Hey its been about a year. I am back and still trying to be raw. I have just finished being 100% RAW for three months, ninety days.
    I went off the raw diet last summer, I think because for me it does not work being partially raw.  I have to be 100%. I did notice that even though I went off the raw diet, I was incorporating more fruits and veggies into my diet than ever before. But I still have not felt well. To much stress in my life. Not enough happiness. No play. No discipline. No future I can map out.  So I have really been sick, and unable to put my finger on what it is, I started in seeing Doctors. I had a colonoscopy, it was all clear. I complained of a myriad of symptoms, bad headaches, breathlessness,  high up gut icky sickness. A general feeling of unwellness, some thing is wrong, but what! dizziness, painful joints. Bad temper. Very irritable. Depressed. Ears ringing. The sickness feels like a flu, comes in a wave, lasts for four or five hours to two or three days. Goes away for a week maybe two and all of the sudden here it is again. I ve  taken  several courses of antibiotics, maybe they helped?? Back it comes, tested for Gardie , nope not that, Sometimes it seems as if Gracie gets it too, did we eat unwashed food? Was it something they gave to us in a flu shot??  I went and seen Josh, a nurse practitioner, he put me on a pain pill, cymbalta 30 mg,clonazepam , priolosec for my stomach, as I was living on tums, I was 200 pounds. Said I needed to find stress release and exercise and come back in tree months, so I went raw.
    I went home and went 100% raw, quit taking all the pills and did better for 90 days.I also lost twenty pounds. But I still was not feeling well, bad  headaches, high gut dis comfort, so I went back. They tested my blood sugar, it is normal, thyroid, normal, pancreas, normal, heart, great. They did a stool work up, normal.They also did  a hormone spit test. This was slightly off. Low on both estradol(?) and progesterone.  So at this point they want me to have an upper GI. Might as well. There is some question of celiac disease. They also put me on progesterone and fish oil and magnisum.
   So here is kinda what I think, I think  I am having menopausal symptoms, I do think the progesterone will help. Same with the fish oil and the magnisum.  I am going to do a raw food and juice diet for thirty days with Gracie starting today. I think the headaches and maybe the ear ringing is coming from dehydration. I want this to be mainly a juice diet. I may have to compensate for the upper GI. But really am looking forward to doing this with Gracie. Hope we get some good results. Wish us luck and we will try to stay posted.