1desperateladysaved's Blog

For this post, a "smiley" with tears gushing out both sides of the face is what I needed. One would think that getting better would be nothing but happy, but I found that grief engulfed me.

For years I had lived in the fog and I knew nothing else. Then one glorious day, the fog cleared. Then the  realization struck. I had lived in the fog for 25 years!...

Here I go again into territory I have not yet conquered. The challenge: to eat only foods, I had no measured intolerances to, for 6 weeks. These 10 good foods included 5 protein foods, 2 vegetables, and 3 fruits. The test had been for about 85 foods and of them, I had 10 left. I also may eat any food not tested.  

I heard the average American only eats 1...

I learned a few things from a Functional Medicine nurse I visited with the other day.

The adrenal glands manufacture a substance called cortisol which helps the body deal with stress. On the day of my nutrient absorption test, I tested as not having the nutrients to build cortisol. My system was depressed having had to fight celiac disease for 30 years....

I had been living with a nice clear mind for at least a couple of months.  I put up with brain fog for nearly 30 years, but now I know something better.  Now, when I have to deal with it, I want back out.  A taste of the good life makes me more desperate to gain a clear mind back again.

Since I started my rotational diet and a couple of supplements, one...

Yesterday, my family went to a prayer meeting for a friend with vasculitis, an Auto Immune disease.  He has had very obvious problems and was hospitalized twice and once it was for a very long time.  The prayer meeting was patterned after James 5.  (Bible)After arriving home, my husband talked with the children if they thought a prayer meeting like that i...

I have always emphasized eating to be healthy and did not focus on my weight or figure.  I am somewhere around a month (?) into my rotational diet and also began pancreatic enzymes and vitamin B recently.  My weight began at around 200 6 years back.  I lost 30 lbs when I began a supplement program with my chiropractor.  My weight had become relatively...

I recently started rotational diet, pancreatic enzymes, and vitamin B 12.  Sorry all of you scientific people to start 3 things at once, but that is where I am at.

1  My tummy is noisy, noisy, noisy.
2  I am...

One day I was feeling perky and having quite an animated discussion with my doctor.   I had previously not wanted to consider cutting gluten from my diet..  Desperate as I was, it could not be that helpful.  I always thought that my homemade breads were so good for me.   Then, I drew a new line and I could avoid gluten  if I could just feel better...

For  8 months I have been gluten free.  For 6 months I have been grain free.  Shortly after I began the diet I began to seek after tests to optimize my healing.

I struggled with what tests to do.  Who should do the tests?  Would my insurance cover the tests? I had a  huge deductible with the insurance company with the Health Account now gone.


However, I...

I was in the kitchen, just minding my own business:  the dishes.  I had already put in a full day, or had I? For over a week, I had been suffering from a cold.  The cold wasn't too bad, but the fatigue was overwhelming.  It seemed I could accomplish nothing.  This night the family of 7's dishes, for the whole day, were stacked on the counter.

It...