On Wednesday, December 5, 2012 10:55:49 AM UTC-5, Julie Bove wrote:
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> > Janet > wrote:
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> >> In article >,
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> >>> "Cheryl" > wrote in message
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> >>> > On 12/4/2012 4:52 AM, Julie Bove wrote:
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> >>> >> If I could, I would have chicken soup. That always
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> >>> >> made me feel better when I was sick. But I can't have
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> >>> >> chicken any more.
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> >>> > Why not?
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> >>> Because I am intolerant to chicken.
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> >> But not turkey?
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> >> Janet
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> > Or chicken eggs?
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> I am extremely intolerant to chicken eggs. They probably make me more ill
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> than any other food. So much so that I will avoid anything that might
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> possibly have an egg in it if we are dining out.
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> Last time I ate any eggs was on Thanksgiving several years back. I had
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> eaten half of an egg salad sandwich before going to my parent's house. My
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> mom told me to make the mashed potatoes. I merely turned around to start to
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> do it and then doubled over in pain. Dashed to the bathroom just in time.
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> Spent the rest of that evening on the couch in their computer room, moaning
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> in pain. Wasn't able to eat a bite.
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> I had suspected the eggs prior. You see... When I was eating them on a
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> regular basis, they did make me sick. In fact I was pretty much sick all
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> the time but didn't know why. I began eating eggs more frequently when I
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> learned that I was a diabetic because I needed to lower the amount of carbs
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> I was eating. So every morning I was eating either eggs or cheese or
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> cottage cheese. All of which I am intolerant to although eggs now cause a
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> more violent reaction.
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> The Dr. couldn't figure out why I was always sick. And only after maybe
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> three months did my stomach finally begin to settle down some. When you are
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> constantly sick like that since pretty much birth, you just tend to assume
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> that it is a normal thing or everyone is that way. However, the situation
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> got far worse after the diagnosis of my diabetes. But some people surmised
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> that it was the high blood sugar that had caused it and they told me that
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> they too had the same problem.
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> And in looking back, I can see that there were in fact times that eggs were
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> probably the culprit but I didn't know it then. Like the time I ate boiled
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> eggs at the cafeteria at work and then about a half an hour later had to
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> dash to the bathroom. Or all those times when on vacation or making cross
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> country moves and dined out for breakfast. Then had to dash to the bathroom
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> before we hit the road.
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> Fast forward to when my daughter was six. She was diagnosed with multiple
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> food intolerances. So to make things easier in the kitchen, I pretty much
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> ridded it of anything she could not have. We switched to gluten free pasta
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> which was egg free. I no longer put egg in my meatloaf, meatballs or other
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> things. Since eggs were never really a favorite food of mine, it was no big
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> deal to give them up. But... I was still eating some dairy, particularly
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> when we dined out. And it was still in things like the bread that I was
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> buying. At home, I mostly ate rice cheese. Somehow I felt that if I didn't
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> eat things in front of my daughter that she couldn't have, it would make
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> things easier for her. Not sure if this was true or not.
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> But then my husband began wanting to eat things like eggs. So I bought eggs
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> for him. And one day I got egg salad from a salad bar to take home. Ate
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> some and something like 16 hours, got sick. Thought maybe it was food
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> poisoning but didn't know to what. I had gotten a variety of things from
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> the salad bar. The only thing that I had left was a little dab of the egg
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> salad. Ate it and about 2 hours later had the same reaction. Convinced now
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> that it was food poisoning.
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> But then just before that ill fated Thanksgiving, I had a dozen eggs that I
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> had purchased for my husband. He hadn't eaten them. Thought maybe if I
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> made egg salad, he would eat it. He didn't. So I ate some in a sandwich
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> and about 16 hours got sick. Still wasn't making the connection.
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> Knew that the dinner at my parent's house could be delayed and had been
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> having some trouble with low blood sugar so decided to eat half of an egg
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> salad sandwich before we left the house. And then 2 hours later got sick.
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> So only then did I make the connection!
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> So it came as no surprise to me when the Dr. looked at my test results and
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> said that one food was off the charts and would I care to guess what that
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> was? When I told him it was egg, he confirmed it.
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> I had suspected a dairy problem all my life only because my mom had told me
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> that I was allergic to milk as a baby. I wouldn't breast feed for some
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> reason and I don't think they had any pre-made formulas in those days
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> although I could be wrong No matter what she gave me she said it came right
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> back up.
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> But then for some reason my parents insisted that I drink milk with my
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> meals. I hated the stuff. As a teen, a Dr. told my mom to stop giving me
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> milk. My stomach did settle down some. But... We were only focused on the
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> milk. Not stuff made of milk. Like cheese. And I didn't know then to look
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> for stuff with milk in it. Like some bread. Or what should have been more
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> obvious things like macaroni and cheese. Part of the problem there, I think
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> is that my mom doesn't like to cook. And when she did cook, she often made
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> packaged things. So I think she really didn't know what all was in some
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> dishes. Like that there is in fact dairy in Cream of Mushroom soup. Or
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> even in Campbell's Chicken and Rice soup. Or many canned soups for that
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> matter. I'm not even sure that in those days they had to disclose all of
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> the ingredients like they do now. Maybe they did. I'm just not sure.
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> So anyway... My stomach really only got totally better (in that respect,
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> because I do also have gastroparesis which is another problem) after I began
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> reading all labels and avoiding things in a restaurant like gravy that might
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> possibly contain something that would make me sick.
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> At one point, I retested and was found not to be intolerant to dairy any
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> more. The Dr. advised me never to eat it based on my reaction in the past.
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> And I did avoid it for a time. But then I ate one of my daughter's nachos.
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> She can now have dairy and eggs. They no longer seem to be a problem for
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> her. The nacho didn't make me sick. So I ate some cheese. Didn't get
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> sick. And on and on like that until I was eating dairy again every day.
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> And then getting sick. And wanting to be in denial because I really do like
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> cheese. But then I got retested and found out that not only were eggs still
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> off the chart but I could no longer have dairy and a whole slew of other
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> things including chicken and some herbs.
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> So I eliminated all of those things and now I am rarely ever sick like that.
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> Once in a while it happens. Could be something going around or perhaps
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> could be getting a cross contaminated food in a restaurant. Although we are
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> making a big effort not to dine out as often as we once did. It's just far
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> easier that way. But my mom insists on dining out and there are still times
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> when we are away from home and it just happens.

See people? This is what happens when you give her an opening. If she could, she'd make every thread about her. Just don't reply to her.