Have u looked at gluten ?
What about diet changes- I saw u mentioned that- how has that come along? Total elimination diet then slowly add one thing at a time. There has to be an answer. How did you feel when taking the benzos?
Yeah, they did the celiac blood test but I came back negative. I've definitely experienced benefits from altering my diet though (and listening to my body better).
I've been trying to progressively cut out more and more of the processed foods I used to eat, especially wheat and corn based ones. It's definitely helped. I never have a problem eating chicken and rice (in many different forms too! japanese, indian, mexican, home-coooked... haha, as long as it's mild too, I can't do spicy). I do alright with fruits and vegetables most of the time and do well with green juice (I have a juicer). Once I have my own place this will be easier too (to complete this progressive change I've been making), as my gf has really bad eating habits as well (in a totally different way), so we've had many-a-clash over food, and it doesn't help with my issues.
Never really had the patience do a total elimination diet properly (or had anyone explain it to me well, I saw a nutriontionist but she was terrible, I educated her and I don't consider myself as having much knowledge...). I'd consider it though, I'm on a pretty basic diet (lots of liquid protein as well as smoothies some days).
I agree. There's definitely an answer, and I kinda think I'm getting there, even if the Drs aren't helping. Overall I feel better than I did 6-8 months ago (right around and before I started working again and had been unemployed a while). And I predict that 1-2 months post moving into a place by myself I'll see more functional improvement as well.
When I was on benzos was a very different time. I'd been really depressed, which is what had been the kicker that had first bumped my dose up (plus me using bars on my own for overwhelming anxiety). Overall I wasn't as good managing my emotions and wasn't nearly as mature as I am now (honestly in about a 6 month period which coincided with benzo use I had a lot for self-examination through LSD and matured a lot, self-actualized you might say, as it started something I'm still living today).
But as it relates to food... I hadn't gotten sick yet, I had occasional low-level IBS-esque issues at that time, but there was one specific point which I got very sick and went to the hospital for dehydration relating to GI symptoms and since then have never really been 100% again... (and that was over 36 months ago at this point)