towards achieving the healthiest version of you.
I have said this many times, we all know our own body the best, so when you start to see and feel good changes, you know you are doing something right. If you feel great then keep doing what your doing, don't let anyone (professional or not) tell you otherwise.
I hope you all have a happy and healthy weekend!
MB
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