I am not sure where this belongs but since I used to be a patient for Dr. BrizmanI am posting it here. I found Matia's program to work for a long time.

My body did get to a point where I felt I was not responding anymore. I don't know if some of that was my own stress ,because I was very scared not knowing what I was taking. I felt like I wasn't learning enough about what was going on with my body. I still haven't quite fit all the peices together, or I would not be here back on these boards. However when I left Matia I had visual migranes that were very bad. I started taking HPD vitamins that I read on the IC information Center. It took me a long time to accept them and I used the idea of building slow over time. After about 3 monts they beagan to lessen. Now it has been 2 yrs and I am still taking the vitamins and I haven't had any of the visual headaces. I couldn't seem to get rid of those the whole time and who knows it could have just been because of the stress. I am a very stressed person. Reading Matia's book is a real eye opener on how I need to find ways to clean my life of trama. Yesteday my sister looked at all the things I take and she asked me "Why do you need all that you eat so heatlhy?" I kinda laphed and said I know I just don't feel I absorb anything. For the most part I have stayed on Matia's diet only I have been able to add things in. I have addapted some principles of Ayurvedia in my life too. It is summer here in FL so I have been trying to eat a lot of cooling foods to bring down the heat and inflamation. That has helped me a lot to eat with the seasons and eat for my constitution.

I also have taken home tests that have helped me figure out my imbalances such as hormone, cortisol and serotonin. I have Not however been able to sucessfully balance them with things that my bladder can handle. I am hoping reading Matia's diseratation can help answer those questions.

I have to say I don't think you will find much posing of other answers in here because to compleete this puzzle takes more then one regume. To balance the whole body which I have not been able to do seems to be as complex as the disease it self. Don't forget about the Mind either it is just as important. ICers seem to be so stressed out and the chronic pain can make it hard to relax. Finding some joy in life is so important to healing. I think that is a major factor that is stoping my healing and that is bringing me back to my roots.