Some lessons need to be learned over and over again.

When you're dealing with autoimmunity, you can feel like you're pinging back and forth between symptom extremes. 

Like the things you do to make some symptoms better, make other symptoms worse.

It's a frustrating, and exhausting, hamster wheel to be on.

(I know, because I'm still on it.)

Our attempts to make ourselves feel better can often make us feel worse for so many reasons: detox effects, stirring up the immune system, overstimulation of a stressed organ system, blocked pathways, etc, etc...

And the lesson that I continue to learn, as I bump up against my own edges, is this one:

Do less, not more.

Instead of throwing something else in to counteract the first thing, just back off of everything and let things settle out. 

Overintervention can cause harm.

I grew up observing a family member who was on an ever-growing set of prescriptions, because the subsequent ones were prescribed to deal with the side effects of the first one, and so on and so on... even as a kid, I found it crazy.

And I've seen the same thing happen in the natural healing sphere, where people use herbs and homeopathic remedies to micromanage symptoms, or pile things on willy nilly.

(Spoiler alert: they aren't meant to be used that way)

It can be easy to lose the forest for the trees.

But unless you're really knowledgeable about the mechanisms behind each thing, you can run into real problems with this approach. Things don't always play nicely together. 

When you're starting a new health intervention, slow and simple is best. Hot and heavy is best saved for other things ; )

And if you bump up against your edges, don't be afraid to just back off of everything to get back to baseline.

Better yet, find an experienced practitioner who can help you to come up with a plan and guide you through a process of restoring health, while keeping it simple.