The Difference a Year and a Half Makes

So, I’ve totally dropped the ball on keeping up with this blog. It’s been a year and a half since my last post about not wanting to take my meds. Perhaps it is apropos that that was my last post, since it is now a year and a half later, and in a few days I will be celebrating life one year meds free!

Meds free?! you say? But you have a chronic illness, that does’t go away….. That is what I thought until I completely changed my life. Now, what I’m about to say is NOT meant to be medical advice. I’m not trying to tell you to stop your meds. This  just happened to work for me, and I believe that it is possible for other people too… that being said, I’m going to get on with my story.

Let me start by explaining where I was health-wise in the summer of 2009: I was fat. I believe the AMA would even have called me obese.  I was taking a TON of meds (see my last post, linked above), my masto wasn’t under control (I had better days then before I was diagnosed and medicated, but certainly wasn’t living a chronic illness free life), I had acid reflux (better with the barrage of meds but still present), and my body hurt. All the time. Specifically, my lower back and left hip hurt all the time. So much so that walking down the street hurt my back, and I was incapable of falling asleep at night without taking some sort of NASAID (at least 3 200 mg pills if not 4. Some nights I took as many as 8 or 10).

The pain got to the point that I was desperate. I had moments when I could understand why people become drug addicts… anything to stop the pain. So I made an appointment at the pain clinic at the hospital. I got a MRI, x-rays etc. They decided the best course of action was to give me something similar to cortisone shots in my spine and hips. The story of that process is a whole other thing so I’ll leave it this: I got the shots. The pain went away. I went for a 5 mile hike, it was amazing. The shots were supposed to last for 3-6 months. They lasted for 5 weeks.
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So, after 5 weeks, when the pain came back, I had a total melt down. I couldn’t go through getting the shots again, especially not to get them every 5 weeks for the rest of my life. And I couldn’t live with the pain anymore. At this point, I was staying with my Dad and Step-mom and she is a chiropractor and Feldenkrais practitioner. She is also a strong believer in alternative medicine, and actually hates western medicine. So we started talking about my alternative options.

The story of everything that has happened between that conversation and where I am now is for another day and probably many posts. But I will leave you with this: today I am meds free, I have NO masto symptoms, I only get acid reflux on a rare occasion and I know what causes it, I am a healthy weight (I never dieted) and I am mostly pain free.

The main things I attribute this miraculous change in circumstance to are: a complete change in lifestyle, a change of diet, and acupuncture. There have been many other alternative healings that have helped pave the way, but those are the main ones. I will explain more in near future posts. Promise 🙂