Kinesiotherapy and Results

"Trust in the Lord with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding. In all your ways submit to Him and He will make your paths straight." Proverbs 3:5-6

I went for 15 sessions of "kinesiotherapy" (similar to physiotherapy) and was so conflicted all throughout because I wasn't feeling any difference at all and hated the thought of wasting MORE money on something that wasn't going to help. I was asking the Lord over and over again what I should do and just waiting for an answer. At the end of all the sessions the doctor there told me that I MUST continue and she guaranteed that I would get better.....eventually, but she didn't know and couldn't tell me when.

At my final session I was having a very painful day with lots of inflammation and heat in many of my joints and it was quite an awful process to go through, telling the doctor that I basically didn't believe her! I still felt conflicted and confused but felt that the Lord was telling me to rely on Him and not what people trust in. After talking AT me for over an hour the doctor finally said that if I wasn't planning to come back for more sessions I should be doing certain homeopathic injections, doing the exercises they gave me to do every day, having a 5 second ice cold bath three times a day, using some topical ointments and fasting for 24 hours. I didn't actually plan on doing any of those things but the fasting certainly intrigued me. She said that fasting was the quickest way to reduce inflammation and while I never thought that inflammation was part of my problem before, I certainly realized that it was throughout this process.

I decided to try it and the first time I fasted I was shocked at how good I felt afterwards. I started researching fasting extensively and it turns out that there is actual scientific proof that it does reduce inflammation. Who knew?! Since then I have been fasting every Monday (into Tuesday) for 36 hours at a time. It has been six weeks already and I have to say, in general I feel much better. I still have some terrible days, I still have pain in all the same places and in varying degrees but the overwhelming, all day, every day pain is incredibly reduced. It's like a fog has lifted and instead of being in pain all the time, I can tell you exactly which days were bad and which exact places hurt. There are even some days where I have only a very small amount of pain for a limited amount of time.

It has been a very interesting experience and I will continue fasting once a week for as long as it provides relief. I'm incredibly thankful that I finally found something that is helping longer term and all the inner turmoil I went through during the sessions was worth it because it led to this!