If there was one thing you could banish from your life, what would it be?

[cassiesmom]

Clutter! and stuff I have kept far too long.
Half my weight.
My tendency to over-analyze everything and miss opportunities.
My great ability to underestimate the amount of time it takes to get from point A to point B and always arrive late.

[Alysser]

-My self-consciousness about weight, I'd love to be able to pass a mirror without looking at myself from a side view. Despite the fact that I've lost weight, I'll probably always do this. Always.
-Double Shifts at work!
-Traffic

[Kirsten]

I think it's interesting that most of us would love to get rid of health problems or at least health-related things. And yet it's only logical because it's such an essential thing. I was also wondering if I wouldn't rather ban poverty, or loneliness from my life, but then again, I could probably easily change these circumstances if I was healthier. In other words, I wouldn't be poor and lonely if I wasn't ill.


Karen, rg_girlca and pomtzu: I was tested for celiac disease/sprue a while ago and the test was negative, so I assume there's no gluten intolerance. Of course this could have changed over the last years, but I hope not. The gluten-free products over here are only available in health food shops and they are expensive, and I'm really poor now, I could never affort to buy those.

I've tried to find out which kinds of food I don't tolerate, but it's difficult - and confusing. There are days I can eat almost everything without any problems (even dairy products), but on other days, the same things are causing severe troubles. It's really frustrating. I assume (and my doctor thinks the same) that my autoimmune disease has messed up my system so badly that it became unpredictable.

[pomtzu]

Well Kirsten - as my doctors tell me - I'm their "problem child".

I'm sorry, but I've run out of ideas. I certainly do hope you can get to feeling better tho. Like I'm always saying - "I'm sick and tired of feeling sick and tired"...

[Queen of Poop]

Kirsten, I too have tested negative for celiac disease. But I do have gluten intolerance. I feel a whole lot better if I avoid anything with gluten in it. Try going gluten free for a while (at least 3 days) and see if you feel better.

[Karen]

Kirsten, you need not spend a lot to "go gluten free" - as long as you don't NEED to eat bread. Rice, rice noodles, potatoes - all are good, filling starches that have no gluten.

[Kirsten]

Kirsten, you need not spend a lot to "go gluten free" - as long as you don't NEED to eat bread. Rice, rice noodles, potatoes - all are good, filling starches that have no gluten.

Noodles are "good"? I hope so, because I cannot imagine a life without pasta!

Like I'm always saying - "I'm sick and tired of feeling sick and tired"...

Exactly!!

Kirsten, I too have tested negative for celiac disease. But I do have gluten intolerance. I feel a whole lot better if I avoid anything with gluten in it. Try going gluten free for a while (at least 3 days) and see if you feel better.

Well, yes, maybe it's worth a try. But I won't do any more tests in the near future as my intestines still haven't recovered from the last one, four weeks ago...

[cassiesmom]

Clutter! and stuff I have kept far too long.
Half my weight.
My tendency to over-analyze everything and miss opportunities.
My great ability to underestimate the amount of time it takes to get from point A to point B and always arrive late.

Work!
Bad hair days.
Junk mail
Coffee that's been in the pot too long.

[davidpizzica]

Two more illnesses I'd like to banish from my life: My atrial fibrillation and my essential tremors. The a-fib is an irregular heartbeat and the essential tremors is (I think) an offshoot of Parkinson's. I'd like to get rid of them BOTH!

[kokopup]

The Combination of Chemo/Radiation treatment for throat cancer have left me with a myriad of side effects. The one that I would banish if it was possible, would be the inability to swallow. Because of this one, It creates a whole new group of problems. I have to recieve all food (Nutren) and water by way of a feeding tube. Without the ability to swallow the speech processes of phonation, resonation, articulation are all lost so I isolate myself avoiding the strange looks when I am unable, most of te time, to be understood. Without the ability to swallow the normal mucus that is produced in the mouth/sinuses all accumulates in the back of my mouth, which adds to the speech problems. Without normal swallowing you end up with a retro effect so every thing going into the stomach refluxes to the mouth. This sets up a constant cycle of having to clear my throat/mouth, which can only be accomplished by rinsing. Swallowing thats the ONE.