Gadgetory

yo guys johnathan here this is not a tech video nor is it clickbait it has been a really frustrating almost two weeks now battling an eye infection which is the reason I'm wearing shades inside and also so you're not subjected to staring at my face it's not this weekend but the weekend prior I noticed some pain some swelling it was definitely annoying not pretty to look at but it really didn't slow me down too much the preceding week this weekend I thought I was in the clear as that things were getting better but woke up Monday looked in the mirror and said welp my eye is swollen half shut and it is grosser so with that I normally like to keep things positive and not focus on negative but with this I think it was one of those things where kind of just wore me down day after day where I wanted to make videos and had these ideas where your mind says one thing and your body essentially gives you the finger now because of that I kind of wanted to spin things especially with the holidays coming up and throw out a reminder it's okay to have a bad day it's okay to be down it's okay to be sad not specifically focusing on me but if you're having a bad day whoever you watch wherever you look up to they're gonna have a bad day too conversely with all that said and me having way too much time inside my own head I thought it might be a good time to talk about something I've never really talked about most of you out there who know me especially those who are close with me know me as the healthy guy that stereotypical LA dude is going to eat kale drink a juice but I never really explained how I got to this point so this actually dates all the way back to November 2011 I remember was Thanksgiving I was trying to do this Black Friday deals video but had the worst toothache that shot pain into my sinus and up into my eye so at that point I knew it was time to see a dentist from there I went ahead and got a root canal which I was strangely excited for just to get things fixed and on the up and up but good god that was just the beginning two weeks passed and somehow things seem to have gotten worse the pain is amplified my face is swollen my eyes swollen so I go back get a second root canal two more weeks pass and same situation the dentist or the endodontist rather had no idea what was wrong or was going on just super confused without any answer so she sent me to an ENT naturally the ENT thought it was just a sinus infection so all they did was prescribe antibiotics at this point between the root canals and the ENT that quickly tallied up four courses of antibiotics and if you could take one thing from video is please only take antibiotics when you absolutely have to question things do your research because where I was at that point in my life I really wasn't in that state of mind I just wanted to feel better and that was just the beginning of way worse problems later to come so about four months pass I am miserable no one has any idea what is wrong with me or what is going on after tons of research and looking around I finally found this really well-established oral surgeon and it wasn't until then where he discovered that all this time I had a freaking micro fracture in my tooth also it turns out that the roots of my teeth are really deep so deep in fact that they go straight into my sinus cavity now that is awesome if I got punched in the face because I'm probably not going to lose my teeth very easy but in this case it is what ultimately screwed me because there was a micro fracture bacteria would constantly seep through there so no matter how many root canals or what was done it would never get better and eventually what ended up happening was the infection ate straight through my sinus cavity that is not something I wish on anybody I remember on cold days breathing through my nose and feeling the air hit the root of my tooth and being in excruciating pain at that point the only solution was to pull the tooth which started a completely new bag of problems I remember being awake during the process and seeing how much the dentist struggled to pull the tooth out I guess because the roots were so deep that tooth did not want to come out of my jaw the positive to that though is if it got any worse because it was so deep in my jaw it could have easily infected my bone and that would have not been good once the tooth was out that left a giant hole straight through my sinus so they had to do a bone graft and that would take about a year and a half to fully heal jumping back to the antibiotics because of this surgery that required two more rounds plus steroids to keep the inflammation down the pain from that post surgery was one of the worst things I've ever experienced in my life just imagine every single nerve in your face and your teeth just feeling like it's on fire honestly it got me to a point where I was in a pretty dark place pretty down didn't really make that many youtube videos that year the pain was so excruciating and so constant that I look forward to being asleep because it didn't hurt when I was asleep through all that though my family and especially my fiancee pearl was really what kept me going in some strange way it was almost this really valuable life lesson where all the electronics and technology in the world didn't matter because what good was that if he didn't feel good to enjoy things with those that you love so a couple months past things are getting better with my sinus I'm making progress I'm excited and then I start to get a really terrible pain in my lower stomach the best way I could describe this feeling is that someone took a razor blade or a knife and started scratching you from the inside of your stomach it had gotten so bad that the inflammation from my stomach actually pinched a nerve in my back which in turn caused my leg to go numb I went back to the doctors and they really didn't know what was going on I thought it might be diverticulitis which seemed weird and went ahead and prescribed me even more antibiotics things weren't getting better the pain in my stomach was getting worse my leg was still numb my ended up seeing chiropractors and doctors and no one had any idea what was going on so for the next few months I said screw it I'm gonna do some research I am going to figure this out on my own everything I learned everything at red pointed to a yeast infection or Candida which may be a little embarrassing if you're a guy but if you've taken major courses of antibiotics that wipe out your good bacteria that is a serious possibility I'll never forget it I went back to the doctor and told him what I think I had and he essentially laughed at me and told me I was crazy that it was just allergies take these it's gonna make you feel better so I of course believed him I took the allergy medicine I remember was my nephew's birthday I ate cake candy ice cream and that destroyed my body for the next three days it just felt like my body was led I couldn't think I remember that Monday taking my fiance through Starbucks and there were maybe two cars ahead of us and I could not remember the two drinks she was asking me to order to save my life and at that point I knew something had to change so after that I gave a bread sugar dairy essentially anything that tastes good and pretty much lived off vegetables in bone broth for the next few months sure me hold my legs started getting better the numbness went away I could think more clearly I had more energy it was night and day now with that the turnaround was not all rainbows and unicorns there was definitely some hardship to that with that I lost a ton of weight I remember at one point I had gotten down to around 145 and people were noticing it within the video the biggest side-effect of the antibiotics of the steroids of the heavy doses of ibuprofen was the stomach damage the yeast overgrowth when it gets really bad will actually turn into a fungal form will you'll eat through your stomach that in turn causes toxins and things to leak into your bloodstream which is not fun and completely wipes me out it's something that I still battled to this day but overall three are strong now I would not change anything if I could go back in time it made me wiser it made me appreciate things I'm not gonna lie it is definitely a challenge from time to time trying to go to a restaurant and not being able to eat 99% of the things on the menu is extremely frustrating especially when you have a fiance bless her heart she's been amazing through this and again I would not be here if it weren't for her but now you guys have a little deeper inside of why I am the way I am it's definitely tempting to eat a doughnut or ice cream or candy or just give in every once in a while but for me actually feeling good far outweighs that moment of giving in because small things like not paying attention and eating a sauce that has a sugar in it or even eating too late in the day to where I can't digest it those things will knock me on my ass for a couple days to where I am useless if this inspires or changes just one person out there that I am glad I made this video hopefully my eye is on the up-and-up I am hungry and chomping at the bit to make some videos to look out for those and it on a positive note the t-shirts finally drop thank you guys for all the supports and the love on those if you haven't checked those out I'll drop a link down below I love all of you guys and I'll catch you later