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Re: Blog Thread IIIa : Look Who's Blogging Now
jhocking:
--- Quote from: jmrz on 13 Sep 2010, 03:07 ---as well as spicy foods and things with lots of spices.
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Ever since I lived in NYC (so like 3 years now I think?) I've been avoiding spicy foods. There are a number of other foods I tend to avoid because they trigger symptoms (eg. I only recently started drinking beer again, occasionally when hanging out with friends) but spicy foods I miss the most.
I love you so much Indian food why do you treat me like that
(I should probably cut out dairy as well, but I need my ice creams.)
Also
--- Quote from: Lunchbox on 13 Sep 2010, 00:25 ---I've never been to a doctor about it, rather self-diagnosing over the years and not doing a very good job of keeping an eye on what I eat. As a result, what I do eat makes me ill pretty much every single day. I'm so used to it, I just ignore the fact that I've been sick as soon as the pain goes away.
So! Today I've started a food diary to make note of things that make me sick (I tried this last year but only managed two weeks) and hopefully I'm going to go to a doctor who can give me a fancy new breath test to determine what intolerances I actually do have. Since I know that tomatoes and tea, two of my favourite things in the whole world, do actually trigger my symptoms, I'm going to do my best to cut down.
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When I went to doctors because of my stomach issues they were completely useless. Well I suppose not completely useless, in that I know I don't have any of the issues they checked for. I got a bunch of tests done and they failed to find anything. I eventually stopped going to doctors and just stopped eating spicy foods and now I'm better-ish.
I guess my point here is to be hopeful when visiting the doctor but don't be surprised if they are no improvement over self-diagnosing.
jmrz:
Spicy foods and things with lots of herbs* is what that should have said, but you get the idea.
I went to a doctor, who sent me to an immunologist who then sent me to a dietitian when I didn't react to a single thing on the allergy test. It took me a while but I found my answer (I'm Salicylate Intolerant*) and I found how to fix it (or maybe fix it, which has worked mostly). I can eat pizza again and know how much I can have. I can go out and have a life knowing that I'm not crazy and the constantly feeling sick wasn't just all in my head. It took a while and it took forever to adjust, but I fixed it and I know my limits.
My food intolerance is not just a food intolerance. It's a chemical one. I kind of envy the people who straight up just can't eat a certain food because I constantly have to read the labels on cosmetics and facewashes and soaps. I walk past someone with too much perfume on and I end up with a headache all day. But, knowing is better than not knowing and I know how to cope. The main thing that really really sucks about this, and it's not the food or the cosmetics, it's the medication. I can't take most painkillers and I can't take most cough/cold and flu things without making myself worse. So basically, if this cold and this cough would go away, that would be great, because I can't take anything for it and I'd like my ability to breathe back.
Patrick:
I was having a shitty night the night before last, and a stranger saw me walk out of a 7/11 with a 4Loko in my hand, said I looked like I was having a terrible night, offered to smoke me out, smoked me out, talked me out of the idea of killing myself, and drove me home.
The kindness of a complete stranger saved my life. I seriously had a huge stash of codeine cough medication that I was going to mix with that 4Loko in my stomach. I threw it all out in a dumpster 5 miles from my apartment. It'll suck if I get sick now because I'll have none of my cough drops, but whatever. I just can't believe that shit happened.
StaedlerMars:
Yeah I think I suffer from these kind of things too. It's kinda shit. Milk especially is a really hard one to give up, I love milk!
Liz:
I am HOME.
Minus about 2/3 of the stuff I brought on vacation, but I am HOME.
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