Re: Your opinion please

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Hi n,

Yeah, I was taking, upon second count, about 30 pills per day. They were:

4 prenatal pills (one whole dose, and I'm not pregnant) by Vital Nutrients w/o

iron or iodine

4 B complexes

2 vitamin A

2 vitamin D (5,000IUs ea)

1 vitamin E

1 prednisone (5mg)

2-3 acyclovir (for herpes maintenance)

1 boulardii probiotic

1 biotin (5000 mcg)

2 evening primrose oil (omega 6,9)

2 tbsp cod liver oil (omega 3s) by Nordic Naturals

1-2 iron pills (different brands to see what would work best)

3 quercetins (500mg ea)

1 Sleep Tonight pill (lots of ingredients)

1 DHEA (dehydrone-5, 5mg to counteract lethargy from tapering prednisone),

recently added

was taking 5 clotrimazole tabs/day to fight yeast before switched to candida

diet.

1 - 2 allegras sometimes to see if it would help

I think my kidneys were overloaded. When I stopped my energy was up, my vision

went form being " watery " looking, like looking through a lense or fish tank, and

blurry to just fine most of the time, my back stopped hurting so much, I can

bend forward w/o discomfort. I also found out I had a lesion in my liver on an

MRI in January - I have no idea why - the docs tell me not to worry about it.

Not sure if that could be related.

Today is the first day I've cut out the probiotics and yogurt (again), I'm just

taking the prednisone and the acyclovir. I also just upped to 10mg prednisone.

I will probably try to start taking at least the multivitamin again in the near

future, but right now it seems like just eating food had helped.

You guys are gonna flip, but I was starting to feel awful again after losing

lots of blood with this flair, random crying, pain everywhere, hurting to drink

water, general feeling of doom and gloom. When I would think about something

stressful (lots going on for me right now), I would feel it in my gut.

So...after reading that other things (like LDN) that boost opiate production are

exercise (can't do right now), acupuncture, and the oh so forbidden chocolate, I

was desperate last night to feel OK so I could stop getting adrenaline rushes

and go to sleep, so I ate a teeny weeny amount of cocoa powder I still had from

before, let it sit on my tounge and dissolve, and I immediately felt better and

was able to sleep. No noticeable changes in the morning, besides better mood.

Did it again around noon (don't worry - I'm not gonna start with it every day,

but I've been feeling really really crappy, npi). My pain is less today, and it

actually felt good to take a shower - I haven't felt a sensation of pleasure

since starting the prednisone in December.

I don't advocate chocolate for anyone, since it is not on the diet, but I

thought I would share my experience. We'll see what happens from here. It won't

be an isolated experiment since I also upped my prednisone to 10mg today.

Kat

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> > Thanks! I'm gonna wait on the coffee for now - not taking supplementshas

> > boosted my energy levels like nobody's business! And I have an

> > obsessively disciplinarian nature on my side...so better to be safe than

> > sorry. I'll DEFINTELY look into the cocoa butter. I didnt' think itwould

> > do much, not containing the theobromine, etc...I'm idly curiousabout the

> > chemistry.

> >

> > Thank you so much for the tips!

> >

> > Kat

>

> Not taking supplements has boosted your energy?

> What kind of supplements were you taking, if I may ask?

> And did you find that whatever they were irritated your gut?

> I'm curious because I'm taking quite a few supplements, mostly

> antioxidants and natural anti-inflammatories; and of course Vit. D; and

> the trace minerals that Crohn's people are always short on.

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> n

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