Posted on 08/21/2010 9:18:48 PM PDT by Quix
Metmom has had allergies and food allergies her entire life. In the last few years they have gotten steadily and progressively worse. Foods have been dropping out of her diet until she reached the point she is at now and can only eat rice, chicken, lamb, and venison. Anything else causes her to react rather destructively, debilitatingly.
The problem is that the repeated continual exposure to the few remaining foods, could lead to a sensitivity to those as well, which has just happened to two foods she had been safely eating since October.
There are options for nutrition should she start to react to all foods, but they are used only in the most dire situations. She's concerned about reaching that point--and frankly has been feeling more than a little discouraged by all such.
She has undergone extensive medical testing which has all been inconclusive. Almost everything comes back normal or negative, and the few things that she does test positive for aren’t what causes her the most problems.
She is attempting to get into a regional medical center for more specialized medical evaluation to see if they can determine the cause and possible treatment, if any exists.
She has been prayed for and anointed numerous times over the years, however, she would appreciated continued prayer for complete healing.
PLEASE UNDERSTAND HER PLIGHT with as much empathy as you can. She's been through a 1,001 suggestions and tried a LOT of different things. She's been through the Henry Wright seminar and prayers extensively. I don't think she is quite up to handling any more suggestions currently. Those who've been through such can understand such a feeling. She just greatly would appreciate your understanding and PARTICULARLY YOUR CARING PRAYERS.
This summary is per my understanding and might be stated somewhat differently were she writing it herself. I believe she'd affirm the truth of what I've said but these are essentially my words.
THANKS IN ADVANCE FOR YOUR PRAYERS.
LOL. SIGH.
PING SO YOU DON’T MISS THIS ONE IN CASE YOU CARE TO TRY IT, MM
http://www.vitals.com/doctors/Dr_Ramesh_Adiraju.html
Yeah. It decreases respiratory, sinus etc. stuff a LOT. At least that was the main change.
Prayers up!
I know nothing about this food disorder.
I am so sorry for your plight Metmom....but rejoice in the courage and determination God has given you thus far...amazing fortitude!
My daughter in law just was relieved of severe asthma....she is alergic to dairy and all detergents. Could not rest at night...now is free of all that coughing.
I am glad you are looking further til there might be some understanding of what is going on with your system and hopefully find some answers. May the Lord give you all the strength needed to complete what is ahead...and we’ll all keep praying He will show the answer.
Could you provide a link to these tests?
These were very high tech, very expensive, cutting edge "tests" ~ not something you can just go get.
Look up AUSTRALIA GUTEN VACCINE. Should get you a whole lot of articles going back over the last couple of years.
Dear Metmom, you have my most sincere prayers. As a life long allergic I can begin to understand your problem. I have NEVER been to the point that you are and have been tested but never to the extent that you have been.
I remember something my allergist said when I continued to wake up at 3 am with a screaming migraine. Allergy tests said I was barely sensitive to a certain food but after it was digested I was more allergic. They could not test for the affect it had on me after it was digested.
That is when I had to stop eating chocolate and corn because those were the offending foods. Other foods that I showed a slight allergy to could be eaten without consequence, such as beef and eggs.
Allergies are a strange and terrible problem and my prayers are with you in your quest to regain your health.
Thanks...my son would be interested in this I am sure...since he has stopped the glutin in his sysstem if he gets any he now breaks out in open sores.
Since I'm not one of those guys who is going to let the gluten vendors terrorize me into never leaving home I go to restaurants and I eat (the safe part of) submarine sandwiches.
The other day Wegman's, a high end grocery store, tricked me. They put finely ground bread crumbs in their vinegar and their oil.
OH MY WORD.
My son interrogated the lady at the deli counter to find that out and had her whimpering and crying and confessing that management made her do it.
YOU CAN'T GET GLUTEN FREE distilled vinegar at Wegman's deli counter. They take a perfectly useful and safe product and poison it.
To cover their tails they have a sign "This is not a gluten free station".
Before it's over that will be a gluten free station ~ we are 3.4% of the American market and we are tired of being played with.
Just cheering you up. BTW, that submarine problem was last Monday. I thought I’d died. I was so careful, and the whole family is trained. They can be trusted to get the right stuff!
Father God,
Our lives are in Your hands. You created us; You sustain us. You are the Almightly power of the universe, the all-seeing, all-knowing Father Divine. We praise You!
We come before Your throne to ask humbly for mercy for “MetMom”. She is in despair over her health. Shine the light of Your Truth on every aspect of her salvation in You, Father, through the atoning death of Your Son on the cross. Let her salvation and her peace in You be her reason for joy, faith and sustenance. Let the Living Water and the Bread of Life be her nourishment.
With Your guidance, let her rise up with wings as an eagle; run and not be weary; walk but not faint. For it is not what goes into the mouths of men that defile them, but what comes out of their mouths. Let her mouth, her mind and her heart speak only Faith and testament of Your miraculous power to heal and restore all that the Deceiver has taken.
Where earthly concerns may give the appearance of lack, want or inability, we who follow Jesus Christ affirm Your plan for her eternal well-being in Spirit and in Truth!
In the name of the Father, Son and Holy Spirit,
Amen!
Dolly, Salvation and Quix...thank you all for the pings...
MetMom...prayers sent up on your behalf, for your family and for the doctors treating you (that they have Divine Wisdom and Guidance in helping you). My heart trully goes out to you...as my daughter has Celiacs; my husband probably does (he is a non-traditional Type II Diabetic (it is so heavily found in his family) who is now recovering from his first (and we pray only) heart attack.
Getting my daughter diagnosed was awful; ‘they’ presumed some ‘sort of eating disorder’ (because, as you are painfully aware) has a very limited food selection. She too suffers from ‘gluten free’ menus that arent!!! and we worry that as she is getting married this Fall, and they will start planning for children that there will be more health problems her way.
Muawiyah, thank you for all of the info you have posted here (you probably don’t remember, but you were a wonderful help/resource a while back when my daughter was getting diagnosed). Food allergies/sensitivities are becoming much, much more common...but are still so hard to live with.
Metmom...were are praying for you and sending good thoughts your way...G-d Bless!!!
“The whole family is trained.”
Amen to that. We now put an ‘X’ on margarine or butter containers that have been used for spreading on bread or toast. Honest. We think we made our daughter sick when butter (that had, as noted by the family CSI unit ‘visible crumbs’ was used to make mashed (from real) potatoes.
You are so correct...when you remove gluten totally a ‘few crumbs’ make such a painful problem.
Thanks so much.
For all this has been a problem for so many years, there’s very little I haven’t read about, heard of, been advised to do, or tried. I’m sure you were in the same situation.
I appreciate that people are really concerned and want to help and I do understand that that is the spirit in which it’s given, but I’m doing what I can and have some avenues I am pursuing.
My allergist has been fine, really. It’s only within the last year that it’s gotten to this desperate point. He’s a great guy, very understanding and easy to talk to. He takes his patients very seriously and I’ve never felt dismissed by him for any questions I have for him. General opinion is that he’s the best in the area, so I really hit it good when I found him. I’m not ready to change from him yet.
I will look into poi as it is something I haven’t eaten before. It’s possible I could tolerate it because of that.
I’ve had these problems well before I ever did antibiotics. I’m old enough to have been raised pre-anti-boptoc use. I didn’t really start them until my early twenties.
I have tried and continue to try different acidophilus and probiotic supplements. I have to be careful about what else is in them. I’m amazed at the number of them that have lactose or dextrose in them. Sugar is NOT what you want to give someone who has yeast problems and needs the supplement. It seems more than a bit counterproductive.
Looks good but for the ascorbic acid. I can’t do any vitamin C or citric acid without breaking out badly. I always have.
Maybe our local health food store might have something like that or samples of that stuff. I’ll look into that avenue anyway.
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