Post Bone Broth Detox, and Inflammation of my Eye

Well, my detox went great.  I did the bone broth for 3 days, and then added in sauerkraut for 2 days.  I was doing good.  My cravings were gone, no hunger pangs, and I had plenty of energy.  On my 5th day I had plans to go to Las Vegas to visit my sister, and there went my detox.  I didn't even plan to eat healthy.  I had a few drinks, ate at the buffet, and went to bed.

It has been 4 days since Vegas, and I have had a lot going on with my health.  I should have followed the detox directions better.

Since I am already dealing with an auto immune disease, this was very bad for me.  Reiter's Syndrome is basically my body attacking my connective tissue.  For the last year, it has attacked my hip.  My husband gives me an Enbrel shot every month when the pain starts coming back.  Well, not only did it attack my hip this time, but my eye too.

After the first night in Vegas, I woke up with one painful eye that was all red.  Just moving my eye in the darkness would hurt.  On Monday, all light hurt my eye.  It was as if I had a major hangover, and then looked at the sun.  I tried covering my eye that hurt, but when my other eye would see light, I felt the pain in my red eye.  I went to my eye doctor.   He prescribed me steroid drops with an antibiotic, and had me come back in 3 days to see how it was going.  After taking the drops for a couple days the pain was mostly gone, but when he checked it was still very much inflamed, and he said I had already lost a lot of pigment.  I guess some of the color in my eye is not stuck to the lens.

Now he is worried that my pupil will stick to the lens of my eye, which he said could cause me to loose my eye.  YIKES!  He prescribed me some drops to dilate my eye for a whole week, and then I will go in again on Monday for another follow up.

I asked him what would have caused this, he said it was just common with auto immune disorders.  I think the fact that I killed all the good and bad in my body, and did not feed it good food long enough before eating sugar and grains, is why my  body started attacking itself even worse.

Monday after my appointment, I had my husband give me another Enbrel shot.  So here I sit, with only one eye that can focus to read and see any detail.  My dilated eye is pretty worthless right now.  All pain in my eye is gone, but I can't see.  I am still taking the steroid drops, and hope by Monday the inflammation will be gone.

Auto immune diseases suck butt!  I still have my foot pain from Plantar Fasciitis, and I take ibuprofen daily to take the edge off, but I still limp most of the time.

How pathetic, one gimp foot, and one worthless eye.  I am debating doing the detox again, but haven't convinced myself yet.

Bone Broth Detox Day 1 and 2

I started this detox yesterday, and it wasn't as bad as I expected, I thought a few times that I would cave.  I did great!  

Lot's of chicken broth, a little chicken, one organic grapefruit, and as much water as I could want.  I did have cravings twice, and pushed past them.  It helped to eat a little chicken, and drink a cup of broth.  That took the hunger pangs away.  

It didn't help that my husband brought in 2 frozen pizzas from the outside freezer. I LOVE those little Totino's pizzas.  I could eat a whole one to myself easily.  SO, I told the family I was going to disappear while they cooked and ate the pizza.  I filled up my cup of broth, and went to take a nice hot bath.  In the bath I did some EFT tapping.  I told myself, "I don't need food, I am getting all the nutrients  I need in this broth.  I don't need food.  This broth is all I need.  Even though I love pizza, I don't need pizza or anything else....".  I think it helped.  

To hide the pizza aroma, I put a few drops of essential oils in my bath.  I used a drop of peppermint, and a couple drops of valor.  I never smelt the pizza, and the family had it gone and cleaned up before I got out of the bath.  

I went to bed at 9:00 and had no problems.

I woke up this morning feeling great.  My foot pain (plantar Fasciitis) was exactly as it has been for the past 5 plus months.  I had hopped that I could at least walk without a limp.  No luck, my foot hurt all day at work, and still hurts when I stand.  I am guessing that my foot pain is not caused by a leaky gut.  

Even if my foot pain does not change, I will still do this detox.  I take Enbrel shots monthly for RA, and I know arthritis is caused by a leaky gut.  Certain foods I eat when my shot wears off, make a huge difference in my pain.  I am doing this detox to re-set my metabolism, and fix my leaky gut.  I want to be healthier.  

Today was so much easier than yesterday.  I cooked my kids eggs, and cleaned the kitchen.  No cravings at all!  I made tacos for the family tonight, and no problem.  I do love tacos though, so every time I thought about the smell and flavor, I would tell myself, "I don't crave food, I am getting all the nutrients by body needs in the broth.  I don't need food.  I don't crave or need any food."  I also put some lavender essential oil under my nose to help mask the smell.  

One point of advise, put your broth in a coffee thermos that will keep it hot or warm for hours.  Cold broth does not taste good at all.  My broth was warm all day at work in my thermos.  I was never grossed out.  I will drink from that from now on.  

My Beginning Symptoms of Reiter's

Twelve years ago I had been happily married for 7 years, and did not have kids yet.  I was working and going to school full time.  We had a great life, I believe some people call it DINK (double income no kids).  We traveled and played often.

I started having what  I called hip pain, but now I know it was connective tissue pain.  I limped when ever moving, and hurt really bad.  I figured it was due to working out, or that I had put some kind of strain on it.

I started seeing chiropractors, and doctors, and any natural healer I could find.  No one seemed to find anything wrong with me.  I had blood tests, x-rays, cortisone shots, and whatever else they threw at me.

This went on for 2 years before I got pregnant.  Once pregnant for about 12 weeks, the pain was gone! I hadn't linked the two, but I was just happy to be pain free.  I had a great pregnancy, no sickness, no pain, no problems.  I did request from my doctor to let me take progesterone during my first trimester.  I had had three miscarriages prior and was told that this might help.  I took it and held onto the baby without any problem.

After by baby was born, I breast fed for about 8 weeks and gave up due to everything I ate caused her to SCREAM.  I never went on a all vegetable diet, but I know pretty much every time she nursed about 10 minutes later I paid for it.  Anyhow, about 12 weeks after she was born all my pain came back.  I thought it was because I had quit breast feeding, and I was sure that on my next kid I would keep nursing as long as possible to keep the pain gone.

I started my journey for a cure again, and got no where.  I lived on VIOXX which in my head was a miracle drug.  Anything that took the pain away was great.  Soon it was off the market and I had to result to Ibuprofen (which hardly worked) and what ever drugs the doctors thought would help.  I had muscle relaxers for sleeping because my back would tighten up so bad I would toss and turn, and cry nightly.  I had Loratab and helped me sleep a little.  Sleeping was miserable for me, I would sleep in our recliner often, or take hot bathes in the middle of the night and just cry and cry due to all  my pain.  I couldn't find anything that worked.

WOW just thinking back is making me cry.  All the pain I went through and nothing to fix it.  I contemplated shooting my self many, many, many times.  I thought about taking lots and lots of pills, but worried they would just make me sick and not work.  The only thing that kept me from killing myself was my sweet little baby, my mom and family, and husband who was so good with  me but knew he couldn't help.  My baby didn't deserve for me to be so selfish.  what would she do without a mom.  How selfish could I be to take that away from her.  Here I sit crying, just thinking back on how bad it was.