I was sick. I was on Lortab, soma, amytriptaline, backlofen, etc. I eventually had to go on Methadone. I got trigger point injections in my back. I tried everything. My husband massaged my body frequently which hurt sooo bad. And it usually made me want to throw up. I had heating pads and tennis balls to roll on the floor. I had a pain management Dr. I had epidurals in my spine (could be related to my herniated discs?) I couldn’t even take a bath without help (lifting my arms up). I prayed for a mirace. Or for God to end this miserable existence. I was physically ill with Fibromyalgia and Chronic Fatigue Syndrome. My brother sent me a book. “The Detox Book…” by Bruce Fife.
I left it on the shelf for six months. He begged me to read it. Finally I agreed to one chapter. Oh my God! The author was talking to me. I did a coffee enema. I quit eating grocery store meat, sugar, white flour and cheese. I started drinking pure water. I quit (drinking) coffee. I did another coffee enema a couple days later. I started using organic produce, whole wheat bread, and chemical free products. I started walking. Within one week the pain started going away from my low back (around my hip area). A couple of weeks later it was gone through my whole body. The most important pain was the flu-like pain down your spine. That nagging feeling that the pain-killers don’t help. You feel “sick” all the time.
For the first time in years I felt more alive than dead. Within 2 months I was physically better. Here’s the catch. I felt physically great, better than I had since I was 18 (I was 34), but, since I was no longer in pain, I quit all my meds cold turkey, including methadone. That’s another story. Anyway, I’m off of all pain meds, muscle relaxants, everything. This was in 2003. It is now late 2006, almost 2007. I did alot more than this, but if you buy that book, it will tell you what to do. I have lost 50 lbs too. I was so strict with myself and did about everything in the book so that I would get better. And I did. Gradually you forget how sick you were, so you start doing things you did before you were sick (drink alcohol, go out to restaurants and eat crappy food), but you get to know your limits before the tiredness sets in. I have had the fatigue come back when I don’t follow what I have learned, but not the Fibro. Not the physical pain.
Read the colon chapter first. Do the coffee enema every 3 or 4 days for a month. (I still do them because I feel that’s the most crucial part to getting better)
For a month, I basically ate organic oatmeal from wild oats and cooked it, then added soy milk. (I was withdrawing from all my pain meds so I could care less what I ate, most of the time I was grossed out by food, but when I was hungry, all I ate was oatmeal). Sometimes I added raw organic honey or grade-A all natural maple syrup. But really you should stay away from sweets all together as they feed the bad bacteria in your stomach. Then you do a kidney cleanse with the herbs they tell you. You start walking 15 minutes a day, 4 times a week. Then 20 min a day 5 or 6 times a week. Work up so that you have hand weights that are like 3 lbs in each hand as you walk. Especially when you start to lose weight because there is less of you moving, so you wont get the same benefits. It’s mostly for getting your lymph system flowing to get the toxins out. It’s important to sweat.
Read the natural foods diet. That is the key. Everything you eat should be an actual food or as close to nature as it can be. White flour is not the way nature made it. All the nutrients are taken out and dough thickening agents and preservatives are put back in. You can eat tons of white bread and get no nutrition. Ezekiel bread has nutrients. That’s another thing I eat. Toast some of that up and spread some almond butter on it. White sugar is not a natural product. All the nutrients are taken out. The mollasses is the nutritious part of the sugar cane. Use honey instead.
Anyway, the Detox book will help you understand the biological implications of food.
Don’t beat yourself up if you aren’t perfect.
I was totally perfect when I first started. Eventually I ate everything I wasn’t supposed to. Now I have a happy medium. I avoid white flour with a passion and I avoid cheese. They both plug me up. I eat whole wheat flour when I make cake. I buy whole wheat noodles. I rarely eat pizza (once every 3 months?) It makes me feel terrible. Once you feel good, you know what makes you feel physically bad, so you will naturally avoid it.
Well, that’s my 2 cents. Email me if you want: carrietlc@aol.com Good luck