Something was not right with me - UPDATE

Not dead yet, feeling much better.....

I tried selenium around midnight - within an hour the headache was worse. Nausea, not a happy camper. Settled down a bit, could not sleep. Tried some bicarb in water.. belched and headache got worse again. I decided to just drink water... managed to doze and get up to pee over and over. Headache still bad, edema still bad. Tried aspirin at 7 a.m. and then had breakfast - cup of coffee included. Forced myself to go for a walk and actually got myself to climb some hills and sweat. Then I decided I would stop the iodine, pushes and all for a bit.. give my body a chance to finish throwing off this dragon detox... so I stopped at the health food store and got stuff to make juices for the next day or so.. and I got a craving. I bought some raw milk and a piece of carrot cake with wicked frosting. I walked home and sweated some more carrying lots of heavy apples for juice.
When I had the glass of raw milk (around noon) my headache vanished. I kid you not - gone in minutes. I ate some of the cream cheese frosting after a while, after the headache was gone - which was all I really wanted. And I felt better and better... I have been sitting here catching up on email and business and being dazzled by how great it is to NOT have a headache and feel awful. I am so grateful, I feel giddy. Something in the milk did it.. the raw enzymes, the fats - I don't know. Maybe whatever is leaving moved on closer to the exit... I don't know. I just know I am relieved and resting and going to take a breather from Iodine and all the supplements. I am going to do the juices for a few days, might even see if I feel well enough for a Liver Flush and more juices. My intuition is telling me this was a healing crisis, not an illness. Something brought on by all the good stuff I am giving my body.. not by anything bad.
I have been having salt on my food, not holding back in that area. I had a negative reaction to the salt push at first.. but within four or five days the body got used to it. With the potassium chloride I used 1/2 teaspoon once or twice a day, could stop for a day and then start again with no seeming trouble.
I suspect that the edema was my body protecting me from whatever was on the way out and as uncomfortable as it was.. it is subsiding and I am almost, not quite, cheerful. When I want to get back to work I will know I am all better.

Thank you so much for hearing me. Not scoffing, making light of or dismissing this. In the dark night it helped enormously to come here and let you in on this and hear the voices coming back at me. Enormously. And to come here now and read all of the new posts - like Wombat's feedback just to mention one example - on top of the support I felt last night. Well, it is deeply felt and much appreciated.

This healing journey is multi layered. Staying the course when the path seems to bend upon itself or get lost in the mist... man, that is tough! But, the mist clears, the path shows itself. And I find clarity to chose the next step.

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