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What might be wrong with me?

About 12 years ago I ate a vegetartian diet for many months. At first I felt good but eventually I got sick. I had more and more diahreah and lost my sense of taste and I feel like I have a low grade infection all of the time.

I then stopped eating vegetarian and I now eat a full spectrum of foods inculding lots of chicken and salmon and eggs. I even went to a regestered dietitian and had her look over my diet and it was good.

But I have never been the same after eating vegetarian. My symptoms that I have had for 12 years now are.....


When I eat my food never feels like it digests normally like it did before eating vegetarian. It feels like instead of my stomach feeling full the food just feels like it slides right through my stomach. And it feels like my stomach is covered in paste or something. I just feels like normal digestion does not happen.

Constant feeling like I have a low grade infection. I feel like I have a cold or flu constantly. Not the first part of a cold or flu with the aches or fever but how you feel after maybe day 4 or 5 with a cold or flu...that low grade infected feeling. I have that all day everyday for the last 12 years.

My sense of taste ranges between not being able to taste to being able to taste somewhat normnal but it is never normal.

My sleep is messed up a lot.

I seem to not be able to tolerate much carbohydrates. My diet now is high protein. I get sicker eating more carbs.

I have low blood pressure.

I had irritable bowel syndrome before eating vegetarian but now it is worse.

I'm more sensitive to chemicals now like paint and cigarette smoke for instance they make me sick much more than before.

My thyroid bloodwork is normal.

My B12 and iron levels are ok.

I don't have celiac disease.

I do not have epstine barr virus.

And I had blood and stool tests that were negative for candida.

I have tried both digestive enzymes and hydrochloric acid in high amounts and neither help at all.

I eat no junk food my diet is just fruits vegetables chicken and fish nut butters and avocados. And I excercise and keep myself in shape. I take care of myself better than anyone I know but I'm still sick.


Just hoping someone might know what my problem might be?

Thanks

Jim
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3mw
The eggs are your problem! It sounds like you have a intestinal reaction to pure egg.. try avoiding pure eggs for 90 days.if its mixed in a Cake mix no biggie. Eggs will swell the intestines up in some people..
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