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.  

End of Month

When I first started taking Enbrel about 7 years ago, I took it every week for a month or two, then I tapered off until I felt pain again.  My doctor said to take it as needed, but to make sure to take it when I felt the pain.   He said there is a lot of damage that happens in my connective tissue when I am in pain and it is fighting each other.  

Now knowing this I do a shot when I first feel the pain coming on, which right now is only about 29 or 30 days apart.  When I first stopped taking it, I went a whole year before I needed another shot.

I feel like I eat healthy, and I strive to live a healthy life.  When I was doing Cross-fit 6 days a week for over a year, I did not find the times between shots get farther away from each other.  I ate a Paleo diet for most of that year about 80% which is pretty good.  

My friend told me about Miracle II Neutralizer that took her pain away and she no longer suffers from pain.  I tried it for a month and it does work!  The only problem was I was not consistent enough.  You have to drink about 4 cap fulls a day in water or whatever, it doesn't taste.  Sometimes I would feel a little pain, and then would drink more and it would help.  The bottles cost about $7 for about 20 oz of this stuff.  I used it for a month and decided I was spending more on this Miracle II stuff than I now was for the medicine.  I went back to the shot monthly.  If I did not have the Enbrel Support where I pay $10 a month, then I would do this other as a good alternative.

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.

Diagnosis of Reiter's Syndrome

After three more miscarriages, we finally got pregnant and started back on the Progesterone pills, and we were able to carry our second baby to full term.  Again the pain left while pregnant, and I slept great, and walked as if nothing was wrong with me.

Auto immune diseases go away while pregnant, now I know, and gets worse after each pregnancy.  I nursed my baby past 12 weeks, but the pain came back pretty much to the day.  It came on slow, and quickly got worse than it had been.  My right hip hurt so bad, I wanted to cry every time I moved.  My left knee started to swell, and had a lot of pain.  My middle toe on my right foot was swollen and looked oddly huge, and the bottom of my feet hurt so bad to stand on.  Any pressure on them was agonizing.    

The doctors in my home town took blood tests and saw that my inflammation levels were extremely high, and I was showing positive for Lupus which I clearly did not have.  I knew someone with Lupus and I did not have any of her symptoms.  They also thought I had Rheumatoid Arthritis, yet all my signs proved it wrong.  My joints never hurt once.  There was not a Rheumatalogist in my home town, so I made an appointment with one 5 hours away that my doctor had recommended, Dr. Gremillion.

Finally a breakthrough!  This doctor took my blood and examined my symptoms, and put it all in a computer data base, and lone behold my diagnosis popped up.  

Reiter's Syndrome is a rare form of Rheumatoid Arthritis that attacks the connective tissue, and is only found in the lower part of the body, and zig zags across the body like mine did.  I guess I needed every symptom in order for it to be diagnosed.