It’s been a while since I’ve written an update on the status of my fibroid battle. That’s mostly because I haven’t been worrying too much about my fibroids. There hasn’t been a battle to fight. My life hasn’t been all about my fibroids and how I feel from day to day depending on the size of my stomach.
For the most part I have been doing well. I continue to keep to a restricted diet of coconut milk, chia seeds, raw almonds and cashews (mostly in home-made butter form but also whole), occasionally raw peanuts and peanut butter, and kale. My restricted diet does include some other items such as ginger, cinnamon and turmeric. And occasionally a piece of salmon or cod fish. I had been having Quinoa in blended (pudding) form but I’ve had to cut that out after two episodes of unbearably painful stomach cramps after eating the pudding.
I do have to admit that in the last week I’ve sampled some tea biscuits and some crackers here and there. And even had a tiny bite from a milky way bar which contained milk. But for the most part I have been good about keeping to the restricted diet. I have been avoiding dairy and also trying to avoid gluten and sugar. And the benefit has been that my stomach has maintained the improvements seen following my 30-days stretch of avoiding solid food. I was supposed to try another 30 days off solids but that hasn’t taken yet. However I eat very little in the way of solid food throughout the day.
Life has been busy as I’ve been working hard trying to get back into the entrepreneurship game. I haven’t been allowing myself time to focus on what’s not right in my life. I guess it has helped a great deal that my stomach hasn’t been quite so enormous as back in December last year when I ended up at the emergency room. It’s easier not to focus on the fibroids when they aren’t insisting on being the center of attention in my life.