in my own analysis I believe your immune system has to be in the toilet in order to contract and suffer adult chicken pox...but why? That is the question.
in sequence:
This whole thing started out as slightly swollen mastoids and a few itchy hives on a Monday.
The following Friday 08/21/09 these small blisters appeared and I knew it wasn't a simple sinus infection.
They're so cute when they're little.
each day brought a changing blister status, very swollen glands and a new level of discomfort.
yellow scabs appeared
Horton hears a who? ...had blisters inside and outside my ear.
I'm told adults can die from this virus!
The following Monday I went to the ER.The Doctor took one look at me and said this is chicken pox.I remember the relief I felt after this dressing was applied.The blisters were photo sensitive to even the smallest indoor lighting.
Treatment was keflex 2 grams and valtrex 2 grams daily for 7 days.I also took 3 to 4 grams of L-Lysine along with huge doses of ascorbic acid plus I lived on echinacea tea.The highest count of AA I remember taking was over 35 grams in one day and I never hit my bowl tolerence.Per Cathcart, this virus requires an IV of sodium ascorbate @ 50 grams to neutralize.IF ONLY!
I found a paste to apply to the blisters on Cathcart's site.The paste was amazingly soothing and dried up the weeping (spreading) blisters fast.Up to this point I had been washing it with Braggs ACV, that was somewhat soothing but the smell started to gag me....topically, acid is like kryptonite to pox.
Cathcart's recipe at the bottom.
Drying up stage.
Last pic is the two week point from the first appearance of the small tell tale blisters - I look and feel better.
The viral symptoms affected the inside of my brain also, it pretty much shut down the ability to think beyond the immediate moment, make any kind of decision or remembering when and if I took my pills and or ate anything.I had zero appetite, lots of sweats and chills.Two or three consecutive hours of sleep was the most I could get.I could not sleep at night, it was insane.It seemed to me that all of my brain functions had dangerously shorted out of balance.
I kept a journal faithfully to help my recovery.
My hard drive gluten epiphany...
in the midst of treating this virus, Eric brought me a pint of chicken noodle soup.I had been living on tea and 1 slice of oat bread toast.I was too weak to care about pouring the soup into a bowl so I pulled off the top of the pint container and drank the broth, it felt good, soothing, so I laid down and slept. I woke up felling good with a little appetite and went back for the noodles on the bottom of the pint container.Within 20 minutes after eating the noodles my blisters were screaming with pain - up to this point I had not experienced any hard pain, just soarness and mild burning with a high level of all around discomfort.Noodles baaaad.TBC.
Looking back through the decades and the illnesses I battled:
1969 emergency appendectomy
1975 postpartum PID
1979 epidural = arachnoiditis
1982 hep B
1990's musculo/skeletal pain oral
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Cathcart's recipe: 1 gram baking soda + 1 gram AA - add a few drops of water to make a paste and apply it.I used this formula on the dog when she got 3 hot spots from (we think) flea bites in the middle of Sept.It healed the two spots on her back within a few days - the hair grew back.The third spot on her tail needed more attention because she could reach to bite it.
Note: regarding vitamin C - any oral dose for dogs should be calcium ascorbate only.You can make the paste with AA.
