Doozlygirl
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After rereading my post from last night, I see I was on a rant, and regret posting it that way. I am on nuritional focussed pathway now, where instead of figuring out what individual things I react to , so I can avoid them all, I found some ways to connect the dots back to my messed up biochemistry.
After I found a sweet spot with my meds and lifestyle for 3 weeks, I crashed, and crashed hard. This got me to look at my overall load. Since I avoid many if not the same things as you do Pam, I didn't know where to go. Until I stopped my meds, cold turkey one evening and I was able to awaken the next day, first time in 3 weeks. I've had an allergist in my past recommend stopping all meds in a medication vacation and add them in one day at a time. I don't adivse this for any of you, but when I did it, it immediately lightened my load.
I believe our load is filled with it all, histamine foods, meds, smells, synthetic chemicals, salicylates, tyramine, etc. Then it dawned on me. I have to focus on finding out how to better process them verses just eliminating them.
What I am going to say is contra conventional medical wisdom, but coming from a healing perpective taken from natural and holistic healing fields. There is stong belief that the vast majority of illness stems from leaky gut, altered digestion and body ecology, poor nutrition, altered pH, blocked elimination channels, methylation issues, inflammation, malabsorption, toxic overload, imbalanced hormones, clogged basic functioning, loss of homeostasis, and the body's inablity to run. It's all very complicated, but there are fantastic sources out there that have figured out how to untangle all this.
I personally have tried scores of conventional and natural approaches to address that long list, but never could grab that one string to pull it tight. Growing numbers of us in chronic health forums are tuned into the body chemistry side of this and finding that we react to so many things, because we have too much inflammation, our t celll and b cell systmes in the immjune system are inbalanced, and we can't get our body the raw materials it needs to do its job or get rid of the waste properly.
Every medication has unattended consequences. That's why those on H1s are so dry, H2s alter the body's GI system by changing pH, which then alters the immune system, by promoting leaky gut, food allergies, malabsorption, and other GI related functions. Antibiotics will change the body's ecology, upset the ratio of good and bad bacteria and lead to yeast and other overgrowth. Statins cause a depletion in coQ10, a factor necessary to use energy in the cells, this is why so many get muscle loss and pain.
Lastly, those of us who have various genetic predisopostion (mutations in various genes), this can explain or at least point to why each of can't tolerate certain things.
The cenventional mast cell world is focussed on taking more meds and eliminating more triggers to reach stability. I have been looking outside of this approach for ways to be able to tolerate more. I did this years ago, when I was allergic to over 25 foods then a muktifactorial treatment approach, months later, months later i was allrgic to only a small handful. I had to address my gut issues, supplement with appropriate doses of the correct forms of various basic buidling blocks, and elimimate exposures until my immune b cells were balanced with my t cells. I had to expand my diet to brand new foods to maintain my expanding needs dietary needs.
This is so hard to do when the conventional approach to treating mast cell disorders is so limiting in getting us the basic building blocks and the raw materials we need to properly function. Unfortunately, it is NOT about just taking a handful of vitamins. The path I am now following is about finding out where your biochemistry is broken then fixing at at the molecular level. This will clear those broken detoxification pathways, get rid of toxins, support the mitochondria to make more energy, balance the immune and neurological systems, support every organ and pull those essential strings of our tangled ball of metabolic fubar.
Instead of asking yourself what do you need to cut out, ask yourself what do you need to add or change? In a few mintues, I'll post a who different approach to fixing broken biochemistry. Let me know if you see yourself in this scenario.
Lyn
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