Mashed Yeast

I wish I could be enthusiastic about more things. I wish I could report back that by eating bland and tasteless chow that is often the color of dirt is a cure for what ails me. But the truth is after 3 months or so I am not in anyway convinced that this is a solution for anything other than making me eat and cook bland and tasteless chow by myself and adding a chunk of cash to my dietitian's wallet.

So the program is to try to cure RA through a change in diet and homeopathy. Listen I really want to get rid of this stuff. Yes the medication I am taking is helping tremendously but if I didn't have state funded health care I would be popping for a monthly bill of 1200 bucks. Not a pleasant thought and besides there are days like today when I know that what I am taking is just treating the symptoms. No I am not wailing in agony but I can tell you exactly which "articulation" is affected, And disturbingly the list is growing. So it makes perfect sense to me to get this stuff out of me.

OK friends recommended a homeopathist. Her name is Otrud. Obviously she is German. And she is very scary. Otrud says I have been suppressing my bodies desire to kick my ass. Otrud says that I will go through "hell" as my body gives me a whuppin' for taking the evil elixirs from the conniving, blood sucking "western" doctors. Six months of howling agony and then and only then Otrud will bring me back to life of mobility and Karma and brown rice and soy products.

I will also be required to abandon all of the medication that has in actuality has, depending on the day, given me back maybe 90 percent of what I had before I ate the dreaded camel.

So I did my due diligence. I spoke with the "cured" patients of Otrud and to be honest the results are impressive. I had lunch with a very pretty scientist who ironically is researching the just how RA affects the human body. For 10 years she had suffered from our shared malady... it was everywhere, including the joints between her jaw and her skull... there were days she could hardly bring herself to talk... anyway after Otrud's cure she now has no symptoms what so ever.

I spoke about the possibility of homeopathy with my evil western doctors who are seemingly some the nicest people I have ever met and they did not throw me out of the office and laugh at me. They understood my concern and said to try this new path. But they also said to not stop taking my evil western potions as Otrud has demanded.

I also spent sometime researching RA and homeopathy and read that according to the International Association of Homeopathists no lawful homeopathist would ever suggest not taking "western" medicine cold turkey when it comes to a serious illnesses.

So I have come to the conclusion that Otrud is not for me. I am still willing to explore homeopathy and have found a another doctor who is not so... hardcore. He is suggesting that homeopathy can cure RA but he prefers to work with my evil western doctors, gradually lowering the dosages and hopefully, in time suspending them.

Regarding the diet and the dietitian. Instinctually I do feel that this wheat, lactose and salt free diet is having a positive effect but I need to validate his opinions. I am going to go see a "western" food allergy specialist and see if I actually do have a sensitivity to these things. Look I love bread and cheese and if I don't have to give them up why should I. Onward.