Say What?

I changed doctors last month and have been having lots of test. Mainly just cuz I haven't had a physical for along while and mainly because of my age. I guess after 50 they add a few on just for fun times. (not)

Anyway I have been plagued with sinusitus now for a long while. So my doctor suggested going off gluten. yeah well the whole world is made up of glueten I discovered. lol. So I have been trying very hard to do exactly that. It's been a gradual process, with well, cheating in between. Even though I am not one hundred percent gluten free at this moment my body is reacting as though I am kicking a drug. Achey joints, tired, headachey, the blahs. I have even had a ganglion cyst flare up in my wrist. When I told the doctor she was not surprised and said lots of people have that reaction to going off gluten. Who knew!

She also suggested an allergy blood test, so I had that done. It says I am severly allergic to milk, no big surprise as I have had reactions to milk since I was a child. However that didn't stop me from having ice cream and yougurt. I also was drinking lactose free milk. She said that it is just not the lactose I am allergic too. So I need to quit all milk products.
Since I knew milk would come up I switched to soy milk and soy products. However the test said I am allergic to soybean. YIKES, what a surprise! so here I was loading up on soy. So no soy milk but she said tofu would be fine. I am also allergic a little bit to egg white, pork, mustard and corn. But she said not to worry about those they were slight and I could eat eggs if I didn't scrable them. Something about the scrambling releases what ever I reactic to into the eggs.

Now here is the kicker, I am allergic to beef at the same level as I am allergic to soybean. Say What!!!??? I didn't know you could be allergic to meat.
This really really is going to be a hard one for me. Not that I sit and eat tons of beef but I love once in a while to have a steak nice and rare! I mean I crave it!! Partly I think due to my slight anemia but I tend to be a vampiric type of person, and since I can't go around biting someone well.... a good steak has to do. I can see giving up hamburger but steak....aaackkkkk.
Someday my friends will find me lurking around the meat counter, like some kind of meat junkie, just staring at the beautiful red juicy steaks laying in orderly rows in the glass case and craving.. craving...craving....wanting... wanting.... craving..gotta have it...

Then as the store closes they'll be dragging me out the door my hands waving widly in the drection of the glass case.I will be raving about those perfect steaks just waiting to be grilled to that perfection of rare, the blood oozing, the meat tender and flavorful in my mouth. sigh....Will I be able to resist steak? STay tuned, news at 11 lol.

At least it didn't say I was allergic to chocolate that would have been a deal breaker!!!
My blood test also said I was pre diabetic. Not terribly high but enough that my doctor said to go light on the carbs. Well that should be easy enough as I can't eat gluten.

Gosh, a few test and I have to change my eating habits in a pretty major way. I am working on it, really I am. Now I think I will go and eat my no gluten carob cookies I bought the other day.