I'm 67 yrs old and it took me 5 weeks to heal from the flu. It's been a nasty winter season for humans but a good one for the flu virus. I was determined to face this enemy without vaccine, over-the-counter drugs or antibiotics. The result? I was miserable. I thought my immune system was better than that and I thought I could do effective battle with the "beast" with only my essential oils, MMS, vit. C, lots of rest, good supplements, warm teas with lemon juice and honey, gargling with Thieves mouthwash and saline water nasal rinsing and silver solution nasal spray. I look back on it now and I really didn't know what I was doing most of the time because I was so "out-of-it".
Fortunate for me, I am recently retired and did not "have " to go to work....teaching school (like the last time I was this sick with flu, winter of '09) so I did have the time to doctor myself. My husband worked everyday otherwise he could have helped me more, but I was so sick that I just forgot to do things for myself and I didn't get as much rest as I probably needed. It's tough being both patient and nurse.
I caught this virus the end of November 2012 when it peaked, according to the newspaper and I still don't know who or how I caught it. I'm not around young adults anymore, so I just don't know how. I didn't get the vaccine, never will get it as I don't believe in vaccines anymore. My adventure started with slight headache, when I bent over, and slight heaviness in the back of my sinuses. Once I felt that, I knew I was in-for-it. I started to put drops of essential oils (the Young Living ones) under my tongue and on the tip of my thumb and at the back of my throat. I don't gag easily so this was easy to do. I gargled with salt water first then switched to Theives Mouthwash. I also used oregano oil but it is very strong or "hot" and it took a few days to realize that I should dilute it with olive oil before putting it on the back of my throat. I changed my diet by reducing the amount of good food I was eating and upped my liquid content. I did not stop making and drinking my homemade raw milk kefir smoothies with pineapple juice and fresh pineapple, blueberries, spinach and green powders. Had it had been pasteurized milk I would have cause it is the pasteurized milk that causes excess mucus. I cut out all the fun carbs that come with Thanksgiving and the Christmas season and ate as much fresh and cooked vegetables as I could and fruit and eggs and meat and salads, but as the sinus infection increased, I just lost my appetite all together. I really tried to keep lots of liquids in me.
I hate sinus infections and over my lifetime I've had a few....not as many lately as I used to before I seriously started to eat healthy to the Blood Type diet first then morphed into the WAPF lifestyle (the two are compatible for an O). About 3 weeks into this, my sinuses hurt awfully just breathing dry air so I finally purchased a steam humidifier for the bedroom which really helped and I got a diffuser for oils which also helped. I just learned that the flu virus likes dry conditions! With moist, oiled air at night, I was finally able to sleep especially with my head up higher than my chest with a stack of pillows. I took oils by capsule. I bought a bag of 00 clear capsules and dropped oregano, Theives, purification and others into the capsules and swallowed with water. I think that helped. In the mornings, a good saline solution rinse out of my nasal passages, really helped clear the gunk out so I could spray some silver solution up in there. There was lots of gunk....I filled garbage bags and went through at least 2 big boxes of Kleenex.
When I am sick with the flu, I get very sensitive to the cold..... going out is a real challenge and I bundled up whenever I had to go out and I warmed the water before I mixed the salt into it for the nasal rinse. I wanted all my liquids to be warm. I got out of my stored camping gear, an Aladdin 36 oz Thermos bottle in the form of a coffee picture and put my lemon tea in that. All day I could pour warm tea from that without having to heat it up every time. (We do not use microwave oven). I have since bought another thermos because it was so useful. I took hot baths with Epsom salts and essential oils every other day which warmed me up all over and opened my sinuses and bronchial tubes.
The infection did go into my bronchial tubes and I coughed and coughed. At this point I was concerned about pneumonia and was prepared to go to a doctor and get antibiotics if that developed. It didn't! I was very fortunate that I didn't get pneumonia, so I never did visit a doctor or get drugs or antibiotics. So, maybe I didn't do so badly. 5 weeks of being sick is not fun and I wanted it to be over and done by week 3 or 4 but it dragged on. And then the herpes viruses came out on my upper lip! I used lavender and frankincense on that area of my lip where I felt the "tickling" and the oils kept it from really "flowering" like it usually does.
I did use my MMS but I used the wrong water and it made me sick so I did not use it effectively. With MMS, you mix two solutions ( citric acid solution and sodium chloride solution in ratio of 5:1 ) and wait 3 minutes and then mix with water to stabilize it then swallow and then drink apple juice to lessen the nasty taste. I just found out that you are not supposed to use regular tap water to stabilize it but use distilled water otherwise it makes you sick. Ha! that was what I was doing, so I don't think the way I was using it was effective. Next time....distilled water! Distilled water for the humidifier too and the diffuser.
I think I could have done better with the oils.... I could have done much better with everything, but, bottom line.... I did get well on my own ( not really my own, as I did pray frequently) and my immune system did "kick in" so maybe my experience didn't turn out so badly.....I believe I now have my own antibodies for this particular virus that could help me with the next bout.
Any suggestions out there? any questions? I'm still learning all this.
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