Ugh!!

Yes, I totally gave up this week in eating dairy-free and paid the price for it! It was late Sunday night when I got way nauseous and then everything went downhill from that! Maybe it is milk products that affect my digestive system; however, we still wonder if it is more than just dairy too.

Oh, how the joys of trial and error are so discouraging and not fun! It's like I try to eat occasional meals without dairy and then I still feel sick....ugh!

Some of me just wants to go back to the specialist and say run more tests, please! (It's been a couple of years since the previous ones). But deep down inside, I know I need to do better on my part of experimenting with a dairy-free or gluten-free. Neither one is easy and requires a big sacrifice on my part  especially when it comes to feeding my family. The specialist did tell me that even if they run medical tests, their results could come back as negative whereas if I tried it on my own, it might be positive. Silly I know, but it does make sense.

Chloe is in a phase right now that she's better at eating meals when at least Trent or I are eating with her. I love eating with Chloe and teaching her how to share - which doesn't make this diet decision any easier for me. Anyways, I still have been feeling tired and very nauseous this week plus I've been having ringing and popping ears. When we went in for Chloe's 15-month apt, her pediatrician and I talked about how our ears are connected with our jawbone/teeth which would explain why she keeps sticking her fingers in her ears. So, that makes more sense to me now how all my dry heaves cause my ears to constantly ring and pop! Not cool!

This morning, I told Trent that as hard as it was, I need to make a bigger effort to continue on with this dairy-free diet. So hopefully when I start back on Sunday, I can last longer than 2 weeks and only introduce one food in at a time. If that doesn't work for about 3 or so weeks, then our next resort will be gluten-free! One day a solution will come....one day!!