Health

For the passed year I have been learning more about my body than ever before. It began with reoccur ant health issues that only seemed to get worse the more I took the antibiotics I was prescribed by doctors. I took health into my own hands and went to see an herbalist. At this point I'd seen a urologist who told me I had IC. Interstitial Cystitis. She told me there is no cure for it only therapies because they still don't understand well enough why it happens. She had set a date for me to get an invasive surgery as therapeutic means and also to see what was going on. That's when I made up my mind to see an herbalist. She explained to me that IC comes from an unhealthy gut. When continual antibiotics, poor diet and stress combine...it creates the worst kind of bacteria in the gut. I needed to change my diet completely and re-populate my gut with healthy bacteria. So...I began the journey and struggle of cutting out sugar, bread and really most foods I used to eat as comfort. Also, no alcohol. Even with continual failure and slip ups...when I was on track...the painful flare ups began to go away. The other issues subsided as well. I finally when for official testing and found out that I had extreme bacteria overgrowth...candida. It was affecting everything. So now it's my journey to reduce stress in my life, stay to a strict candida free diet and stay far, far away from antibiotics. BV has recently reappeared in my life after months and months without suffering from it. I used all the ammunition I had stored against it and it's still minorly affecting me but it's only settled my resolve even more to kill this candida once and FOR ALL. It's been over a year now and i have made it this far...having health issues and having no answer or even worse being told there is no cure....to having answers and knowing there is a cure is a HUGE step. I am stronger with knowledge. Even though the journey is still long ahead of me, I believe I will make it to my goal even more cleanly this time. I have been clean and sober for months now. My mind is beginning to open up again and I feel like I am returning to some sense of normalcy. I'm getting my finances back in order...I am getting back on track. I'm relearning not to sweat the small stuff. Health is an intuitive journey. If something does NOT feel right for you or your body...trust that.