Change of Seasons

The period came and went uneventfully, so I appear to be on the right track with the whole food iron supplementation and ferrum phos.  All I needed was a little arnica for some minor cramplets one day and I was good.

Due to the changing seasons here in East Tennessee, my sinuses have been a bit more trouble than usual.  Our weather changes from moment to moment between hot and cold, rainy and dry when the seasons are changing so it's not terribly surprising that my body is having trouble keeping up and it's manifesting in my sinuses.  Still, it's not nearly as bad as it used to be.

I'm having to keep up with the SinuOrega and Sovereign Silver nasal sprays multiple times a day and it is helping.  They seem to be a lot less irritated, especially with the SinuOrega.  I guess it irritates the crap out of them all at once and there's no irritated left by the time it's done.  There was some blood coming out while blowing my nose and I could feel scabby-crusty stuff forming in the sinuses, but some hepar sulphur calcareum for a few days got that under control.  I read somewhere that it's supposed to be good for that, and it worked like a charm.  That's definitely going to stay on my go-to sinus drama list.

Doggie Drama

My Boxer recently had to have surgery to remove a small benign tumor in one of his lower eyelids that was really irritating him.  The vet had to take a V shaped section out of his eyelid to get all of it, and he did great up until a few days after surgery.  Then he pawed at his stitches and scratched his lid.  There was blood everywhere.  The dog, the carpet, me - EVERYWHERE.  Honestly I thought he had gouged his eye out.  So I put his cone collar on and took him back to the vet and it was just a little scratch, and he didn't do any damage to the stitches or incision (thank goodness!). 

Anyhow, his eye got super irritated after we got him cleaned up and home from the vet.  There was some blood tinged pus coming out of the eye almost constantly.  I got an eye dropper and started flushing his eye out with Sovereign Silver a couple of times a day.  Admittedly, the boy was not thrilled with it, but he tolerated it well and his eye cleared up and healed up beautifully.  His stitches came out yesterday and he's my happy, handsome Boxer boy again!

So Far, So Good

According to my period tracker I am about 2 days out, give or take, from starting my period.  So far I haven't had any advance symptoms of PMS.  Considering last month's stellar performance after having been on the Blood Builder and ferrum phos for a month straight, I am expecting nothing major this month either.

Periods without PMS ... I would never have thought it possible.

I am starting to notice some definite effects of the Camu Gold now.  It was subtle at first, so it was hard to pinpoint.  Really I am just feeling more joyful and upbeat, even at work.  Work is especially hard as I am in a very high stress field and around people who are pretty much in panic mode 24/7.  I think the Camu is making a difference there.

The Death and Demise of a Cystic Zit

Well, I had my first official zit since starting on the Silver/Aloe Protocol back in April.  Before I was on birth control pills I would get horrible cystic acne, especially on my chin, that would get pretty big and painful.  The mounds would get as big as half of a small marble on the surface of my skin and they would hurt so bad.  Even worse, they would last for weeks at a time and no over the counter acne meds would touch them.  Typically the end result is that I'd get so frustrated with there being no end in sight to the zit and break out the rubbing alcohol and a sewing needle and go digging in the zit for the infection.  I'd open the thing up and get out all the infection and then alcohol it to death, leaving a huge scab and a lovely scar.  Fun times!

I still get some clogged pores here and there on my chin, now that I'm off the birth control pills and on my new organic/homeopathic lifestyle, but those have never gotten infected and I've been able to easily extract them using an aethetician's tool.  Clogged pores are pretty normal for us oily skinned girls anyway.  But this one decided to go rogue on me.  I felt it starting to swell with a tiny bit of pain, but not bad.  It came up to a bit of a bump, more like the head of a pin.  I started slathering my chin with Sovereign Silver First Aid Gel immediately.

The zit never got any bigger, and the pain stopped, and then the zit went down to being not visible within 5 days of twice daily application of the gel.  I can still barely feel a bump under the surface of my skin, so I'm still applying the gel.  But that was FAST.

Any doctor will tell you that cystic acne is the most difficult to treat, because the infection is deeper in the skin and it never comes to a head like normal zits.  Instead they just look like giant cysts.  I have tried EVERYTHING on the market to fight these.  The Sovereign Silver must be able to penetrate way down into the skin to get to the infection somehow.  Admittedly I was taking the oral Sovereign Silver as well, to help with the recovery from my cold, and a little bit of sinus crud from the sudden weather change from summer to much cooler weather.  Still, I think it was the First Aid Gel that made the difference.