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Echinacia is Helping During a Major Flare???

AlexisC25

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So this is in no way medical advice and I believe everybody's bodies and immune systems are different and handle things differently. I am in a self induced major flare up (I'm having an official diagnosis biopsy here in the next couple weeks if I can make it that long). It's been maybe 2 months and I have a major tooth infection that has spread to my sinuses, I have a severe kidney infection with nephritis (inflammation of the kidney), and just about all of my severe autoimmune symptoms are back (joint and muscle pain and swelling, rashes, migraines, numbness and weakness of muscles and limbs, severe fatigue, dizziness, heart palpitations, high blood pressure, blood sugar stability issues, memory gaps, passing out, oxygen stability issues, the list goes on). I decided to play Russian roulette with echinacia, since it's the only other thing that could possibly help the infections and pain in my house and I have 2 children (one 5 yrs and one 7 months) and a husband that works from 7-9pm to 6am 6 days a week and sleeps all day (as he should he's going through hell right now) so Im doing my best to avoid the hospital and unnecessary appointments with people who don't have my whole history. I took the echinacia and....it's helping. A lot. Almost as if it's attempting to regulate my immune system a little bit instead of accelerating it. I still have a lot of my symptoms don't get me wrong, but I do feel better and with a lot less pain and inflammation after I take it. And it lasts for about 12 hours for me before the pain comes back noticably. I'm not saying to do this especially If you don't have any help just in case things get worse and you should be under the care of a medical provider, but I thought it was awesome that it's still able to help the infections and pain with an active autoimmune flare up. Thanks for reading!

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Welcome to the forum, @AlexisC25!

Thanks for sharing! I have been participating on this forum for many years and echinacea as a help for gluten flareups is not one I have run across before. But who knows, it might turn out to be helpful to many. We are always open to new ideas and echinacea is a trusted naturopathic remedy that has been around for a long time. I hope you make it through to the end of the challenge.

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7 minutes ago, trents said:

Welcome to the forum, @AlexisC25!

Thanks for sharing! I have been participating on this forum for many years and echinacea as a help for gluten flareups is not one I have run across before. But who knows, it might turn out to be helpful to many. We are always open to new ideas and echinacea is a trusted naturopathic remedy that has been around for a long time. I hope you make it through to the end of the challenge.

Thank you! Like I said, it was just an experiment out of desperation for the moment but it surprised me! I know that it has the ability to enhance the immune system, but apparently it also regulates the immune systems ability to adapt and regulate itself! I'm not sure to what extent, but there are studies on it that I found if anyone is interested in me sharing links to those studies!

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Thanks for the tip, and I've added echinacea to this article:

 

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