🩸💩The Bleeding Came Back? How Did This Happen?😤

Over the last three months, actually three months plus one week, I have experienced much success with UC and IBD. With my new Natural Doctor (ND), who does bio-energetic testing (and she’s coming on the podcast soon!), I discovered my issues with Leaky Gut, candida, and a clogged liver—all which led to undiagnosed hemorrhoid bleeding. (BTW, why can I never spell the word “hemorrhoid” correctly?!)

Within 24 hours of taking digestive enzymes and two homeopathic tinctures, the bleeding decreased by 80 percent. Within a week, the bleeding was gone completely—I believe due to a quick change of diet that eliminated grains, gluten, and cane sugar.

But (you knew there was a “but” coming) if you listened to last week’s episode, you know that welllll, I fucked up my diet. And guess what? It caught up with me. And guess what again, I was in denial of the signs of a small UC flare: the edema (swelling of my extremities), the swollen tongue, the electric shocks throughout my colon, that tiny bit of fatigue when walking hills. As most of you know, your body then says, “OK, you refuse to listen… then listen to THIS.”

I woke up this morning to blood on my stool. Fresh yet a small amount, and it LIT ME UP 🤬. I did not have the Zen reaction of “OK, you know a lot about this, especially from the stories your listeners tell you. Chill girl, just get the inflammation down.” I had a good 5-minute freak out, in which, of course I enlisted my husband, who calmed me down. Then on a Sunday morning, I texted my ND about the issue, and she was nice enough to text me back with suggestions. What really hit me in the entire text convo was when she said:

“You have to put out the fire.” 🧯🔥

I’ve mentioned this before in the podcast: when logic, Chinese medicine, and Ayurveda all say the same thing, that’s the answer. In both Chinese medicine and Ayurveda, they discuss if you have too much “heat” in the digestive tract, that’s bad; it’s inflammation. (It’s also detrimental if you don’t have enough heat. You must have a balance, as discussed in one of my most popular episodes with Ayurveda and healing expert JoAnne Pavin.) Thus, my goal over the next week or more is to extinguish the fire, and bring the heat into balance, so the inflammation dissipates.

What brings a sense of calm in all the confusion of fuck! I’m bleeding again is how the experts themselves are CALM about the solution. There’s no freaking out or panicking. Case in point: my ND this morning, or how JoAnne discusses the body descending into a flare, how to understand it, and then how to heal it on the episode. It really lessens my freak out if I have the support of an expert saying, “it’s OK, the food caused this most likely. Let’s do A and B.”☮️

As my good friend Tracie Shannon discusses on my metaphysical healing podcast, Two Inches Off the Ground, what we view as “problematic,” is all just information. Bleeding, edema, swollen tongue…it’s all information that, yep, my body still doesn’t vibe with grains, gluten, and white sugar (all the good shit!🙄)…and I can’t have a little here and there—at least not right now. Or maybe never. Which sucks. Because I’m not one of these people who loves eating healthy 100 percent of the time. Yet if I want to thrive and avoid a lecture from my gastroenterologist in May, I have no choice but to get my shit together.

I also have gained so much knowledge from you, the listeners, because some of you have had UC for years, I’m talking almost 40 years, almost 50 years. You’ve taught me that, yes, it sucks, there will be flares, and I have to learn how to deal with them. I’m also discovering that each flare is unique, and that I will be taken by surprise. I was only diagnosed in September 2021, and the more I learn about UC, the more I realize I don’t know.

In my last episode, I talked shit about Gwyneth Paltrow and her weird bone broth-coffee diet. Well guess what? I’m back to the basics today: bone broth, L-glutamine, marshmallow root tea, and small sips of warm water. Good times. So here I am, working on healing yet again, and discovering that I have more information for the present moment, and like all of you, I’m handling my shit (not literally)🙂.

💚J India

PLEASE NOTE: I am not a doctor or health professional in any way. If you would like to attempt anything in this article, please consult a health or mental health professional first.