Today I decided to see if I have alpha gal. I will be giving up all dairy and meat products (except chicken) and seeing if I get better. If it is alpha gal, I am excited to find the reason behind all my increasingly bizarre symptoms. But I am also crushed, because I love cheese. And raw milk. And meatballs.
Things have been getting worse lately though. I can't live with these constant hives, allergy attacks, fatigue, bloating, itchy throat and middle-of-the-night wake ups with severe runny nose and hives anymore! If this is the reason cutting out all meat and dairy should help me feel better.
The kids are currently watching pepa pig and I'm trying not to panic over changing our whole eating habits again... what will I eat? I love vegetables, but I know I will miss a lot of dairy...how will I get iron if I really have this disease? I am not sure. But I do trust God! We have a whole day of homeschooling ahead of us and I need to go shower, and make breakfast and modify my next azure order for sure...I'll need dairy free yogurt and I can get rid of the large beef order I was making...I need to look into a milk alternative that isn't full of preservatives and additives, perhaps I'll start making my own coconut milk again. I love to have milk in my tea.
This is going to be a process. I would love some prayers through the next few weeks! And some vegan meal ideas would be an added bonus. With two members of my family allergic to beans, and now me maybe allergic to meats, it's going to be extremely interesting around here...
But if I feel better...
Can I hope to feel better? I"ll take it. And I'm looking into options to heal myself too. But first, I need to get better and affirm I actually have this. Because the other option is mast cell disease and that doesn't sound any fun either.
Also, where did I get this alpha gal from? I had Lyme back in 2020, 2021, and I have a chronic illness, but these hives/allergy attacks didn't start until...maybe postpartum with Esther (2023) at the earliest. I didn't have this stuff when I was suffering from Lyme in 2020 and 2021. And I don't have Lyme symptoms right now.
I guess I'll never know the answer to how it happened...but if I can find the answer to my symptoms and heal, it probably doesn't matter.
Time to shower!
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