I posted in the other forums because nightshades also have strong affect for people with those conditions. Nightshades really aren’t good for anyone, but everyone reacts differently to poisons. The nightshade family (solanaceae) poisons (included in all the nightshades are alkaloids, nicotine [yes nicotine is in tomatoes too], solanine, scopolamine, atropine, and more) build up in our system no matter who we are. I mean think about how some people die from smoking cigarettes and some people smoke up into their 60’s 70’s or older. I remember George Burns smoking a cigar at his 100th birthday celebration. Not as bad a cigarettes but still some people get sick, cancer, or die from smoking anything toxic and some don’t even smoke and still die from second hand smoke, so yeah everybody handles poisons differently. It still affects them just in a slower way. I mean how does a person who’s been smoking most of his or her adult life look when they are in their.. say 60’s as compared to another person who lived a healthy lifestyle? It’s the same thing with alcoholics, some alcoholics live a long crappy life and look like crap and some die. I want to live a long healthy life and keep my nice skin, but most of all I want to FEEL GOOD! (Well I’m not quite there yet, but I won’t give up until I make it!)

Well anytime someone says something like, “...I can manage my... pain...” it makes me sad, because I believe there is something that can be done to eliminate pain. Pain is NOT normal! It means something is wrong and should be addressed or you’ll get worse. It may be a journey finding out what to do for a specific person’s pain and the root cause. Lord knows it took me a long time to figure out how to get out of pain (and then stupid me allowed some of it to come back with poor health choices, but now I’m on back on the health wagon and will be pain free again soon!), but just to accept it is sad to me.

My mother and I had nearly identical health problems. She chose to trust her doctors and medicines (even after seeing me get better and me begging her to try some of the things that helped me). Now she is in a wheelchair because she can’t walk more than a few feet at a time and she has heart and kidney problems now from all the medications that really didn’t work well in the first place and she’s only in her 50’s! While I’m jumping up and down on trampolines. I remember what a miserable life I had for so many years and after it dragged on and on and on with no hope in sight no matter what I tried, hoping for death so I didn’t have to feel the extreme and constant pain and suffering anymore. Because I was mostly only trying doctor after doctor and medicine after medicine, until someone suggested a simple supplement of a grape seed extract/pycnogenol mix. I was thinking how can a little over the counter pill help when dozens of doctors and dozens of medications haven’t been able to, but I was desperate and tried it and gave it some time. And well it helped me so much that I started investigating alternative health like crazy and here I am! But so after getting into alternative health and when my pain became manageable and I stopped wishing for death, I still didn’t accept that I was done until all the pain was gone. Even that took a long time after I discovered alternative health. Well that’s just how I feel because of my past and my mother’s present. So there ya go.

And as far as that link it has ‘some’ good information but some bad information too, I mean they suggest to take some NSAIDs which is best to not use them at all, but if used, should be only in desperate and infrequent circumstances, because in the end it makes thing much much worse and if researched you can learn why (and that’s from personal experience though too). And they list low fat milk (as in cow’s milk) as a healthy beverage, OH PLEEEASSSE cow’s milk is very unhealthy (you can research that as well). Geez I had to have the same operation multiple times (or at least I thought I needed them at the time, if I had know then what I know now, I could have cured myself) before I stopped (okay drastically reduced, hehe once in a great while I’m a bad girl, teehee) cow’s milk. So I drastically reduced my cow's milk intake and didn't need the same operation over and over again anymore! I’m not allergic to it or anything but it made my health problems much worse especially my airborne allergies. Also my children had different problems (not only different than mine, but different than each other's) until I forced them to drastically reduced their cow’s milk intake. Also I have met other people as well with problems to milk (beyond milk allergies and lactose intolerance) and tons and tons of people online. Cow’s milk is dangerous and not healthy! It’s best to stop all together but it’s so yummy darn it, just once in a long while doesn't affect me too much. It’s so upsetting that it is advertised as healthy and ‘does a body good’ cuz it doesn’t, it DOES A BODY BAD!!! Argg! Okay I’m done with my cow’s milk rant, hehe.

Wow I never mean to go on and on like I do but I just have such strong feelings about health right now since I allowed myself to have a relapse. I’m still upset at myself, but I know I have to forgive myself to heal better. Also I am going to choose to learn from this and see it as a lesson to myself and not to let it happen again!!!

Thank you for your input and I hope you all the best!