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i'm likely the oldest one here, having been trying to figure out my lifelong health problems for 50 years. (now i'm the advanced age of 74, and just in the past 2 months have become aware of the anti-histamine diet, due to an e-friend's kind alert to me on the subject).
i'm reading as much as i can, and have always done so, since doctors where i have lived (10 states) seem to have little interest in figuring things out for a particular patient.
the anti-histamine regimen has helped me enormously! most of the stuff i've been eating all these years has been from health-food stores. good, healthy, real food. ha! obviously that's only a small part of the answer for someone with lifelong "allergies" and three nose/sinus surgeries to fix abnormalities. p.s. - they didn't fix anything.
for the past 15 years of my 45-year migraine history, these monster headaches have been daily. i live on the triptans, which are the migraine-specific drugs, only hitting the market about 20 years ago.
thankfully, because of these drugs, i can work (yes, and i'll have to do so forever) 30 hours per week, and have a life. i am chronically fatigued and can't sleep, as i've had several diagnoses of sleep disorders, but no treatment except a knockout drug ever helped. i take a small dose of ativan every night of my life. this is an anti-anxiety drug, used liberally in hospitals to calm people down. i do NOT have anxiety, but this is the drug that works for me, so i get SOME (not enough) sleep.
divorced many years ago, i have 5 adult children, the oldest 52. 3 grandsons. i am hopeful that i will continue to feel better and better once i figure out which foods i can actually eat without delayed symptoms. (i had hives as a child, and once as an adult,) and never had anaphylaxis, but do have several other diagnoses, such as: fibromyalgia, chiari malformation, multiple chemical sensitivity and such things, which remain untreated because there really is no good treatment. i've seen and read about too many horror stories re: the chiari surgery......
i will check back here often, although all the flashing lights and funny faces with moving parts do a big bad number on my head. does anyone know how to turn those OFF?
thanks, dianne
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