April 2009
I hope you’re really well. As we discussed, please find an overview of my past/current
symptoms below:
Symptoms before starting treatment with Bomamed:
1. Constant bladder discomfort and/or pain
2. Frequency between 10 and 25 times per day, including between 4 and 15 times during
the night.
3. No unbroken nights sleep for two years
4. Severe emotional distress, fear and inability to concentrate due to constant discomfort
I received a message from a patient I have not treated in ages in the UK. She wanted to communicate a thought to people in treatment currently....
" Ps for any of your current patients going through the programme and needing some cheering up. I am taking part in the Moonwalk in London in May this year. 26 miles walking through the streets of London in aid of breast cancer. I must be feeling good to undertake that. So if I can do it then there is hope for everyone no matter what stage they are in their recovery. And Matia none of this would have been possible without you!!"
Someone asked me to post about pregnancy and IC because there are two patients who
have relapsed into symptoms since giving birth. So, here it goes:
I cannot give out information on these people, but, I will hit some important points.
Health is dynamic, always moving/changing. Our job as alternative practitioners is to
restore healthy balance in the body. Balance helps the body be as healthy as it can
possibly be. This is why any holisitc practitioner teaches their views on diet and lifestyle
as he or she treats the patient he or she is working on.
If anyone knows a woman in an abusive relationship, there is a great book that just came out, called Escaping Domestic Abuse-How Women Get Out and Stay Out.
I am honored to say that this book was dedicated to me by the author, who is a brilliant, warm, and fantastically insightful woman who's sparkle is inly becoming greater with time.
Thank you Jane for the dedication and for the contribution to so many women who
surely need to hear your words of wisdom!
Sometimes no matter how long you know someone, you think you are communicating and then you realize that you were not.
I have a patient I have treated for a very long time only today to find out that she what she meant by, " Is it OK I am eating a lot of cucumbers?" that that meant she was eating a bag of cucumbers per day, as in 30 cucumbers! PER DAY!
Also, she was not eating any starch with her meals. She was eating EITHER starch OR protein. But never together.
As many of you know, I often warn against Tilapia
bc I have correlated a pain response with it and one's IC symptoms. I don't know why. I posted an article a month or two ago as one plausible reason. Here is another article, very interesting.
Generally speaking I think symptomatic IC people should not eat this fish.
So, if you are, stop please, and read this, it is very interesting:
Aside from the issue of whether or not you are able to eat certain foods off certain food lists, try to focus also on what else about the food matters. For example, if you are eating berries and you are having pain when you are eating them, maybe it isnt the berries!
I get asked a lot if one has to eat organic in order to do well in treatment. The answer is, no, I dont think so. Is it better, yes, it is, bc organic is healthier. However, I think there is a lot of room for forgiveness in there if organic is not in your budget.
I have not had time to make sure that all of this is valid nor have I had time this week to look into all of the posts on the subject. I apologize. It has been a particularly busy week here at the clinic and in my personal life. But, in the event that it is all valid, I just received the following from a patient on this subject:
Tomorrow's meeting is at 5 pm Pacific. If I have not emailed you personally with the dial in info, please call the office and speak to Raquel or Lynn and they will give instructions. They are diofferent from last month! Also, if you are coming, it is at a new location so please also call in and ask.