I can't remember all of the things that they called themselves but I went to like a natural therapy centre and they, I mean what I found was that it was more like a session with a psychiatrist really, you talked to this man who was recommended by a friend who you know who's still, I'm still in touch with, but she's a big believer in all that, but I was willing to give it a go and they were like, they wanted to do a private blood test so they did that, and all they were looking for was the Epstein Barre virus and they said that was there.
But they were telling me to avoid things like tomatoes and they were telling me, put me on like a strict dairy free diet and things like that, and I just felt worse and it makes you feel isolated again because you can't join in with normal things and you know if you go out anywhere you couldn't have like a cup of tea or things like that so I found that restrictive, but I suppose if I wanted it to work it wouldn't be.
You know I say I'm quite positive, but I'm not positive about those sort of things, because I've found from experience that it just makes me feel worse, and I went to, to have like a Vega testing done on a machine, where they use electrodes and they, you hold one and they touch your finger and then it comes up with foods that you're allergic to.
And I mean that was quite recent and it still, they still do come up with the same groups of food to avoid and it tends to be the things that I like which is dairy, I tend to eat like a lot of yoghurts and cottage cheese and things and they tell me to avoid them, and I love tomatoes and they tell me to avoid them, I've tried it a few times it's made me very miserable when I've been on the diet, and I've never had any benefit from being on the diet, but I can't say I've tried for longer than a month, a month's about as long as I've tried for and then I just have to give up 'cos it just makes you very I'm not a depressive person but just very down and your whole life starts to revolve around food which it wouldn't normally, you wouldn't normally be that obsessed with it. So you know I've found from experience that it doesn't work, but you know you read stories about other people that you know it does work for, so I wouldn't discount it for anybody, just not for me, yeah from experience anyway. |
