How Are You Staying Healthy With Your Diagnosis?
RTB wants to know: What are you doing to stay healthy?
Drugs, micronutrients, clean-living, excercise, prayer, socialization, meditation, sex, yoga, writing, talking, reading, walking, thinking, fighting?
What has worked? What hasn’t?
What’s your trick to staying healthy?
Share your experience and your regimen…
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A lot of the things I do to improve my health are already named above, but here goes:
Rethink how you define “health”. Instead of numbers on lab reports, consider how you feel. Learn to listen to your body.
QUIT SMOKING. The single biggest change that improved my health.
Find a good alternative practitioner to advise you on an elimination diet to identify food sensitivities. Dairy, sugar, processed foods are all candidates for suspicion.
Initiate as many of the following as possible: acupuncture; meditation; yoga; resistance and aerobic exercise training (include walking, biking or swimming); neurofeedback; hypnosis. Find what your body responds to and practice it. If it doesn’t help you, let it go.
Dietary and nutritional supplements, especially antioxidants, selenium, glutamine, NAC and ALA are important. They are not a substitute for eating a balanced diet of fresh foods.
Pay special attention to your gut and intestinal health. Consider flushes, enemas and probiotics. Get help from a knowledgeable practitioner, if possible. Google “intestinal dysbiosis aids”.
If taking ARVs, consider stopping them before your health declines. Be prepared for some withdrawal effects and don’t freak out when surrogate markers (VL and cd4 counts) jump or dive. That’s normal and natural. In my case they stabilized, though I no longer strive for “undetectable” because I don’t consider that number a measure of good health.
Typically a list like this includes advise to find a sympathetic doctor who is open minded, but I’ve given up on that. Sorry. It may be a different situation in other areas. For the most part, we’re on our own and must rely on each other, imo.
Learn as much as you can about what is not going on in your life and body. If you’re here, that’s a good sign you’re on the right path.
(more information about my personal path on my blog)