I can breathe Easy for the first time in 30 yrs..my asthma journey through the years

Greetings in Christ:

I have to give God the glory here, first and foremost. 

Being able to breathe with ease... I sit here in amazement, and thank God!  It has been about a lifetime dream. 

These past weeks I have prayed for deliverance from asthma, as well as to feel His presence, or see His angels.  Wellllll...I have to tell you...I feel His presence in my lungs.  I smile every time I sit here and breathe, when I remember to think about it.  He puts a smile on my face often now...and I feel like I am living in a new body, new lungs. 

Thank you God!!!!!  Thank you God!!! Thank you God!!!  I will always remember to thank you for freeing my lungs.  Thank you for letting me Feel your presence, daily!  How awesome you are in your sanctuary!  :)  I love you, in Jesus name.

This is my asthma journey, and I feel led by God to share it:

I have had asthma since I was a young child... and it went away when our cats and dogs were gone.  It didn't come back for years and years, until I almost died after my first child.  It has been back ever since, with a vengance.

I am now in my 50's.  lolol.

About 2 weeks ago, I was walking, and praying for God to heal my asthma.  I have asked many times, but often felt this was my "thorn in my side", as my lungs have saved our family several times (furnace leaks, and other things, that no one could detect).


So, sometimes I felt the asthma was meant to keep us alive.  My heightened sense of smell, and the lungs restricting at the drop of a hat, I felt was meant to be.

However, after waking, like most mornings, and coughing my head off for 1/2 hr, as usual, I was drained... like most mornings.

I was walking in the morning, praying, and asking God to heal my lungs... either instantly, or another way.. if He meant for me to help others.

Welll... lol...God answered me in a mighty way!  I was not healed instantly.  I know God still does that today though.  :)

I came home and started researching asthma online for cures... I know some doctors don't believe in an asthma cure..and some doctors don't believe in asthma at all, unless your lungs are whistling from across the room.

To that I say... I wish you were in my lungs.  Every day felt like a thousand rubberbands around my chest.  It was difficult to breathe, let alone do anything, and everything was exhausting.

One asthma doctor told me I had 3 kinds of asthma.  I had thought there was only one.

Another told me... he didn't know what to do to keep my lungs open.  He wanted me on steroid inhalers...but said after a while, it would stop helping, and my body would start down another trek, of deterioriating.

Determined to beat this... with God... I started a walking program about 3 weeks ago...struggling breathing... changed my diet...and pray each morning while walking.

After researching tons, I realized I wanted a natural healing.

Then, God led my eyes, amongst many passageways of regimens of healing therapies...however, these all had many many natural things to take, and all I could see was $$$$$.  

I continued researching for hours...and found, amongst all the regimens online...one tiny word.  

I prayed, and researched this out thoroughly.  You need to read this entire blog...because I haven't only done this one thing... to breathe easy, no rubber bands... and my coughing fits are mostly gone, from days of starting this regimen.  It's been about 10 days from freedom from asthma...well, most of the symptoms anyway.

I always see and read many promising things for asthma... and many times... like the old saying...if it's too good to be true, probably is. 

Not... I say... God is a God of Love...and Healing!

I wanted a simple solution.

I was once told to get off chocolate, sugar and dairy.  I thought at that point...you've got to be kidding me.  A chocoholic... to give up chocolate.  I had tried years ago...and failed.

When we moved back to IL...my sinuses about swelled shut...so I couldn't hardly breathe through my nose...and I said... "I give"... I'll try it.

I guess God was with me, because if He wasn't, there was no way on the face of this earth I would have been able to do it.  (giving up sugar, chocolate, caffeine, dairy).

In the past, some days my asthma had been so bad, I thought I would die. Inhalers set my heart over the wall. Asthma medications made my hands and body shake. Some inhalers created such horrific heartburn, it was better to struggle breathing, than to drink water to stop the constant nonstop heartburn. To go to bed at night...was the last thing I wanted to do, because being in a horizontal position, breathing was most difficult.

Day in, day out, breathing was a struggle. 

Mornings and evenings included 1/2 hour of coughing, drowning in phlegm fits... and struggling to squeeze the lungs to help get the phlegm out.  I just wanted to cut the invisible rubber bands holding my chest in a vice, that never wanted to let more air in.  I have seen the commercials of an elephant sitting on a person, and I wanted to say..."I know the feeling ohhh so well."

Allergy shots didn't work for me.  The last time I tried them... my arm pulsated up and down at the injection site... and I had to have benedryl before I ever left the office, because my throat would start closing up.

It seemed I was out of all options.  Yet... I know I have had this for a reason...and it was to protect my family.  However, when we moved back to IL, house hunting became a chore...

I didn't want this protective position anymore.  We hunted for about 6 mos.  Many houses had smokers... mold...or what I call "old building syndrome"...  This even included going to a show, and then getting our money back, because I couldn't breathe in the fairly new theater.

Many church buildings were either old, had mold, or were new and the new carpet smell sent my lungs off the wall.

I cried out to God a few weeks ago... when I was at the end... and begged for God to heal me. 

When that didn't happen...I begged for something in His natural creation to heal me...because...He made our bodies with an incredible ability to heal themselves...if given the right tools/foods.

After my morning walk one day...about 2 weeks ago ... I began my research online. 

Many sites said... they would help your symptoms.  I wanted healing, I wanted to be done with asthma.

I feel God led me to do a regimen of things...and here is what I did:

First...I had gotten myself off sugar, chocolate, and mostly dairy... (however, once in a while I will have a piece of pizza...or a tiny piece of chocolate).  God is a might God...for Him to help me go cold turkey.  I buy FRESH BERRIES, FRUIT...and Natural FRUIT dried strips for my sweet tooth...they don't have sugar in them -only fruit.  Yum.  Started this a few weeks ago.

Second...I started a 40 minute walk routine in the morning, and a 20 minute walk in the evening.  Walking isn't too easy at times because of my back and hip pain... and other times...it's ok.  lol.

Third...I try to eat only when I'm hungry, and eat less...and try not to eat late at night.  (losing weight is a benefit...and our grocery bill has to be less. lolol...

Fourth...I am on Chlorella.  It is a natural algae... and binds itself with heavy metals in the body.  I know our son has high Lead from living down south, so I figured we all do... and started on this. I am most likely going to take less of the suggested dosage though.

Fifth... I also am mixing about 1t of Apple Cider Vinegar with the Mother in it...  I put this in one bottle of water at lunch...and another in the afternoon.  We buy the organic, raw, unfiltered. I have been on this about a week and a half. I don't believe pregnant women can have this, because it acts as a diuretic, and can maybe remove needed electrolites and minerals?

Sixth... is the little item I found online... it is a mushroom.  Reishi mushroom.  It said it heals a lot of things... and they were doing a study on asthma with the Reishi, but it isn't posted that I can find... but...I was willing to try anything...  I did hear that Vitamin C works well with the Reishi...although half the time I forget to take it.  (I also take other vitamins, but have for years and years... and take 2 things for my back / natural/ which act as anti-inflammatories, however, those have worked for the back, but had no affect for the lungs).

I was willing to try anything...because the lungs still felt like I had rubber bands around them, and the 1/2 hr coughing fits continued relentlessly every morning...and sometimes in the evenings too.

Well... I started a week ago Friday... and Saturday morning... I had coughed about 15 minutes.  The first day after starting Reishi mushroom/capsules. 

It was fairly easy to cough out...and that made me a happy camper.  Normally each cough was piggy backed by about 5 more, trying to get out the yuk, and it would continue for 1/2 hr.

The 2nd morning after the Reishi...same thing...only maybe 10-15 minutes of coughing. 

The 3rd morning...only a few coughs... and not even close together.  Before I got out of bed, I always yawn, and try to take a deep breath / habit/... and this time I did.

The air kept going in.  NO RUBBER BAND feeling!  I giggled in bed... praised God and thanked HIM! 

I am still in disbelief at times. lolol.  I still have some fluid in the chest.  Don't know if it's heart related or lung related... but to breathe, and get air in the lungs, without struggling...  WOW.

I need to remind myself once in a while, that I can breathe... because I catch myself shallow breathing. lolol.

Yesterday I had sweet tea at a fast food place...and oy.  This morning... I had a mini cough deal... about 10-15 minutes... but again... no rubber bands... and the phlegm was loose and came out easy.  So, I guess the sugar and caffeine having something to do with my particular asthma.

I have been hesitant about posting, because I am logging what I am doing, and wanting to know this is going to last, before I post.  However, the way my lungs feel, I want to shout it from the rooftops!

I have only been on the Apple Cider Vinegar with the Mother in it, and on Reishi Mushroom for about 10 days now.  

I may periodically add to this post, to continue to update you on my lungs.  :) 

I know...by law...I am not a doctor, and cannot tell anyone what to do or what to take.

If anyone wishes to try what has worked for me.. you must check first with your doctor. 

Some things could interact with your medications...

If you're pregnant, many things you can't take...and maybe the Reishi and Apple Cider Vinegar aren't good options.  I don't know.  

I am not a doctor, and can't prescribe anything.

I can only post what God has done for me, and what has helped me. 

Again, please check with your doctor before beginning any changes on what you take, whether herbal or not.

I am not prescribing anything, only posting what God has done for me, and what has worked for me.

May God be with and bless you all!