I am typing fast- Brizman style because the post in progress got deleted. Deir, thank you for your helpful post about self-acceptance and exercise.

My latest thought about healing from IC is that it is requiring me to do housecleaning in all areas of my life. I need to make amends to myself and others and realize that I am in charge of healing me. As much as my tendency with this and all other problems is to run around asking for advice, I can't continue to outsource everything. It is scary but I know that I must move forward, laying in place one little positive brick at a time.

I am typing fast- Brizman style because the post in progress got deleted. Deir, thank you for your helpful post about self-acceptance and exercise.

My latest thought about healing from IC is that it is requiring me to do housecleaning in all areas of my life. I need to make amends to myself and others and realize that I am in charge of healing me. As much as my tendency with this and all other problems is to run around asking for advice, I can't continue to outsource everything. It is scary but I know that I must move forward, laying in place one little positive brick at a time.

I am typing fast- Brizman style because the post in progress got deleted. Deir, thank you for your helpful post about self-acceptance and exercise.

My latest thought about healing from IC is that it is requiring me to do housecleaning in all areas of my life. I need to make amends to myself and others and realize that I am in charge of healing me. As much as my tendency with this and all other problems is to run around asking for advice, I can't continue to outsource everything. It is scary but I know that I must move forward, laying in place one little positive brick at a time.

"We tend to focus on what we do not want, and what we focus on gets bigger."

From the book "The Effortless Sleep Solution" by Sasha Stephens.

This is the best sleep book I have seen, but in general, it has given me a lot of insight into how my thoughts shape my reality. 

hi all, just a quick note to let you all know i am feeling good! not perfect, but i feel well more often than not. i can go hours without peeing, sex is almost normal, and my only lingering symptom is occassional burning and even that is subsiding. 

i have been in treatment for 2.5 years, but only diligent for about 18ish months.

keep up the good work, keep up the faith and stay strong. 

Things I am not good at: having pain without judging it; assessing my condition when I have been sleeping poorly. I injured my knee going back to what I thought was very gentle stretching. Boy, am I going to have to be careful. Also, I am nto sleeping well because I am so wigged out about my knees. Dr. B seems very confident that she knows how to get me well and my bladder is certainly much better and I should note to myself that my sinueses under her care now seem to be handling the pollen season which is huge. So tired today, guys and just want to say, I hope this is a journey to health.

Hi Everyone!

I hope that you all are doing well and I thank you so much for sharing your experiences with such courage. 

This knee thing is like a chinese puzzle. Is it this or is it that? I got the orthotics and I put them in. I did a bit more standing yesterday. It hurt but not as bad as it had and I was encouraged. Today I having been hurting a fair amount and so I have to wander down the hall of mirros with so many variables. Id this normal? They said it would take 2 weeks to 2 months to break these in but do I trust the prosthetist?

I think this book author is the President of Natren. If you go to Amazon and search inside her book, there are some interesting pages on ALL 3 of the probiotics that Dr. B (might) use in treatment... Look at pp. 113-118.

http://www.amazon.com/Probiotics-Natures-Internal-Natasha-Trenev/dp/0895...

SKipped a day because I was at peace last night. Did you miss me? The peace takes so much work to achieve and is so easily lost but is so beautiful. Apparently, I did not learn self-soothing strategies between 0-2. Not a surprise as my mom did not know them for herself. I can't walk or move much right now but I can become a better caretaker of myself and develop an internal voice that I trust to calm me so I don't hve to run hither and thither all the time. Highly recommended: tara brach.com; 2006 archives. 2 part download on a technique (R.A.I.N) for how to deal with fear.