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think caused me to worry myself into feeling sick. A nervous stomach was the result and my symptoms got worse over time. I also began using the Imodium more and more over time. I would take a few before going out, even if I felt completely fine. It was like a safety precaution to avoid feeling sick at all costs. It allowed me to function as normal without worrying. There was a time where I was taking Imodium every day. If I was going out to a club or a house party, I would take it periodically throughout the entire night as a crutch.
I did see a few other doctors over the years, both of which just wrote out a prescription without giving it any thought. This solidified my disbelief in the American Medical industry. It’s all about the drugs here. Just push the drugs, with no regard for curing an illness. Unfortunately, there is no money in curing an ailment, sorry. There seems to be more money in taking a pill for the rest of your life. It’s sad, but it’s also true. I began to realize I would have to figure this out on my own.
Little by little I pretty much stopped eating everything. My diet consisted of chicken, shrimp, pasta, rice and French bread. That was it. Vegetables made me sick. Fruits made me sick. I had cut out milk, eggs and cheese a long time ago. I was down to a few basic staples and that was about it. Top that off with a not so healthy supplementation of Imodium AD and that was pretty much how I functioned day by day. I did have a cheat day set aside, however. On Sundays I would eat pretty much anything I was craving, and suffer the consequences. I would eat pizza, Italian food, and roast beef sandwiches, French fries, fried seafood, macaroni and cheese, and eggs. Sometimes my body would have no reaction, sometimes I would feel sick right away, sometimes 2, 3 or 4 days later the stomach upset would hit me or I’d just get a head ache or lose some sleep. It was a never ending pattern, week after week. At least I was still enjoying the foods I loved right? But was it healthy? I’m going to go out on a limb and say definitely not. I was torturing my body over and over every week and most likely making my food intolerances worse and worse each time.
Shortly before my 34th birthday, I had had enough. After nearly 20 years of torture I needed to figure this thing out and fix it once and for all. I was so tired of not enjoying my life as I should be. I wanted to live again. I began searching the internet again for a solution. I needed to find a test, a pill something that would make me normal again. That’s when I began looking into food allergies. I knew the lactose and eggs gave me problems, but what about the tomatoes? There were so many different foods that together they didn’t seem to add up to one single problem. Did I just have a sensitive stomach, or was it something more? Allergies maybe? I decided I would have some food allergy tests done, maybe that was the problem. But which allergy test was best? What should I test for?
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