something I've never talked about...#Helpful Post

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