PLEASE DON'T GIVE UP ON ME

For over a year now I have had symptoms of fatigue, unexplained rashes, and infections (one weekend I had five infections at the same time.) The rashes which appeared to be an allergic reaction were treated with prednisone about five rounds this year. The infections were treated with antibiotics. Toward the end of this all the antibiotics and prednisone also resulted in terrible rashes. I mentioned several times to my nurse practitioner that my mother had similar symptoms and found out that she was allergic to yeast and that she had lymes disease. Well, I knew I didn’t have lymes disease but did I have some sort of autoimmune problem? Finally, when my nurse practitioner couldn’t see me and I felt the most desperate, I saw another nurse practitioner who I also told about my mother being allergic to yeast. She immediately gave me a referral to an allergist, but only because she thought I was allergic to antibiotics. Well, when I saw the allergist, I told him that my mother was allergic to yeast and I thought I might be too. He tested me with a two day allergy test and the little bubble on my arm that was suppose to be a tiny bump, ended up being a huge swollen mess, all the glands under my arm were bright red and swollen, I could barely lift my arm, it was so swollen and painful. I was severely allergic to yeast. He then connected me with the work of Dr. William Crook and his website www.yeastconnection.com where I was introduced to a lot of information of which I am still trying to digest. The Allergist said that Dr. Crook’s book was to be my Bible. He said, “Do what he tells you to do.” He’s been working on this problem since the 50’s and is an expert in his field, so that is exactly what I have been doing. Everyone has a certain amount of yeast in their bodies, but being allergic to it, every time I ate bread, drank a glass of wine, ate anything with sugar in it I was feeding the yeast and causing an allergic reaction. Then as my body reacted in with an allergic reaction, the yeast produced tons of toxins and I would end up getting an infection or infections. As the nurse practitioners medicated me with prednisone and antibiotics, these were also feeding the yeast and as a result I became one very sick person that had no clue as to what the heck was making me sick. Right now I am on a very strict diet, and a medication. I have had awful withdrawals from sugar and yeast. By the way, who knew how much sugar is in EVERYTHING? No wonder, our young children are getting diabetes. It is incredibly unhealthy. I would work my 40 hour a week job, tend to minimal requirements of family and fall over. No energy at all. I am usually a very high energy person and very active in life, so this has been difficult. I have only be on the diet and medication for a couple of weeks, so I have a long way to go before I will be feeling good, but I must say that I am already feeling better. So, thus…..a lonely blog. Please don’t give up on me. I’m going to be on here more often. Filled with hope ~Jeanne ~Peace and health to all of YOU.