Anonymous wrote:Hang in there, PP. Illegitimis non carborundum.

Back to the question at hand:

Cheese, glorious cheese .... !
And nuts. Lots and lots of nuts.

(And before people ask, "are they junk food"? Yes. When you inhale them in the quantities in which they deserve to be inhaled, yes. Throw your daily fat allotment out the window and ten stories into the hotel pool.)

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This is the poster with Lyme. I do have a handicap placard. It doesn't do much when I can't leave the house though. I thank g-d for such a loving husband. I see a top LLMD and take every precaution necessary to try and get myself well. I'm not someone who sits around and complains and does nothing to help myself. The only reason I got upsets was because I was first called a liar, then told my condition was nothing serious. If you suffered as much as I did, you would understand. Though I wouldn't wish this on anyone. I wasn't looking for sympathy or attention. Anyhow, sorry to hijack thread. It wasn't my intention. I just love food and I spend time on the Internet due to fatigue and pain so I thought it would be fun to join in the conversation instead of lurking.

Btw--if you doubt Lyme and what it does, please check out www.underourskin.com for an award winning documentary, it's free on Hulu or netflix. I'm all for spreading awareness.

Interesting. Have you been able to find appropriate treatment? Are people ever cured of it?

I appreciate the well wishes..thank you! I tested positive 5 years ago when things got really bad for me. I was told I was cured after 30 days of antibiodics even though I was SO SICK still. 4 years later I was in and out of hospitals and specialists and finally saw the right dr and learned more about Lyme disease. It is my understanding that once it goes into chronic stage, it will never go fully away, but can go in to remission.

I then was also diagnosed with babesia , bartonella, EBV, a heart murmur, systematic candida and a few other health issues. It's not the Lyme that does the most damage per say. It's the coinfections that are often the worst and most damaging

. Really, the documentary explains a lot and it's won all kinds of awards. Unfortunately, there's a lot of political issues and this disease is often hush hush and misdiagnosed as lupus, MS, Parkinson's amoung other autoimmune diseases. Many people suffering or dying because of it. Very few doctors are knowledgable. LLMDs are the only ones who generally are. I am very fortunate to see one of the top specialists in the country.

Anyway, honestly I did not mean to hijack this thread. I really just wanted to join in the conversation. I am a huge foodie and had to readjust how I eat less than a year ago, so while I don't eat processed foods (because toxins are already taking over my body) I do enjoy higher healthy fat foods like the ones I listed.

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Anonymous wrote:This is the poster with Lyme. I do have a handicap placard. It doesn't do much when I can't leave the house though. I thank g-d for such a loving husband. I see a top LLMD and take every precaution necessary to try and get myself well. I'm not someone who sits around and complains and does nothing to help myself. The only reason I got upsets was because I was first called a liar, then told my condition was nothing serious. If you suffered as much as I did, you would understand. Though I wouldn't wish this on anyone. I wasn't looking for sympathy or attention. Anyhow, sorry to hijack thread. It wasn't my intention. I just love food and I spend time on the Internet due to fatigue and pain so I thought it would be fun to join in the conversation instead of lurking.

Btw--if you doubt Lyme and what it does, please check out www.underourskin.com for an award winning documentary, it's free on Hulu or netflix. I'm all for spreading awareness.

Interesting. Have you been able to find appropriate treatment? Are people ever cured of it?

Anonymous wrote:This is the poster with Lyme. I do have a handicap placard. It doesn't do much when I can't leave the house though. I thank g-d for such a loving husband. I see a top LLMD and take every precaution necessary to try and get myself well. I'm not someone who sits around and complains and does nothing to help myself. The only reason I got upsets was because I was first called a liar, then told my condition was nothing serious. If you suffered as much as I did, you would understand. Though I wouldn't wish this on anyone. I wasn't looking for sympathy or attention. Anyhow, sorry to hijack thread. It wasn't my intention. I just love food and I spend time on the Internet due to fatigue and pain so I thought it would be fun to join in the conversation instead of lurking.

Btw--if you doubt Lyme and what it does, please check out www.underourskin.com for an award winning documentary, it's free on Hulu or netflix. I'm all for spreading awareness.

Anonymous wrote:corn chips, hummus and veggies, GF pizza, chocolate, homemade meatballs and sauce', fruit, corn chex, homemade popcorn, goat cheese, cheese, sweet potato fries..yeah I'm weird

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Anonymous wrote:To the lyme person, some advice. It is genuine, please take it that way. You found a way to inject your lyme disease into an anonymous thread about junk food. You then proceeded to get mad and curse and other anonymous people. These two things suggest that you need to define yourself by your disease. You are looking for sympathy here (odd enough as it is an anonymous thread about food) and you are getting very angry at anyone not providing the sympathy for you. You sound like you are (probably legitimately) very angry about your disease, but until you control your reaction to it, you will not just push anonymous pp's to think you are irrational but, more importantly, you will do the same to real people. I bet real people would like to reach out and help you but your attitude probably makes it hard. Please accept this advice and try to believe it is legit.

Oh, SHUT UP. She posted her "junk food" in the spirit of the thread and some asshole made fun of her. That's when the Lyme came up. And then some other asshole made fun of her again. That's when she got angry.

Being in pain makes people cranky. Focus your judgment on the insensitive, empathy-challenged clods who think it's funny to harass sick people.