Overcoming Celiac Disease Part II

Here is a continuation of my story of going gluten free, and then going "un-gluten free"
If you missed Part I you can read it here


To update you on the timeline of the story. I went gluten free March 2012. I met Nate in April and married him in July 2012. I had the endoscopy to confirm Celiac Disease in October, and the last bit of Part I was in February 2013. 

Anyway, so around that time is when I went in for a colonoscopy to see if I had Chron's disease because despite eating gluten free I was still very sick, but they never went through with it because they had me take a pregnancy test right before they put me out, and since it came back positive then i couldnt have it done. 

(#sidenote if you have ever done colonoscopy prep it is basically the worst prep for any medical procedure, believe me, I know. I have been to the dr sooooo many times over the past 9 years. I had passed out right before and was nauseated from the prep and they asked if I could be pregnant, since i didnt know we took the test and lo and behold, I was.....funniest and craziest way to find out...ever! I recommend anyone who could be pregnant and is going to do a colonoscopy to take a pregnancy test before you do the prep! #ifihadonlyknown)

The next 9 months were not fun (nate said I should be more positive, so lets say that again...the next 9 months were blissful because being pregnant is an amazing miracle, but I was so sick already and then add intense all day all night "morning sickness" for the whole pregnancy...it was a trial to say the least :)    ---you can view that story here) 

 So throughout this whole time, we would try random things like cutting out milk, or soy, or corn. Nothing seemed to help. Then I had eli and my life went all up in a flurry and we had no time to think about my stomach, I had a baby to keep alive!

After he was 5 months old, someone referred both nate and I (at different times) to a NAET specialist. They both had said that they knew someone that had celiac disease that this chiropractor/NAET practitioner was able to rid them of it. It was cheap and he was an LDS bishop so we decided to give it a try. I went in with high hopes that he would be able to heal me in a few appointments like he had the other people. (So there is hope for that for others, ...but little did I know that my case was much more complicated than that of the people's who referred us so it took much longer.)
 but I am ever grateful because it put me on the right path. 

We started going right away. The first appointment he tested me for things I was "rejecting." This is where the story gets interesting, because homeopathic medicine is not what we are used to here in the states!

NAET works with your energy. 

This NAET program, the doctor is trained in being able to read if your body accepts of rejects "energies" (in normal terms that means you are "allergic" or "intolerant" or it makes you sick).  They have small viles of water that have the "energy" of different things like wheat, milk, sugar, lectins, gluten, corn germ, etc (basically everything). You hold the energy in your hand as you lay down and put your other arm straight up in the air. If your body "accepts" the energy your arm keeps its strength, if your body "rejects" the energy or "has an allergy" to the substance, then your arm loses strength and they can push it down towards the table. It sounds weird, but it is very true. (Nate came with me to some appointments and he said it was weird but it really works!) I have been to different NAET drs sooooooooo many times and I try to keep my arm so strong all the time and whenever they did wheat or anything else that made me sick, my arm became so weak. But it would stay strong when they would do a placebo or something that my body wasn't rejecting. So I am a firm believer that this "energy" medicine works. 

Anyway, so what they do, is once they decide what thing your body is rejecting, they are trained to push on certain pressure points on your back to tell your body to start "accepting" the energy (or in plain terms, if its a food, that it will stop making you sick.) Then you completely stay away from the food for 24 hours and after 24 hours I miraculously could start eating the food  again without being sick. (well, some of them took a few times to overcome it, and wheat was the most stubborn)

It sounds crazy but it really helped me. I had allergies to like 40-60 things. Basically everything that you can think of besides white rice, organic eggs, and organic chicken (no spices, salt, oil, nothing else!) was making me sick!! We realized that I had allergies to all sugars, corn, veggies, fruits, nuts, food additives, colorings, etc, etc, etc.  Seriously, my list went on forever. And the Dr I was seeing was not as advanced as some other NAET practitioners, so he could only help with one thing at a time. So I went a lot! He did help me overcome things like sugar and corn and soy. So from seeing him I was a little less sick!

Despite him trying to help my body accept wheat about 10-15 different times, it just wouldn't.

#sidenote

I love NAET. I trust it, and would refer anyone to it! Most of their patients are seen for seasonal allergies, babies that have colic/reflux or have food allergies, autistic kids, infertility, headaches/migraines, food intolerances/IBS (here is a longer list of what they treat). Seriously, it has helped so many people, and if you are having a problem and normal doctors can't figure it out...go to a NAET specialist! Its just that for some reason, he couldn't help me with my complicated problem.

We moved to Denver for Nate's new job and I found another NAET practitioner that was more advanced. (you can go here to find a practitioner in your area, they are all over the place. At the bottom of the page, under "specialties" you can find someone who has been certified in more specific problems. Once the list pulls up of practitioners, then you can see all of their certifications and those who are more advanced obviously have more certifications and more training, but consequently also more expensive. Its your choice of who to go to, Basically Trained Practitioners still help people overcome allergies every day. They are usually cheaper per appointment. So its really up to you)

Anyway, so I went to an acupuncturist here in Denver that was certified for IBS

Ok, so this acupuncturist was so much more advanced. She could try and help with up to 10 or 15 things at a time, but for some reason that stubborn wheat wouldn't go away, and it was holding me back from accepting other foods. It was so frustrating. I remember her doing an acupuncture treatment on me after the NAET treatment (because she was nice and said it was all under one session fee.) So i was sitting in the room with needles all in me, and she is in the hall consoling Eli (about 7 months old) and I am in there crying. Have you ever tried not to move your face or body while crying? its pretty hard. Anyway, I was crying because i was so sad wondering if anyone or anything would be able to rid me of this disease that was consuming my life.

Anyway. So one day I had this idea to look up a Body Talk Practitioner. Long story short, Eli had torticollis   when he was a newborn and the specialist that I took him to to help fix his neck also did Body Talk, so she told me more about it back then and for some reason it came back to me around August 2014. So I found a practitioner (they are also all over the place, to find a practitioner you can go here or just google "Body Talk {insert your area name})

Anyway. I showed up, I told her my symptoms and she said she had helped countless numbers of people with my problems before. She said most people take a few sessions to be "healed" but lets start. She just talks to my body (to learn more about it from them, you can go here). A lot of practitioners will use your wrist as a "yes/no" answering system, but she was very advanced. She just put her hand on my abdomen and would intermittently tell me what my body was saying to her like:

"You had an exerperience when you were 11 and it really made you feel out of control. Your body has been holding on to that energy in your colon and it makes you sick."

She said the same types of things with my small intestine and stomach. Not all were related to a single event, but it had a lot to do with negative thinking, emotions, and energy.

I know...weird right? I thought so too...but just wait!

(i could say "to be continued" here, for dramatic writing effect...haha, but I won't. Some of you have had all the suspense you need.)

So, after about an hour. She said it was miraculous. She went deeper with a first time patient than she almost ever had. She said that to get to the real problem, you have to go deeper and deeper, and your body usually only allows so much in one session, but my body was ready to be healed, and that she went deep enough in this first session. She said that I didn't need to come back unless I wanted to, and that I should be fine.

um....k. Do you know how long I've been sick? I pay you 100 bucks, you put your hand on my stomach for an hour and you say I'm fine?

So I went home. I was scared. I didn't start eating gluten because I had already been faked out so many times in the past. So I waited. I went on a trip to help my sister in law with her newborn, and one of the meals we had, I accidentally had some gluten and I didn't get sick. So when I got home, I tried a little more, and a little more. Miraculously...I wasn't sick! I felt better eating gluten than I even did eating gluten free! It was a miracle.

Miracle. Miracle. Miracle.

From then on I have eaten normal foods.

I sit here now 8 months later telling you it was nothing less than a miracle! I know. You might be sick too. You might have a loved one that is really sick. I know. Its hard. I know it might sound unfathomable to think that you or they could be healed. I know it might be hard to think that you could have the same thing happen to you. It might sound like you are just like me and "really complicated."

BUT it might not be! You might be able to be fixed in just a few NAET appointments or it might take 10. It might take switching practitioners. It might take going to a Body Talk specialist one or four times. I don't know. But I know that for me, it was worth every bit of money. Every bit of effort.

I know.  

There are a lot of holes in my story.

You have a ton of questions.

What would I recommend that you do?

Do I think it'll come back?

Why didn't I tell you sooner? 

Over the past 8 months, when I have told this story to individuals wondering why I am eating normal foods, I have had so many of the same questions. So in Part III, I am going to do a question and answer post. So, post your questions below, email them to me (jessica.hawkes21@gmail.com), PM on FB. Whatever.

until next time!