This post is going to be about some of my personal beliefs about medicines, the FDA, prescriptions, all this stuff.
My story begins in November 2009. I developed what is called a pilonidal cyst. (I do not recommend looking this up for yourself. Photo's that come up are both graphic and REALLY gross. The link I posted is a safe-ish, informational site.)
Now before you go on saying "eww Lisa you're disgusting, you weren't taking care of yourself and that's just disgusting stop talking about this!", let me get out the points I want to make.
This particular cyst is extremely painful because it's located near the coccyx. (which is near/on/at a place on your body where LOADS of nerve endings are. To have any problem at this place on your body is excruciatingly painful) What is believed to happen is simply one ingrown hair that goes drastically wrong. In World War II it was prominent and many soldiers were diagnosed and hospitalized with this condition due to taking long and bumpy rides in jeeps.
I rode horses a LOT during the time when this happened to me.
Now, when I went to the doctor and they told me this is what had happened, they prescribed me two different antibiotics and a narcotic pain killer.
Addictions runs in my family, so I opted to not use the narcotic pain killer. The nurses and doctor told me I could take up to 6 ibuprofen every six hours and 6 acetaminophen every six hours. I alternated it to where every three to four hours I would take 6 pills.
Please keep in mind that this was so painful that without painkillers I couldn't stand, walk, sit or lay down. I didn't go one night without waking up to take my pills.
With all these pain killers AND antibiotics going in me constantly, it really beat up my digestion system. I didn't eat much because I was too full of pills. By the time I was done with all my drugs I had to do some major digestion "therapy" I had problem after problem and to this day I have issues with my stomach and what I can and can't handle.
So, all that to say, I strongly disagree with taking pills to "make things better" for my body. I try to go without in most cases. Now that I am over 18 and I have a choice in what goes in my body a lot, I do not allow a doctor to stick me with a needle to give me a shot of this or that. Most of what doctors produce is full of synthetics and will "gunk" up your body. It may make one thing feel better but it will surely mess something else up.
With this said, I've turned to essential oils and other natural ways to help soothe and ease ailments in my body. For example, for my cyst I started heating gauze pad of castor oil up and putting it on the spot, not only to ease the pain a little bit but castor oil dries stuff out. So it dried out the skin and cyst a bit so I didn't have to have surgery. I also started taking pharmaceutical grade fish oil. It was organic and all natural. I didn't take it in a capsule. I poured a tablespoon of it into a cup and washed it down with water. Fish oil is good for your skin and pores. I also straightened up my diet up a lot by not eating grains at all and not having sugars and slicing my salt intake in half. I was on an extremely clean diet and I think one of the only "fatty" things I had was yogurt to help with my digestive health. My cyst drained (without the need of surgery!!) and healed up just fine.
Since 2009, I've occasionally felt pain in that area. The risk for it to pop up again is always there if I don't care for myself. As a matter of fact, I need to do better and get fish oil back in my daily diet.
It's important to take care of yourself, think for yourself, and do research for yourself. Don't depend on doctors alone because they are lorded by the FDA (food and drug administration). That doesn't even sound like a health-friendly title...
That's all I have to say about that. Go for a natural healing process. Maybe it'll take a little longer but when you go natural, you're actually FIXING the problem, not just covering it up.
PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE don't do or take everything a doctor prescribes you!!! I know all this is hard to believe seeing as how I'm not a doctor or health professional and because doctors HAVE 8 years of education....
But it is true. Clean up your diet and find organic, clean alternates for the medicines you're taking. You'll feel so much better!!
I'm actually in the process of cooking up an acid-reflex remedy. My sweet boyfriend has severe, extremely active acid reflex mostly at night when he sleeps. It's been so bad that is was mistaken for asthma for YEARS! They have pumped so many steroids and crap in his body only to find that he's got acid reflex!
But even now that they know this, they've prescribed a generic for Prevacid. I'm not convinced that this is the best for his health. I'd like to marry this guy, and I want his to be around for a while. So this chick is finding an effective, organic, all natural alternate remedy. I've got aloe vera drinks and apple cider..not convinced yet about apple cider. But I'm open for suggestions and comments about this. Please take note, your suggestions will be researched. I'll be looking at the ingredients and whether it's completely organic or not. And I'm not even sure he will want to do what I want to suggest to him. But we shall see. I hope he at least tries it for a month before deciding completely against it...
Thanks for reading!
My story begins in November 2009. I developed what is called a pilonidal cyst. (I do not recommend looking this up for yourself. Photo's that come up are both graphic and REALLY gross. The link I posted is a safe-ish, informational site.)
Now before you go on saying "eww Lisa you're disgusting, you weren't taking care of yourself and that's just disgusting stop talking about this!", let me get out the points I want to make.
This particular cyst is extremely painful because it's located near the coccyx. (which is near/on/at a place on your body where LOADS of nerve endings are. To have any problem at this place on your body is excruciatingly painful) What is believed to happen is simply one ingrown hair that goes drastically wrong. In World War II it was prominent and many soldiers were diagnosed and hospitalized with this condition due to taking long and bumpy rides in jeeps.
I rode horses a LOT during the time when this happened to me.
Now, when I went to the doctor and they told me this is what had happened, they prescribed me two different antibiotics and a narcotic pain killer.
Addictions runs in my family, so I opted to not use the narcotic pain killer. The nurses and doctor told me I could take up to 6 ibuprofen every six hours and 6 acetaminophen every six hours. I alternated it to where every three to four hours I would take 6 pills.
Please keep in mind that this was so painful that without painkillers I couldn't stand, walk, sit or lay down. I didn't go one night without waking up to take my pills.
With all these pain killers AND antibiotics going in me constantly, it really beat up my digestion system. I didn't eat much because I was too full of pills. By the time I was done with all my drugs I had to do some major digestion "therapy" I had problem after problem and to this day I have issues with my stomach and what I can and can't handle.
So, all that to say, I strongly disagree with taking pills to "make things better" for my body. I try to go without in most cases. Now that I am over 18 and I have a choice in what goes in my body a lot, I do not allow a doctor to stick me with a needle to give me a shot of this or that. Most of what doctors produce is full of synthetics and will "gunk" up your body. It may make one thing feel better but it will surely mess something else up.
With this said, I've turned to essential oils and other natural ways to help soothe and ease ailments in my body. For example, for my cyst I started heating gauze pad of castor oil up and putting it on the spot, not only to ease the pain a little bit but castor oil dries stuff out. So it dried out the skin and cyst a bit so I didn't have to have surgery. I also started taking pharmaceutical grade fish oil. It was organic and all natural. I didn't take it in a capsule. I poured a tablespoon of it into a cup and washed it down with water. Fish oil is good for your skin and pores. I also straightened up my diet up a lot by not eating grains at all and not having sugars and slicing my salt intake in half. I was on an extremely clean diet and I think one of the only "fatty" things I had was yogurt to help with my digestive health. My cyst drained (without the need of surgery!!) and healed up just fine.
Since 2009, I've occasionally felt pain in that area. The risk for it to pop up again is always there if I don't care for myself. As a matter of fact, I need to do better and get fish oil back in my daily diet.
It's important to take care of yourself, think for yourself, and do research for yourself. Don't depend on doctors alone because they are lorded by the FDA (food and drug administration). That doesn't even sound like a health-friendly title...
That's all I have to say about that. Go for a natural healing process. Maybe it'll take a little longer but when you go natural, you're actually FIXING the problem, not just covering it up.
PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE don't do or take everything a doctor prescribes you!!! I know all this is hard to believe seeing as how I'm not a doctor or health professional and because doctors HAVE 8 years of education....
But it is true. Clean up your diet and find organic, clean alternates for the medicines you're taking. You'll feel so much better!!
I'm actually in the process of cooking up an acid-reflex remedy. My sweet boyfriend has severe, extremely active acid reflex mostly at night when he sleeps. It's been so bad that is was mistaken for asthma for YEARS! They have pumped so many steroids and crap in his body only to find that he's got acid reflex!
But even now that they know this, they've prescribed a generic for Prevacid. I'm not convinced that this is the best for his health. I'd like to marry this guy, and I want his to be around for a while. So this chick is finding an effective, organic, all natural alternate remedy. I've got aloe vera drinks and apple cider..not convinced yet about apple cider. But I'm open for suggestions and comments about this. Please take note, your suggestions will be researched. I'll be looking at the ingredients and whether it's completely organic or not. And I'm not even sure he will want to do what I want to suggest to him. But we shall see. I hope he at least tries it for a month before deciding completely against it...
Thanks for reading!
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