In my last post I was talking about the testing I was having done. The image above illustrates the findings from the stool and hair samples. The nutrient mineral results correspond with organ function, and in the lower left corner you can see the toxicity results (any amount of toxic metals is not good). In the nutrient minerals box there are lines showing the usual, healthy level the body should be maintaining. As you can see, none of my levels are normal (or even that close to it). I am experiencing severe anemia, low thyroid function, low kidney function and severe inflammation. The results also showed that I have a startling amount of E-coli in my digestive system and that it is leaking into my blood stream (leaky gut syndrome). Initially seeing these results I felt really worried about the state of my health. The great thing is being able to see exactly what is going on inside of me. Hopefully, through different holistic supplements and such I can create more of a balance within this body of mine. The past few weeks I have started my routine and have begun to slowly feel a slight improvement, which has given me a bit of hope. Getting to the core of the issues, reducing the inflammation may reduce the symptoms of my endometriosis to a mild and manageable place, perhaps even slowing down the disease enough for it to no longer be such an issue or perhaps healing myself of it completely. My last appointment with my endometriosis specialist would have resulted in feeling completely defeated if it weren't for these alternative steps I have taken. The doctor has begun the pressure to be on lupron again, more intensely than before. After an examination he found my endometriosis has started to regrow and believes my left ovary has begun to expand again. He explained that this is unusual and that endometriosis usually will take about a year before seeing any regrowth at all after a surgery like the one I underwent. He told me that lupron is my only option at this point, after going through 5 different kinds of birth controls. He told me that if I don't do something, this will result in tragedy. After the amount of damage that has been done to my reproductive organs from the far advancement of the disease and with the amount of damage done by the surgery (cutting both ovaries open), he told me I am riding a very fine line of having to undergo a full hysterectomy. Basically, he said that my ovaries would not make it through another surgery and the only thing he would be able to do for me was a hysterectomy. He said it could be anywhere from 3 months to 12 before I am back at the advanced state I was right before surgery. At 22, seeing many of my friends and peers I went to school with having babies, I am faced with the chance of never being able to have a child of my own. Luckily, I've got this other path I'm on and I fully believe in the success of what I am doing. So onward in the direction of health.
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