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Ourania's log
I was dealing with shortness of breath for many weeks, it was intense, got me worried. I still have problems while sleeping with breathing. It was a nasty vA detox symptom. One thing I did to help my lungs and body during this time was buy a CO2 meter. Now I can see how both lack of ventilation and using gas for cooking affects CO2 levels. At school I did a scuba diving course and I had the worst lung function of anyone, I used up tank air quicker than anyone. It would make sense that excess vA affects our weak areas. Once the vA detox symptom passes though it's like it never happened.
Results after 9 months
On the whole the month has not been very unpleasant. But not comfortable either. Detox is going on, not a lot of happiness, strange stomach pains. Crocodile skin on lower legs that suddenly give rise to a lot of spiky hairs, Then back to normal. No hairs, no crocodile skin anymore. Losing hair and it is not fun. Lots of strange pimples of different kinds, even some acne at the back of my shoulders. Burning lungs for about five days.
BUT
We both feel that something is happening to the fasciae. The way the bones hang in the fasciae is changing. Places where we alternatively had rough dry skin and very soft skin now seem to detach themselves from the fat underneath. This is now like the whole skin of our bodies have some compact places where the fat is hard and deep, and some other places where the skin is lose from the flesh, a bit like the skin of puppies or kittens which you can catch from their extra skin at the back of the neck.
The whole body is not like that, but these patches are slowly growing larger. Obviously the white fat is turning into brown fat.
This is happening to both of us, but more spectacular on my husband (12 years younger maybe that's why? Or made because he is male?)
This is happening to my face too. For a couple of weeks I could feel little blobs of fat (or lymph?) at the edges of my orbits all around the eyes under the skin. Now they have disappeared. It seems quite a lot of fat has gone from my face. The skin of my face is looser, but this does not leave me with wrinkles, on the contrary.
Sometimes for a very fleeting moment I smell an awful smell deep inside my nose. This is not coming from outside or from my teeth. Maybe some detox is going on.
My toenails and nails are back to normal and very healthy.
Or should I add: for the moment...
Looking forward to more results during this next tenth month.
@Ourania, you said: "The way the bones hang in the fasciae is changing"
I've been saying that my husband's face is different. Slimmer. (Although he says he hasn't lost weight) Just the other night Hubs was shirtless and I told him that even his shoulders looked different to me as well. As if something in the tissues was carved differently. I think he may feel (when hugged) a bit less fleshy. He also seems to have less of a "spare tire" when looked at from the back. I would also guess some of his bum is gone. (Not that I stare...)
Thank you for your concern @Arena!
Yes I think that thiamine helped and still does (but I do not take very much now, no more than about 150mg TTFD once or twice a week. Thiamine helped then put me into VA detox! But I did not know what was happening.
Now that we are at more than 9 months of the VA free diet, I feel that my eyes are slowly responding.
This is more evident with my husband's eyes, he is younger and did not have severe eye problems, only some myopia (-3.5) and a bit of cataracts not bad.
This morning he told me that his cataracts seem to have disappeared totally. In the beginning of the VA free diet they went worse, but now this is crystal clear.
He checks at night watching the red display of time on the oven. He had increasing halo around the ciphers. For the last week they are crisp with no halo at all!
I also feel my eyes are cooler, more relaxed, free in the orbits, with every few days orange blotches appearing around them, or subcutaneous blobs of fat appearing around the orbits. I suppose this is for the best, but my eyesight is so very bad that I cannot quantify this.
For the last few days I see everything in a pink haze, but I can read subtitles now!
Good luck!
Your names are so close to one another, and also close to my own real name.
Results after 10 months
This has been an eventful month. Not overly painful but several interesting things happened. We both have larger zones of soft skin, overall a bit less skin problems of various kinds, more suppleness overall. My husband even reports less creaking in articulations. Maybe the same for me but not definite.
A lot happened to him:
- Change in color perception with him seing the difference between green and red for the first time in his life: https://ggenereux.blog/discussion/topic/red-and-green-leds-on-appliances-victory/?part=1
- His right breast is completely flat in a male fashion, his left breast nearly so but not totally. This is a big difference with before. Because of this his left shoulder has come down and he is now perfectly symmetrical. But he suffered all this month of a kind of nervous pinch pain in his left arm. No loss of movement or blood flow but the pain is intense and waning only slowly.
As for me, nothing spectacular, a lot of extra soft skin. Losing a few warts and some rough patches, but others appeared. My big keloid scars feel better and are a bit flatter but inflamed. Having lost a lot of hair last month, some new ones appearing. But they are short and my fat plait has turned into an old lady's rat tail. Two toenails have gone back to ridges and thinness on the path of detox I suppose. Orange patches around the eyes that come and go. ISome days I see everything through a pink haze.
We both caught a kind of gastroenteritis, an usual occurrence here, and the immune response was not as painful as usual, about 90% of usual response. Still distressful.
Results after 11 months
Not a very painful month, just bothersome in many small ways.
Detox is going on. My toenails have got ridges again (4 out of 10). I lost quite a lot of hair. Feeling tense. Not happy.
BUT
Many good things have happened in my life! Resolution of some long standing problems small and big. There does not seem to be any size really when it comes to your wishes becoming true. Definitely vA poisoning (like Thiamine deficiency - maybe because vA drains the Thiamine) interferes with the realization of wishes. I am cross but satisfied. Maybe the next step is satisfied and deliriously happy? Not there yet.
For both of us, the skin is now very soft all over. In fact this does not seem to be the end of this skin change. I notice that it is very soft, but now the softness is different, kind of velvety. Fantastic! Some warts and brown spots and strange skin tags remaining but all going flatter and smaller.
The big change is now in the fasciae. Some parts of the body get looser and this pulls in consequence on other places, hence pains and change of body shape and transfers of areas of suppleness. All for the good. My husband's arm is still hurting but much less. Some days I limp; some days I jump around.
Eyes: my husband has gained color sight, lost a bit of it for a week, then sees more and more colors! We were walking in the forest and he could see the different colors of the autumn leaves. Flabbergasted! The colors are getting more and more amazing!
My eyes give me a pinkish orangey haze. At least something is happening.
I am very short of breath, which never happened in my life. I breathe through the mouth out of necessity, very unpleasant. This suggests a return of thiamine deficiency (stargazing posture in birds). I take some thiamine twice a week and hope it soon passes.
I suffer sobbing pains in the left breast, and sharp pains in the diaphragm. My heart is OK though or seems to be.
In short: something is definitively happening for the better, the process has not stopped and it is not unbearable.
@ourania thanks for continuing to update. I am several days away from 2yrs, still have ups and downs, but the overall direction is still positive, small progress steps. I continue to use allithiamine, it does seem helpful still.
@orion thanks for reading! I a trying to help the future people embarking on this diet. Because for us there have been waves of despair and uncertainty, I hope it will help to get details of what happened to us in detail.
Very happy that after two years you still feel progress!
Good luck!
Results after 12 months
During this last month, small things. Nothing spectacular.
My husband's left shoulder is now in its proper place, completely symmetrical with the right one. All pain in the arm has disappeared.
His handwriting is becoming very beautiful.
I had very deep depression and anxiety all this month.
Stabbing pains in the diaphragm and left breast. Shortness of breath comes and goes. It seems to me that ankylosis upon rising has lessened.
Everything looks darker. My eyes are not OK.
My right hip is freer.
We are supposed to avoid stress but this seems impossible! All problems of our past are knocking at the door! Being resolved but this is too much!
As if vA was carrying all that old memories/karma and it is going away, leaving just bland memories, nothing to worry about. Or to rejoice about.
Good luck to all.