MC Safe Anxiety Medicines?

[SmallTownLady2U]

I was so tired of the plain white gf bread. Do you have any other suggestions for something quick in the morning to take my vitamins with? I do not eat again until late evening and still only drink water.
My husband has been making me the pancakes, but I do not want anything stopping me from healing.

[JFR]

Anyway, my point is that if/when we find ourselves stuck in a recovery stage, unable to make further progress, quite often we can get back on track by eliminating processed foods that contain long ingredient lists, especially those that contain ingredients that cause many other members to react.

Often we may be able to tolerate those foods after we have been in remission for a while, but while we are still recovering, they can delay our recovery, and in some cases they can prevent us from being able to reach remission. When I was recovering, I found it necessary to avoid virtually all processed foods, because they all seemed to cause me to react. Now that I have been in remission for years, I can tolerate many of them without any problems.

Tex

Like Tex my choice has been to avoid all processed foods. A year ago I ate only single ingredient foods, nothing with an ingredient list to read. Now I have added some sausage that is pork and a few spices. Other than that it's still one ingredient foods. Makes for easy shopping.

Jean

[tex]

My husband has been making me the pancakes, but I do not want anything stopping me from healing.

If they're made from scratch, then he knows what's in them, so they might be safe. If he is using Pamela's Gluten Free Pancake Mix, for example, it contains cultured buttermilk, which won't work for those of us sensitive to dairy products.

The problem with pancakes is often eggs (in addition to dairy ingredients), because many of us can't handle eggs. If you can eat eggs without any problems (as I can), then eggs and bacon make a good breakfast that will stick to your ribs — it's usually my main meal of the day.

If you want to try something different that will also stick to your ribs until suppertime, try sausage or Canadian bacon (or regular bacon). You can wrap a length of sausage or a sausage patty, or a slice or two of bacon, in a lightly toasted (on the griddle) corn tortilla. I add a fried egg to a couple of slices of bacon on a corn tortilla to make sort of a breakfast burrito. A couple of those make a pretty substantial breakfast.

Or you can eat either sausage or bacon (with or without eggs) with hash brown potatoes, or with a serving of corn grits, if you want to try a Southern-style breakfast (Southern U.S., that is). Food such as this will satisfy your appetite for a long time, because it contains a good balance that's heavy on the protein, but still contains enough fat to satiate your hunger for many hours, with just enough carbohydrates to satisfy any carb craving that you might have.

I've even eaten left-over fried fish for breakfast, back when I was recovering, and it really hit the spot.

Tex

[SmallTownLady2U]

Tex, those all sound so good. I have not tried corn yet. Tonight I are two eggs so we will see how they sit.i was so tired and starving. I have never eaten a lunch, I am almost erational by the time I do eat. I am still cleaning houses and helping with our yard maintence buisness and cooking for the family it is so hard to not eat with them. I just pray I can keep coping! I am better then when first diagnosed but this is a huge battle.jfr thank you so much for your advice.it is nice knowing someone care and understands. What spices are you currently useing?

[tex]

I eat mostly pork, and for my money, nothing beats plain garlic salt for seasoning pork. For other foods where garlic wouldn't be appropriate, I use plain sea salt (Redmond). I rarely use any other seasonings, unless I'm making stew, or something of that sort, in which case I may add chili peppers such as jalapenos, or seranos. I tried to limit the chillis when I was recovering though, because they can be quite irritating for the digestive tract. Black pepper (peppercorns) always bothered me, and still does, so I don't use it.

I'm not typical though, because I eat a very limited diet. Most members here use a fairly wide variety of seasonings.

Tex

[SmallTownLady2U]

I am going to have to try garlic salt and I so badly want a coffee.

[Jazi]

There's a lot of great info here! I am so sorry about your accident and thank God you and your child are well!

I am looking for an anti-stress med as well as I am slowly getting off of my Prozac. I loved my Prozac, it worked wonders but with LC I am concerned with taking SSRI's. I tried xanax and It seemed to make me really hungry and not in a good mood.

I am going to try Rhodiola rosea and I will let you know if it helps me. I love Gaia herbs!

[tex]

I am going to have to try garlic salt and I so badly want a coffee.

Are you sure that you can't safely drink it? If coffee caused you to have to run to the bathroom before your MC symptoms developed, then it will continue to do so.

However, for those of us who were able to drink coffee prior to the advent of our MC, most of us find that we can still drink it without any significant problems. Of course we have to be very careful with whatever we add to it. Most coffee creamers, for example (even the ones labeled "non-dairy"), contain a derivative of dairy that will cause us to react, and some contain soy. These days, I drink unsweetened tea, but I add a few sugar cubes to my coffee. Some members use coconut milk or almond milk.

Tex

[SmallTownLady2U]

Tex, I finally had my first watered down coffee. It has not given me the energy I so hoped for, but I enjoyed it slowly. I have had a busy morning of bathroom visits but it may be I do not tolerate eggs.i have yet to find a gluten free tea in four years. I am going to watch my mood and if it is salmon and eggs that knock me out, I will have to let them go. My kids are away today so that is why I thought it a good time to try something new. I can't wait untill I can buy your book! Please tell me this will get easier. I hope you are having a great day!!

[tex]

Please tell me this will get easier.

It takes much longer for some of us than it does for others, but yes, it definitely gets easier as we become more familiar with the diet, and we learn how to interpret what our body is trying to tell us when it reacts to certain foods.

Tex

[SmallTownLady2U]

thank you so much for reminding me it will get easier. I have to remind myself to give myself time.

[Beth]

i have yet to find a gluten free tea in four years.

Smalltown - have you tried loose leaf tea? Mountain Rose Herbs sells a huge variety of organic, gf herbs, and their quality is incredible. Shipping is a little pricey, but I just wait to place my orders so that I can buy a bunch of things at a time and make the shipping worth it. I also recently discovered http://www.bulkherbstore.com. Haven't called to find out of they are exclusively gf, but I have a feeling they are. GL!

[SmallTownLady2U]

Thank you so much Beth, I am going to go check it out rite now. Do you have any suggestions on what to purchase, what has worked well for you. I am so excited!

[Zizzle]

I just wanted to share that my mother in Guatemala is getting amazing results dealing with her generalized anxiety problems through reflexology and acupuncture. She's had 2 treatments and says she hasn't felt this good in years, she's sleeping through the night, etc. My dad is a skeptic and attributes her improvment to less stress and placebo effect, but I believe her. She has suffered for so long, I'm so happy she's getting some relief.

And get this....in Guatemala, her reflexology and acupuncture practitioner happens to also be an MD, he makes housecalls, and a 2 hour treatment in her home costs her $150 Quetzales=$19 dollars!!!! I'm so jealous!!