Alex Tarnava
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Everything came for devices, trying like buying all these supplements, but I was still taking the naproxen and the cortisol injections too, you know, and maybe nine months after I was ignoring the specialist advice and my GP's advice, but I was still exercising, going to CrossFit.
Yeah, and still CrossFit.
I had stopped martial arts, which I should have kept martial arts and stopped CrossFit.
Right.
I stopped martial arts and I continued CrossFit.
It should have been the worst thing you could have been doing.
It was, but I was...
in such denial, you know, at the time about my situation.
But about nine months into this, I fainted in the gym a few times over a couple of weeks.
I developed multiple ulcers.
I wasn't processing my nutrition.
So I had to stop the naproxen.
And within a few days, all my joints ceased.
I couldn't put on a jacket, couldn't put on socks.
And I realized that nothing I was doing was working.
Just the drugs were working.
You were bandaging the wounds.
Exactly.
So, I mean, in suppressing the inflammation.
Yeah.