If I don't have protein for breakfast, then what do I eat?  I can't eat
carbs then!!!

As for the cheese, from what I understand, if it's a true milk allergy then
cheese is not permissible at all.  If it is lactose intolerance, then cheese
can be tolerated.  The Dr. said I could eat goat's milk cheese, but I am
leery of that.  I tried giving some to my daughter.  I gave her a tiny
amount, just scraped the tines of the fork across it and put it on top of
her salad.  That small amount made her sick to her stomach.

I take Zrytec for my allergies.  Claritin didn't do a thing for me and I
can't take Sudafed.  Nor do these things help with food allergies.  As for
lunch meats, I do not eat them.  In fact, I eat little at all in the way of
meat.  I simply do not like it.  Don't like fish either.

Sorry to hear that.  When my husband's grandma died, people brought all
sorts of food.  They are Italian so there was a ton of pasta and also
pastries.  My sister in law had GD at the time.  I had not been diagnosed
back then.  I knew nothing about diabetes, except I thought diabetics
couldn't eat sugar.  She kept getting sick because she wasn't eating right
with all the running around we were doing.  So I kept trying to feed her
pasta because that was all that was in the house  We were staying at my
inlaws and my mother in law was disabled at that point.  They normally had a
caregiver for her but since I was there, they gave the caregiver some days
off.  I hadn't cooked or bought any food because people kept bringing it
over.  Must have been hard for my sister in law then, being pregnant, with
GD and a small child to look after and then all those carbs!

Well, that's good.  Nobody died here, but Angela has been sick and two
teenagers nearly killed us the other day with their reckless driving.
Luckily my husband was home and he went to investigate.  The idiots were
still there when the sheriff arrived.  I don't know what they were doing
other than driving fast and badly.  Came very close to hitting my van, then
they spun off the other side of the road, flipped the car, bouncing it
through my neighbor's yard and taking out a couple of bushes before landing
in the driveway.  And then they had the nerve to get out of the car and
laugh about it!  My husband said their car wasn't damaged, but I highly
doubt that.  The sheriff did call me for a statement and said he was
charging them with reckless driving.  He also said that they were very sorry
for what they did.

I'm not allergic to chicken, but my mom is allergic to both.  Angela showed
a slight reaction to chicken but not enough for it to be considered an
allergy.  So for that reason, I limit how much chicken she eats.  I don't
care for chicken at all  I did make some tonight mixed with rice noodles,
carrots, celery, onion, green beans and a few peas.  I can handle it like
that.  But to eat a piece of chicken, even with the bones out, disgusts me.
My grandma had a farm and I saw her butcher the chickens.  I get memories of
that every time I try to eat a piece of chicken.  I'd be a vegetarian for
sure if it weren't for the anemia I get when I don't eat a bit of red meat
now and then.

Mine goes beyond sensitivity.  I was very, very ill the last 4 times I ate
eggs.  So ill that I would never eat an egg again even if I hadn't had it
confirmed by the allergy test.

Thanks!  I see my GP tomorrow.  Maybe he can make some sense of my labs.
The liver thing is really worrisome.

Yep.  But I had no idea that I had an egg allergy until recently.  I've
never made the connection to my getting sick and eggs except that when I got
violently ill around Thanksiving, the eggs tasted funny to me.  So I thought
it was food poisoning.  But then when I had the same reaction a week later
to eggs, a light bulb went off in my head.  And now I know for sure.

The Dr. said the elevated phosphorous is nothing to worry about and the
liver thing probably isn't either, although I'm going for an ultrasound on
Monday to make sure.  He said fatty liver is common in diabetics and that's
probably all that it is.  There is no treatment for that, nor does it
require treatment.  If that's what it is.

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Had I gotten sick just from the purchased egg salad, then I would believe it
was food poisoning.  However, a week later I made my own egg salad and had
the very same reaction as I did the first time.  The first time I ate it, I
got sick 16 hours later.  When I ate it again the following day, I got sick
30 minutes later.  I did not know at that point whether it was the eggs or
perhaps even mustard.  I generally do not like mustard.  And in looking
back, during the period of time when I was eating eggs every day for
breakfast, I was routinely getting sick 30 minutes after eating.  But I
never thought of a food allergy at that point in time.  I had so much else
medically wrong with me that I never considered a food allergy.  And I did
not have respiratory symptoms which is what I thought a food allergy was.
So now it's beginning to make sense to me.

The reason I considered a food allergy now is that my mom and daughter had
both been diagnosed with multiple food allergies and they tend to run in
families.  Many of the distressing symptoms I'd been having were the same
ones Angela had been having, but hers cleared up when we took the allergenic
foods out of her diet.

Now I do not believe in any way shape or form that a Naturopath is the way
to go for medical care.  I think a lot of what they do or how they think is
BS.  However the test he performs is the RAST (blood test) and that is a
widely recognized and standard test for food allergies.  My mom made the
appointment for me and called to say that she did it.  She knows I do not
like this particular "practitioner" if you will.  She has also been very
crotchety lately and I didn't want another fight to start with her.  So I
went there.

He did not try to sell me any supplements.  He went through everything I am
taking and told me that I do not need a few of them.  I have discussed this
with my GP and he told me I should be taking those.  So I will not be making
any changes there.  He also said that the elevated phosphorus meant nothing
and certainly didn't mean I should stop drinking the diet soda.  He said
there is nothing wrong with diet soda.  He also said that my elevated liver
enzymes were most likely caused by "fatty liver" a condition common to
diabetics.  He said there is nothing they can do for it nor do they need to.
But just in case he has scheduled a liver ultrasound for me on Monday so I
will know for sure.

Mr. Naturopath has not called me back so I must presume he can't think of
any other way to get more money out of my mom in my behalf.  He kept wanting
to see my daughter, but I told him that wasn't going to happen.  He did
however freeze a wart off of her finger during my appointment.  None of the
Drs. I had taken her to previously would do this.  They kept telling me it
was no big deal.  But it was bothersome and because warts are cause by a
virus, new warts kept forming.  I was treating the wart with some stuff from
the health food store.  This stopped the new ones from forming but didn't do
a thing for the original one.  The wart is almost totally gone now.  There
is just some peeling skin there.

Tomorrow at lunch will make one week of being off of almonds, dairy and
eggs.  I am not feeling totally better.  In fact I am having some weird
symptoms I didn't have before.  Like acid reflux.  I've had some odd bouts
of dizziness and at times have feel like I was really light, almost like I
was floating.  Sort of the same sensation I have at time when I'm having a
hypo, but I've checked and I'm not having a hypo.  And I'm very tired and
cranky at times. The diarrhea has stopped though.  Woo hoo!  No more stomach
pain.  And I no longer look pregnant.  My stomach had grown so huge and was
hard to the touch.  I just thought it was because I was fat.  Apparently
not.  I've already lost some weight just in that amount of time. Most likely
the dairy was the cause since it was something I was eating every day in the
form or butter, or more often, cheese.  No more weird stomach noises at
night when I'm trying to sleep.

It took Angela about two weeks to feel a lot better.  Actually at about the
two week mark she spent two days throwing up and then she said she felt a
lot better.  I've been trying to find something that would tell me how
others have dealt with this in terms of how long it took them to feel better
and what happened to them as they got the allergens out of their bodies.
But I haven't found too much information of the sort.  Seems most people
were diagnosed with food allergies as infants or young children.  Not as
adults.  But when I was a child, Drs. didn't believe in food allergies.
They knew I couldn't have any sort of milk as a baby because I'd throw it
right up.  But according to what I've read, the word "allergy" wasn't even
in the dictionary in the 1950's.  This is something that came about in the
1960's.  I was tested for allergies as a teen.  But they did only inhalants.
I was not tested for food allergies because at that point in time the only
test they had was the prick test and I was told this was not reliable. The
standard test then was the elimination diet and they didn't advise it for
growing children because it involved eating a very limited diet for a very
long time and really it wasn't all that reliable either.

So...  I will report back when I get the results of my liver ultrasound.