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Appreciate how simple things are for you Saz.. you want ice cream, you buy ice cream, you eat ice cream
Me and B even have our his n hers ice creams in my freezer 
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Soops... my aunt has been ill for about three years... lots of ambiguous symptoms that could be lots of things... chronic lethargy, diarrhoea, headaches, stomach pain, .... her son had ME for 11 years so initially she panicked & thought it could be that. Like your friend.. .she's been seeing lots of doctors, each one would say it could be something different... they did go down the Lupus & MS route too.
Turns out it was yeast related!! I'm not clear on the details of how they discovered it.. but someone made the connection between them getting a bread making machine & the onset of her illness..
Apparently you use quite a lot of yeast in these machines... and it had made her really ill. She avoids breads with yeast now... & is back on top form. It took 4 weeks for her to go from looking like she was dying (my Dad was in bits... he was convinced it was an undetected cancer) to looking twenty years younger. She's like a spring lamb! jumping around the place!
Ditty, I'm like that with yeast/bread too, though not as bad. Had undiagnosed stomach problems for years... similar symptoms. Figured it out myself in the end (with the help of a health freak friend Turns out it was yeast related!! I'm not clear on the details of how they discovered it.. but someone made the connection between them getting a bread making machine & the onset of her illness..
Apparently you use quite a lot of yeast in these machines... and it had made her really ill. She avoids breads with yeast now... & is back on top form. It took 4 weeks for her to go from looking like she was dying (my Dad was in bits... he was convinced it was an undetected cancer) to looking twenty years younger. She's like a spring lamb! jumping around the place!
) by just cutting out loads of things it could be, we initially thought it was gluten... but it always got loads worse with bread 
'tis very interesting, the book that I was reading for example, said re chronic candida that the recent increase in this seems to be largely the result of the gradual weakening of the immune system from our diet and medications such as antibiotics, contraceptive pills, steroids, tranqulliizers, sleeping pills in the valium group and some ulcer medications
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we initially thought it was gluten.
yes the doctors suggested gluten intolerance to my aunt... one doctor even suggested they do a duodenal biopsy to look for Coeliac Disease.. but another doctor ruled this out for some reason or another....I'm not sure quite how they worked out the link between the onset of symptoms, the getting of the bread machine... and just how much more yeast was used in home made bread (as they were making it) to the previously eaten shop bread.
the good news for my aunt is that apart from not eating the home made yeast laden bread anymore she hasn't had to change her diet (though she always ate healthily & I suspect is even more aware of what she;s eating now) or have any further treatment to recover. She just stopped eating the bread.
I dont drink fizzy* drinks anymore either Super, I cut them out at the same time as the bread/wheat things, and found that I was without them for so long that I didn't really want them anymore... when I tried one it hurt my stomach, they still do 
(*except G&T and champers )
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steroids
THAT is very interesting. My aunt does have Arthritis... and has been on Methotrexate for ages... she started on the steroids long before my mum did.
I grew out of fizzy drinks too... no health reasons... I just stopped enjoying the fizzy sensation.
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the good news for my aunt is that apart from not eating the home made yeast laden bread anymore she hasn't had to change her diet (though she always ate healthily & I suspect is even more aware of what she;s eating now) or have any further treatment to recover. She just stopped eating the bread.
pretty much the same here Except the fizzy drinks I mentioned. I occasionally have the odd sarnie, or toast for brekkie.... I'm only human 
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such as antibiotics, contraceptive pills, steroids, tranqulliizers, sleeping pills in the valium group and some ulcer medications
mind you... out of that lot.. we ingest more steroids & antibiotics in the food we eat than the amount we are prescribed. The amount of hormones in the our water systems is significant since the pill first came out (I once heard a consultant blaming the hormone levels in the effluent for the dramatic increase of babies born of ambiguous gender... & gender reassignment in young adults)Reference:
we ingest more steroids & antibiotics in the food we eat than the amount we are prescribed.
Yes Ditty it said diet and the medications mentioned, (and the environment)
scary innit?
And.. it why it annoys me when GPs used to make my kids ear infections reach agony level before prescribing antibiotics... using the overuse of antibiotic argument. When only a very small percentage of antibiotic use is medicinal. The largest percent is agricultural
And.. it why it annoys me when GPs used to make my kids ear infections reach agony level before prescribing antibiotics... using the overuse of antibiotic argument. When only a very small percentage of antibiotic use is medicinal. The largest percent is agricultural
No ditty....the drug he was taking was the newer generation of immunosuppresants...it's called Mycophenolate Mofetil. I've met some kids that were on cyclosporin, and it has some awful side effects 
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and it has some awful side effects
thats why I asked. The cyclosporin results used to go directly to the Consultant for "forwarding" (clinical interpreting the results)... but we would see the the rest of the blood profile.. .. totally deranged results.. I once asked the Consultant about it and he just shook his head sadly & said he hated CyclosporinReference:ditty
I will be a much happier bunny when your brothers idea for bespoke medication is a reality. Also... what he says about something being toxic to anyone at any given time.... answers to things such as RA & other auto immune diseases may suddenly slot into place
I'm not very scientifically minded, and my brother had to explain it to me in very simple terms, but it sounded like a logical progression. He said that's why, even with pain killers some respond to aspirin...and some to paracetomol or ibuprofen. "One size fits all" medicine could be a thing of the past.
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your lovely son yourself and family have gone through so much of late your son is very brave, I am so pleased his recovery is going well.
big hugs for him yourself and family
your lovely son yourself and family have gone through so much of late your son is very brave, I am so pleased his recovery is going well. big hugs for him
yourself and family
aww Marge...thank you so much. I'd love to take more credit for his remarkable spirit but he really is a blessing in my life 
ps. he can still be a pain in the arse....but he's entititled
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ps. he can still be a pain in the arse....but he's entititled
He certainly is suzybean Absolutely Marge Sorry squiggle....going back to your initial post...I think that it has been useful to me in my further understanding of how things such as aspartamine can make a (negative) difference to certain people. As someone who has an occasional skinny coke with vodka, thanks for the info.
did you know that some people can taste more than a sweetness in Aspartamine - an acrid aftertaste... its one of those genetic things... like how some people can smell cyanide & others can't.
You're very welcome suzy. As I said at the start I don't have a scooby because I don't drink diet drinks anymore. I think having chemo changes what you can and can't tolerate and there's a lot I can't manage anymore. For some reason we are all becoming more sensitive to our food and drink. I think the huge increase in the chemicals our bodies are bombarded with doesn't help.
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did you know that some people can taste more than a sweetness in Aspartamine - an acrid aftertaste... its one of those genetic things... like how some people can smell cyanide & others can't.
No I didn't.....wow!