When feeling normal is not normal
May 30, 2009 at 5:11 pm 1 comment
Today is the first day in weeks (maybe months, I’ve lost track of time) that I feel like myself. This week had it’s ups and its downs, most days were pretty good. I only had two reactions all week (one was because I tried Chipolte Burrito bowl). Thursday was the worst day, I felt like all of my energy was sucked completely out of me and had stomach pains all day – some of which were severe. Overall, the week was a good one though.
This coming Monday will mark the 8th week of being allergy free. This is when I am suppose to visit my allergist and start to re-introduce various allergens back into my diet to see if I can tolerate them or not. I have decided to put this off for now. I may even go all summer without the foods to which I am primarily allergic – eggs, milk, gluten and wheat.
I just found out about the Irritable Bowel Syndrome last week and I’m just now feeling normal again (although normal feels alien to me now). I have decided I want my stomach to heal up completely before I start eating foods that might make me sick again.
Although I thought my new beginning was 8 weeks ago, it feels like it was actually this week instead. Man am I glad there is a new beginning at all. I’ll be even more happy when normal feels like normal again.
Entry filed under: Uncategorized. Tags: Food allergies, health, IBS.
1. Janeen | June 1, 2009 at 12:43 pm
I came across your blog from the food allergy twitter party. I didn’t realize that you were newly diagnosed. I know how tough that is. I am newly gluten free so I have a small idea of what you are going through. I’ve been keeping track of your Tweets too. Since you are on twitter I wanted to invite you to a Twitter Webinar hosted by WEGO Health.
We’ll be holding “Twitter Power Tools for Health Activists”, a live web event, on June 3rd at Noon, Eastern Time.
During the 45 minute presentation, we’ll give you a guided tour of some of the most useful third party Twitter applications to help you save time, reach more tweeps, and take tweeting to the next level. There will also be time for Q&A with our Twitter expert, Shwen Gwee.
Joining the webinar is quick, easy and free. You can find all the details here: http://community.wegohealth.com/events/twitter-power-tools-for-health.
Please let know if you have any questions about the upcoming webinar, I hope you’ll be able to join us!
My son is allergic to wheat, rye, barley, oat, egg, peanut and tree nut (and recently outgrew his dairy allergy). If you have any questions or just need to vent please feel free email. My personal blog is http://www.zumfamily.blogspot.com.
Best Regards,
Janeen