I've been so sick these past few days with a fibro flare-up, much sicker than normal, and feeling really terrible. I am of the opinion that there is a cause for everything if we only knew what it was, so I try to connect flare-ups to events in hopes of avoiding repeat performances. I was wracking my brain trying to connect this one to soemthing. Could it be crying--I had several events t cry about, a death of a friend, a difficult confrontation, etc. Or, could it be not crying--I wanted to cry--badly, the crying wanted to come out, but I was in a situation where I was embarrassed to be crying. Stress can exacerbate fibro, and I've been somewhat stressed--but not a whole lot more than usual--I always feel somewhat stressed. And reviewing my food intake, I was thinking that I'd been eating SAFE FOODS only. Then it hit me. I was grazing. Grazing on free samples. I'd gone to the Village Market just before dinner and there was a plethora of free samples laid out--sausages (5 kinds), bologna (5 kinds), chips, crackers and dips, etc etc, and as I went around, I took a small sample of each--the samples were SMALL, but there were a lot of them. I don't know this for sure, but I am suspecting the free samples. The unknown food. Bologna sometimes has milk it it--even sausage sometimes does. Bologna can have soy in it too. Luckily, so far today, I feel at least a little better. Yesterday I felt horrid.
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That does seem likely. Perhaps you are sensitive to nitrates? I bet the sausage and bologna samples were full of them.
Mary, so sorry to hear about your flare up of fibro... Wishing you a speedy recovery and energy to discover the trigger (if that's even possible). I know I feel a lot better when I just have a small handle on why things happen...
And sometimes, "why" is not answered, so I simply surrender and start over...
April Belle
Thanks so much Berrybird and Shadowplay. Hey, Shadow, I've been doing some shadowwork.
hmmm, nitrates, could be.
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