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- On sleep: She recommends adding melatonin and glycine.
- On the diet: She says I am doing very well. She also says I should know quickly if I've erred. Try small amounts of various things and see if the next morning I feel like a truck rolled over me. Also, the antifungal should be keeping the yeast at bay; this level of experimentation is not likely to give me systemic/chronic candidiasis. This is very good news.
- On how to proceed with treatment: I get a new prescription alongside the Biaxin. I don't remember what the name is. She usually adds it six weeks in. Have I mentioned this is getting expensive?
- On results: It's going to take a while before we know whether the Lyme treatment is working. If my foot pain didn't fluctuate but stayed steady, we could expect to see improvement within this first six weeks, but since it jumps all over the map, this will take longer.
- And just out of the blue: she wants me to get allergy-tested for food allergies and for serotonin. I go in for that on the 9th. Sadly, this kills off my sleep meds for the next ten days! I'm supposed to be antihistamine-free for ten days before the test. I've left a note asking her to phone in a prescription for two weeks of Ambien. I am NOT going without sleep meds, not while I'm on Biaxin.
- On the diet: She says I am doing very well. She also says I should know quickly if I've erred. Try small amounts of various things and see if the next morning I feel like a truck rolled over me. Also, the antifungal should be keeping the yeast at bay; this level of experimentation is not likely to give me systemic/chronic candidiasis. This is very good news.
- On how to proceed with treatment: I get a new prescription alongside the Biaxin. I don't remember what the name is. She usually adds it six weeks in. Have I mentioned this is getting expensive?
- On results: It's going to take a while before we know whether the Lyme treatment is working. If my foot pain didn't fluctuate but stayed steady, we could expect to see improvement within this first six weeks, but since it jumps all over the map, this will take longer.
- And just out of the blue: she wants me to get allergy-tested for food allergies and for serotonin. I go in for that on the 9th. Sadly, this kills off my sleep meds for the next ten days! I'm supposed to be antihistamine-free for ten days before the test. I've left a note asking her to phone in a prescription for two weeks of Ambien. I am NOT going without sleep meds, not while I'm on Biaxin.
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Gosh, that sounds like a fun experiment! Sign ME right up!
I actually still don't know if I am as sensitive to tomatillos as I am to tomatoes because I haven't really felt like performing the experiment. I'm also not eager to try the experiment to see if I get lactose-intolerance reactions to raw milk the same as I do to pasteurized milk.
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*laughter* Yeah, this is why I don't know which kinds of fish and seafood I can or cannot eat. I don't LIKE throwing up.
But this experiment will be very fun if I get some foods back!
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I'm just curious about the serotonin test. Is that actually a serotonin allergy test? I've been told there's no way to measure serotonin levels or anything else having to do with serotonin without a spinal tap, and even then it's unreliable.
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i agree that trying to add foods, one at a time, is really the only way to see what you'll tolerate. for me, one meal of it may be fine, but many meals over many days without a break is a problem. that's why i'll let myself have something starchy once a week or so.
good luck at class tonight!
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Thanks also for the hints on seeing what I'll tolerate. I want clear, unambiguous answers.
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