November Thankfuls

So it seems like these last few months have been kind of rough for me. Since I stopped seeing my naturalist doctor on a regular basis, I have been getting more symptoms. I have the worse acne ever!! I am 30 years old. I shouldn't be experiencing this still/again. I have been so frustrated with this. I haven't had my period in about 5 months. I have gained 10 pounds back from the 20 I lost. UGG!! So I have been feeling kind of sorry for myself lately.

I talked to my doctor a couple of times over the phone/text/visits and have come to the conclusion that I cannot have any gluten whatsoever and very little sugar. Now that I have stayed away from gluten totally, even the littlest amount makes me pretty sick. The sugar is most likely making my hormones go out of wack. This is including any carbs that turn into sugars. At first I was pretty sad about that, but now when I taste sugar a lot of it seems to sugary. I am not able to eat that much anyway. I went and saw my Endo. doctor and told him about the symptoms I was  having. He said that it sounds like, and is mostly likely Poly Cystic Ovarian Syndrome (PCOS). When he told me I was like.. what the crap!! Seriously?!?!... this is getting old.  I seriously don't know why I didn't think about this myself. Nakoa has this, so why can't I? She also has diabetes because of it.  I thought that i might have to do more with my Hashimotos, because that has to do with my hormones and sugars. I haven't taken the blood test yet, but I am 99.9% sure that is what it is. We will see I guess.

So now I am taking this supplement to see if I can get back on track with my girl problems and watch my sugar more closely. Also, it turns out that PCOS makes it harder for you to lose weight too.

I am been really lucky though. Someone has been watching out for me and making sure that I don't get too down. I have been reminded often how blessed I am still. With it being still November. I thought I would list all the things I am thankful for.

1. I am thankful for my husband! I definitely been kind of a brat lately with a lot of things. He is the one that fixes dinner and comes up with new ideas for it now and I appreciate it so much! Especially with all the stuff I can't have now.
2.I am thankful for a family that is so supportive and is there when I need them. I feel that I am lucky to have such a close family that loves each other so much!
3. I am thankful for my two nephews and neice. This year we got a new addition to the family!  They give me so much happiness! I love all 3 so much!
4. I am thankful that I live in this country! I can't help but wonder why I was put here on earth at this time and in this country. I have it so easy compared to others outside of this country. Just watch the news and listening to friends of mine about their home countries has a lot impact on me.
5. I am thankful for my education and my awareness of certain things, and experience. My mom and dad taught my brother and sisters how to serve when we were young.  I think my parents have done a good job in that sense of teaching us about things around us and to look around. I hope that makes sense.
6. I am thankful to have found doctors that can help me with my illnesses. I seriously don't know what I would do if I didn't find the right doctors to help me. I would still be so sick.
7. I am thankful for my job. I am lucky to have a job that has good benefits. I am able to pay my doctor bills!
8. I am thankful for Wholefoods, Sprouts store, and other stores that carry the good stuff that I can have :)
9. I am thankful for drugs! ;)  If I didn't have what I needed I would still probably be pretty sick.
10. I am thankful for my friend! Even though I haven't had a lot time to spend with them lately, they have gotten me through a lot and kept me sane.

Treatment Done!!

So I am finally done with the treatment. I went through supplements to help digestion system, adrenaline system, and my brain. I definitely feel so much better. School has been out for a couple of weeks now and I am able to exercise more. I went running at Liberty Park the other day and made it all the way around without stopping. This is huge for me because before I wasn't even able to get 1/4 of the way around without huffing and puffing and feeling like I can't breathe with no energy. I was way excited! Kyle and I have already gone on a hike. I am hoping to get a lot more in before it gets too hot. My body definitely doesn't feel like it use to. Although my brain isn't so foggy anymore I still have a little bit of trouble with it. I feel like I have to explain myself to other people cuz I feel stupid forgetting words and stuff.

 My digestion is doing a lot better. I have to drink some apple cider vinegar every now and again. My body doesn't produce enough acid to break down food in my stomach so I get burpy and feel kind of bloaded like I am full all the time. The apple cider vinegar helps with this. Around finals time I was feeling really stressed out and I knew I wasn't going to feel well soon because of it. I got pretty sick and had to take some more supplements to calm myself down. There is this adrenacalm lotion stuff that I put on my wrists to help me calm down. It is amazing! It helps so much! It is kind of like a xanex :)

My next step is to get ripped again. :) I really want to lose another 20 lbs at least and get my muscle tone back. I still am feeling tired around 4-6 so it has been kind of hard to get the motivation to exercise each day. I feel my muscles coming back slowly though. :)

The food options haven't been so bad. Since I can't have gluten I have had great bread options. I haven't been able to find a good roll though. I really miss that and cookies :/  I crave the weirdest stuff though. Beans, who craves beans?? cheese, green peppers. So weird. Kyle and I went up to Park City the other day and found a pizza place that had gluten free crusts. I am not really suppose to have tomatoes, so I am careful with how much pizza I eat. It was soo good to have pizza again though. I heard that Dominos has a new gluten free pizza. I can't wait to try it! I have been so lucky with Kyle. He has been finding me all of this gluten free stuff and has been eating mostly everything with me. He is the best! My doctors have been really awesome too! I have been referring anyone and everyone that is willing to listen. They treat a wide range of people from autoimmune diseases, to IBS.  They have been really good to help us with whatever we need and have still made sure that we know that they are still there.

Catching Up

Blaaah! I haven't written in a while. School started up again and I have been trying to get crocheting stuff ready for Michaela's baby. I haven't had a lot of time to do anything else. The last visit I wrote about I talked to my doctor about eating chocolate over the holiday. He said that he wasn't going to give me permission, but sounded like I will probably eat some anyway. I actually was set on not eating any, but when he said that I had to. :) I had to take my blood test before doing so if I flared up the illness again the results would be on how I was before. So I went in and got a blood test and then that day I hate a little bit of chocolate. (This was a few days before Christmas. ) Then the next day I had a bit more. I was fine both days. On Christmas Eve we went over to Kyle's parent's house and had dinner. I had a little bit of fudge and then some potatoe salad. These were the only two things that I had that was out of the norm. About 20 minutes later I wasn't feeling so good. Diarrhea, sick to my stomach, bad headache, bad anxiety... not good! Parently poops means everything. Haha.. welcome to my world. Sometimes when this happens I wish I had a xanex!

The next day I still wasn't feeling so good. I wanted some more chocolate so I had a bit more. It made me even worse very fast. My anxiety got a lot worse. Feeling so good before and then feeling that bad again made me realize how sick I was before. I have no idea how the heck I even functioned at all. After that I didn't even want to touch to chocolate.

So the next appointment we had was on the 5th. The doctor said that I probably won't be able to each chocolate. But then he said that when I flare it up then sometimes the things I eat after will make it worse or I will be more sensitive. So there might be a chance I can still have it. We just have to figure out what flared it up and made me so sick. He told me to go back on the original diet and then call him the next Monday. I called him that Monday and I was feeling better, but I was going to job interviews that week and noticed that when I get nervous my body goes crazy. When I was leaving the house before an interview one day my body started going crazy. I started getting really sick and I had to go number 2 all of a sudden. It was pretty...haha. I didn't think I was going to make it. I was finally able to calm myself down and I was ok. Since then I have felt a lot better. It took me a while to start feeling better though.

We saw the doctor again last week on Thursday. We got our blood tests back. Since we started I have lost 20 pounds and my A1C (overall blood sugar) has gone down from 6.1 (I think it was) to 5.7. The 6.1 was prediabetic. Nakoa's has gone down as well. When she started she was on medication and at a diabetic range. But now she is off medication and at a 5.7 just as I am! AWESOME!!

Next now that I am feeling better we should be working on the Gastrointestinal tract. Since being diagnosed I have had a lot of gas coming out of both ends.. haha! I have never burped so much in my life. It is a bit embarassing because I can't control it.