Please take care: A note to self

There's a saying that health is wealth and we need to believe that. If you want to be productive , you need to be healthy. If you want to live longer and spend time with your love ones , you need to be healthy. If you want to achieved your goals whatever it is , you need to be healthy.

Yesterday I posted in noise.cash that I am not feeling well and that's true. A week ago I also posted that I am experiencing back pain and I thought it's not a back pain anymore but a kidney pain.

I don't usually go for medical help when I am not feeling well , I always choose herbal medicine and home remedies if my condition is not worst. I know it's not right but for some people who are not always depending on the doctor and also people from province, they preferred herbal and home remedies. Everytime I experienced somethings strange on my body I always search it to google.

It is not the first time that I experienced this back pain. I remember when I was working on middle shift , that is the first time I experienced it. I search it in Google with the keywords of pain in the right side of belly and this is the result of my search.

The pain that I experienced has a connection from Kidney stones , urine infection , constipation and lumbar hernia.

I recalled all of my activities , food and drink that I take and I didn't remember that I ate salty food though I already experienced level 3 Urinary Tract Infection when I was college but it was long time ago and it was cute already. I continue to think about the possibilities why I am experiencing this symptoms and I now I know why. Because I am in the middle shift , I sleep at 12MN and woke up 10AM but sometimes the nature is calling me , I want to pee by 8 AM and since I am still sleepy and I don't want to go to comfort room I choose not to pee.

And after a couple of year it happened again. I experienced back pain and the other day I experienced a pain in the right side of my belly and it feels like there a part inside that is swollen every time I tapped it. I share it to my husband and he told me maybe because I experienced it because of not peeing during midnight. I admit that I didn't pee because sometimes I nurse my son and he was breastfeed for so long to the point that I didn't pee even if I want. I also experienced stiff neck because of the not proper position of sleeping because I breastfeed him.

My husband told me to go for check up but I refused. I told him that I will observe my body first and do home remedies before I go to the doctor . Now I have searched home remedies for Urinary Tract Infection and these are:

• Drink plenty of water.

I have no problem with that. Honestly I am now having a water therapy because I know it will help the bacteria to flush out if I will pee more often and I can only do that if I will drink more water.

• More Vitamin C

As for this one. I don't want to take Vitamin C that is available on drugstore but I choose to drink Malunggay juice because as we all know , Malunggay has more times of Vitamin C that citrus.

• Drink Cranberry Juice

I didn't know what cranberry juice is , but here in the Philippines when people has a UTI they recommend to drink Buko Juice and I already drink that 2 times I think.

• Take probiotics

All I know for probiotics is Yakult and Delight but I will research for this and try to take it daily.

• Practice healthy habits.

Don't hold urine for too long. Pee after sex and also wipe your private part after peeing. This healthy habits make UTI away.

Disclaimer: This is my own story and belief and I didn't encouraged someone who read this to follow me. Seeking for medical advice is more appropriate but in my case since I know my body and I experienced this back then somehow I can cute it by myself but if this symptoms will take long after I try the home remedies I will also consult a doctor.

I also decided to sleep early because I feel that I overusing my body and my eyes and I am not happy with that. I also experienced headache more often, something I am having trouble with breathing especially during night time and I'm afraid because of those. Like what @carisdaneym2 said. Health is more important that dollars and I agree to that. So today I will sleep 9:30 PM unlike on my previous sleeping 12:00 MN.