Re: I need some tough love right now. - Just Venting. Nothing to do

[Guest guest]

, if you feel you are reacting to everything at the moment, then I

would suggest widening your diet (still legal, though). You might as well

have more variety to react to, if that makes sense (as long as none of

them are really horrendous reactions! Bummer about leaving dinner

out. I know we've all done that, left something out and left for the day,

or overnight. Phooey!

Enjoying that right now.... I made pumpkin pie filling a few weeks

ago but thought I was having a reaction to it so I kept it. I'm reacting

to everything, so i'm eating that now... yum

I did have dinner all set but I left it out before work this morning.

Scared to eat it, since who knows what fermented and grew on it for 10

hours today.

[Guest guest]

Isn't it the truth. Once my doctor (when things were very bad)

asked me if I was depressed and I said I didn't think I was clinically

depressed but I sure was discouraged and gloomy most of the time. He

replied, " Well, with what you are up against, if you were sitting

here feeling cheerful about it all I'd have to send you to a

Psychiatrist. "

One other thought, . I don't know if your doctor is smart

enough to do this or not, but since you are on several meds, I am

wondering if you could possibly just be allergic or having a toxic

reaction from one of the meds itself. I say this because a couple months

ago I was put on Diflucan to be followed by Nystatin. NO problems at all

with the Diflucan and since they had my on Nystatin years ago, I figured

that would be easy-peasy. When I started sneaking very slowly into

the Nystatin I felt worse and worse and worse. By the time I got up

to the full dose and saw my doctor again I told him this die-off was

really really hard to take and in fact I was back feeling as bad as

pre-SCD. I asked if I could take a smaller dose for longer to make the

die-off more bearable. He said, " Hmmm, " and after thinking

about it a bit said my description did not sound like die-off. He decided

it sounded more like allergy or toxic reaction to the Nystatin (not

die-off from it). So he told me to keep on wiht the Diflucan, drop the

Nystatin and see if I started feeling better. I felt much better in two

days! I'm so glad I asked because otherwise I would have just

figured this was the expected candida die-off and I'd have to put up with

it for a few months. Just an idea, because people can actually be

allergic to a med itself, not side-effects or even fillers.

I used to have periods of depressions before I was diagnosed, during

the

years I was in denial that I was sick. And then it took me years and

years after that to realize that that level of depression came from

the

illness and was not part of my behavioral-psychological makeup. It

came from a chemical deficit or imbalance, which is a whole 'nother thing. They vanished after I began treatment.