Setback or Failure?

Recently, all my old symptoms seem to have taken over my life again. My joint pain, the fatigue, the malaise.

For the past few weeks, I've slowly noticed how I went from feeling much better to feeling much, much worse. Right now, I am sitting here on the edge of just passing out from the fatigue. I am exhausted. And I've been sleeping, resting, and trying to eat well.

Everything seems to be falling down around me because of this. I feel like I knew it in the beginning, when I told myself not to set all my hope on this. Is this failure? Or is this just a setback?

Lovin' It

I have two great strides of progress in this journey to health and I'm so excited!!!!

1. My skin is clearing up amazingly. I'm still having breakouts, but not nearly as many and they are clearing quickly. There is still the scarring that hasn't healed from previous breakouts, but that's hopefully going to eventually lessen as well. I did one microdermabrasion which helped with skin tone and texture. I'm getting another tomorrow and hoping that will lessen the scarring as well.
2. I've lost weight! For the first time in 2 years, I've lost a considerable amount and kept it off for several weeks now. I'm soo excited for this! I haven't noticed a real difference in my appearance, but my mom has said that it's noticeable. So now I'm on a trip to lose even more weight! And I'm hoping that it will be a fairly easy process...

I can't pinpoint exactly what has caused these. It could be the pills, it could have been the diet, it could be other things.

I know one change that I am making in my life is drinking this juice called MonaVie, which is a blend of 19 different fruits including acai (an amazing Amazonian berry). It's shown considerable health benefits in many major research areas, including lessening the risk for cancer and heart disease. On top of that, many of its major benefits are directly against diabetic complications. So I am completely sold on this juice! A lot of the people drinking it are sleeping better, have more energy, have lower blood pressure, plus they just FEEL BETTER! I'm lovin' it.

Increase is Progress

They increased my progesterone doses. I'm quite excited for that to be done. I went through two cycles like they wanted. Both of them I was late by more than 8 days. I also had all of my typical symptoms associated with my period (cramps, headaches, appetite changes, tenderness, acne, etc). So now I'm taking 3 pills instead of the 2. It's a minute change to me, but I'm hoping even a SLIGHT improvement will show progress.

All my other pills have stayed the same. I'm still on 2 cortisol, but I haven't seen much improvement with what they tell me is "adrenal fatigue" symptoms. I have noticed weight changes so that could be a bonus from that.

I'm taking L-Tyrosine for my thyroid. So far it looks like I'm just having trouble using the thyroid properly if the thyroid really is the issue. I haven't noticed much change in that. Typically, I was feeling less fatigue, but that's changed in the last few weeks. Stress has got me down.

I've been sick and my blood sugars are running crazy so I'm not sure exactly what's causing these things. I'm hoping that within a few weeks, my stress levels will go down and my life will get back on track. Summer is way too stressful for me. I'm disorganized. I'm making changes. I'm working all the time. I have no life. I have no time to do anything important (sleep, shower, work out). It's frustrating because it's really taking a huge toll on my diabetes, but I'm just having to push through and hope it works out in the end.

Stay tuned to see what the new progesterone does for me. Gee, I need a change.