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 arent 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.
Metmom - I seem to have missed your ping. Sorry to hear that you can’t even get the test done! I hope that everything works out so you can at least get the definitive test done and then get a good protocol and feel much improved.
More prayers for your well being plus a big hug!
NYS has approved this test for me for this one time!
I’d need to get approval every time the test is run, but this is a big first step.
Thanks for your prayers for this.
Still looking for that passport.....
Prayers continue!
Go, metmom!! God bless you!
Praying for you FRiend!
Stick with it.
I cannot know how tough it is for you and only hope you can perservere.
I’m relieved to hear that you finally have some direction in all of this. One of my sisters has been ill for a very long time. I forwarded a Wiki article regarding this disease to her daughter, as she doesn’t use email.
More prayers are on the way. Please keep us posted, friend.
YEA! PRAYERS AND HUGS.
I hope this works so well with the election.
Go Carl....
Thank God for progress, my prayers for you continue.
Let me know if that’s what she’s got if you find out.
I just talked to an old friend today who I haven’t talked to in a long time, who has had very similar problems to me with food and allergies and I was telling her about it and she has all the symptoms as well, which I suspected.
It seems that very generalized unexplained, and unexplainable, food allergy type problems tend to be a common factor in this.
I sent her a bunch of links and encouraged her to get evaluated for it.
Prayers continue
BTTT
Maybe this will be when you get some answers. I will be waiting to hear. Prayer being said now.
I’ll let you know if I hear from her. The last time I talked to her she thought that she had celiac disease.
I think most of us thought she was a hypochondriac, but with time and increasing knowledge about our bodies and how they function, it seems that what appeared to be hypochondria may well be chronic illness. I really regret that.
Now you might not have a Moslem butcher shop close by, but I've found that the Moslem butchers in this community as well as the traditional Middle Eastern candy makers have gone to pains to figure out how to SHIP STUFF ~ doing their own freezing and packing.
I'll see if any of these guys are shipping lamb (once they let me out of the house). (NOTE: I think we still have 5 halal butcher shops around here, may be 6 now ~ new Pak store opened and they usually rent out the back to the butcher).
Glad to hear you received approval for the test.
Continued prayers for you...
Very good news!
Praying.
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