I just want to have a bloody trantrum ( this is a rant feel free to ignore)

[Cocoa]

Sugery sucks no doubt about that and I'm 5 days post op from the second one in 3 months.
A problem sure but more painful than upsetting.

Oh yes I manage to get up and wander around the house and have not been to work in a month I'm going crazy here people!

Have I mentioned I'm hungry??

I'm HUNGRY but not in the tummy is growling sort of way it is more mental but oh yeah no more gluten, I do feel better without it but it is in everything it is like finding vegan premade food only to find out everything has dairy in it!
Oh and soy, it makes me swell up now WTH? To be clear it makes my belly puff up like one of those cute puffer fish but let me assure you it is not cute on me.

Fats, oh dear I just had my gallbladder out and now fats to include flax and olive oil makes me ill and in pain, is'nt that lovley?

I want nothing more than a nice bit of toasted french bread drizzled in olive oil which has always been a fav of mine.

I want to pout because I can not longer have wheat gluten, no more BBQed tofu even my damn rice cereal has malt soemthing or another in it which is made out of wheat.

To top it all off despite not eating anything but black beans and rice the last 3 days and I might add just onnce a day since most of the time I have no want for food only water I am gaining weight! Why? My belly is all swollen and my pants do not fit:cry: I hate walking around even in my own house looking frumpy and unkempt.

I'm anemic and was before my surgery but they could not put it off any longer and I'm deficent in several vit and nutrients and it seems my muscles are going on some sort of vacation because they are going away perhaps from lack of use.

WHY is my b12 level still below 250? I take those little tablets you let melt under your tounge twice a day 1000 I think is thier number they should have brought my levels back up by now.

I'm sick of doctors and appointments and of the emergancy room.
I'm sick of taking painkillers which I firmly belive is poison to my body but I can not seem to move or even breath OK without them.
All of them narcotics, and I itch.

My dog is looking shaggy unbrushed and forlorn since he does not get walks anymore and has not in at least a month this is no way to treat my loved boy.
I wonder if the lady next door would help me with him but I can honeslty say I am ashamed of his lack of brushing and such I'm afraid she would think I misstreat him. He is an Aussie and his 3 layered shaggy coat needs quite a bit of care.

The cat of course is pissed off and showed it in a very feline way by pissing on my bed, I can only assume he was upset at me not being able to bend over and pat him. That or maybe it is because my husband bought th wrong food.

In short my active happy life has gone to hell in a hand basket and I want it back.

Course knowing how to eat properly would be nice also I think in fact it would be a great start to recovering.

Whats sad is I can not even eat the oatmeal I have because it might be cross contaminated with wheat :whip:

Yes I know this is a poor pitiful me craptacular whine fest but I can not unload on family and add to thier stress so that leaves you guys.:lovesign:

If I get one more person tell me eat eggs that they are some sort of perfect wonderfood I might have to kill them.

[VeganAimee]

Don't worry it gets much better
I also had my gallbladder removed and life was really hard at first.
I promise though it gets better. Just watch out for the first year because any
fatty food that you eat will pass right through you if you get what I mean.
Good luck and I hope that you feel better soon.

[hoodedclawjen]

nightmare. poor you!

you will get the hang of the gluten free stuff, i promise. there are some really really fantabulous gf sf vegan things to eat out there.

the weight could be water. it'll fix.

can you talk to you doc about taking an antihistamine to counteract the itching? until then, cold wet cloths can be really good for when its driving you insane. cold and itch run down the same pathways, your body can't do both signals at once. the cold often switches off the itch for me, at least temporarily.

just hang in there. :)

[Irizary]

My dog is looking shaggy unbrushed and forlorn since he does not get walks anymore and has not in at least a month this is no way to treat my loved boy. I wonder if the lady next door would help me with him but I can honeslty say I am ashamed of his lack of brushing and such I'm afraid she would think I misstreat him. He is an Aussie and his 3 layered shaggy coat needs quite a bit of care.


I'm sorry you're having such a bad time :( I can virtually guarantee you, if you ask for help with this and other things that you're needing, and explain what's going on, people will not judge you harshly. In fact most people want to help when someone's having a hard time and they reach out (it makes them feel useful).

[Cocoa]

I have already encountered the running for the bathroom bit and all I did was eat a couple chips, not the best choice in hindsight but they looked tasty and I wanted to try them.

hoodedclawjen I did get the auth for topical ones but no pills or liquids, the topical seems to help a bit with the irritation from bandages but thats about it.

Irizary you may be right but as a outspoken person always about people needing to properly care for animals I do feel like a hypocrite currently because my dog is obviously at least in my eyes neglected, but I ca not let that stop me from asking for help, since the dog won't let the kids near him with a brush and my husband just rolls his eyes.

[Virpukka]

I was looking some items to myself when I saw this http://www.bookdepository.co.uk/WEBSITE/WWW/WEBPAGES/showbook.php?id=1600940323 You came to my mind imidiately and I thought that it could be helpfull to you. That bookstore is quite good actually, they have free delivery almoust everywhere and I just decided myself that I'm going to order my books from them in future.

[Cocoa]

Thank you for the link on that book!
I bought the gluten free vegetarian kitchen at my local bookstore but I think this one would be ebtter for me.

[hoodedclawjen]

so why no more BBQ tofu... can you not have soy either? or is there wheat in the sauce? cos i reckon we could work round that.

[Cocoa]

:( No soy, which is sad because I love Tofu but it seems it triggers the breathing problems I was having.

I never ate massive amounts of soy to start with , I mean I used soy milk but a carton of that lasted over a week with a family of 4 and of course tofu and soy sauce were about it.

However I did love my BBQ .

Before this I had no idea testing for allergies and intolerances was so well painful and took so long.

[hoodedclawjen]

urgh. i missed that, i just backread and saw it in your OP, sorry. what a bummer. no soy... no wheat means no seitan either... urm... how are you with corn? BBQ polenta?

i know what you mean about your stomach puffing up. yeast does that to me- hurts like hell. allergy testing also sucks. at least you are starting to know whats going on now, and should start feeling better.

have you seen or heard of the book 'the food allergy survival guide' (http://www.foodallergysurvivalguide.com/)?... wheat free, soy free, loads of other allergen things free, vegan... i like it. its not just recipes, there is loads of other info to aid you in maintaining a tollerable level of sanity too. :)

[Cocoa]

I have seen the book on the shelf but never picked it up, I was skimming the gluten free books at the time.
Polenta I am fine with thank goodness, I mean honestly is life worth living without a nice square of polenta lightly fried in olive oil and covered with a tomato herb sauce?? I think not.

I'm good with quiona,rice,corn,ammaranth,millett,buckwheat and wild rice. So mostly I need to learn to cook with them.
I attempted my first sweet the other day and I do not know what I did wrong but if it was supposed to taste like saw dust then it's description should have said so.
Rice cupcakes, granted I was workign with a lacto/ovo vegetarian recipe and was trying to make it vegan and somewhere it went wrong....very very wrong.

[hoodedclawjen]

I attempted my first sweet the other day and I do not know what I did wrong but if it was supposed to taste like saw dust then it's description should have said so.
Rice cupcakes, granted I was workign with a lacto/ovo vegetarian recipe and was trying to make it vegan and somewhere it went wrong....very very wrong.

i've done that too. they make excellent paperweights! seriously though- if you were switching riceflour straight across for wheat, that'd definately do it, and leave you with a hard, crumbly blob. you can't do that, it doesn't work- rice flour has completely different properties to wheat.

its better when you're new to it (or even when you're not, if you're not a food scientist, hehehe) to use a blend of flours designed for replacing wheat (either premixed, or using a DIY mix from a book/the internet- there are a few around that blend things like tapioca/potato/corn flour, rice flour, a bean flour, etc), in an already a vegan recipe, and to use the tricks for swapping things outlined in the book/flourmix you've got.

little things are affected by changing flours, like how much moisture you need to add, how much push the baking powder needs to give to raise a heavier/lighter flour, how its all held together (no gluten), the cooking time and temp, how you know its done (may not go golden) etc.

when you factor in other changes, like subbing out eggs, the only thing that you're likely to be leaving the same as the origional recipe is the sugar - so its not suprising that you ended up with a different thing.

its not too complicated when you get going with it, but to start, i'd get yourself a flour blend recipe, and a vegan cake recipe designed to work with it. or scrap baking for a bit, and start with stuff thats less complicated and already gluten free, like rice pudding, vegan jello, fruit salads, etc.

:)