Well I'm glad you were able to figure out what was wrong and feel better. I was gonna ask if there were reasons you were gluten free because I know someone in their 50's who never had problems with gluten her entire life, then in 2014 it became trendy to stop eating gluten so she pretended to have celiac's disease (which she doesn't) and now after 5 years of not eating any gluten she has actually become gluten intolerant lol. People see it as a fad and don't realize the repercussions of following an unnecessary dietary regimen.
Fun fact, this person also started viewing me as more classy when she learned I'm lactose intolerant. Dietary restrictions are only for the elite I guess.
Yeah I mean, lactose intolerance is just based on the presence of lack of an enzyme that can break it down in your stomach properly.... lol
I don't, see these things as boujee or uh... trendy. It honestly isn't fun having all these intolerances and metabolic deficiencies and blah blah blah.
because of my metabolic processing disorder, I have anxiety and depression. I have, constipation. I have to take a medication everyday that makes me shit. It's not, cute. Sometimes my bladder stops working. I am extremely, sensitive to chemicals like, I'm a "light weight" because of my anemia, and a small amount of a drug, could put me in a coma, or kill me, more easily than other people. My white blood cell count is low because of everything, meaning when I get sick, I don't recover as quickly, I get more sick than other people, and am deathly ill while other people are like "meh got over it in 2 days no biggie" my body can't fight it off and it develops bronchitis instead, or I'm just basically bedridden.
I would get aches and pains and fatigue, I would get insomnia. I have a high resting heart rate, which makes it difficult to exercise or do cardio things- I can't run, climb up mountains, and I'm less able to withstand heat and humidity. I just pass out, or have something that feels similar to an asthma attack. And it also means, my heart will wear out faster, shortening my life span. And I also "dehydrate" easily because of the high resting heart rate. So I'm basically constantly dehydrated, which means I'm more prone to kidney infections and UTI's as well, which is *REALLY FUN*. My skin is dry all the time so I have to wear a lot of lotions and moisturizers, and it results in premature aging, wrinkles, and all that fun stuff :)
Oh and also I don't stop bleeding well. Like most people it heals up quickly but my wounds just, don't heal quickly. Not a huge deal but it is annoying, if I have a cut on my toe, I have to sit there for like an hour and wait for it to stop fucking bleeding, or I will get blood all over the place everywhere I go. Cuts and stuff I just have to hold something down over it for a very long time.
You don't want this. It's not cool or trendy. It sucks. Also, the medication regiment I'm on, just to feel remotely normal, costs thousands of dollars a month. Not everyone can afford, to get better from these problems and I'm very lucky I can. Otherwise I was so tired, I couldn't get out of bed because of how tired and ache-y I had gotten.
the only plus side was that it caused me to be really thin, and I got recruited by modeling agents off the street if I was wearing high heels a lot of the time. And they'd take the measurements of my hips and my rib cage and my legs, and be like, "how do you look like this, what's your secret. What's your diet?" And I'm like uhhh I don't do anything lol
People always *HATED* me for it though, like growing up when you're the skinny friend in the group, girls got genuinely catty about it. People went out of their way to make my life suck sometimes. Because a boy didn't like them but liked me, they'd stage pranks to hurt me. Physically or emotionally. And once a girl was mad I was "flyer" on the cheerleading squad instead of her, and she was responsible for holding me up. So when it came time to catch me after doing a flip she purposefully plotted with her friends to drop me. Hoping it would give me a concussion and I would be out of commission and she could take my place. Not even kidding. People were WILDING in high school. Idk why man lol but yeah I didn't get a concussion I just got the wind knocked out of me but, dude. Not cool. Lol
But then I went on an anti-depressant that causes slight weight gain and now I look average. Def not model thin anymore.
And don't even get me started on the mental repercussions of depression and anxiety from the chemical imbalances in my brain that were partially a result of my body's metabolic dysfunctions (or exacerbated by it at the very least). And the impact that had on my life and well being lol. Just no. Not, trendy. Not cool. Not fun.
I would rate it all a -20/10.
