Cycles,Food and Life!
Right, let's see. My Fiance moved in December, since then I have only had 2 periods. One in December and One in February. There where five weeks between them, based on that 5 week gap, I estimated I was due for another period on March 17th, it never arrived. It's now 21st April. I am over a month late. Blah, I am always the same and it's tiresome.
Add to that, the fact that I'm too sore for sex anyway. My Clitoral hood is always sore... it sort of feels like the hood has torn or will tear if it's rubbed or touched, I itch so bad it makes me cry (privately) I just finished my second course of Fluconazole and use generic 1% topical thrush cream whenever it flares up. I've tried everything I can think of, even using my own towels and face clothes down below, anything so I don't cross contaminate.
Recently, I've been reading about foods that encourage Candida (the yeast germ that causes thrush)
According to http://www.pureliquidgold.com/candida-diet.htm :
" Candida thrives on carbohydrates, preserved refined foods and mold. Also foods that contain yeast and gluten, a wheat bread protein.
Symptoms often worsen in damp and or moldy places. Also after consumption of food products rich in yeast or carbohydrate (sugars and starches) or after eating any the foods that contain mycotoxins.
A good candida diet will avoid yeast products and fermented foods; vinegar, wine, baker's and brewer's yeast. Tempeh and tamari are potential troublemakers.
Avoid dairy products except (Live cultured yogurt which helps to replenish your intestinal bacteria). Smoked, dried, pickled or cured foods, mushrooms, nut butter (Except almonds and almond butter), fruit juices, dried or candied fruit and coffee, black tea, caffeine, carbonated drinks and alcohol should be eliminated."
So, like a good girl, I gave up fruit juice and bread (except for a treat) I eat yogurt every day and limit my sweet consumption to movie night, I have about 4 glasses of carbonated pop a week and the coffee and tea I drink is all decaff. Camomile is my drink of choice most days. Blah, I am trying really hard. Seriously, I am considing going Gluten-free too, since my weight is up and down more often than a whore's panties.
My Fiance spoils me and occasionally buys me sweets. He hates to see my guilt when I eat them. Now's my time to enjoy being spoiled, so I have just a few rules - Drink Plenty, eat good quantities of fruit and veg and remember to eat my cereals every day.
Dear readers, I have such an obsessive compulsive approach to food, monitoring every single mouthful is important, as I have a mournful tendancy to binge eat. This is due to my having Bulimia for about a year when I first left home. It was largely ignored when I told those close to me about three years later. Mainly because, I got hugely fat and not bone skinny.
Bulimia is a very misunderstood disorder indeed. It doesn't always manifest in huge weightloss. It is a binge and purge disorder. I would eat tons and then vomit. Strangly, normal meals where ok for me. It was at night that I'd pack away 3 chocolate bars and 3 bags of crisps and then puke. I puked because I felt guity for being unhealthy, not because I worried I would get fat! Perhaps, there was a loneliness factor in there too,
Anyway, on the subject of such things, I can't tell you how proud I am of ex politician John Prescott. He is a big chap, who has recently talked of being Bulimic, and I'm telling ya kids, he's a big guy. Not skinny at all. Read about it here I'm going to forward this to certain folks in my life, who dismissed my suffering, because "I'm Fat". One in the eye, I feel!
In other news : My appointment with GYN is on 17th May. It seems, that my doctor forgot to tell the consultant about my persist thrush! I only told him 2000000 million times. Why oh why wasn't it included in the details of my referral FFS!? Now I have to call and inform them myself! GRRRRR... I'll keep you updated.
