A Little Backstory - Part 2

So you know my insulin is skyrocked but no diabetes... yay!  But, my family dr knows something is up since I'm on Metformin yet my insulin is this high, so she sends me to an Endocrinologist.  I'd been diagnosed with PCOS for 5 years, yet this was the first time I'd gone to an Endo's office specifically for this sort of thing (shocking!).

Anyway, we talk, tests are run, etc... and low and behold it's no longer a suggestion for me, but a "prescription" (her words) I MUST lose weight.  It's lose the weight or I'll get diabetes soon.  Also, the way I need to lose it that's going to work for me, due to the PCOS, is a very low carb, low cholesterol diet.  Basically, South Beach Phase 1... for three months, until I see her again.  I need to get off all complex carbs, white carbs.. not good!  She was right... it's working.. I've lost about 10 lbs in a month.

So what about these allergies... I'm getting to that.  I've always had seasonal allergies.  I take some medicine in the Spring and Fall and I'm done.  When I was younger I even had this odd thing where I couldn't eat strawberries, or then I couldn't eat too much tomato sauce and orange juice or I'd start to wheeze and get a really upset stomach.  All of that latter one had seemed to sort of back off, or maybe I just knew how to control it better.  But then about a month ago (mid August) everything changed....

The itching started just a little, then it became unmanageable. I was itching from head to toe, all over my body.  My daily medicine didn't help, the little pink over the counter pill didn't help... nothing!  After two days I went to the dr.  She could visibly see something was wrong with my skin so she gave me a medicine to take during the day and one for night and ordered a full allergy blood test.  One week later I got the results and things wouldn't be the same again... I was told I had a wheat and sesame allergy.  Also, mold and cat allergies.  I was to continue the medicines, change my eating habits and see my dr in 4 weeks.  Yep, that's it... I was on my own for research, etc... I felt like a fish flopping in water for awhile.  Heck, I didn't feel like it, I was...

Next post, how this flopping fish discovered what was going on through trial and a lot of error....