I still can't believe this.

[Richgirl]

First off I'd like to thank Cassie for helping me to figure out how to get to the face book page to post this story to everyone. I am not computer savvy in anyway. Ha! I've had so many health issues that it's been a very scary ride for years. Endometriosis. Lots of lung infections. Breast cancer. Rheumatoid Arthritis. Interstitial lung Disease. COPD. Irritable bowel syndrome. Thyroid problems. Chronic sinus infections. Candida. Nail fungus. Chronic fatigue syndrome. I'm sure I'm leaving lots of symptoms out, but it's hard to think of everything. Anyway like so many of us, I've been through the ringer. I started getting interested in my diet when I got RA. I think what did it for me is that my pain was so severe that I couldn't move. I had noticed that some foods I was eating would make the pain horrible. So one thing lead to another & I stumbled across the eliminating diet. I started to try that. It took a while but I finally got a long list of things that made my RA horrible. I then started the long road at trying to stop eating those things. It was hard because it was comfort food & I had been eating that way all of my life. I slowly started to feel good. Then I started forgetting to take my pain killers. Because I wasn't in that horrible pain anymore. Wow! I couldn't believe this. I continued to be in less & less pain. So this encouraged me to stick with it. About 4 months now. 2 days ago I had my RA follow up appointment. My RA doctor came in looking a bit puzzled. She said that my inflamation levels were normal. I couldn't believe this!! I'm still in a daze. She told me to keep doing what I'm doing because it's working. Oh I forgot to mention that because of my health history my doctors didn't want to put me on any of the RA meds because it could bring back some old health diseases that I had in the past. But she did put me on a very low dose of a RA med that had been around for years. But I had only just started on it. It's called "Hydroxychlor" so it has not had enough time to work on me as of yet. The natural health people that I am using are on the net. Dr Bergman & Dr John McDougall. They have lots of videos you can watch about diet. I also watch Dr Mercola & Doug Kaufman. Kaufman has a program called "Know The Cause. These people all teach healthy eating. Also there are so many testimonials of how people were helped through diet. One nice thing about all of this is that it's all just healthy eating. So it's safe to do. But I always let my doctors know what I'm doing. That's very important. I'm hoping that my body is on it's way to heal. All I know is I feel good. I still have to take my pain meds daily. But I'm taking less & less. I'm excited to see how things will be going now. I struggle at times but I'm not going to give up. Now that I got that report saying normal inflamation, it's giving me hope. I hope my story will help others in taking this big step. I'll keep everyone posted as to how I'm doing. Thank you all for your advise & ideas & stories. Thank God we have each other to support & help along this journey. Blessings to you all. Richgirl🌻

[Simba1992]

Keep it up! Good luck and let us know how it goes😊👍🏻

[Richgirl in reply to Simba1992]

Hi Simba1992, I love your name. Thank u very much. I will keep everyone posted. Blessing to you. Richgirl🌻

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Very nice - Best of luck on your journey!

[Richgirl]

Thank you🌻

[NavatheDarker]

Hello, I would like to ask how you are doing now. It's been five years since your post.