Back story

After my third baby was born was when I started noticing what ended up being an explosion of symptoms. I had pp bleeding on and off for 6 months. I made some diet changes which helped stop that. But then a whole slew of other things started rearing their ugly heads. Palpitations, erratic heartbeat, sweats, headaches, head pressure, pain and on and on. Sooo many doctors visits, with every lab coming back “normal” 😖.With three littles aged 3 and under, this was such a stressful time and a lot of it is a blur. After a year of this, I was fed up and started trying out natural things instead. I didn’t notice much until month 3 where I went through severe detoxing. It was interesting that with the “physical” detoxing came a lot of emotional detoxing as well. Maybe around month 6 I was seeing more and more positive changes. And the more the symptoms started to dissipate the more I realized I’d been struggling with these symptoms a lot longer than a year. Probably since around age 7 is my estimate now.

I remember being at a cousins one day and all of the sudden started getting a huge headache and had to go home. I ended up with a high fever and some other things I can’t remember, just what family has told me. Doctors at the time related it somehow to thyroid. But now after a lot of my own research, I know I was showing many signs of Lyme disease. After that time I developed chronic knee pain, less stamina, trouble sleeping, extreme fatigue, cognitive issues and so on. Doctors couldn’t find anything then either. So I learned to deny my symptoms, repress, and believed this was just normal for me. One naturopath years later was able to discern I was low in zinc (like non existent stores) and that did help but didn’t pinpoint a cause… part 2 to be continued