Should I buy eggs or wait it out?

[Wishing4Wings]

I'll be taking a few days here and there, spread out over the summer, but my route is pretty small and I'm generally home by 1ish... so it's not bad, I'm a bit late today... but I don't care, I got maybe 4 hours of sleep, kept waking with foot cramps, calf muscle spasm and pain in my thighs

I had lunch with a neighbor friend who is a naturopathic doctor. She was talking about a certain type of food allergy that causes twitching and cramps due to nerve transmission disruptions. She had found that she sensitized herself to nightshade family foods (tomatoes, eggplant, potatoes) by overeating them during the summer months. She was having joint pain and muscle twitches that went away when she cut out the foods, and returned immediately when she started up. With the new changes in your diet, you may have triggered something like that. There are blood tests to determine these types of food allergies, which are in a different category than most other allergies. You probably know all about this, but I can get you more info if you like, or if you want advice, I'm sure she would email or text you some info. (In fact, she texted me some info later that afternoon that I still need to look at. Trying to see if my foot pain might be diet related, as opposed to needing to go on a diet and lose some weight!

) Come to think of it, a naturopathic dr might be able to help you narrow down what is causing you so much trouble. They seem more focused on finding the cause rather than just treating symptoms. She knows a really good one who specializes in Lyme, but he is in Boston.

Countdown to Wrangler begins!!

I'm glad your route is small. Try to take as much time off as you can. They owe you. Big time!

 

[ronott1]

I had lunch with a neighbor friend who is a naturopathic doctor. She was talking about a certain type of food allergy that causes twitching and cramps due to nerve transmission disruptions. She had found that she sensitized herself to nightshade family foods (tomatoes, eggplant, potatoes) by overeating them during the summer months. She was having joint pain and muscle twitches that went away when she cut out the foods, and returned immediately when she started up. With the new changes in your diet, you may have triggered something like that. There are blood tests to determine these types of food allergies, which are in a different category than most other allergies. You probably know all about this, but I can get you more info if you like, or if you want advice, I'm sure she would email or text you some info. (In fact, she texted me some info later that afternoon that I still need to look at. Trying to see if my foot pain might be diet related, as opposed to needing to go on a diet and lose some weight!

) Come to think of it, a naturopathic dr might be able to help you narrow down what is causing you so much trouble. They seem more focused on finding the cause rather than just treating symptoms. She knows a really good one who specializes in Lyme, but he is in Boston.

Countdown to Wrangler begins!!

I'm glad your route is small. Try to take as much time off as you can. They owe you. Big time!

Those are not allergic reactions.Cramps and twitches are usually from calcium, magnesium and or potassium deficiency.

It is very had to get proper nutrition when food groups are removed from the diet.

 

[Wishing4Wings]

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It's not a typical allergy. More like a food sensitivity. I can't explain it well enough, and forget the specific molecule involved. He's something I found that explains the basic idea. It's all chemistry!

A leading field of research called “psychoneuroimmunology” focuses completely on communications between the nervous system, immune system and digestion. Studies have shown what you might have suspected…that what you experience in your nervous system (stress) has a ripple effect on your immune system, hormones, and digestion. Not only that, but it goes the other direction as well. When hormones shift, the nervous system is impacted. And depending on what you eat for breakfast, your neurotransmitters flux too.

 

[cheeka]

because of celiac being an inflammatory disease, I eat very few nightshades, when I do... I only eat them once in a month at most. I do miss tomatoes and French fries...but they do have an effect. first and foremost, my fingers swell up and I get more tired than usual.
I am certainly nutritionally deficient, I never know what I will absorb. it's too darned complicated, but I am constantly on the search for answers! anything your friend passes on, I would love to hear about!

 

[Scrambles55]

Rumples has her fertile eggs thanks to firedragon1982. She did not even growl, fluff or peck at me. She just greeted me with her usual cluck cluck. She has a clean pen, food and water. The wait begins. Pure joy..... for Rumples

 

[cheeka]

Yea or Rumples! just love her so...

MC, that video is too cute! love the spent dandelions clutched in her fist!

 

[ronott1]

It's not a typical allergy. More like a food sensitivity. I can't explain it well enough, and forget the specific molecule involved. He's something I found that explains the basic idea. It's all chemistry!

A leading field of research called “psychoneuroimmunology” focuses completely on communications between the nervous system, immune system and digestion. Studies have shown what you might have suspected…that what you experience in your nervous system (stress) has a ripple effect on your immune system, hormones, and digestion. Not only that, but it goes the other direction as well. When hormones shift, the nervous system is impacted. And depending on what you eat for breakfast, your neurotransmitters flux too.

Night shade is more likely to cause problems because it is a poison--a neuro toxin. One if the symptoms is convulsion so it is not a food sensitivity but a toxin build up. Eating less of it, and never eating green potatoes will help.

Still, If I were having a lot of night cramps, especially if they were going up the body, a chelated calcium supplement would be in my daily routine. Those rolling cramps are a symptom of second level calcium deficiency.

 

[cheeka]

thanks ron, I've been taking chelated calcium and potassium for the past couple of years. mostly because I cannot stand milk, which I call milyuck, and I cannot stand bananas. mealy and slimy... I can't swallow them. I must not be absorbing it anymore. so frustrating. and painful. I just started drinking plain kefir with fresh strawberries blitzed in... hoping it helps give me a better source of calcium that I can somehow get my body to take in.

my Penny chicken that had the low hanging crop is doing much better - I've made sure she gets her fair share of grit and she hated the Vet Wrap, but I made her wear it until yesterday. she's not high stepping anymore and her crop looks so much better, her wound is closed, featherless... but healing nicely

 

[BullChick]

Yea or Rumples!  just love her so...

MC, that video is too cute!  love the spent dandelions clutched in her fist!

I was in tears yesterday, thinking about losing that precious child. Despite that I was told I would not lose her, I can't really believe anyone anymore.
I just got back from grocery shopping with my brother-in-law, and he told me again that I will not be losing her. I certainly hope that I don't.

 

[Scrambles55]

QUESTION. Penny had stopped laying eggs. She has been mounting the hens and now she is attempting to crow. Even DH heard her. What is going on??? I have no rooster.