As my doctor said, sometimes when you start healing one health issue others pop up. I am on week 3 of my journey of recovery. These past three weeks have been close to the hardest three weeks of my life.
Week 1-I started the new medicine which amounted to taking 30 pills a day. Talk about my gag reflexes getting a work out. The first two days I was on the new meds I was so loopy that I honestly cannot remember all that happened. I finally had to back off a few pills and ease into them so I wasn't constantly in a dream.
Week 2- The pain started. Of course with the Candida diet, I was detoxing my body. My body decided to fight back. It started in the mornings so I had to stop eating breakfast. If I ate breakfast, I either got really sick or was in so much pain I couldn't focus on getting ready. Then the pain settled into my right side. I finally went to the urgent care where they decided to do blood work because they thought I may be experiencing liver problems. The labs came back normal so the doctor gave me pain meds and told me to stay on a bland diet. I was pretty much only eating chicken and carrots at this point. You get really tired of food when you can only eat two things. Worse part is that the pain got stronger.
Week 3-The doctor finally scheduled an ultrasound of my liver and gall bladder. Most people hope for normal results. I was hoping they would find something wrong so they could take the pain away. My results came back normal. I was ready to give up so I figured out what I could eat to get by. Breakfast consisted of cottage cheese, lunch consisted of a raw protein meal replacement shake, and dinner consisted of as regular of a meal that I could eat. Mostly some kind of meat and a veggie.
These three weeks have been difficult but I am trying to stay hopeful. The next two steps are going to a GI doctor and getting another scan of the Gall bladder. I am hoping they can figure out something within the next few days.
Even though these past few weeks have been hard, I have had the CO doctor help with any issues along the way. It is one day at a time right now.
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