I started on this health journey in 01/2023 first with doing a food journal for months. Keeping up with what, how much, time eating, and results(nausea and runs) for each food.
Little by little, I knew it was something in my foods making me sick. I was able to determine that breads/starches were causing my explosive bowels and that I am insulin resistant.
I also thought part of my health issues was contributed to by having had breast implants 30+ years earlier. Called BII - Breast Implant Illness. I was also researching to find the BEST surgeon to remove them. My PCP was of no help. I finally settled on what would become one of three plastic surgeons and each was 3 1/2 hours from my home…. Then low and behold, I was woke in the middle of the night to excruciating pain in one breast. I knew immediately what had happened by the simple difference in that breast. This escalated things immediately. My first choice of doctors to go just happened to have a cancellation for a few days out. I had already had my yearly mammogram, so I called and they got me in the next day!( had to have a very new report to take to the surgeon).
This doctor was phenomenal to say the least. She informed me that with the number of years my original plants had been in place, that I did not qualify for her BII program (she has been going head long with the AMA and FDA for more than twenty years over the illnesses caused by breast implants).
To shorten this just a bit…. Within a week I went from consult, to pre-op, to surgery. She informed me she had to literally turn that breast completely inside out to clean the debris from the rupture. And then some of the material went into the other breast creating a smaller similar sinario. The surgery took almost 6 hours. We spent 3 days in a hotel and going to her office daily for follow up care. Initially the glands under my arms were very swollen with the fluid from the ruptured implant. She informed me the doctor who placed the implants used silicone and not saline as I had requested. The implants had no serial numbers to be traced back to him and I had never been given an implant card to keep and carry in me, in case of emergency. She provided me with pictures of the debris and ruptured implant, and the other implant the was still in place. (I finally threw it away, I wanted to see what was actually in my chest.)
Fast forward….. 10/2023 I was diagnosed with melanoma in my face. It was a major set back, but I survived and 5 months of being horizontal most of the time, gave me the opportunity to research me! Find a real path to living the rest of my life as healthy as possible.
I went to my NEW PCP(as I fired my old one for refusing on two separate appointments to refer me to a dermatologist when I knew something was wrong. ) and to a dietitian…Trizepetide, complex vitamin schedule(because of the cancer and extreme vitamin diffeiency) , 1,200 calorie meal planning(that is a lot of food when ypu cut the sugars, carbs and starches). Research led me to Kristina and she has been amazing!
Here we are 1 year and 10 months! I am at my goal weight and am down by 6 bowling balls(60-64 lbs)!!! All of my lab work is NORMAL. I am where I was 30 years ago. Cancer free, and utilizing GLOW for arthritis, meniscus tendon issues in both knees, and an injury to the ligaments in my right ankle. By the end of this year I should be completely free of these things and come off the GLOW! I have started dosing down a little on the Triz., and as long as my weight is stable(5lb margin), that will be the long haul goal!
Hats off to Kristina for all her support and encouragement.❤️
Thank you JESUS, for His many blessings.