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My Sinusitis Story
Donia Alalawi
What started my quest for achieving a healthier place than where I “already was”? I did not really think I needed to be “healthier”: I always tried to be healthy and compared to many of my friends and people I came around, I was always told that I was very disciplined with my food choices and I was often lovingly poked fun at for eating organic and natural. So why was I still suffering, for years, from environmental allergies, which became chronic, from sinusitis, and from a fatigue that left me aching every day?
From about 20 years of age to 50, and without fail, every October through November, I was sick with strep throat AND some other virus that would be going around that year. Every year, I was sick for weeks, often sick back-to-back with strep and a virus. I began to take in the thought that “maybe I am not as healthy as I thought….and if I’m not….then what is healthy other than what
I am already doing?!”
From about 20 years of age to 50, and without fail, every October through November, I was sick with strep throat AND some other virus that would be going around that year. Every year, I was sick for weeks, often sick back-to-back with strep and a virus. I began to take in the thought that “maybe I am not as healthy as I thought….and if I’m not….then what is healthy other than what
I am already doing?!”
…Enter the horror and wonder of prescription drugs…
For my allergies, chronic stuffiness in my nose, that often felt like my entire front face was stuffy and hot, I had started to take over-the-counter prescription allergy drugs. That did not work. None provided relief beyond about 5 hours….even though the box would claim either a “12 hour relief” or “24 hour relief”. I moved on to finding the best quality herbal homeopathic remedies that I could find. I did find slight relief from those drops and pills….but I would have to bust through an entire tincture in a week to keep up with managing all my symptoms. I then moved on to working with a naturopath for about two years. What my naturopath and I tried to tackle was the painful fatigue, and the allergies and the sinus stuffiness that I desperately wanted to get rid of. With lots of blood tests and other tests, it was determined that I had no hydrochloric acid production in my stomach, my adrenal glands were not working, and I had incredible inflammation in my sinuses.
With my naturopath, for two years, I was on a small amount of probiotics, adrenal glandular support pills, hydrochloric acid pills, vitamin B complex, and vitamin D. I could not get off my adrenal glandular pills for more than three days, because the fatigue and dizziness would return exactly three days after being off the supplements. And….my allergies and sinusitis did not find any relief.
“Just when the caterpillar thought the world was over, it became a butterfly”
I started to think that maybe this is what I just had to live with….that maybe this is just normal for my aging body and that this is just the quality of life that I am “stuck” with and just have to learn how to deal with. I believe that SO many of us, are stuck in a place where we believe a major lie, a lie that says degenerative conditions are normal and to be expected as we age. For different age groups, there are different health challenges that we are supposed to accept and own. But I have learned that it is simply not true! It is not true that this quality of life is my destiny! What I have found to be true as well as truth, is that it is up to me to get myself healthy and on the road to healing. It is true that nearly all degenerative “disease” and other health challenges are reversible! It is true that we have a magnificent body, with an innate intelligence within, that just KNOWS what to do to heal, given what it needs.
“The human body is a marvelously designed living organism with the ability to grow, regulate, repair, and defend itself when given natural, high quality, full spectrum nutrients”
What I have learned is what my body needed and needs to heal my miserable conditions is a lot of focus on healing my digestive system. What I have learned is that what I thought was healthy and smart food choices, was actually throwing my body into a war with itself, using up much precious energy not to reconstruct and detox daily wear and tear in the tissues and cells, but using that energy to constantly be digesting all my “smart” food choices. I have learned a health model that not only makes so much sense, but it WORKS. My body now has what it has needed for many years now, and in return, it is healing. My frequent sneezing attacks, my chronic stuffiness, my constantly watering eyes, all the other “allergic reactions” are nearly all gone. When I breathe, I can feel the breath deep in my face like I didn’t know was possible! I am not fatigued anymore. I have kicked my caffeine habit very easily and quickly and am no longer a slave to my coffee! When I eat now, I know in my bones, that what I eat is incredibly nourishing for my body and I am very grateful to that.
I have created this website to help others like me, who have believed for so long a big lie, about their intelligent bodies and who have accepted or been trying to accept, that a life filled with miserable qualities of health challenges is their destiny. Your body is its’ own ultimate healer….no doctor, no prescription can heal your body. Your body can heal your body. It knows what to do. What is our responsibility is to get educated on how to provide our bodies the support it needs, mainly through FOOD, to let it have its’ process to take us on a road to healing. I have done it, and I believe you can too, no matter how different our ailments and symptoms may look.
My goal in setting up this website is to inspire, empower and support every single individual, suffering from sinusitis, to have the kind of success and positive results that I have experienced by using a natural and holistic approach. Suffering from sinusitis negative symptoms is not your inescapable destiny. This website will teach you how to use a natural diet and a whole food supplement program to heal from sinusitis naturally. So, let the journey begin….and I sincerely hope that you will use the information provided in this website to lead you to a life free of sinusitis negative symptoms.
For my allergies, chronic stuffiness in my nose, that often felt like my entire front face was stuffy and hot, I had started to take over-the-counter prescription allergy drugs. That did not work. None provided relief beyond about 5 hours….even though the box would claim either a “12 hour relief” or “24 hour relief”. I moved on to finding the best quality herbal homeopathic remedies that I could find. I did find slight relief from those drops and pills….but I would have to bust through an entire tincture in a week to keep up with managing all my symptoms. I then moved on to working with a naturopath for about two years. What my naturopath and I tried to tackle was the painful fatigue, and the allergies and the sinus stuffiness that I desperately wanted to get rid of. With lots of blood tests and other tests, it was determined that I had no hydrochloric acid production in my stomach, my adrenal glands were not working, and I had incredible inflammation in my sinuses.
With my naturopath, for two years, I was on a small amount of probiotics, adrenal glandular support pills, hydrochloric acid pills, vitamin B complex, and vitamin D. I could not get off my adrenal glandular pills for more than three days, because the fatigue and dizziness would return exactly three days after being off the supplements. And….my allergies and sinusitis did not find any relief.
“Just when the caterpillar thought the world was over, it became a butterfly”
I started to think that maybe this is what I just had to live with….that maybe this is just normal for my aging body and that this is just the quality of life that I am “stuck” with and just have to learn how to deal with. I believe that SO many of us, are stuck in a place where we believe a major lie, a lie that says degenerative conditions are normal and to be expected as we age. For different age groups, there are different health challenges that we are supposed to accept and own. But I have learned that it is simply not true! It is not true that this quality of life is my destiny! What I have found to be true as well as truth, is that it is up to me to get myself healthy and on the road to healing. It is true that nearly all degenerative “disease” and other health challenges are reversible! It is true that we have a magnificent body, with an innate intelligence within, that just KNOWS what to do to heal, given what it needs.
“The human body is a marvelously designed living organism with the ability to grow, regulate, repair, and defend itself when given natural, high quality, full spectrum nutrients”
What I have learned is what my body needed and needs to heal my miserable conditions is a lot of focus on healing my digestive system. What I have learned is that what I thought was healthy and smart food choices, was actually throwing my body into a war with itself, using up much precious energy not to reconstruct and detox daily wear and tear in the tissues and cells, but using that energy to constantly be digesting all my “smart” food choices. I have learned a health model that not only makes so much sense, but it WORKS. My body now has what it has needed for many years now, and in return, it is healing. My frequent sneezing attacks, my chronic stuffiness, my constantly watering eyes, all the other “allergic reactions” are nearly all gone. When I breathe, I can feel the breath deep in my face like I didn’t know was possible! I am not fatigued anymore. I have kicked my caffeine habit very easily and quickly and am no longer a slave to my coffee! When I eat now, I know in my bones, that what I eat is incredibly nourishing for my body and I am very grateful to that.
I have created this website to help others like me, who have believed for so long a big lie, about their intelligent bodies and who have accepted or been trying to accept, that a life filled with miserable qualities of health challenges is their destiny. Your body is its’ own ultimate healer….no doctor, no prescription can heal your body. Your body can heal your body. It knows what to do. What is our responsibility is to get educated on how to provide our bodies the support it needs, mainly through FOOD, to let it have its’ process to take us on a road to healing. I have done it, and I believe you can too, no matter how different our ailments and symptoms may look.
My goal in setting up this website is to inspire, empower and support every single individual, suffering from sinusitis, to have the kind of success and positive results that I have experienced by using a natural and holistic approach. Suffering from sinusitis negative symptoms is not your inescapable destiny. This website will teach you how to use a natural diet and a whole food supplement program to heal from sinusitis naturally. So, let the journey begin….and I sincerely hope that you will use the information provided in this website to lead you to a life free of sinusitis negative symptoms.
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