Weight: 114
Height: 5'5
Pain level (1-10): 6
-11 AM: Detox IV drip
- They take blood pressure, pulse, and oxygen levels before and after IV's
- They do weekly labs to see if levels are improving, if there is less toxicity, and if your body started to kill bugs on its own, since the detox drips will strengthen immune system. They also will change around what is in the detox bags or what you are given dependent on what your testing is saying and how you are responding.
- Each detox drip is tailored specifically to each patients biochemistry, nutrient and chemical deficiencies, and needs.
- Detox drips are given the first few weeks or so to clear out toxins and calm the brain down, since most of our (patients) brains are over-electrified and over stimulated from toxins,excess glutamate, the various bacteria, and mold toxicity.
- Keeping up on all my supplements, but having trouble with the fish oil. Hurts my stomach :/.
- Made appointment with Deborah Karlan, Wellness from Within- Colonics for Friday.
Symptoms / Worse, better, or same than yesterday?
Fatigue/exhausted- worse
Vertigo- worse
Brain fog- same
Chronic migraine (literally has never stopped for over a year now- worse
Nausea - worse
Ear pressure/pain/crackling- same
Knees swollen- same
Muscle pain (everywhere)- same
Joint pain (all of them)- same
Anxiety- same
Stomach very bloated, sick feeling, acidic- worse
depressed- same
stiff painful neck- same
Insomnia- worse
Racing thoughts (caused by over-electrified brain, high cortisol, low progesterone, etc)- same
Hallucinating colors (over-electrified brain)- same
Depression- worse - feel up and down with anxiety and depression
Anxiety- worse
What I ate today:(diet is important in healing and a good indicator on how I'm feeling):
Celery with peanut butter
1 hot dog, no bun, no condiments
Hamburger at Wendys
1 piece of frozen pizza that was baked at home
So yeah, I didn't eat well today either. Not very much and poor choice of foods. Its really difficult to eat still. I haven't had the energy to make a meal plan and I can't stomach much anyway (even if its good food).
Do I feel any improvement in general?
Not really. But I did actually feel less vertigo/dizzy and a little less tired after the detox drip. I actually felt calmer too.
Thoughts:
Today was a very rough day for me. I have insomnia from the hormone imbalance, high cortisol, and electrified brain. So I got no sleep, my vertigo was awful, my stomach was in knots, and I have been very depressed today. Despite the depression, I feel a lot of hope, I know this is the place to be and its still very new.
When I was getting the IV catheter, I started crying because I feel so sick and getting any type of treatment is so hard on the body, when all you want to do is crawl in a ball and sleep. So the IV tech stopped what she was doing and gave me a big hug and pretty much embraced me. It was the sweetest thing. Then a fellow patient across from me, kept giving me words of encouragement and support to distract me from the needles.
The staff and the other patients here are so supportive of each other and we are really like a big community/family. It's really, really wonderful.
I cried a bit in the IV room where we sit in the big chairs and another nice guy from Raleigh, NC who sat across from me, asked me how I was doing. We talked for a while and he really cheered me up. He took my mind off of everything.
This is going to be a tough journey, but I've been through much worse. I've been through so much. So I'm happy to finally have found a place that really understands what they are doing and is also a supportive environment. All the patients around me are improving that are far along in the treatment. Some of them are on the 'kill drips' which causes a Herx Heimer reaction (toxin release from killing bacteria that makes you sicker). So despite all my sickness and wacky emotions, I'm seeing a lot of hopeful signs here!
Getting the IV catheter. Right before I started crying hah :P:
Daily assessment:
I was sooo cold today. So I was wrapped up in a blanket. Blanket burrito:
I feel like a poop ball today:
Aaaaannd more blood work to see how my hormones are doing since starting medication:
