Looking for help with customizing an IP-like program
Hi, I'm a 33 year old man living in Denmark, Europe, who has had a strange, debilitating issue for 6 years now, the last 3 of which I haven't been able to walk. I have been doing various levels of the incurables program for the last two years, but I haven't gotten well yet, and since my issue seems to be unique, I hope someone here can help me determine where to really scale up the program to get well.
The issue:
In 2010, I accidentally hit my right heel really hard down onto my left big toe capsule (inner joint), which hurt, but I ignored it. It kept hurting when I walked for 6 months, so then I went on crutches, and after 3-4 months on crutches I could start walking again. I thought I was pretty much cured.
Then in 2011, it sprung up again after I apparently bent the foot way too much, burning badly along the bottom of my foot. I went on crutches again, and used a medical boot, but this time, it took about a year before I could walk without issues.
Then in 2013, I ended up bending my foot too much again without thinking, and it sprung up again. I went on crutches again, but shortly after, my right foot also started acting strangely and got injured very easily, so I went completely off my feet. After an initially successful rehabilitation period of a couple of weeks, I apparently overdid the exercises and my left foot relapsed horribly.
About 6 months before this 2nd relapse, my right calf started to become very tight. I was unable to massage it to become soft, nor stretch it, which was rather frustrating as I have a massage therapy education and this was useless to me in that situation.
The underside of the foot was burning like crazy, and it felt like all the soft tissue had "come unhinged", become unstable. Only after months and after putting a plaster cast on it did it settle down and not burn constantly. I was checked by a number of medical experts, none of whom had seen anything like this kind of behavior before. The closest thing I came to a diagnosis was "complex regional pain syndrome", which was later negated by another CRPS expert.
I did get an MRI scan and some x-rays. The x-rays showed nothing except from a slight curve on my spine. The MRI showed spondylosis between my shoulder blades, and a partially slipped disc between L4 and L5. However the doctors could not use that to explain the problems in my feet so I did not get any treatment offers. Later I learned that the nerves that go to the bottom of the foot come from L4, so I have started to focus on that again lately.
But basically no help from the medical world. I tried a lot of alternative stuff - chiropractor, massage therapists (for the rest of my body), kinesiologists, acupuncturists, cranio sacral therapy etc. Nothing truly made a dent. So I found Schulze, and was convinced enough so that I started making loads of tinctures, did a 2 month juicefast with IF1+2, superfood, tinctures, cold/hot showers, 19 big liver flushes, Schulzes liver and kidney programs, 10+ cloves of garlic a day, cayenne powder, cold sheet treatment (did it one time, however I felt no emotional release, no strange colors on the sheet, no other effects) etc. Those things didn't really make a dent in what I feel are the core issues:
1. Unnatural fragility in the soft tissue in the feet
2. Unnatural stiffness in especially the feet and legs, but also the rest of my body. Fortunately, the stiffness in the rest of my body has reduced somewhat, but still remains in my feet & calves.
So after a long time (about 6 months) using the plaster cast, I took my foot out of it and started a bit of careful rehabilitation. I kept doing this for more than a year, and still it was too stiff for me to consider actually putting my entire weight on the feet and rising. Very gradually I was able to put more and more weight on it, but it still felt like the stiffness would never go away.
So a couple of weeks ago, after gradually putting more and more force on the foot joint to stretch it, but apparently I overdid it, because after that it felt like I was back to the initial situation with burning and soft tissue instability.
I really hope I can get the foot to at least stabilize this time, and that I will not have to put it in a cast for months again before I can start training it. The last couple of days it has felt like it was getting a bit better, stabilizing, but apparently I did something today when I crawled around that destabilized it a bit more - no burning, but it feels like the soft tissue is "dislodged" from the bone in an unpleasant way.
What I am currently doing (probably forgetting some of it):
sleeping without EMFs
big
Liver Flush (Andreas Moritz style) every 2 months
superfood 2x2 tbsp/day
drinking distilled water
taking 2 capsules of schulze #1 once a week, otherwise I have 2 BMs/day
doing weight lifting/bodyweight strength exercises
doing EFT (emotional freedom technique) probably 1-2 hours a day average, done more than 1000h total
meditating 2x10 min/day
cold showers 1x/day, about 10 minutes total, both feet and full body (will increase this)
putting homemade BF&C oil on my left foot and on my spine
taking strong digestive enzymes with food
diet: mostly cooked and fresh vegetables, beans, lentils, olive oil, butter, gelatin, fresh herbs, berries, fruits,
juicing for breakfast (carrots, apples and dandelion greens)
I have just started taking this combination of herbs (I have taken most of them before, but in lower amounts and not necessarily together). Everything is homemade from the best quality herbs I could find.
½ dropper cayenne (habanero tincture)
4 droppers Schulze nerve relax tincture without lobelia and valerian (tried those in high doses, gave no noticeable effect apart from nausea from the lobelia)
5 droppers BF&C tincture
4 droppers scullcap
4 droppers st john's wort
4 droppers horsetail
This bunch is taken x3 /day.
Taking the whole schulze nerve regen formula triggers a lot of dizziness that I got after a nasty concussion in a car accident I was in 5 years ago. So I just take the scullcap and st johns wort separately.
So apart from doing more hot/cold, how can I intensify the program, and possibly add some herbs for releasing tension in my feet and legs, and healing it as fast as possible?
I also tried solomon's seal for a while, but didn't notice any benefit from it. I think I took a dropper a day. Then I got some from another source and tried higher doses, but that got me a nasty headache. Shame, as I thought the descriptions about it showed it might be indicated for my situation.
I can give you a LOT more information - just ask, I really tried to give only the essentials in this post, in order to maintain some sort of readability!
Nicklas