I'm getting so frustrated with myself. Everytime boaz puts me on a new protocol (I've been in treatment about 3 weeks and it's changing all the time) I have to email him after a couple of days to reduce the herbs as my die off is INSANE. Right now I'm only taking 1/4 gml 1/8 goldenseal and 1/8 mega twice a day and I feel like my perineum is trying to kill me. It's become so swollen and sore that it's unbearable. Before this I was having terrible dizzy fits that left me unable even to get up to pee so I had to reduce the herbs then as well.

It has been 6 1/2 months since my 24/7 urgency started....I CAN'T take it anymore!  It hardly ever goes away!  I'm so tired and emotionally drained.  I go to see Boaz in July...I've already started the diet, and was on the regular IC and candida diet for a few months before that...not even sure if yeast was an issue, I just wanted to give it a shot.  Some days, the urgency lets up a little, but most days it's just absolutely dreadful.  I recently found out I have low estrogen and progesterone....after reading Matia's blog post the other day, I realize that low estrogen can cause urgency.  I

Any recommendations on shampoo/conditioner, face wash, lotion?  I've been using Bomasense, but I can't say I really care for any of them besides the shampoo.  The conditioner is very drying, and I don't feel like the body wash does anything for my face...and the lotion feels like grease.  I LOVE the lubricant and olive oil bar soap though! 

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Hi ladies

My husband and son left very early this morning along with the rest of the team going to Honduras. Yesterday was a rough day emotionally and I cried a lot. I just stayed up in my room and cried because I didn't want to quench the excitement of the team, and I needed to let the tears flow. Today, I am calmer and the pain has calmed somewhat. I just need to take it easy and be kind to myself today. 

Thanks for being there... I will share what I can this week about my husband's travels.There will be a lot of happy people learning to walk with their new prosthetic legs. :)

Hey all

I was wondering when you started treatment how long it took to find a protocol you could tolerate ok? We are changing my herbs pretty much daily right now and I'm having pretty wild symptoms of stiff throat and drunkeness still. I know this takes time and I'm ready for that I just wondered how others fared? I'd like to point out that boaz is being awesome about it all which is really heartening.

Katie x

I have been struggling the last two weeks with a bad flare-up. In general, I've been gradually getting better, but flare-ups like this really get me down. An added challenge is that my husband is going to be gone all week. He and my son are going to Honduras to help put prosthetic legs on people who don't have the means to get one. It's such a needed and noble cause and I'm so proud of both of them. They are helping people to walk again. It's just really bad timing for me to be in so much pain because I won't have his presence and support.

I have been reading through some old posts, and saw where your husband isn't supposed to drink beer while you're in treatment?  We have sex with a condom, and I don't kiss him after he's had beer unless he brushes his teeth.  Is this a problem?  It's not often that he drinks beer, but he has already given up so much for me, I don't think I can ask him to give up beer too!

I recently bought some new underwear and my vagina has been super irritated lately. I am wondering if there is a correlation. It is 100% cotton, but it is kind of stiff. It's Hanes brand and is white. It doesn't feel particularly irritated while I'm wearing it, but maybe over time it is bothering me? This could just be a vulvodynia flare up, but I am going to the GYN just to make sure it isn't an infection. It just feels so raw down there right now.