First, I will say: THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU!!!!
I was forced to be on the depo shot for 4 years as a teenager. My mother got pregnant when she was 15, so she forced me to be on the shot when I turned 14. She didn't trust me to take a pill every day or keep a patch on. She refused to believe me that I was not sexually active. She assumed that because she lied to her mother, that I would, too, but I did not!! Mostly at the time I figured I would appease my mother, but it really had horrible terrible results on me from the very beginning.
Within 2 months, I had gained 50 lbs. Throughout the years, I gained another 20 lbs. To this day (I am 21 now), getting it off has been a nightmare! Diets, serious exercise... nothing works. I have been married for a year and a half (to the same guy I was "dating" at 14, I'll add), and now we want children... but after a year, there has been no luck. After reading everything, I see that it's probably not luck, even tho I have been off of it for years.
I never had a period in that 4 years. Years later, and they are still seriously irregular. I can't guess when I will have one or not. Considering I've wanted to get pregnant for a year now... that in and over itself has been a nightmare.
Other things I am just now connecting, really... like my hair. I shed my hair constantly at drastic rates... no matter how clean I am, my hair is loose everywhere! And, tho I am loosing hair where I WANT it, I have plenty of hair where I DON'T want it.
I'm constantly sick. My parents thought I faked it a lot, because they believed that someone just couldn't actually get colds as often and for how long as I did. When my husband heard what you wrote, he flipped out. He himself connected one problem after another problem... and how much I related to you. My mother died when I was 18, but my husband now hates her more than anything for making me be on this shot, especially when I never needed it.
My bones are -TERRIBLE-. It wasn't until I had already been on the shot for 4 years that they made the discovery that no woman should be on the shot for more than 2 years, because it takes away bone density. I'm sure that there are 70 year old women with bones better than mine. I seriously DREAD the time when/if I am 70. All of this happened in a time period that was very essential to my growth, and I fear that I will never be fully well, or that I will never be able to have children. A woman I know forced her daughter to be on the shot, too, and she has been unable to have children for 8 years of trying now. I don't want that to be me.
Throughout the time of the shot, I had TERRIBLE migraines. Ones that would make me cry and run off to a dark room. A couple of times I passed out at school, and had to be taken to the hospital. They never made a connection. I was put on more pills in an attempt to solve the issue.
I was -seriously- depressed through all of those years as well. This went beyond normal teen depression, because normal teens do not attempt suicide (I was 15). I am not positive if there is a -direct- link, but I am SURE the pill effected my moods. Even if it did not effect them to that extent... going from a healthy (I've been 5'8" since the 7th grade) 130 lbs to 180 in a couple of months... and then on to 200 lbs all in high school couldn't have possibly helped my depression.
I actually made the connection after an extreme migraine hit, and I was determined to do research. I started browsing through the internet (clicking one link from one person's site and going to another site), and I eventually found your book. I read almost all of it in one sitting... and then I ordered two of the fasting books you recommended. Again, when I got them, I read about 100 pgs in one sitting. I had fasted for short periods of time for religious purposes (I'm a Christian), but I had not done research on it (Jesus fasted! That's enough for me!). I am now on a diet that goes between all-raw and short fasts. I want to do a long fast, but I can't find someone very locally who can watch over something like this. My husband is very supportive.
THANK YOU THANK YOU!
I have faith that this will work, but even if it doesn't, like you said, it helps a lot to know what is wrong with you and what caused you to become this way. Either way, it's not like an all-raw diet is going to be BAD for me!
I was forced to be on the depo shot for 4 years as a teenager. My mother got pregnant when she was 15, so she forced me to be on the shot when I turned 14. She didn't trust me to take a pill every day or keep a patch on. She refused to believe me that I was not sexually active. She assumed that because she lied to her mother, that I would, too, but I did not!! Mostly at the time I figured I would appease my mother, but it really had horrible terrible results on me from the very beginning.
Within 2 months, I had gained 50 lbs. Throughout the years, I gained another 20 lbs. To this day (I am 21 now), getting it off has been a nightmare! Diets, serious exercise... nothing works. I have been married for a year and a half (to the same guy I was "dating" at 14, I'll add), and now we want children... but after a year, there has been no luck. After reading everything, I see that it's probably not luck, even tho I have been off of it for years.
I never had a period in that 4 years. Years later, and they are still seriously irregular. I can't guess when I will have one or not. Considering I've wanted to get pregnant for a year now... that in and over itself has been a nightmare.
Other things I am just now connecting, really... like my hair. I shed my hair constantly at drastic rates... no matter how clean I am, my hair is loose everywhere! And, tho I am loosing hair where I WANT it, I have plenty of hair where I DON'T want it.
I'm constantly sick. My parents thought I faked it a lot, because they believed that someone just couldn't actually get colds as often and for how long as I did. When my husband heard what you wrote, he flipped out. He himself connected one problem after another problem... and how much I related to you. My mother died when I was 18, but my husband now hates her more than anything for making me be on this shot, especially when I never needed it.
My bones are -TERRIBLE-. It wasn't until I had already been on the shot for 4 years that they made the discovery that no woman should be on the shot for more than 2 years, because it takes away bone density. I'm sure that there are 70 year old women with bones better than mine. I seriously DREAD the time when/if I am 70. All of this happened in a time period that was very essential to my growth, and I fear that I will never be fully well, or that I will never be able to have children. A woman I know forced her daughter to be on the shot, too, and she has been unable to have children for 8 years of trying now. I don't want that to be me.
Throughout the time of the shot, I had TERRIBLE migraines. Ones that would make me cry and run off to a dark room. A couple of times I passed out at school, and had to be taken to the hospital. They never made a connection. I was put on more pills in an attempt to solve the issue.
I was -seriously- depressed through all of those years as well. This went beyond normal teen depression, because normal teens do not attempt suicide (I was 15). I am not positive if there is a -direct- link, but I am SURE the pill effected my moods. Even if it did not effect them to that extent... going from a healthy (I've been 5'8" since the 7th grade) 130 lbs to 180 in a couple of months... and then on to 200 lbs all in high school couldn't have possibly helped my depression.
I actually made the connection after an extreme migraine hit, and I was determined to do research. I started browsing through the internet (clicking one link from one person's site and going to another site), and I eventually found your book. I read almost all of it in one sitting... and then I ordered two of the fasting books you recommended. Again, when I got them, I read about 100 pgs in one sitting. I had fasted for short periods of time for religious purposes (I'm a Christian), but I had not done research on it (Jesus fasted! That's enough for me!). I am now on a diet that goes between all-raw and short fasts. I want to do a long fast, but I can't find someone very locally who can watch over something like this. My husband is very supportive.
THANK YOU THANK YOU!
I have faith that this will work, but even if it doesn't, like you said, it helps a lot to know what is wrong with you and what caused you to become this way. Either way, it's not like an all-raw diet is going to be BAD for me!
