Re: Bad day - my gut

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Thank you Patty. When I first became really ill, violently ill, it was

just after my son was born. I couldn't eat anything! I was diagnosed

with an ulcer and severe IBS and put on Prevacid etc. I remember that

I ate one french fry with a bit of chili and cheese on it from a

friends lunch and I was on the couch doubled over crying for hte next

4 hours. It went on like that for almost a year. The medicines made me

feel worse and the doctors did nothing helpful. I survived on tagamet

and immodium. Then I stopped eating... I mean seriously I stopped

eating nearly every food immaginable. I was on the BRATT diet and that

was it for what seemed like months. Very slowly I reintroduced things

into my diet with much improvement. Then when I became pregnant with

my first daughter I craved protien and started eating meats again. I

was able to tolerate most foods by then and returned to a normal diet.

Since the birth of my second daughter 4 years ago my gut seems to have

slowly gotten worse again, however I have made progress. I am now

keenly aware of what my reaction to the supplements are. For instance,

I was taking primal defense at bedtime with my multi every night for

months. I realized that I was having upset stomach every night and

switched the primal to first thing in the morning on an empty stomach

and not one tummy ache since. I have also noticed tat if I miss even

24 hours of the supplements then I am likely to have the diarrhea. If

I take the acidophilus with meals it totally prevents the diarrhea and

even backs me up a little. Then about once every week or two I seem to

have an episode. I have figured out that this last one was from the

milk, by the way I tolerate all other dairy just fine, it is only

liquid milk. The episode before that I think was from taking the

perfect food supplement on an empty stomach. So I am figuring out how

to manage it and overall it is better, but I get frustrated when I

have a spell.

For a long time I would get seriously ill if I ate food that had a lot

of garlic in it. I couldn't figure out why, but knew that I needed to

avoid it. Now I know it was because of the candida! I think I was

seriously overrun with it! I am even now better able t eat garlic and

have started including it slowly into my diet again. But now I also

understand why I would feel so ill from it.

Forgive me for writing a book, but I wanted to show that I have had

this pattern and have dealt with it for a long time. I honestly am

doing so much better than I was pre-explant, I just need to continue

to work at it. Maybe one y I will be " normal " like Jordan Rubin. By

the way I am half way through Maker's Diet and the library has Patient

Heal Thyself on hold for me.

Many hugs all around,