Auto-Immune Disease?
4 Things You Need To Change In Hopes of Going Medication-Free
What’s worse? The agonizing pain of the auto-immune disease itself, or the immune system killing medications and their crippling side effects? I’ve visited both places.
Crohn’s Disease.
I’ve been doubled over by severe abdominal burning. The pain preventing me from sleeping. The abrupt and embarrassing trips to the bathroom. The feeling that your insides resemble hamburger and are swollen so tightly shut that nature’s “movements” come to a halt. Disgusting skin boils that erupt out of nowhere.
For me, abdominal burning = internal hemorrhaging.
And then there is the magic pill or miraculous injection that solves all of your problems, right? The magic pill that begins to kill off your immune system — slowly at first. Then remarkably the magic pill that was supposed to solve your health problems begins to create other health issues because it has dissolved your immune defenses. These magic pills sent me to the local emergency room…. twice! And that was enough for me!
Frustration and hopelessness run high when you know eating anything will lead to more pain, but not eating isn’t any less miserable. You begin to taste the sickness and feel like you are decaying from the inside out.
