glutamine and a rant about food and allergies/senstivities in general

[Guest guest]

Hi,

I am personally intimately aware of how different we all are. I myself

am violently allergic (yes, true IgE allergy) to iodine, and have been

for over 20 years, and get sick to death of people telling me I either

can't be allergic or just need a lot more of it (if one of those people

would be willing to trade bodies with me until after the " more iodine "

experiment and its results are all healed in MY body I'd be willing to

try it, but if I have to live in THIS body through it all, forget it,

I've suffered enough from getting iodined to not be willing to risk

it). After all I've lived with this allergy (by elimination and

challenge) for over 22 years. It isn't like I made it up, or haven't had

plenty of opportunity to test it and retest it, and have suffered plenty

of extremely painful consequences of excess iodine.

So I hope you didn't take anything I wrote to mean you don't know your

own and your children's reactions., and tolerances/intolerances.

If I wrote anything that implied that, I sincerely apologize. I am a

little bit oversensitive to any suggestion I should further limit my own

diet frankly. I already can't eat much variety of food. I eat a lot of

high amine foods because I'm not allergic to them. And I eat high

oxalate foods if I have no other allergy to the foods.

It all gets so very frustrating. I do feel I may as well just give up

and die if my diet gets any more restricted. Eating is a chore. Cooking

is worse. All the fun went out of food and cooking for me decades ago,

when first my son was discovered to be allergic, then later I became

allergic to iodine, and then later my husband became allergic (each of

us is allergic to different foods/substances of course). Dealing with

one set of allergies isn't so bad, but dealing with two or three sets of

different and conflicting allergies is just insane. Particularly the

last 12 years or so as I was getting quite disabled with joint pain, and

fatigue. Still feel I'm only 30 to 35% functional. And to feed myself

and my husband even though I only have the two of us now, for our

different needs takes far too much of my energy. I wish I could just

quit eating altogether.

I am literally sick to death of it. I get quite hypoglycemic (even

taking HC) regularly because I can't face eating what I can safely eat,

so I go too long between meals, and daily wait too long to eat breakfast.

sol

[Guest guest]

Sol,

So sorry to hear the struggle you are having. That must be so hard

on you. I get frustrated with my limited choices sometimes too but

they are not as restrictive as a lot of people here.

What are amine foods?

Tina

>

> Hi,

> I am personally intimately aware of how different we all are. I

myself

> am violently allergic (yes, true IgE allergy) to iodine, and have

been

> for over 20 years, and get sick to death of people telling me I

either

> can't be allergic or just need a lot more of it (if one of those

people

> would be willing to trade bodies with me until after the " more

iodine "

> experiment and its results are all healed in MY body I'd be willing

to

> try it, but if I have to live in THIS body through it all, forget

it,

> I've suffered enough from getting iodined to not be willing to risk

> it). After all I've lived with this allergy (by elimination and

> challenge) for over 22 years. It isn't like I made it up, or

haven't had

> plenty of opportunity to test it and retest it, and have suffered

plenty

> of extremely painful consequences of excess iodine.

> So I hope you didn't take anything I wrote to mean you don't know

your

> own and your children's reactions., and tolerances/intolerances.

> If I wrote anything that implied that, I sincerely apologize. I

am a

> little bit oversensitive to any suggestion I should further limit

my own

> diet frankly. I already can't eat much variety of food. I eat a lot

of

> high amine foods because I'm not allergic to them. And I eat high

> oxalate foods if I have no other allergy to the foods.

> It all gets so very frustrating. I do feel I may as well just

give up

> and die if my diet gets any more restricted. Eating is a chore.

Cooking

> is worse. All the fun went out of food and cooking for me decades

ago,

> when first my son was discovered to be allergic, then later I

became

> allergic to iodine, and then later my husband became allergic

(each of

> us is allergic to different foods/substances of course). Dealing

with

> one set of allergies isn't so bad, but dealing with two or three

sets of

> different and conflicting allergies is just insane. Particularly

the

> last 12 years or so as I was getting quite disabled with joint

pain, and

> fatigue. Still feel I'm only 30 to 35% functional. And to feed

myself

> and my husband even though I only have the two of us now, for our

> different needs takes far too much of my energy. I wish I could

just

> quit eating altogether.

> I am literally sick to death of it. I get quite hypoglycemic (even

> taking HC) regularly because I can't face eating what I can safely

eat,

> so I go too long between meals, and daily wait too long to eat

breakfast.

> sol

>

[Guest guest]

> I am literally sick to death of it. I get quite hypoglycemic (even

> taking HC) regularly because I can't face eating what I can safely

eat,

> so I go too long between meals, and daily wait too long to eat

breakfast.

> sol

>

Believe me, I hear you. I get looked at like I'm a freak because I

won't let my kids have the lollipops after dance class. If only the

other parents had to deal with the rashes, migraines, diahrrea, and

sleepless nights that would result....

Today I have a splitting headache from my iron treatment. How nice

it would be for my hubby to pick up Mc's so I wouldn't have to

cook tonight. =-(

I have faith that healing will bring improvement. Some days my

attitude is better than others.

I definitely understand where you're coming from.