I started a new therapy to try to address Mast Cell Activation Syndrome. There’s always a level of excitedment that comes with new treatment protocols. I want to be hopeful, and I felt the effects of the first dose almost immediately so that hope is definitely on the rise.

BUT there is also a level of skepticism and hesitancy that comes with trying something new. I’ve have no less than a thousand different medicines, remedies, therapies over the years. Some have given major relief for a time, some have had no effect. Most have eventually become either non-effective over time or I’ve developed side effects that are impossible to ignore.

This is a hard mentality to overcome. I want to believe I can and will get well – but history has shown time and time again that treatments fail.

This is strictly a mind over matter battle. If it doesn’t work it doesn’t work – but I have to keep trying and I have to keep believing that some day, something WILL help.

So many people give up…either suffering for years with not just pain and sickness but also deep depression, or they take their life because they can’t take living without hope.

For me, I hope this one works but I also have it set in my mind that if it doesn’t, we will try the next thing. That’s the thing that keeps me going – that there will always be a next thing.

If you are struggling to hold on because nothing is helping, I want to encourage you to keep trying, keeping fighting, keep looking forward to the next thing.

You’re worth it.