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Hey girls,
So I'm going to try my hardest to try and explain my question here, its pretty confusing. So, Dr B told me to start at list 3 when this all first began a month and a half ago even though I was already doing list 1 just on my own. My symptoms were bad starting off, and I think the diet helped.. but I'm not sure. Its hard to tell if my body was just healing on its own like the last time this plagued me a couple years ago or if it was the diet. But I slowly started to add in little cheats here and there and I felt fine. I actually felt like things were improving.
But here's my dilemma. After I saw Dr B for my appt beginning of the month I was super motivated to try and cut out sugar completely, even the natural ones that she gave me the okay to do since I'm pregnant. I did that for 10 days in a row, and I felt absolutely terrible. Hardly any let up of bladder symptoms, maybe a couple hours here and there of lessened symptoms but it was pretty constant. I dont get it at all. Isnt the diet supposed to help you not hurt you????? It worries me that maybe I have something else going on. Since last Thursday when I cheated and had my sugar binge I've felt more stable than ever. I'm still doing the diet but adding in more fruit and agave sweets, I dont feel as guilty doing that since Matia said to go ahead for now. I hate that its making me question things and whether this treatment is going to work for me.
Thoughts?!
I've read about a few other
I've read about a few other patients who have had this same problem. I think the basic thought is that sugar feeds yeast and if you are full of yeast it will be happy when it gets sugar, when you deny it sugar it will be painful until you get the yeast to die. This is how I see it, if anyone else can offer any advice, chime in!
I would have to agree with
I would have to agree with Christine on this. I did not really see an improvement after switching my diet and actually am still not feeling great with food, but the yeast feeds off of the sugar and carbs/starches we have in our diet. Everyone is different of course, but I too wondered if something else is going on and had many tests run, and nothing really came back, just markers for inflammation and elevated liver enzymes and glucose levels, but these are all starting to slowly improve. One way for me to see that even if I physically am not feeling great on the diet and protocol, that in fact healing is happening. I know that the physical side of feeling better will have to come around sooner or later.
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Hi Lindsey,
This is going to work for you - you sound just like the rest of us - oh, except you have one extra on board : ).
This is the thing, even if you didn't have IC - sugar is not a good thing - the research on it that is starting to come out is mind boggling. What it does to the brain, and how addicting it is, and the research showing that not only does it feed yeast - but it actually feeds cancer cells, just blows my mind - and not in a good way. At the moment, it has it's nasty little hold on you and it's up to you to win! - and you can and you will get better and you'll raise your baby a heck of alot smarter than I did - (52 and babies long gone)
Hang in there - you are on the right path.
Thank you for replying back
Thank you for replying back girls. I know that sugar is bad, even the natural kinds if we eat too much.. and I don't think I will have any problems with sticking to the strict diet once I'm in treatment. That's the real kicker in all of this, I'm 8 months pregnant with a big baby on my bladder and not in treatment yet! No herbs! So my thought process (whether or not its right) is to keep my symptoms at bay with the natural sugars until I can actually be in treatment since I feel 10 times better when I am eating a little sugar. But I swear its like I have the angel on one shoulder and the devil on the other telling me different things to do! I'm worried that if I do eat the natural sugars and approved treats like Matia said I could, it will make it harder for me after the baby because I will have been feeding the yeast and have even more die off. I don't know whether that's going to happen or not but it scares the crap out of me. And pregnant bodies are more yeasty anyways right? So what happens then when my bodies rebalancing.. double die off?! Will nursing prolong it?! Grr! I wish I had a crystal ball!
So I emailed Matia about it. There's no point in arguing back and forth with myself about what the right thing to do is.. because I really don't know. I never clarified with her how often I could do the natural sweets and approved treats so I know I need to see what she says about that. I know I'm over thinking everything that's probably so simple to Matia but its hard not to! I'm sure you guys can relate to that one. The overthinking. Anyways we will see what she says. I just want to make it through these last 3 weeks and not be doubled over in pain. It stinks that she cant really help me with that part of it until I do have the baby, that's why I'm so conflicted with the whole diet thing. Does that make sense or am I being a total freak? lol.
I agree
with you and would use the natural sugars in fruit and such to keep your symptoms at bay until you have your baby, which is what Dr. B also suggested. You have so much going on in your body just being pregnant. I think you are going to respond to treatment after you have your baby. It's all going to get better as you rebalance again. And you are going to be so much more wiser on what to feed your little girl as she grows up. I am sure learning a lot for my little one. :)