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Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: The Crazy Makers
by Anonymous-Coward on Jul 27, 2002 - 10:54 PM
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Hey Bettie X...I've been lurking this site a little bit, and you seem to be the resource for dietary concerns. I just found out that I have some severe food allergies (not anaphylaxis severe), to milk eggs and wheat. After close to 3 years of doctor visits, tests, bloodwork, and psychiatric counseling
for an overwhelming multitude of bizarre symptoms, I finally found a holistic Hygeinist that treats actual causes instead of symptoms. (Gosh, why didn't I think of that? Or, better yet, why didn't my doctors?)
The book you were talking about sounds too familiar. It makes alot of sense, now that I know what I'm dealing with. For over ten years, I've dealt with severe depression, coupled with a once crippling social anxiety/ panic attacks and strange phobias. For the past 3 years, my icing on that fun little cake has been, bad tension headaches, strange pitches & tones (inaudible to any one else...
great!), virtigo, extreme aches in my extemities (like "growing pains", only Vicodin worthy), debilitating weakness to the point of not being able to walk my dog, do my grocery shopping, or anything, really, but sleep up to 18 hours per day. My knees started to make a sick grinding sound when I clamber up the stairs of my house, my hips hurt so bad, I can't sit on the floor, cross-legged, things were dropping out of my hands. I genuinely started to believe that I had a terminal illness and was really prepared for an M.S. diagnoses, after "doctors" ruled out Rheumitoid arthritis, Lupus, Cushings' Disease, and brain tumor growth. They conveniently call "mystery" illess "fybromyalgia" or Chronic Fatigue Syndrome.
I just turned 27...so....something here is fucked! Wait! I think it's me! =) All I can say is, thanks to "modern medicine", I just pissed away several years of what could have been fun. I am SO glad that I found a practitioner that not only knows what is going on with so many "unwell" people, but
also who is there to make them well, not keep them sick in order to pad their already bulging wallets.
Blah Blah Blah! My point to all this is- you're right, and you're very intelligent to have made a choice to live the lifestyle you seem to, and to have made a conscious decision to just be aware, not like the millions who midlessly graze at gross fastfood restaurants, wondering why they're fat and tired.
(Btw- I frequent the PETA website and reading about slaughterhouse practices, among other things, sent me to bed sobbing, with a bottle of Attivan...but that's another thread).
I am attempting to go ahead and go full-fledged Vegan. I was considering it anyway, before all this mess. I would really appreciate any advice or any good recipes-for dummies, that you might have!
Thanks- Brenna
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Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: FOR CRYING OUT LOUD
by hecklnjecklnhyde on Jul 28, 2002 - 12:06 AM
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Sorry...Allergic AND stupid...it's Hecklnjecklnhyde. No wonder I couldn't find my post....this "Crazy Makers" thread is becoming a WEB OF INSANITY! MWAA! MWAA!
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