how I overcame autoimmune struggles

Sharing among the particulars on how I overcame my autoimmune struggles, introduced steadiness to my physique, and am now symptom-free. Download the free ebook here.

Hello pals! How are you? I hope you’re having a beautiful morning up to now. I’ve a day stacked with consumer calls and am trying ahead to some adventures with the fam  — we’re headed to Disney for the lengthy weekend to have fun Liv’s bday. I’ll share the adventures over on IG stories! The children have been asking for occasions or journeys as an alternative of birthday events and I’m into it. Manner much less stress throughout and much more enjoyable.

I’m often bizarre about celebrating private issues – for instance, I by no means inform anybody when it’s my birthday lol- however there are two milestones I’m celebrating this month, and embracing each single a part of these enormous milestones:

– one 12 months symptom-free and

– one 12 months of adverse Lupus markers

how I overcame autoimmune struggles

My fundamental signs

Just below two years in the past, some wacky issues occurred with my well being. I went from feeling *okay* – I nonetheless had occasional anxiousness and was drained typically – to coping with thriller rashes, histamine points, joint ache, and excessive fatigue. I couldn’t get better from exercises, and if I did one thing that was notably intense, I felt like I wanted to sleep the remainder of the day. My eyes additionally gave me loads of grief. I’ve done quite a few blog posts about the eye saga, but it surely ended up being blepharitis, Meibomian Gland Dysfunction, and dry eye.

My final eye flare was slightly over a 12 months in the past. We had seen The Nutcracker as a household – one among our favourite traditions – and I may really feel my eyes flaring through the show. Abruptly, they have been burning, itchy, and neon pink. As quickly because it was over, we raced to Walgreen’s for Claritin – I knew at that time it was a part of a histamine response – and took out my contacts so I may put on my glasses. I used to be doing a LOT higher, however was nonetheless having common eye flares.

That was my final one.

My autoimmune story and lupus markers

Two summers in the past, my PCP helped me run some bloodwork, and all the pieces got here again *regular,* besides for 2 Lupus markers. When one is optimistic, there’s an opportunity that you’ve got Lupus, however when two are optimistic, it’s an excellent likelihood that you’ve got Lupus. Whereas I used to be disenchanted by the outcomes, they made sense to me.

She referred me to rheumatology, however since my signs have been manageable, and I’d been coping with them for a couple of 12 months at that time, I actually wished to do some digging and see if I may heal myself.

Whereas I’d had some potential diagnoses from my PCP and my dry eye specialist, nobody may inform me WHY this was taking place. I knew my physique was crying for assist, that one thing was inflicting the irritation, and I used to be decided to determine it out. I used to be a newly certified IHP Level 2, so I put my new abilities to work. The purpose was to find my deficiencies and toxicities so I may deliver all the pieces again to steadiness.

How I overcame autoimmune struggles

I made substantial modifications in my life. Operating useful labs on myself, altering my eating regimen, and specializing in my nervous system have been game-changers. Over time, my autoimmune and histamine points disappeared, my eyes stopped troubling me, and my vitality and focus returned.

By final December, I felt a lot better, and my Lupus markers were negative. Final week, throughout my annual bloodwork, each markers have been adverse once more—an enormous reduction and a testomony to the progress I’ve made. TBH I used to be nervous to get the outcomes as a result of I’ve been feeling nice for the previous 12 months, but it surely was an enormous sigh of reduction.

(You possibly can see right here that ANA was optimistic in July, and adverse in December!)

And adverse once more this previous week after we examined once more:

And adverse dsDNA twice in a row, too. Wahoo!!!

It’s manner too lengthy for a weblog submit, so I wished to share among the issues I carried out and discovered within the course of. I made a free obtain with 7 issues that helped me probably the most, and the link to get a copy is here. Merely add your electronic mail and all the pieces might be despatched to you routinely.

Please remember the fact that this isn’t medical recommendation. I’m simply sharing my expertise and hope this could provide some concepts or help in the event you’re in the identical boat. It’s additionally to share some hope as a result of how issues are *now* won’t be everlasting. Therapeutic is feasible, and it may be onerous to see that within the second. <3

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Sending plenty of like to you.

xo

Gina