Re: i'm jazzed ! oink oink

[Guest guest]

I'm not supposed to eat bread, toast, brownies, cakes or muffins so that

wouldn't work for me. It's because of the candida albicans, hypoglycemia &

allergies problems I have. That's why I mentioned maybe it might work for salad

dressing. Otherwise I haven't a clue how to use it except as a body massage.

Might try that.

Re: i'm jazzed ! oink oink

i use the coconut oil to make really great, tasty french toast. i

don't think salad dressing will be a good base for that product. it's

VERY strong, coconut tasting. i'd use it in brownies and cakes and

muffins and stuff instead. i think there are recipes on the coconut

oil websites.

best,

baron

[Guest guest]

Yeah...energy & desire. Too different things. Even with both I'd still hurt

myself too much doing a lot of housework. So I don't do hardly any anymore. Most

just picking things & putting them away or organizing things when I damn well

feel like it, if then.

Re: i'm jazzed ! oink oink

In a message dated 10/16/2004 9:54:53 AM Eastern Standard Time,

marianne@... writes:

> I think when I am on my optimal dose I will have the energy and desire to

> clean the house! I think that must be the last symptom to go

maybe the energy...i'm not so sure about the desire.

Cindi

[Guest guest]

Caroline,

What are you doing to rid yourself of candida? I have a friend that tried

everything and couldn't shake it. Someone recommended that she try

www.flora-balance. com products. She's now candida free. However, she

voluntarily still restricts her diet to non wheat/gluten products and no

sugar (barley malt, cactus sweetner and maple). Otherwise, she feels and

looks great.

FYI,

Maxine

Re: i'm jazzed ! oink oink

I'm not supposed to eat bread, toast, brownies, cakes or muffins so that

wouldn't work for me. It's because of the candida albicans, hypoglycemia &

allergies problems I have. That's why I mentioned maybe it might work for

salad dressing. Otherwise I haven't a clue how to use it except as a body

massage. Might try that.

Re: i'm jazzed ! oink oink

i use the coconut oil to make really great, tasty french toast. i

don't think salad dressing will be a good base for that product. it's

VERY strong, coconut tasting. i'd use it in brownies and cakes and

muffins and stuff instead. i think there are recipes on the coconut

oil websites.

best,

baron

[Guest guest]

I'm not really having any serious candida problems like I used to as I've

detoxed a lot & used a lot of fresh juiced veggies years ago to " normalize " that

as much as possible. I originall got it from taking Brewer's Yeast in my early

child-bearing/raising years. Prolly from drinking beer before that too tho as

well as taking antibiotics & getting it from that as well. I also consulted a

candida savvy doctor back then. So don't have any IBS or other intestinal

problems or the rash, itching, etc. anymore.

But I know not to eat any foods with yeast, dairy, sugar, wheat gluten,

processed foods, etc. in them except rarely. Kind of knocks out of the whole

idea of eating anything & makes the table scene quite boring & depressing in

fact. Especially when I'm at food-eating gatherings.

I've used all kinds of Yeast Fighters, caprylic acid & other kinds of formulas

for it in the past too. Got a series of colonics & even, at other times, did

daily enemas with coffee or garlic & anal injections of probiotics, wheat grass

juice & such when I was heavy into detoxing & getting it under control years

ago. It worked at the time. I wouldn't do that anymore tho. Haven't the reason,

purpose or will-to-live now that I did then.

I just watch my diet carefully now & also take supplements or a good probiotic

plus ingesting lots of fresh raw garlic & Kyolic capsules which are extremely

helpful. If it gets out of hand because I've been taking antibiotics (mostly for

dental reasons), then I use " Primal Defense " . It's the best probiotic &

candida/IBS stabilizer & curer on the market that I've ever found. Pricey tho,

but well worth it.

I never tried flora-balance but have tried loads of others. The Primal Defense &

garlic, etc. works best for me when I need it which is rarely anymore. A good

detox & yeast/bacterial fighter & pro-biotic drink is Witch's Brew...a

concoction invented by a friend of mine who's had candida, pituitary damage,

diabetes, a heart attack & stroke. She takes loads of supplements & studies

Auyvedic & Tibetan medicine & native/foreign herbology. She's also a Reiki

healer & former massage therapist, retired/disabled now tho.

Witch's Brew is hot water with lemon juice, chopped garlic & parsley in it. Does

wonders for lung infections, pneumonia & other breathing problems & repiratory

allergies as well as aiding & balancing the digestive system. I chop up ginger

into it too. She's cured people of pneumonia in a few days in fact with that &

other stuff she knows. I try to drink Witch's Brew twice a day if I remember to

or at least once a day for preventive reasons.

A good coral calcium product will knock it out completely too. That's very

pricey too. Tho I've just found a cheaper one in the Swanson catalog. Swanson

has a website too...extremely reasonable prices. The current coral calcium

fomula I'm now taking is helping me a lot right now for a lot of things as it

has all the B vitamins, folic acid, selenium & other things in it.

But I'm dreading having all my upper teeth pulled this winter & getting

dentures. Because they'll no doubt want to put me on antibiotics which always

messes me up & necessitates my taking Primal Defense for a few months afterward,

in addition to all of the above, to get stabilized again. Sighhhh.............

RE: i'm jazzed ! oink oink

Caroline,

What are you doing to rid yourself of candida? I have a friend that tried

everything and couldn't shake it. Someone recommended that she try

www.flora-balance. com products. She's now candida free. However, she

voluntarily still restricts her diet to non wheat/gluten products and no

sugar (barley malt, cactus sweetner and maple). Otherwise, she feels and

looks great.

[Guest guest]

rofl. You girls aren't going to believe just how jazzed you can get once the

dosages are correct and the desire to get busy on those things which we've not

been able to focus on & do for so long. Housework was never my strong suit. I

will be the first to admit it. I should have been born rich so that I could

have maids flittering about me (lol) but since that is not the case.....I am

doomed to housework forever, it seems.

What amazed me was after a while, maybe 4-5 weeks after I started Armour this

year, I came home after work, and my brother came over to do some yard work for

me. I thought it was nice of him, at the time, but I'd not tackled anything

inside or outside the house for at least 3 yrs on a grand scale. Most days I'd

only done what had to be done, or did absolutely nothing. I felt too bad.

That day I actually managed to take the weed eater from him, and trim around

places that needed it as he mowed. I wasn't sure if I'd be able to do it, but I

figured what the heck. I must have weedeated for at least an hour or better,

and for the first time in years, I honestly felt good after doing something, and

didn't collapse. And I didn't pay for it the next day. The important thing

with me seems to be that I get my rest nightly. Even if that means taking a

couple of Excedrin PM which I keep on hand for those nights.

I also managed to go to work daily, and then travel across town to my son and

daughter in laws house here, that they were going to put up for sale after they

relocated to Dallas, because of an employment move he had to make. I managed to

paint and help pack up what they'd not taken with them the first trip. Since

they were long distance, I had to help out wherever they needed me to, and that

was the week I went from Armour to Levoxyl. heheh. In a weeks time, I got in a

real pissy mood and everything became gloom and doom, if ya know what I mean. I

was not a happy camper, so I tossed the Levoxyl and went right back to Armour.

I felt better, but it took longer to feel better once I got back on Armour.

Funny how in a weeks time so many things could change for me, but they did, and

my #2 son noticed it. He didn't want to be around me, and I honestly couldn't

blame him. I was mean, and had a real chitty outlook on life.

I can now get up out of bed, get busy on housework which needs my immediate

attention, and go grocery shopping as I did this morning, all with no pain. I

may get a little tired, but it is 'nothing' like it used to be. I can remember

times when just walking to the car was painful, or just dragging out of bed,

left me breathless. I managed to take my son to eat breakfast this morning, hit

the feed store for bird food for the tiels, and then go to Academy for his gun

cleaning kit, and go to Sam's because we were out of bottled water. Of course,

I spent a lot more as I did some shopping for things for my brother & mom while

I was at Sam's, but I feel like a million bucks. I always take a break when I

get home, for at least 30 minutes, just so I can relax, get something to drink,

and then plan on what my next move will be. I promise you, without Armour, this

wouldn't have ever been possible for me. That is the one thing I do know

without a doubt.

If I choose to clean house, I can actually do it now. I just have to be in the

'mood' ya know? I'm the same way with cooking. If the mood don't hit me, I

don't do it, because it'll be a disaster. This is nothing new, I've been this

way all my life, so for me to just suddenly be a perfectionist with housekeeping

or cooking ain't ever gonna happen. It's not in my cards. LOL. But the nicest

part is, that there is something out there that will help with all those pesky

symptoms. I do get tired, but I'm 50 yrs old, and it's okay to sit and relax,

but no more pains that are unexplainable from standing on my feet shopping,

walking, or having to drag a buggy around to help hold me up by leaning on it.

I can't explain any of this, other than I have listened, read, and when my labs

and symptoms showed there was a problem, I finally took the plunge and took

Armour, not worrying about what a dr said I should or shouldn't do, or tell me

that I wasn't feeling what I was feeling & that the pains weren't from my

thyroid problems.

Now, I have to admit, if I'd not been made hypoT for that year or better, on

suppression drugs for my thyroid, I might never have been this brassy. I saw

what toll it took on me with constipation, a personality that NOBODY wanted to

be around, not even me, and unable to walk through the house without feeling

like I had to sit down, and sounding like I was asthmatic, and having to sleep

every day that I could. Funny how carpal tunnel is the first thing I feel

besides being tired when my thyroid is not working properly or being

overmedicated, or undermedicated. It's a big step. It's a personal choice

some of us come to that we have to decide for ourselves. We can't be bullied,

pushed or prodded into it. Living or existing. I chose to live, not exist in

apathy. I was so apathetic towards so much in my life, it's a miracle I bounced

back from that. lol.

I'd love for everybody to feel as good as I do right at this moment. But I know

that may not be the way it works for everybody. If I hadn't taken that chance,

and just sat and read, and saw how great so many of you were doing after self

medicating, I'd not be where I am today. That didn't come overnight, either

kiddo's. It took weeks of sifting through stuff. There's a lot of things that

are discussed that I don't even pay attention to, because I can't overload the

ole brain with too much. I put my thyroid at the top of the list. If something

else causes a problem, like adrenals, or whatever, I'm not gonna stress over it,

till it's staring me in the face. I have to do it that way or I'd be on

overload and I'd not get anything done. It takes a lot of frustration from

lack of medical care, courage and fortitude to decide this for ourselves. None

of us wants to do it, but let's face it, some of us have to just bite the bullet

and go with it.

I will never be sorry for making that choice for myself. It was the right thing

to do in my case. :-) I'll deal with all the other things as they rear their

ugly heads, till then, I'm gonna enjoy how good I feel and I'll keep ordering

Armour for as long as I need it. When my dr's start feeling what I was feeling

and have to start paying for the housekeepers and my unemployment, along with my

medical, then I'll consider listening to them, till then, it ain't happening.

Not one of them knows my body better than me, and my body requires Armour. If

I'd never taken it, I'd never have known. Sorry this was so long, but I never

say anything without a lot of words! lol. :-) it's the next thing I'll try to

work on. lol.

SandyE~Houston

Re: i'm jazzed ! oink oink

In a message dated 10/16/2004 9:54:53 AM Eastern Standard Time,

marianne@... writes:

> I think when I am on my optimal dose I will have the energy and desire to

> clean the house! I think that must be the last symptom to go

maybe the energy...i'm not so sure about the desire.

Cindi