Thanks for your comments everyone...im still in limbo-land awaiting an MRI (insurance approval) before I can move on with finding out whats wrong. More and more im convinced its MS and my doctors even wrote on my charts (could be MS/possible MS) which scares the ever-livin out of me! I also have recently gotten vertigo/blurry vision/and shooting pain thru my head and neck which makes me think even more that theres something serious going on. I was just curious Deb I know you mentioned you were sugar free so does that mean you are using sugar free products (like artificial sugar)? If you are then I defintely think your symptoms could be coming from that. You should look up Aspartame poisening its really interesting how it relates to so many neurological/physical ailments and can rid you of a lot of them if you stop using products with the fake sugars in them. But anyways thanks for the comments and please please keep me in your prayers that its not MS. :)

Absolutely not, never again. I use Stevia, brand Truvia for now. I am growing my own stevia, won't know until fall how I do with it. I gave up all artificial sweeteners. I honestly feel they were keeping me from losing weight. The only thing that changed when I gave up the sweetener was the weight loss.

I won't touch sweaters except stevia which I like quite a bit.

Avoid all unnatural and processed sugars, including HFCS

Advertising is everything. People believe the ads on tv and in magazines, they just do not understand, these ads are put out by the industry that grows that crop, of course they are going to say it's fine for us. Like the stupid commercials that say "your body doesn't know the difference between cane sugar and corn sweeteners." Of course our bodies don't know the difference, it's all garbage. Same as the dairy industry telling people that dairy does a body good, that it actually helps you lose weight. All smoke and mirrors. Same goes for the soy industry, and I believe soy is one of the worst things we could put in our bodies, yet there are people whom think it's so healthy and that's because the soy growers tell them so. Everyone needs to listen to the people outside the industries, and hear the real truths about these products.

You have to be careful with stevia products too. Some of them actually have very little stevia in them. I am growing my own stevia this year, will see how that works!:p

I am on medication at this time. I chose not to do the vitamins and herbs that a fibro doctor that I went to see suggested. I wasn't interested at
the time. I will work through that option if I get worse.

I'm on gabapentin and a muscle relaxer at this time. And my other medications.

Donna:grouphug:

Beware anything in the media, especially in regards diet and health!
Do your own research.
Why are the advisory bodies ignoring tests that contradict their published views?
One doctor said it's because of: pride, profit or prejudice.
It's interesting to observe that since the demonising of animal fats, eggs and dairy, and the promotion of margarine, vegetable oils, grains and a low fat diet, that obesity and diabetes levels have sky rocketed.
Coincidence?
Western diets have been shown repeatedly to create health problems when there were none before, especially heart disease-there are numerous studies in people with high animal fat and little carbohydrate in their diets, who were very healthy but became ill as their diet changed. Main problems were obesity and heart disease.

So much media 'advice' comes from the wrong people, or subsidised by them. These lobbies are just too powerful to ignore or deal with, so they hold sway.
I'm currently reading Eat Fat, Lose fat, by Dr. Mary Enig.
Absolutely eye opening. This is a carefully researched book and I'd advise anyone interested in their health to read it, and find out what lies and deceptions have been, and still are, fed to us.
It goes through it all calmly and steadily and unravels the whole sorry mess.

On page 25, on the benefits of cholesterol (yes, it's essential) it says that low-cholesterol vegetarian diets can lead to leaky gut syndrome and other intestinal disorders. Cholesterol plays an important role in maintaining the health of the intestinal wall.
You should find this book in your library. It's a must read.

Thanks Peter, I will do a search for the book. I have been reading some very interesting books as of late too. One was called "Drug Muggers" , written by a pharmacist named Suzy Cohen...very interesting. The other day, I grabbed anotyher book called, ""Diabetes Without Drugs", also very intersting, that's when I realized it is written by the same pharmacist. She says all diabetes should go gluten free for their health and I do truly believe that also.

Doctors recommend so many meds, then they have to give other meds to counteract what the first meds are doing. It seems, often we are just torturing our bodies with all these meds when often times the first problem is our diet.

I don't exactly follow the diet's suggested in a book. I can't exactly keep
up with them. My body just doesn't like the way it wants to eat.

SO I have worked through my system looking for the things that attack my
body. And I've eliminated what I need to.

But as life would need to every once in a while its thrown me a loop just
recently. And I've had to adjust again.

Donna:grouphug:

Yes, so true.
Doctors seem to be either reluctant or unable to include diet in their work.
Drugs, on the other hand.....

Dr Carolyn Dean talks about a cure for leaky gut.
http://drcarolyndean.com/