Anytime you start a new program, whether it be a fitness and nutrition plan, a mindset program, mindfulness, stress management, or a complete reset, it is important to start by setting yourself up for success. All too often, when starting a new program, my clients want all the results all at once, and they want …
Healing from being floxed (adversely affected by fluoroquinolone antibiotics) is a long process. Basically, our lives have been turned upside down and nothing is the same. We have to change just about everything we do in order to get through our day and to start healing. One of the most important things that we have …
Dietary Considerations for Healing from Fluoroquinolone Toxicity Read More »
In the past few months, it has been revealed that fluoroquinolones increase a person’s risk of having an aortic aneurysm. I have had several questions about this pertaining to getting screened for it. Do we get screened or not? My answer is by all means, if you are already having other debilitating adverse effects from …
Fluoroquinolone Woes…Attempting to Get Screened for Aortic Aneurysm Read More »
In July of 2014, I was floxed following 5 days of the antibiotic, ciprofloxacin for a UTI. My entire life changed overnight. I went from fully functioning, vibrant, fit, at the top of my game to a cripple, pain ridden, defeated woman. As I pulled my pharmaceutical, medicinal chemistry and biochemistry backgrounds together, I knew …
Fluoride and Fluoroquinolone Toxicity – Could there be a connection? Read More »
When it comes to feeling good and regaining your health, self-care is one of the most important things we can do for ourselves. I am sure you are thinking, “Yeah right…I barely have the energy to shower in the morning, let alone focus on self-care practices…” I get it. Please keep reading. Prior to my …
Connecting to Self-Care, when your previous self-care practices are out of reach Read More »
The path to recovery from fluoroquinolone toxicity tends to be a few steps forward, a few steps back. Sometimes we make huge gains and little steps back, and other times it is the other way around. I encounter this with my clients on a daily basis, and I consistently support them through the ups and …
Triggers and Setbacks to Healing: Tips for reigning yourself back in Read More »
Prior to being floxed (afflicted with fluoroquinolone toxicity), I viewed myself as a happy, joyful, optimistic, innocent, light-hearted, loving and active woman. I could more often than not, find a positive perspective to anything gone “wrong.” Any adversity that life handed me…I turned it around to help someone else with it….thus making it a positive. …
I truly consider myself to be abundantly blessed. One of those blessings is that my office ended up inside a building where my lovely massage therapist has her office. We met as we were both moving into our offices at the same time. I am a huge fan of pampering with massages. Yet somehow life …
One of my countless blessings in this lifetime has been the love, patience, and devotion of my love, Nick. At the time that my condition started, we had been together almost 4 years. One of the things I wanted in a life mate was someone I could rely on through the highs as well as …
Knowing that I was suffering a serious adverse effect of a medication, I was bound and determined to figure out the biochemical reasoning behind the adverse effect as well as figuring out how to reverse it. I searched for “treating Cipro toxicity”, “reversing side effects of Cipro”, “mechanism of action of Cipro induced tendonitis”, and …
My Path to Recovery…Starting to Make Connections Read More »
