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I have so many symptoms, I have a running google doc that is 80 pages long that I only started two years ago.
In learning to heal the gut, I have done quite a bit of recollection, on diet, family who have gut problems (won't admit it), and all my own gut nuances along the way. I still have worse days but 2015 was like heaven compared to 2014.
I've had itching and pain under my right ribs 1-2 hours after eating (not always, well the under the rib is always), symptoms vary, since 2010, things became worse as I tried to improve diet, having no idea. Then these jerks at the UW GI clinics took their time (two years) to talk me out of my perfectly healthy GB, that's when I went from ok this really hurts, to crying like a baby every day, no longer being able to sleep through the night, I went all the way down to 122 lbs. doing these different diets, I missed quite a bit of work for awhile.
I would go to the hospital and just sit in the ER day after day, after day, the health care system alienated me, told me it was all in my head, taking a pain pill just makes it worse. They gave me a colonoscopy, well the kids at the UW Madison teaching hospital did.
One of my main symptoms is time of day, between anywhere 11:00AM through 8-10PM I get pain under the right ribs, this pain can get into my joints, right hip right arm, when I'm gassy, oh I know that too, the bottom of my feet get itchy to let me know. I can take a super hot epsom salt bath to decrease inflammation for some relief and I do every single day, although the bath hurts, having the chest submerged hurts too, after can be better.
Last year I got into just taking my meals and throwing them into the vitamix and going more towards a liquid diet. I'm doing brasco broth but for some reason my liver or URQ aread does not like brown stuff, not even some teas. I make soups, everything from scratch, organics, I don't buy meat at the store, I carefully source that through private farmers. And, I became a gardener, it feels good to just go hang out at the garden and work outside.
All I know is I'm better than I was for all of 2014, but many foods I cannot have, if I have even a quarter of an apple I may as well just be sticking an air hose down my throat.
I'm not even sickly looking, people hate me for this, I'm thin, nearly 50, look like I'm 30, active, not very social anymore, won't go out to eat, won't travel, ignoring my family now, I had a girlfriend but she was just trouble and stress for me, finally met some people through FB who are sick too, and at least we get each other. And, I live in WISCONSIN where most people are either fat n happy or they drink and smoke. Yes, the summers are better than the winters for pain. It's just that the pain is horrible most every single day, I had a couple good days this week then got into this coconut buckwheat bread that I make I'll never make that again, guess I'm stuck with the almond bread which is fine as I'm tired of eating things that hurt.
Everyone seems to think this is related to fungus so I chase this low carb no grains paleo diet and take anti-fungals. Digging through Rubins book now, but now I can't digest fats very well. I hope to find some help in this forum, thank you all for having me. I have a coworker who was diagnosed, he's finally missing work all the time just like I did in 2014 but he hasn't changed his diet one iota from what I've seen, nothing I can say or do, people actually believe in the health care system, they made my health worse, I'm hesitant to go back, after my colonoscopy I had worse symptoms!
I'm able to sleep at night, I put a heat pad on my chest and that really helps, if things get bad I go back to the hot and cold bucket of water and do compresses to get to sleep at night.
In learning to heal the gut, I have done quite a bit of recollection, on diet, family who have gut problems (won't admit it), and all my own gut nuances along the way. I still have worse days but 2015 was like heaven compared to 2014.
I've had itching and pain under my right ribs 1-2 hours after eating (not always, well the under the rib is always), symptoms vary, since 2010, things became worse as I tried to improve diet, having no idea. Then these jerks at the UW GI clinics took their time (two years) to talk me out of my perfectly healthy GB, that's when I went from ok this really hurts, to crying like a baby every day, no longer being able to sleep through the night, I went all the way down to 122 lbs. doing these different diets, I missed quite a bit of work for awhile.
I would go to the hospital and just sit in the ER day after day, after day, the health care system alienated me, told me it was all in my head, taking a pain pill just makes it worse. They gave me a colonoscopy, well the kids at the UW Madison teaching hospital did.
One of my main symptoms is time of day, between anywhere 11:00AM through 8-10PM I get pain under the right ribs, this pain can get into my joints, right hip right arm, when I'm gassy, oh I know that too, the bottom of my feet get itchy to let me know. I can take a super hot epsom salt bath to decrease inflammation for some relief and I do every single day, although the bath hurts, having the chest submerged hurts too, after can be better.
Last year I got into just taking my meals and throwing them into the vitamix and going more towards a liquid diet. I'm doing brasco broth but for some reason my liver or URQ aread does not like brown stuff, not even some teas. I make soups, everything from scratch, organics, I don't buy meat at the store, I carefully source that through private farmers. And, I became a gardener, it feels good to just go hang out at the garden and work outside.
All I know is I'm better than I was for all of 2014, but many foods I cannot have, if I have even a quarter of an apple I may as well just be sticking an air hose down my throat.
I'm not even sickly looking, people hate me for this, I'm thin, nearly 50, look like I'm 30, active, not very social anymore, won't go out to eat, won't travel, ignoring my family now, I had a girlfriend but she was just trouble and stress for me, finally met some people through FB who are sick too, and at least we get each other. And, I live in WISCONSIN where most people are either fat n happy or they drink and smoke. Yes, the summers are better than the winters for pain. It's just that the pain is horrible most every single day, I had a couple good days this week then got into this coconut buckwheat bread that I make I'll never make that again, guess I'm stuck with the almond bread which is fine as I'm tired of eating things that hurt.
Everyone seems to think this is related to fungus so I chase this low carb no grains paleo diet and take anti-fungals. Digging through Rubins book now, but now I can't digest fats very well. I hope to find some help in this forum, thank you all for having me. I have a coworker who was diagnosed, he's finally missing work all the time just like I did in 2014 but he hasn't changed his diet one iota from what I've seen, nothing I can say or do, people actually believe in the health care system, they made my health worse, I'm hesitant to go back, after my colonoscopy I had worse symptoms!
I'm able to sleep at night, I put a heat pad on my chest and that really helps, if things get bad I go back to the hot and cold bucket of water and do compresses to get to sleep at night.
