I have a root canal that I'm finally getting finished up next week. The dentist asked me to take a run of Penicillin as a preventative to getting an infection when he opens it back up. I told him I'd rather not unless he requires it, he replied, in a nice way, that it was up to me but that he would hate to have to charge me several hundred dollars more to open it back up later if need be.

The tooth/socket doesn't seem to be inflamed at the moment.

I haven't had an antibiotic in a long time and think they likely contributed  to my current health issues.

I will probably take them, though it feels ridiculous. This is going to cost a lot of money, I'd hate to screw it up...I'm guessing most here would not take them?

I'm writing this in thanks to those who have paved the way and in hopes of helping others find theirs.

I'm slowly getting back into this raw paleo deal after a severe relapse into near SAD territory and the repercussions it brings to me.

I was doing raw omnivore for about three months last year about this time and did generally well. The best I'd been in years, actually. A dramatic change in living situation made even a cooked paleo diet rather difficult (excuses...). I'm back in a more raw friendly situation now and, after research  and contemplation, am going to attempt a carnivore approach for a while.

I am a good bit underweight (32 year old male; 5'10 @145lbs, I was 150 a week ago before I started "transitioning"). I have self-diagnosed candida overgrowth, as sure as I can be, which was what steered me in this direction. I get a bad drunk effect from gas-causing foods, of which there are many. I have severe lethargy regularly. Overall poor digestion of food. A small amount of peanuts gives me canker sores, possibly along with some fruits. I had fungus growing on my armpit hair recently. My underarms generally smell terrible, like chicken soup and beer or something. I also just feel plain terrible most of the time. Many other issues I may or may not get into. It really seems that nuts, fiber/cellulose and sugars just don't go well with my body right now. Raw fat seems to be where it's at.

Luckily, I am still at a point where I am fairly strong and have good days (usually preceded by clean eating...) where I go for 20-30 mile bike rides, for instance.

I plan to post some pics soon, though I am pretty insecure about my body right now.

My goals are first to improve my health overall, gaining some weight is my secondary objective. I am hoping they can go hand in hand. I don't have a target weight to achieve and won't allow it to interfere with my bodys overall healing but I would love to see 165 lbs of lean  machine looking back in the mirror as soon as possible.

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I have been "transitioning" for about a week now, fasting one day and starting off eating a few pastured egg yolks every few hours and a whole egg here and there. Too many whole eggs run right through, though I believe this is temporary.  A few veggies and both cooked raw meats/fish as well and 2 terrible carb filled meals at my grandparents (prior commitments).

I've felt lightheaded upon standing regularly, I believe this has to do with a drastically reduced sodium intake and is temporary.

Even though I have learned lots thanks to you folks, I don't have that solid of a plan to go carnivore and am mostly relying on eggs, wild salmon, tuna, frozen grass fed marrow and roast. Hopefully I'll get some heart on Tuesday along with any other offal available. I have some liver tablets I take once in a while and plan to explore organs more, though I'm a bit squeamish.

I remember not digesting raw beef all that well (constipation and identifiable pieces) when eating beef, suet and veggies together and hope that won't be an issue this time. I plan to attempt high meat once I find some non-frozen. I would really like to find a decent non-frozen source for fats and organs too. I'm really hoping i can rely on lots of eggs, mostly yolks, to get me off to a good start.

Heart is muscle meat, but I don't believe that it's aged as say a side of beef is. I'm finding I prefer my meats to be dried out/aged a bit. How do you store heart? It's pretty rich for me to be eating a whole one very quickly.

Can someone prepare me for the taste of raw sweetbreads? I've never had them in any fashion and this is the one food I haven't been able to just dive right into. Liver was not too great, but I wasn't worried. Heart, suet, marrow, muscle meat, no problems. What I have is from a steer, not sure how old, but not a calf.

Thanks

I'm not exactly happy right now. I've eaten rare steaks and good hamburger meat for a while and been eating raw eggs/yolks for a couple months. Just this week have I been trying to incorporate some raw into my diet. Some marrow some very lightly grilled sirloin, and continuing with some rare hamburger.

I like a fried egg (over easy) once in a while. Tried it yesterday and it made me feel heavy and gross (though I also just introduced into my diet the tallow in which they were fried, so that could be the reason in this case). Wasn't looking for it to do this and it doens't usually happen.

Today, I ate mostly raw until dinner; 4 egg yolks, 1 granny smith apple, an ultra rare sirloin, some broc and caul and `1/8 cup beef bone marrow and a tiny amount of kimchi. Then came dinner, oven roasted lemon-pepper chicken. A slightly overcooked organic supermarket bird (I seasoned and cooked it). I'm not on the verge of death or anything but it really just doesn't feel good in my stomach...heavy, greasy and gross. Almost like my body senses it as something that has to deal with instead of something beneficial. 2 weeks ago 'd have eaten over half the bird and been making myself stop.

Surely my body isn't already rejecting cooked foods, is it? I'm not already one of you crazy animals, am I?