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Success Story by AW, February 2007
Living an almost normal life after 1 year on Bee's Candida Program. Acne completely gone. No more fibromyalgia! Tremendous reduction in pains. No more panic attacks. Heart doesn't race. Digestive troubles so incredibly improved!
AW is a member of Bee's Candida Support Group, that you are welcome to join.
February 20, 2007
Finally My Testimony
Dear Bee and others on the Candida Support Group:
I wanted to share my story of both illness and wellness here as "briefly" as possible, but in advance I apologize for the length.
- 2002 -- was almost overnight hit with severe IBS [irritable bowel syndrome] symptoms (chronic nausea, right side abdominal pain, loss of appetite), panic attacks and strange anxiety which I had never experienced before. In the course of about 6-8 months I went to the emergency room 4 times. I had numerous testing (you name it). Nothing could be found. I could barely eat, but somehow I did.
- After seeing both alternative and regular medical doctors and having no relief in sight, one suggested my gallbladder be removed to alleviate my pain and symptoms so I had surgery. It did not help. I wake from the surgery more nauseous than ever and in miserable pain.
- 2003 - at some point I develop very bad throat/neck pain and it is very difficult to be near my throat area as it is so painfully sensitive. I also develop insomnia which is one of the most difficult issues I ever experience. I have some thrush, extreme light sensitivity and then begin to develop extreme weakness. I find it very difficult to walk any distance greater than the area of my apartment and sometimes even that feels near impossible. I start to have to ask my husband to supervise me while I shower or even just to run the bathwater because I am too weak to stand while showering. I feel often like I will pass out or the floor will slip out from under me. It's a miserable year.
- 2004 - I continue with medical and alternative doctors unsuccessfully. I am diagnosed with Hashimoto's thyroiditis [low thyroid function], fibromyalgia [widespread pain in the muscles, ligaments and tendons], IBS and start on synthyroid, then after research switch to Armour thyroid [natural dessicated supplement]. I still battle with symptoms but I begin to sleep again after close to 1 yr of not sleeping. I have very minor improvement for my IBS. However all other symptoms are not alleviated and by now I am basically homebound and unable to drive my car or take a short walk outside. Since going to numerous doctors isn't helping me, I keep reading and researching health, trying various supplements, pharmaceutical drugs. Nothing helps and some, like prozac [antidepressant], make symptoms much, much worse. Another very bad year.
- November 2005 - I find Bee's group and program on dealing with candida and natural healing. Up to this point, no doctor or naturopath or alternative practitioner has ever mentioned candida, but I had previously read on this subject and wondered myself. Surprisingly, after week 2 on a *not* strict version of this diet, I am making dinner again for my husband and feel more animated. He sees these changes and he says, "whatever you're doing,..keep it up!" We are both happy for small successes!
- Over the course of a few months I will do the diet overall but with way too many cheats but still progress. We move from California to New York and while I am rather weak, somehow I am able to physically help and get through the big ordeal with success and little pain. I am amazed at this point.
- I take my first long walk in 2-3 yrs March of 2006. Hooray!! I can go out and be in public at times without constantly feeling claustrophobic or panic and physically unstable or feeling like my blood sugar is very low! Fantastic!! (these were all strange new symptoms to my life when I became ill.)
- April 2006 - I get the lessons a few times that when I cheat or eat bad foods, I pay for it with ill health immediately. This happens enough times that now I go strict and 100% on Bee's program. I don't look back. My health now begins to improve more rapidly.
- I have some really bad days of die-off and some really good days of seeing my life reappear again.
Regarding the bad days -- I have a month long battle with throat congestion causing me to cough and have difficulty breathing when I sleep, I get 2 bad colds, my right side (liver) aches horribly at times, I go through some sort of strange emotional events/depression, my period stops for 3 months then starts back again, I lost too much weight in the beginning (but gained good weight back 1 year later!), my skin itches terribly at times, my thrush gets extreme before it gets better. I am still today experiencing some bad days of die-off and they can be frustrating and maddening, but at least they are fewer and pass quickly.
I can't really describe the significance of the good things enough - most of them are things that seem so normal and we all take for granted (as I did before). 1 year later beginning Bee's plan, I am living a mostly normal life - the only crucial step missing is doing intense physical exercise like I used to do.
But I can go out, I grocery shop, I don't need my husband to hold my arm when I walk and I can walk pretty much all day - even alone. I can be on a crowded train with no feelings of doom or panic attacks, very little to no weakness, I sleep well, I have a tremendous reduction in pains everywhere (goodbye fibromyalgia!), my acne is completely gone, my skin looks even better than it
used to when I was well, my hands and feet are back to being warm, my heart doesn't race as it did, I get surges of feeling this strange euphoria (this one is odd, indeed), my digestive troubles are so incredibly improved.
I want to also point out that this past summer I began ozone therapy with a doctor here and I attribute at least a small amount of my recovery to this protocol. However, I do notice that my recovery is speedier and more successful than some I see in the office and after having spoken to several fellow patients, I am the only one who is on any such of a good candida and natural healing program.)
Anyhow, this email is hopefully so those of you who are new can have some sort of inspiration as I remember feeling so skeptical and glum when I first decided to try this out. And it is also intended to thank Bee from the bottom of my heart for opening my eyes to health, to nutrition, to what makes us live well and what harms us. Most of the time what we have learned in the past about health is insanely 100% backwards.
Bee, may all the good karma in life come back your way as you have given to all of us here! You are a true inspiration.
~AW
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