Hi, everyone,

I am on Day 3 but am limited in how much I can write. I want to reply to people's supportive and informative messages in reply to my posts, but a little problem has come up. I've got floating chevrons before my eyes - does this happen to anyone else? It makes it difficult to see. I think it may be from hypoglycemia, but then again I have experienced it in the past a few times when I wasn't fasting - like after an overdose of toxic herbs, for instance. I hope it isn't a sign of hypoglycemia, because that would alarm me about continuing the fast.

It will probably pass in a while. Have you ever experienced it - during a fast or not?

I felt a strange nerve twitching in my foot yesterday evening I'd never felt before; that was mildy exciting, because I felt it meant "something was going on", even though on the face of it one's foot is not where one wants healing most to be happening!

I've been trying to meditate but it is difficult for me to stay in touch with my body and sensations; I am sort of dead in that way. This is not just during fasting; I mean, it is true of me in general. Probably a "post-trauma distress" syndrome thing.

I was still going like blazes on notes for a literary work I am thinking of writing, but now my mind feels dull and tired. And of course I cannot take notes with the spots before my eyes.

Yesterday I watched an episode of _Playing Shakespeare_ and a mini-documentary about Van Gogh; I finished that book about writers and alcohol addiction, which turns out to be pretty terrible and depressing, but if you have any interest in writers, literature, or the depths and dregs of addiction, and a tolerance for really shoddy editing and proofreading, you probably will enjoy it. It may even help an alcoholic to give up drinking, though I have a growing suspicion that the author may have written most of it under the influence of drink, so strange are its mistakes and solecisms.

I get to rest, mainly, but am taking care of my cat and kitten - the latter of whom has been poisoned, through my fault, by a drug called "interferon". I took him to a "holistic" vet last week, who prescribed interferon for his slight lingering cough, and, stupid me, I just assumed it wasn't a pharmaceutical. Today he is sick and I go online (belatedly) to look this thing and its side effects up and ham! it's frigging poison, I learn. I threw the rest of it out, but I've been giving it to my poor kitty for five days.

My cat Poo has diabetes, so that is a stressor, but otherwise I have no excuse not to go through with this fast. I was reading about the water faster here on this forum who was on Day 2 and was housecleaning, shopping at stores, making food for a family of 2 big dogs and 3 human children....that just amazes me. It's about all I can do to get up and go urinate (which I do frequently - it's one of my worst symptoms).

Today, Day 3, I had a pretty bad craving to just stop this and make a big pot of brown rice and brussel sprouts - that must be a really bad thing to break a fast on, especially a long fast. I felt HUNGRY. But at the same time my body feels in a state of hibernation, slumber - not deep slumber yet, but it doesn't feel "on". That would make it a shame to stop.

Also, even more so, CureZone Fasting forum really helps to keep one from caving in. One has put oneself out there as someone-who-is-fasting and I know it doesn't infallibly work to keep fasters from bailing out so soon as Day 3, but it gives one pause and allows one to decide that it's better to keep fasting. We have a chance to help ourselves (maybe - I'll not convinced this will do me any good) but also to help others, if only to show that Water Fasts can be done and aren't things to get fearful or stressful about it.

None of my symptoms has improved yet, except I guess I am not belching-hiccuping because I'm not eating, and my stomach is not hurting as much because I am not eating. It feels very tense, though, as though I were constantly holding in my stomach muscles. Strange, that, I keep wishing the stomaxch would take advantage of the digestion break to relax!

I'm not very disappointed that none of the symptoms like seizures, constant urination, asthma, weird itchy hives and rashes, etc. are improved, but I think I will be disappointed if after a week of this Water Fast some of them aren't improved. But I want to do this particular fast for at least TWO weeks, so there is time even after one week to assess and judge whether there's been any good in this fast.

So, thanks, everyone, and happy fasting and please let me know if you have ideas about what floating patterns of light before one's eyes might "mean" as a sign or symptom, esp. during a fast. Thank you!

Rowan