If all my essential oil useage and supplements have paid off. Will do my PFT's then, chest xray, sputum culture, and of course general exam. I am hoping that my sputum will show that i'm PA free, like other CF's have shown after similar regimens. I must say though that I feel absolutely incredible, and that's without busting my hiney workout/exercise wise like I used to have to do (been kind of a sloth the last 2 months or so - But i'm going to change that real soon and get back to what I used to do weight/exercise wise). My lungs are incredibly clear. For nearly a month now people in my family have all been sick off and on to the seasonal bugs. Right now my fiancee is hating life with a very bad bronchitis situation and coughing like mad with stuffed up ears and bad runny nose, and we sleep together and haven't been making real attempts to avoid each other, and i'm fine. Before that my 7 year old niece who is here almost daily and around me was sick (she's always sick, shes more sick than I was with CF at her age), My mom and both my sisters (one sister living with me, the other here almost daily) were both horribly sick and around me also.
The closest I got to actually being sick was for about a day and a half my nose got stuffed up, and my ears got plugged, but no chest congestion. That was when I wasnt using the multi oil facial sauna (due to laziness), so I just uped the oil of oregano inhalation slightly, and it was gone in like a day and a half, totally gone. Before, as soon as I would get a runny nose and my ears were stuffed up, it was 100% guaranteed to settle into my chest and then turn into a full on infection and I was either in a world of s**t on home IV's or in the hospital...With the last time only got back to 85% afterwards. And those times were often when I was already on some form of preventive antibiotic like Tobi or something similar.
So I will know for sure when the 10th comes around. Even if it shows I still have PA, I know for a fact my lung functions will be off the chart. I know how I felt at my lowest recent point of only 50% capacity, and know what I felt like after the cleanout @ 85%. I feel better now many times over how I felt then. At that point, I will officially proclaim my experiment over. It's been atleast 5 months, so my pre oil self compared to my current self will probably look like a stark contrast to the doctors at my clinic, and when asked what i've done to do much more for myself than their medicines were able to, I will proudly tell them, and do my best to push for them to look into real patient trials, so what i've achieved and what other CF's have achieved, can be a common thing and prolong our lives and add quality to our lives.
I have told my CF doc's assistant what i've been doing, and what the results have been showing for myself and others, and she said she would seriously look into it. If I come back with nearly normal lungs (minus the old damage of course), i'm pretty sure I will have instant converts and advocats to recommend to other CF's what I have been doing, and that makes me very happy.
Thanks guys. If this turns out how I think it will turn out, in my opinion, i've done everything but cured myself of my disease, and made it truely manageable for the first time ever in my nearly 35 years of life. Thanks for dealing with my repetitive exuberance regarding the oils, but i must admit it will be hard to not to continue to spread my word to others. Hopefully many other CF's can feel as good as I feel now. I will keep you guys updated.
The closest I got to actually being sick was for about a day and a half my nose got stuffed up, and my ears got plugged, but no chest congestion. That was when I wasnt using the multi oil facial sauna (due to laziness), so I just uped the oil of oregano inhalation slightly, and it was gone in like a day and a half, totally gone. Before, as soon as I would get a runny nose and my ears were stuffed up, it was 100% guaranteed to settle into my chest and then turn into a full on infection and I was either in a world of s**t on home IV's or in the hospital...With the last time only got back to 85% afterwards. And those times were often when I was already on some form of preventive antibiotic like Tobi or something similar.
So I will know for sure when the 10th comes around. Even if it shows I still have PA, I know for a fact my lung functions will be off the chart. I know how I felt at my lowest recent point of only 50% capacity, and know what I felt like after the cleanout @ 85%. I feel better now many times over how I felt then. At that point, I will officially proclaim my experiment over. It's been atleast 5 months, so my pre oil self compared to my current self will probably look like a stark contrast to the doctors at my clinic, and when asked what i've done to do much more for myself than their medicines were able to, I will proudly tell them, and do my best to push for them to look into real patient trials, so what i've achieved and what other CF's have achieved, can be a common thing and prolong our lives and add quality to our lives.
I have told my CF doc's assistant what i've been doing, and what the results have been showing for myself and others, and she said she would seriously look into it. If I come back with nearly normal lungs (minus the old damage of course), i'm pretty sure I will have instant converts and advocats to recommend to other CF's what I have been doing, and that makes me very happy.
Thanks guys. If this turns out how I think it will turn out, in my opinion, i've done everything but cured myself of my disease, and made it truely manageable for the first time ever in my nearly 35 years of life. Thanks for dealing with my repetitive exuberance regarding the oils, but i must admit it will be hard to not to continue to spread my word to others. Hopefully many other CF's can feel as good as I feel now. I will keep you guys updated.