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I have been suffering for more than three years. I still cannot sleep without using prescription narcotics. Clonazepam. I had a sudden and severe attack of gastritis in 2014 and the pills the doctor gave me caused insomnia but even when I stopped taking them suddenly I stopped sleeping altogether. I tried hospitals and doctors and they tried pills BUT I was awake for one month. Nothing worked. Now some pills work but not all the time and I feel like my brain is swollen and inflamed. A Hindu man predicted this for me in 2010. I think my aunt and him cursed me because i was successful and happy without doing Hindu things like her. I have no life and I am feeling drained. I don’t have depression. I love life and I want to live but the sleep disability is exhausting. Please will someone pray for me. That’s all I’ve been doing. I left my Hindu family because they think I’m choosing this. I just pray to God in Jesus’s name. I don’t want to give up and I don’t want to die. I live in isolation and torture. Been to so many doctors but all the blood tests come out fine. The endoscopy showed that I had gastritis but I don’t have proof for the intercranial pressure feeling in my skull and brain and inability to sl
 

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I have been suffering for more than three years. I still cannot sleep without using prescription narcotics. Clonazepam. I had a sudden and severe attack of gastritis in 2014 and the pills the doctor gave me caused insomnia but even when I stopped taking them suddenly I stopped sleeping altogether. I tried hospitals and doctors and they tried pills BUT I was awake for one month. Nothing worked. Now some pills work but not all the time and I feel like my brain is swollen and inflamed. A Hindu man predicted this for me in 2010. I think my aunt and him cursed me because i was successful and happy without doing Hindu things like her. I have no life and I am feeling drained. I don’t have depression. I love life and I want to live but the sleep disability is exhausting. Please will someone pray for me. That’s all I’ve been doing. I left my Hindu family because they think I’m choosing this. I just pray to God in Jesus’s name. I don’t want to give up and I don’t want to die. I live in isolation and torture. Been to so many doctors but all the blood tests come out fine. The endoscopy showed that I had gastritis but I don’t have proof for the intercranial pressure feeling in my skull and brain and inability to sl

:heart: Praying for you Ashpk. Welcome to CF. (((hug)))
 
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On it now. My next Chaplet of Divine Mercy will be for you; hold tight, have faith, help is on its way.
 
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Father, I pray for my sister and lift her up asking that you bring healing and peace to her mind and health to her body. Let the peace of God that passes all understanding come to her. Let her rest in You knowing that You care for her very much and that she is blessed. I pray that this sleep disorder cease to torment her in Jesus Name. Amen!
 
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I have all the will to live and the passion for the simple things in life. I want to exercise, dress well and love and laugh. My body has been ravaged by weird illness’s that deprive me of sleep. Pain and torture. Food and sleep deprivation. No friends or family. I am isolated. It feels like God is waiting for me to do something or maybe he cannot see me.
 
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On it now. My next Chaplet of Divine Mercy will be for you; hold tight, have faith, help is on its way.
Thank you so much. God has kept hope alive in me for three years. I feel oppressed. I also feel selfish asking for prayer because there’s so many people worse off than me but I’m feeling desperate. The day I start exercising and sleeping naturally without pain and pills and eat more food is the day I’m living for. Everyone is sick and tired of me so I’m isolated and i am alone because I don’t want to annoy anyone with my constant battle. Thank you again for praying for me. Because I know that only asking God can help.
 
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Dear Ashpk, I'm so sorry for your suffering. I know how physical suffering can cause so much pain in many different ways. You mentioned a hindu man predicting your circumstance? We need to come against words that have been spoken over you.
Jesus can break all dark powers and curses so let me pray for you...

Lord, I bring before your throne this precious one. The one that you see, who is not invisible to you. I thank you for their life. I come against any demonic, evil forces and powers that have come against your child Jesus. In your name Jesus, there is power and you are far superior to the darkness. We trust in your holy name and we know that you are a healer. I pray for your healing to come to this precious person so that they will live and thrive. Drive out the darkness Jesus, and the suffering. Bring fullness of health so that this one might know that you are God and you are good. Lord come quickly as these words are read and bring supernatural peace. Thank you Jesus that you are our healer. We trust in your name. Amen.
 
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Dear Ashpk, I'm so sorry for your suffering. I know how physical suffering can cause so much pain in many different ways. You mentioned a hindu man predicting your circumstance? We need to come against words that have been spoken over you.
Jesus can break all dark powers and curses so let me pray for you...

Lord, I bring before your throne this precious one. The one that you see, who is not invisible to you. I thank you for their life. I come against any demonic, evil forces and powers that have come against your child Jesus. In your name Jesus, there is power and you are far superior to the darkness. We trust in your holy name and we know that you are a healer. I pray for your healing to come to this precious person so that they will live and thrive. Drive out the darkness Jesus, and the suffering. Bring fullness of health so that this one might know that you are God and you are good. Lord come quickly as these words are read and bring supernatural peace. Thank you Jesus that you are our healer. We trust in your name. Amen.
I needed to hear this thank you
 
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Welcome!
I adjusted my diet (on my own---my MDs were of NO help) and cut the inflammation off! It was the source of the majority of my chronic pain! I hope you find your solutions (I weaned off all meds I could take too!)
Thank you. What diet are you following. I’m trying to go gluten free at the moment and I’m taking a nutrition shake. But my brain still feels inflamed. I’m low on nutrition b cause perhaps of the stomach inflamed.
 
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You can check out Dr Joel Wallach for complete info.... his work happens to support all I found out for myself---and then some! (But this is my list.)

NO soda
NO white foods. No sugars no artificial sweeteners no stevia (all but Sweet Leaf are chemically processed!)
NO nitrates/nitrites (nearly all packaged food has these)
NO MSG
NO margarine or combo spreads
No gluten, wheat, oats, rye, barley, (and I don't eat corn or anything "corn" because it's GMO and poison).
NO OILS! No anything oil or that has oil in it, including no mayonnaise! NOTHING Fried.

I am adding back in a little rice bc Wallach says ok for health (though IDK about inflammation for me yet)
I use real butter (from Ireland no less) and true organic foods when I can find them (but be careful bc the FDA has different categories and some are no more organic than the tire on your car imo!)

The main store in Florida is Publix and they put out a good brochure on gluten and gluten free foods they carry.

I buy UDIs breads no gluten, wheat, soy
I buy Namaste baking powder no gluten wheat soy peanut tree nuts sulfites mustard shellfish fish ...
I eat ONLY Perdue chicken, and Angus beef.

I have lots of allergies that limit me too! I cannot take any synthetic medicines or vitamins etc. This includes iron so I have to get if from food. I need salt but cannot use even non-iodine salt but use sea salt. Kale is my friend. (I also supplement. Zinc is hugely important not just for regular benefits but it cuts my cravings! Gone! When I find I crave something to eat, I have forgotten to take my zinc. (You crave or hate whatever is allergic to you, btw. Watch for those foods and do not succumb! :D) Dolomite I take because I need the perfect balance of calcium and magnesium (in fact the body cannot handle Vitamin D without magnesium.) I also dump in a few GRAMS of C a day... up to 10 actually. Many reasons why and what MDs don't know will kill me! lololol I also take selenium, and once in a while D3 (for some reason I cannot take D3 daily as it bogs me down. It might be the brand?)

Coffee and tea are drugs and I use sparingly ..hopefully as I figure out all my current food allergies I won't need them to help me breathe!

This weekend pray that I will remember to fast... a 3 day at least to clear my system of everything. I'll then begin to add back in foods to see which is giving me problems.

There are reasons for my choices, you might make some different choices. :) Such as Perdue chicken. Other chickens might be raised without the additives but then they are processed at the same plants, washed in the same water as chickens that are tainted. Perdue is not.
Angus beef has no added hormones and the like...other "natural" beef has funny wording that makes it like they don't give the cattle the bad shots and all but maybe the cattle eats it (from a trough???) IDK. I get sick when I eat it (buy it for dog as angus is too high in fat at 85% for him.)

Anyway. The first thing I did was give up white sugar, and then all white foods (breads, potatoes even cauliflower which I think will be ok for me now?) After that made me better I began studying and fixing my diet. I think there is one called Paleo?
Gluten was a sneaker on me, and Dr Wallach educated me on that. NO gluten is good for anyone. (And yes, oats have gluten but it's called gliada instead. Go figure?) If any scintilla of gluten gets into you, then it blocks the metabolizing of all the nutrients of everything else you eat and the body can't process it and then stores it! )

I eat lots of eggs! If not "raw" then the yolk must only be soft cooked, otherwise it's just ok for you (not bad) but not really good for you. I try to eat at least 3 a day. The brain is 70% cholesterol and when statins remove this, well I think that's what causes alzheimers? IMO.
I need the benefits of egg for myelin production. :D I don't have MS but had head trauma and neurological / nerve issues. I am better after 30 years of disability now I think bc of the healthier way I eat.

God has been very good in educating me and giving me people to meet ahead of their becoming famous for their data! BUT these choices are mine and might not represent what someone else needs to do.

I will pray that God gives you wisdom ---and everyone reading--- in how to change their lifestyle of eating and truly be healthy in the Lord! A day to day conscious reminded to set our minds on Christ and have him bless our healthy food!

Peace
 
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You can check out Dr Joel Wallach for complete info.... his work happens to support all I found out for myself---and then some! (But this is my list.)

NO soda
NO white foods. No sugars no artificial sweeteners no stevia (all but Sweet Leaf are chemically processed!)
NO nitrates/nitrites (nearly all packaged food has these)
NO MSG
NO margarine or combo spreads
No gluten, wheat, oats, rye, barley, (and I don't eat corn or anything "corn" because it's GMO and poison).
NO OILS! No anything oil or that has oil in it, including no mayonnaise! NOTHING Fried.

I am adding back in a little rice bc Wallach says ok for health (though IDK about inflammation for me yet)
I use real butter (from Ireland no less) and true organic foods when I can find them (but be careful bc the FDA has different categories and some are no more organic than the tire on your car imo!)

The main store in Florida is Publix and they put out a good brochure on gluten and gluten free foods they carry.

I buy UDIs breads no gluten, wheat, soy
I buy Namaste baking powder no gluten wheat soy peanut tree nuts sulfites mustard shellfish fish ...
I eat ONLY Perdue chicken, and Angus beef.

I have lots of allergies that limit me too! I cannot take any synthetic medicines or vitamins etc. This includes iron so I have to get if from food. I need salt but cannot use even non-iodine salt but use sea salt. Kale is my friend. (I also supplement. Zinc is hugely important not just for regular benefits but it cuts my cravings! Gone! When I find I crave something to eat, I have forgotten to take my zinc. (You crave or hate whatever is allergic to you, btw. Watch for those foods and do not succumb! :D) Dolomite I take because I need the perfect balance of calcium and magnesium (in fact the body cannot handle Vitamin D without magnesium.) I also dump in a few GRAMS of C a day... up to 10 actually. Many reasons why and what MDs don't know will kill me! lololol I also take selenium, and once in a while D3 (for some reason I cannot take D3 daily as it bogs me down. It might be the brand?)

Coffee and tea are drugs and I use sparingly ..hopefully as I figure out all my current food allergies I won't need them to help me breathe!

This weekend pray that I will remember to fast... a 3 day at least to clear my system of everything. I'll then begin to add back in foods to see which is giving me problems.

There are reasons for my choices, you might make some different choices. :) Such as Perdue chicken. Other chickens might be raised without the additives but then they are processed at the same plants, washed in the same water as chickens that are tainted. Perdue is not.
Angus beef has no added hormones and the like...other "natural" beef has funny wording that makes it like they don't give the cattle the bad shots and all but maybe the cattle eats it (from a trough???) IDK. I get sick when I eat it (buy it for dog as angus is too high in fat at 85% for him.)

Anyway. The first thing I did was give up white sugar, and then all white foods (breads, potatoes even cauliflower which I think will be ok for me now?) After that made me better I began studying and fixing my diet. I think there is one called Paleo?
Gluten was a sneaker on me, and Dr Wallach educated me on that. NO gluten is good for anyone. (And yes, oats have gluten but it's called gliada instead. Go figure?) If any scintilla of gluten gets into you, then it blocks the metabolizing of all the nutrients of everything else you eat and the body can't process it and then stores it! )

I eat lots of eggs! If not "raw" then the yolk must only be soft cooked, otherwise it's just ok for you (not bad) but not really good for you. I try to eat at least 3 a day. The brain is 70% cholesterol and when statins remove this, well I think that's what causes alzheimers? IMO.
I need the benefits of egg for myelin production. :D I don't have MS but had head trauma and neurological / nerve issues. I am better after 30 years of disability now I think bc of the healthier way I eat.

God has been very good in educating me and giving me people to meet ahead of their becoming famous for their data! BUT these choices are mine and might not represent what someone else needs to do.

I will pray that God gives you wisdom ---and everyone reading--- in how to change their lifestyle of eating and truly be healthy in the Lord! A day to day conscious reminded to set our minds on Christ and have him bless our healthy food!

Peace

Yes, we truly are what we eat!.... I have been strongly influenced by Jesus on what to eat. Basically, everything that grows out of the ground- all of Gods food. Anything else is processed- 'mans food'.
People don't realise how healthy they could be and how amazing they're supposed to feel. I've always gone back to my old ways by letting treats sneak in here and there, but I can honestly say that every time I've eaten clean (veg, fruits, seeds, nuts & grains & small amounts of protein), I am a different person. Much calmer, tons of energy & I'm so much happier.
 
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