How I overcame my autoimmune struggles

Sharing some particulars on how I overcame my autoimmune struggles, balanced my physique, and am now symptom free. Download the free eBook here.

Whats up associates! How are you? I hope you're having a fantastic morning to date. I'm having a day stuffed with shopper calls and looking out ahead to some adventures with the household – we're heading to Disney for an extended weekend to have a good time Liv's birthday. I’ll share the adventures AG Stories! The children have been asking for occasions or journeys as a substitute of birthday events and I really like that. Method much less stress throughout and extra enjoyable.

I'm normally bizarre about celebrating private issues — for instance, I by no means inform anybody when it's my birthday — however there are two milestones I'm celebrating this month, and I'm embracing each little bit of these enormous milestones:

– One yr symptom-free

– One yr of adverse indicators of lupus

How I overcame my autoimmune struggles

My primary signs

Lower than two years in the past, some unusual issues occurred concerning my well being. I went from feeling tremendous* — I nonetheless felt occasional anxiousness and fatigue at occasions — to coping with mysterious rashes, histamine points, joint ache, and excessive fatigue. I couldn't recuperate from exercises, and if I did one thing significantly intense, I felt like I wanted to sleep for the remainder of the day. My eyes additionally gave me numerous unhappiness. I've written quite a few blog posts about the Al Ain saga, Nevertheless it ended up inflicting blepharitis, meibomian gland dysfunction, and dry eyes.

The final glow in my eyes was somewhat over a yr in the past. Now we have seen Nutcracker As a household – it's one in every of our favourite traditions – and I felt my eyes mild up through the present. All of the sudden, it was burning, itching, and neon pink. As soon as that was over, we rushed to Walgreen's to purchase Claritin — I knew at that time that it was a part of the histamine response — and I acquired out my contact lenses so I might put my glasses on. I used to be in significantly better form, however I nonetheless had eye flare-ups regularly.

This was my final one.

My autoimmune story and indicators of lupus

Two summers in the past, my major care supplier helped me run some blood assessments, and every thing got here again *regular*, besides for 2 indicators of lupus. When one is constructive, there’s a chance that you’ve got lupus, however when two are constructive, it is extremely seemingly that you’ve got lupus. Whereas I used to be disenchanted with the outcomes, they made sense to me.

She referred me to rheumatology, however since my signs have been manageable, and I had been coping with them for a few yr at that time, I actually wished to perform a little research and see if I might heal myself.

Whereas I had gotten some potential diagnoses from my major care supplier and a dry eye specialist, Nobody might inform me why this was occurring. I knew my physique was crying for assist, that one thing was inflicting the irritation, and I used to be decided to search out out. I used to be Newly accredited IHP Level 2 certification, So I put my new abilities to work. The aim was to find my deficiencies and toxicities so I might convey every thing again into stability.

How I overcame my autoimmune struggles

I’ve made elementary adjustments in my life. Doing practical labs on myself, altering my weight loss plan, and specializing in my nervous system was a recreation changer. Over time, my autoimmune and histamine points went away, my eyes stopped bothering me, and my power and focus returned.

By final December, I felt significantly better, and My lupus signs were negative. Final week, throughout my annual blood check, each markers have been adverse once more, which was an enormous aid and a testomony to the progress I've made. Nicely, I used to be nervous to get the outcomes as a result of I had been feeling nice for the previous yr, nevertheless it was a sigh of aid.

(You may see right here that the ANA check was constructive in July, and adverse in December!)

And adverse once more final week after we examined once more:

And adverse dsDNA twice in a row as nicely. Wahoo!!!

It's fairly lengthy for a weblog put up, so I wished to share among the issues I carried out and discovered within the course of. I free downloaded 7 issues that helped me rather a lot, and The link to get a copy is here. Merely add your e-mail and every thing shall be despatched to you robotically.

Please remember that this isn’t medical recommendation. I'm simply sharing my expertise and hope this affords some concepts or assist in the event you're in the identical boat. It's additionally sharing some hope as a result of the way in which it’s *now* might not be everlasting. Therapeutic is feasible, and it might be troublesome to see that within the second.

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Sending numerous like to you.

xo

Jenna