Spring was an upswing because I was finally free of SIBO symptoms after 2+ years and "I refuse to keep track of how many" rounds of treatment. (mostly herbal).
So fun! I started to eat... raw cabbage again (coleslaw). I was able to work... maybe 30 hours/week (and that is a healthy metric?!)
I was able to start riding my bike short distances, walk more frequently.
I EVEN made a very long delayed trip to visit my family (which required stopping at natural foods grocery once I got there and buying food to cook that I could eat that weekend.) I got to see my mother for her 70th birthday.
(And then had 3 crash days on the other side.)
So after a month or two of this fun... SIBO symptoms reappeared.
Because of course they did.
So now I'm trying to take the long holiday weekend to get back on track with herbal supplements and they are knocking me out.
Allicin. Berberine. Bismuth.
I sleep and sleep and sleep and when I'm awake, completely incapacitated by inflammation and fatigue.
New things: trying new "lymph support" homeopathy drops. Are they helping? Who can tell.
ND said try "REBOUNDING" which apparently means Mini Trampoline- again for lymphatic drainage.
The lymphatic drainage professional I see snorts at that and shows me how to do self lymph massage instead.
I GUESS that I must have the detox capacity of a pinhole and there are gallons and gallons of crud trying to move through.
I SHOULD be going to the sauna place, just, too tired.
How to cope: Thank god I have my own bed (for all the restless nights so Breadwinner can sleep.) Thank god I can read. Thank god I have a mostly low key job that seems okay with me showing up intermittently. I live in a beautiful place and there are TREES and BIRDS outside the window. Friends, that would be nice but I've about driven them away because they are TOO TIRING. They want to GO PLACES and DO THINGS.
It's hard to keep friendships when you are still, 2+ years later, too tired to talk to them or visit them or do anything with them.
That was the rant. Post #2 will be about visceral manipulation.
So fun! I started to eat... raw cabbage again (coleslaw). I was able to work... maybe 30 hours/week (and that is a healthy metric?!)
I was able to start riding my bike short distances, walk more frequently.
I EVEN made a very long delayed trip to visit my family (which required stopping at natural foods grocery once I got there and buying food to cook that I could eat that weekend.) I got to see my mother for her 70th birthday.
(And then had 3 crash days on the other side.)
So after a month or two of this fun... SIBO symptoms reappeared.
Because of course they did.
So now I'm trying to take the long holiday weekend to get back on track with herbal supplements and they are knocking me out.
Allicin. Berberine. Bismuth.
I sleep and sleep and sleep and when I'm awake, completely incapacitated by inflammation and fatigue.
New things: trying new "lymph support" homeopathy drops. Are they helping? Who can tell.
ND said try "REBOUNDING" which apparently means Mini Trampoline- again for lymphatic drainage.
The lymphatic drainage professional I see snorts at that
and shows me how to do self lymph massage instead. I GUESS that I must have the detox capacity of a pinhole and there are gallons and gallons of crud trying to move through.
I SHOULD be going to the sauna place, just, too tired.
How to cope: Thank god I have my own bed (for all the restless nights so Breadwinner can sleep.) Thank god I can read. Thank god I have a mostly low key job that seems okay with me showing up intermittently. I live in a beautiful place and there are TREES and BIRDS outside the window. Friends, that would be nice but I've about driven them away because they are TOO TIRING. They want to GO PLACES and DO THINGS.
It's hard to keep friendships when you are still, 2+ years later, too tired to talk to them or visit them or do anything with them.
That was the rant. Post #2 will be about visceral manipulation.
