Quote Originally Posted by Karen View Post
Tea is tea is tea. You will have to stick to herbal teas from now on. Green, white and red or black tea are all the same plant, just picked at different stages and processed differently.

White potatoes means yams and sweet potatoes are safe for you - funny enough the opposite is true for me, white is fine, sweet is bad. And while you only tested as allergic to pecans, be careful around other "tree" nuts from now on. Peanuts will be fine, though!

An endocrinologist is your next bet, anything to do with thyroid and hormones is their pervue.
Ugh and drats, and herbal teas seem to have chamomile in them and chamomile puts me out for a long while and I'm sleepy the next day. Don't like coffee. Don't like overy sweet drinks so Sodas are out. I do drink some diet sodas.

I new that black tea underwent certain processes to make green and white tea, but not the other teas. Variant was a poor choice of words, but the outcome is the same. Can't have black teas. Drats and double drats.

It was suggested that if I eat a lot of pecans, and I do, that the test could be a false positive. (Had weak positive values?) So I'll avoid pecans for a few weeks and run a test.

I wonder if cabbage, spinach, and other greens are related to lettuce?

I thought a endocrinologist, too, although I'm not fond of them, but he suggested an Internist that has a broader education and if necessary, the Internist could refer me to whatever specialists are needed. I have too many problems that need to be coordinated by one person. I like my new doctor, so maybe she can help be the coordinator.