My Sunday Crash Was Caused by Cheese?
February 17, 2008 by laura
Filed under Diseases & Conditions
Ever read the book, Who Moved my Cheese? Well I am moving the cheese far far away, and it will never find its way back in my refrigerator again. I have been off cheese for about 6 weeks, with the exception of Laughing Cow cheese (and one little piece of oka – which I didn’t really like the taste of). Today, I actually ate some type of danish cheese, and ended up with a major crash that put me to bed in the middle of the afternoon. Something that rarely happens anymore. The good thing about this, is that I know the cause. And so cheese goes back on the list of forbidden foods. Problem solved.
I got up a little while ago, and had a shower, which is my first attack against feeling crummy, and when my hair dries, I am going to take a little walk in the night air to the grocery, to pick up some lemonade, tonic water, and as many bottles of water I can carry home. A little bit of cool fresh air should perk me right up. Since a regular meal is the very last thing I want right now – dinner is going to consist of apples and blackberry yogurt.
Been a long time since this has happened. Great reminder, that even when you are doing things right, something can go sideways on you.
**Picture Source – flickr
Cheese to me is what coffee is to you – I know it hurts me, but I can’t give it entirely up
. I stick to unripened cheeses, because I can get away with them for a while before the symptoms hit, but the back of my mind knows that I shouldn’t even be doing that.
But lunch tastes soooo much better with cheese!
Jenna,
if coffee hurt me as much as this cheese has – I would give it up immediately.
I spent most of today in as much pain as yesterday, until I remembered that I had a piece of dark chocolate kept in the freezer at work. 15 minutes later I felt remarkably better. I am thinking it was the magnesium. Because normally chocolate doesn’t do a whole lot for me.
Funny how we can’t totally give up the things that we love, even when we know the price that comes with it, when we indulge.
I’m afraid I still think of it in terms of trade offs – is this thing/action worth the reaction? And the longer I’ve been stable, the more likely that answer is ‘yes’, which of course if I think about it is pretty stupid.
But as you said, the big whammys are pretty easy to avoid. It’s the things that have such benefits attached (like going to a get-together) or the things that don’t always have a reaction (or a mild one) that slowly sap me without me even noticing until it’s too late…
Jenna, it may be stupid – but its a totally normal thing to do. I do the trade off thing all the time. And I say “yes” a lot more than I should. But the truth is….sometimes a moment of “yes” is a lot better for us, than a lifetime of saying “no”. I am not talking about drinking a cup of coffee, or eating cheese.
Sometimes you just have to throw away the pro/con list….and just do what would make you happy. And if you end up paying for it – well ok you pay the price. Sometimes its worth it, and sometimes it isn’t.
For me, the cheese wasn’t worth it.