You should ask your doctor about whether or not you need a supplement, since you have developed cystitis and are on antibiotics for it. There are some antibiotics which are rendered ineffective by the presence of large amounts of citric acid, which is the acid in orange juice, and I think this is the real reason why your doctor doesn’t want you drinking orange juice right now. There are, however, a number of orange juice companies that have low acid products on the market right now- Florida’s Natural is one of these. You should ask your doctor if this would be an acceptable alternative to regular juice- and keep in mind that it will still allow you to get the vitamin C you need, because it is fortified, the way all juices are.

Now, about the bruising- you definitely need to tell your doctor about this, and tell him or her how long this has been going on. Easy bruising is a symptom of a number of medical conditions, including diabetes, but the likelyhood that you have scurvy is extremely remote, simply because scurvy is very rare in countries like the US. You can easily get and eat plenty of other fruits and vegetables here, and they all have vitamin C in them. Even the canned fruit is fortified with it- this is required by law. Scurvy normally only happens when people go for months or years without access to vitamin C, not just a few days or a week. So I would talk to your doctor and ask him or her to see what else may be causing the bruises. One possibility that comes to mind is leukemia and certain other blood and bone marrow disorders, as well as anemias. Any of these can cause bruising as a symptom. If you experience heavy menstrual periods which are causing anemia, then you may also experience bruising- and this is definitely another angle that should be looked at.

At any rate, I’d get myself back to the doctor, if I were you. Hope this helps clear up your confusion.

Real vitamin C is in the matrix of the plant. Its center is copper and the outside is ringed with bio-flavinoids, and one of the arms of that structure is the vitamin C. That is why the orange juice worked.

What pharmaceutical companies did is cut off that arm of the C and manufactured it in a synthetic supplement form. With this synthetic C, there is a study revealing that it causes scurvey! This is very cutting edge information, so its brand new information.

The reason why you are acidic could be a Candida overgrowth causing stomach upset from added sugars or dairy.

It can be corrected.

Here is a 10 minute movie describing food based which works versus synthetic: