is there anyone who did not notice a significant difference (better or worse) when they switched to the ICAMA diet? the only thing i noticed when i switched is that my ibs symptoms were immediately gone. but have never noticed an ounce of difference in my pain. i still stick to a super strict diet because trying to create the most optimal environment for healing. i've even tried months of going off grains, adding some back in, etc. and i still try that from time to time when i am flaring horrifically. but i can't honestly say that i ever notice a one to one relationship.

Happy and Hopefully Healthy New Year to all!  I had a question about wheat flour.  I am on list two and was using it to make dough (not alot but idk maybe more than I should b?)  Did anyone on list two have problems with it?  I've been flaring for about two weeks and can't seem to figure out why.  Anyone know how much we are allowed to use?  Thanks :)

Anyone gone to Mexico while in treatment and lived to tell about it?

Of course I'd drink bottled water and not brush w/ tap or anything, but I'm still nervous about going to that country, esp the food or picking up some bacteria somehow.  I've gotten sick several times in Mexico when I was well! (although maybe I was unknowingly very unbalanced then and that made me more susceptible?)

I have had 3 c-sections and I am considering getting the excess skin  removed that will not come off with exercise and weight loss.  I know this should be the last thing on my mind right now, but I am just curious.  Does anyone know Matia's stance on plastic surgery, in treatment and out?

I dread going to the bathroom because at the very end the pain is quite intense.  I use lamaze techniques to help me thru it.  Then I can feel my bladder spasm a bit and it takes me a few minutes to recover.  I usually come out kind of stooped over and walking very slowely.  After about 5 min it feels better and I do o for an hour or two until the buring starts and builds until I get the guts to urinate again.  Does this sound familiar to anyone?  Frequency is not as big an issue for me as pain.  I usually feel better in the morning and worse as the day goes on. 

does anyone know where i can buy juice plus in chicago? called whole foods and life spring and neither carry it. i am in a horrible place right now - probably the worst yet - and so matia wants me to stop everything else and just take juice plus. but don't know where to find it asap. does anyone know?

  I am having a huge crisis today.  My best freinds child unexpectedly died ,and I need to travel to see her tomorrow.  I have a super bad chest cold and sinus infection, and don't want to get her family sick.  I recevied Plum Flower Zhong Gan Ling on Thursday (100 capules) and will finish it today.  I didn't realize that the bottle would only last for a few days. 
  I haven't seen any place online that has overnight shipping.  Do you know of any place that can overnight it to me? 

Argh.  Matia's office is SO FRUSTRATING.  I put in an order for 2 day (my gut told me to over night it but that way its $40--which is crazy), and it didn't come yesterday, leaving me with no RP.  I have a ton of stuff I can trade for it or I can just buy it from you, I need about 24 pills, and I'm in NYC.

Ugh.  I am so sick of this die off business.  I swear it pops up in time to ruin all things fun.  Every once in a while and right now really intensely, I get this feeling like someone is sitting on my throat!  Its not hard to breathe per se, but it hurts a little and just feels swollen.  This time around I can actually swallow, but it still makes me really paranoid--like I'm always thinking, oh god, I'm not going to be able to breathe soon.  Is that even possible?  Does anyone else experience anything similar?

can you still have surges in pain when a regimen is working/the right thing for your body? i feel like there is never a rhyme or reason to my flares, like no matter what herb combos i try/foods i eat, etc., my body just does what it wants to do. it really makes me feel insane. case in point...