LS, bladder infections and antibiotics

That's a lot of infections! Is your life very stress-filled? Have you seen a urologist? My mother was finally diagnosed with interstitial cystitis, not that there's much they can do for it. She doesn't have painful infections, just the frequent urges to pee. But what a pain anyway!

Wilma. 

For the bowels I take Colostrum and that seems to have worked in a positive way.  It's the bladder I 'm not sure about.  How does one improve on that one?  

What is a Kefir maker?  

What do you mean you take colostrum?  Is that like the cows first two three days milk after calfing or is it someting else?  

Wilma. 

Colostrum is made from the first milk a cow produces after giving birth.  It seems to have a lot of good bacteria in it that help prevent the calf from getting ill.  My intestines have improved on it.

We used to have colostrum as children at home!! It was so delicious. Never knew you could get it. 

Thanks Hanny

Wilma

So lucky you were to have had it as a child.  That would have given you much protection from illnesses right there.  (Would your parents have known this?)  

I'm from Canada.  I used to be able to buy 'raw' milk locally.  But these farmers are long gone.  

We had the colostrum as desert when i was a child and yes my mother was very forward thinking in conservation and health issues. 

One would think that with such healthy lifestyle when young you would be strong as a horse later in life.  

You would think that but being migrants to Australia we were bought up in some pretty ordinany coal moning areas and my big brother remembers seeing the mushroom pf an atomic explosion as a child. The farm we were on was down wind of the nuclear testing they did here in Aus at the time. 

So even though my parents tried and i tried with my own children it was an up hill battle. 

The country would never get away with those things today. 

But some very good memories for me all the same. 

Wilma. 

Your writing makes me want to ask all kind of questions:

Are you saying that you and your family have been exposed to the effects of an atomic explosion?  

Has the vegetation been altered due to this testing?  

How do you think your health may have been affected by this?

The government are finished paying out those affected but both my parents died young and my sister was not even two when she died of cancer. and she was a new born there at the time. 

Yeah i still wonder what we are were exposed to in our life and governments have felt it was needed to keep secret. 

Chapter 16: A toxic legacy : British nuclear weapons testing in Australia

Published in: Wayward governance : illegality and its control in the public sector / P N Grabosky Canberra : Australian Institute of Criminology, 1989

Will have a look now about it. 

Thank you. 

That was the farm that my brother saw the bomb. 

We are all moved an and away since then but for me i seem to go from one mining town to the next lol

But yes my father was 59 my mother early 70's and my sister 22 months old. 

I am one of 9 children and all four girls have auto immune diseases as well as at least two of my brothers. 

I guess with big families there are big odds. 

I say my parents died too young because their mothers both lived to be in their nineties. 

Same as my thyroid problem.  Was it because my mother may have received radio active treatment prior to my birth, due to a mastectomy?  It is known that in the second generation there might be this 'result'.  

I have to say 'might' be.  

And then again - other people get sick too with things like you mentioned. Is there more polution of any kind than we know off?  Etc. etc.

Thanks for sharing all this Wilma.    

I am begining to understad many people on this sight have experienced some pretty awful stuff.

Funny but when i was at school my mum was the greeny. She was so befor her time in taking action with dyes, pollutants, cleaning chemicals etc. she came to my class and spoke on how Holland sterilised their country by being too clean and was warning us back then to be careful. 

The area we finally moved to when i was in my teens was known to have the cleanest air in our state at the time. 

Any way like you say it could have been anything but i know for me it was stress of major kind that  precursored three of my auto immune diseases. 

Was very sad what happened to the aboriginal people who lived in that area. 

Crazy.  

I guess we are all the same in that respect. 

At least we know we're not alone, and that helps a bit.  

Wishing you lots of strength in the process to learn to cope.

Wilma. 

B12 will be a big help.  I receive one injection per month.

Helps with the mind as well.