Hi everyone,
I am newly diagnosed with allergies to all dairy, eggs, wheat, rye, gluten, almonds, peanuts, pineapple, gen beans, kidney beans and squash as well as brewers yeast. I am finding it very overwhelming trying to figure out whats left I can eat and how to modify my recipes to fit all of these restrictions. I also have some severe allergies to various medications like pennicilin, eurythromycin, codeine, gravol and am latex sensitive.
I have had digestive issues and some allergies all of my life. A failed back surgery 4 years ago and the accompanying medications seem to have thrown eveything into overdrive. I have gained 80lbs in 2.5 years and not from eating too much. I also suffer from adrenal fatigue from ongoing stress for a bunch of reasons. The multitude of regular Dr's I saw said there is nothing wrong with me, I just eat too much and tried to give me more medications for all of the side effects of the other pills they had me on which made me gain more weight. I was also trapped into following the dr's orders even though they were making me sicker as my job was dependent on following Dr's orders after my back injury. I felt trapped and was getting sicker and sicker as well as more and more overweight.
I finally found a Dr who was willing to recommend going off all of the ridiculous meds and am off of everything since last Nov. Then after I was clear of the pills, went to a Naturopath in Jan. Despite already costing me almost $2k out of my pocket(not covered by medical) I am finally getting answers. I am low in iron and vitamin D and taking those has help bring back my old energy. The naturopath also explained that all of my allergies are causing my body to react by retaining water, sometimes I would gain 10lbs in just a few days from something I ate or took a new prescription. He said that once I eliminate all of the allergens, the water/weight should start falling off.
So I am looking forward getting rid of all of the bad stuff and feeling better. I have always been very active except for the past year or so and am looking forward to getting back to that as well. I hope that I can find lots of ideas here in this forum and look forward to finding out how others cope with similar issues.