Wow, it’s been 4 months since my last post!

Why? Because I’m 264 days headache and migraine free, and really stopped having anything to talk about!

So much so, that my weekly doctor’s appointments were no longer centered around headaches (because I wasn’t getting them anymore) so I said “what can we fix next?”

As I mentioned in earlier posts, functional medicine looks at your entire body as an ecosystem, with everything relating to one another. They look at food insensitivities, chronic illnesses, inflammation, hormonal imbalances, etc. Since we pretty much handled the chronic illnesses (psoriasis, GERD, and Migraines) all with one quick diet change, I then said, “what about my hormones”

I started the program in June of 2015, and all of those horrible saliva, stool, urine and blood tests were completed that month.  When I received the saliva test results back in early August, and my hormones from that test in June were WAY out of whack. In fact, my cortisol levels were through the roof, and my sex hormones were basically non-existent (try telling my hubby that 😉 ). From the test results given, they concluded that I did not ovulate in that month of the test (my first month going to this doctor) and didn’t show signs of previous ovulation prior.

Absolutely crushing news when you are young, been married a year and just decided you are ready to start trying.

I remember crying on the phone with my mom and my sister, being so frustrated with my body that even after getting healthy and fixing a majority of my issues I still always have more problems going on that anyone else my age doesn’t have.

Fast forward to September. I went up the stairs to tell my hubby about a hilarious cat video I just watched (I have a problem), and made it about halfway up the stairs before I lost my breath, was all out of balance and almost passed out. He made me sit down on the bed, worried that something was seriously wrong.  It happened every time I went up the stairs for about 3 weeks. Now we had just gotten back from a trip to Colorado, so I thought maybe my body was just re-adjusting back to low altitudes (who knows). Until my hubby looked up what causes shortness of breath – and we concluded it was either a hernia or I was pregnant.  I brushed it off as neither and told him I just haven’t worked out in 7 years and am pathetically out of shape.

BUT, when he went to school that night, I snuck over to Mariano’s to buy a preggers test. At first the 2nd line didn’t appear, so I threw it in the trash. I was reading the box as I was walking upstairs (out of breath still) to hide it from the hubs, and it said “wait 3 minutes as the line may appear later, and even a faint line still implies pregnancy” so I ran back down just to check the garbage one more time. Holy mother of Mary a second line appeared, and my heart literally stopped. That is the most hilarious moment I can ever recall, thinking 1) wait, I can’t be – they just told me that only 3 months ago I wasn’t ovulating and 2) could it be? 3) am I dreaming? 4) I’m not dreaming 5) holy crap 6) I’m holding my own urine covered device once again.  It was so surreal and I was so out of it, that I actually remember going back to the couch and sitting down to finish my episode of NCIS! Ha.

Then all of a sudden it hit me like a ton of bricks. This is real.

I started literally running around the house. Cleaning, throwing, freaking out and realized I had to find a cute way to tell my hubby when he got home in an hour. Enter Pinterest. Thank God for Pinterest. It was awesome, and he was not surprised at all (he had been calling it for a few weeks).

I have to say though, pretty much the entire first trimester I didn’t believe it was real. My first OB appointment they kept coming in to congratulate me and finally she asked why I wasn’t excited, and I said I won’t believe it until I see him/her because I was told I wasn’t ovulating. She ran a transvaginal ultrasound and actually couldn’t detect anything, so I knew I was right. (Turns out I was just REALLY early, only about 4 weeks along).

Today I’m 28 weeks and 1 day. We are having a boy, which I’m incredibly excited about, and I’m now the poster child for this doctor’s office. I’ve gone back to be a speaker at his seminars and workshops because of how quickly I was treated for migraines and how fast we were able to move on to other things (i.e. pregnancy)

I truly credit my conception to their practice – fixing my chronic inflammation, my hormonal imbalances, my headaches, my skin issues (that is until pregnancy ruined me all over again – ha). Both Dr. Beyer and I got a little teary eyed in the migraine workshop I spoke at last month, because with my genetic mutation and chronic illnesses, even if I had gotten pregnant miraculously before seeing him, chances are it would have been a really long road, with my baby not getting enough gut flora from me (which can lead to autism, chronic disorders, etc) or something worse. I’m so grateful for finding functional medicine, and I truly believe that it was the reason I turned around all of my issues so quickly and was able to get pregnant. I have not taken so much as a Claritin or Tylenol in 264 days, let alone the heavy pharmaceuticals I was once on.

So thank you so much to the team at Beyer Natural Health Solutions, you’ve made this the best year of my life.

Now back to designing the Pinterest Nursery of the Year…