For those of you following my blog, you will know that I had recently completed a 10 day dry fast. That’s 10 days without food or water. The aim was to try and make life as difficult as possible for my cancer cells. This post is about the first few days after my fast, which in many ways proved more challenging than the dry fast itself.
Day 1
My plan was to take it easy and have a young coconut, glass of water and a banana the first day after my 10 day dry fast. Well this proved much harder than sticking to the fast and I failed miserably. I ate more fruit than I had in mind, not having the willpower to stop. Needless to say I paid the price. I got quite sick, and my heart more than doubled to over 200 bpm for an hour or so. I recovered in a few hours, and was able to eat after that having a light dinner in the evening.
Day 2
When I woke up, all hell broke lose. My liver swelled up and I had severe liver pains for most of the day. My usual nausea also made a comeback. At this point I don’t know if this is a good or a bad sign.
Day 3
My liver is still very swolen. Liver pains continue, though not as severe as the day before. Feeling very tired.
Day 4
Liver still swollen, liver pains continue. Nausea getting worse in the evenings. Feeling very tired from noon onwards.
Day 5
Liver still swollen, still have some liver pains, however not as bad now. Less nausea.
Recovered a little over 4 kg of weight. Now 61.4 kg. Assume its mostly due to rehydration. Not feeling as tired as last few days.
Day 6
Had a high dose vitamin C IV today (90g). Within 30 minutes all liver pains were gone. By the end of the day no more liver swelling. Nausea much better. Interesting side effect of vitamin C. Will file away for future reference. Quite a strong reaction to my iscador injection. Very swollen and painful.
Day 7
Start ing to feel good. No liver swelling, no pain, no nausea. Saw my qigong master today to consult the progress of the fast. His reaction was that I look quite good. Well I feel good. Master said that all my organs are fine. He still feels problems with my liver, but says that it is much better now. He recommended that I delay my next chemo, and do 7 more days of dry fasting. I will consider that if my blood tests show an improvement. Had my blood tests done today.
Day 8
Feel better than I had in months. I look better as well as commented on by several people. Virtually no nausea for last 3 days which is new for me and hopefully a good sign. Got my blood test results today. Results were quite Disappointing to say the least and do not reflect the way I feel. Liver function only marginally better, CEA rose again reaching almost the 3000 mark. One surprise is that my Monocyte and Eisinophil counts are more than double compared to the last tests, but I suspect that these are due to the strong Iscador reaction. Also unusual, my bicarbonate levels are in the normal range for the first time in 6 months.
