Hi
@zeeman01, thank you for your response. I appreciate it. Only this morning, I got an email from Dr Howard Schubiner pretty much about the same thing in terms of foods and food intolerances being MBS (mind-body syndrome). I read his book, along with a whole lot of others, including Claire Weeks. Alan Gordon knows Dr Schubiner, and right now I'm going over Dr Schubiner's book a second time, which pretty much incorporates a lot of what Alan teaches as well as others such as Sarno, etc. This is what Dr Schubiner wrote to me:
Dr Schubiner’s response to my email re LPR and all its insidious symptoms
Yes, I have seen this kind of thing so many times, Sylvia.
LPR is really MBS; and fear of it will tend to make it worse; and you will develop new symptoms (as the "danger" neural circuits in your brain get more stimulated). That is what is happening to you!
These fumes and intolerances to mild foods are just more MBS. That is obvious.
I would suggest doing exactly what you did with the pelvic pain; i.e., stop fearing these symptoms.
Start gradually getting your life and your diet back. Introduce more foods gradually and keep telling yourself that you're fine, that these foods are fine; and you will be fine.
OK?
Best, Howard
Howard Schubiner, MD
Director, Mind Body Medicine Program, Department of Internal Medicine, Providence-Providence Park Hospital, Ascension Health, Southfield, Michigan, USA
Clinical Professor, Michigan State University College of Human Medicine
Website:
unlearnyourpain.com
I also showed my doctor your post on how you recovered, and he was very impressed and agreed with what you did. He advised me to do the same. I printed your post and refer to it for help and reassurance. Thank you for sharing your story! I do understand what you say and on the whole I do follow these principles; at the same time, I'm trying to overcome decades of anxiety and panic, a whole decade of pelvic pain, decades of IBS and other tummy symptoms, and most recently this LPR thing that's been driving me insane. The weight loss made a huge impact on me, and made me fear this thing even more. I am now working on accepting that the weight loss is a mixture of anxiety and the very clean food I eat. As you yourself have experienced, putting on weight on the low acid diet is impossible. I am now experimenting a little with other foods, but I must say they sometimes give me bad symptoms, only because I fear them. I am retraining my brain not to fear it. It's a long process, and the brain isn't helping as when I overcome my fear about something the brain goes and changes symptoms, just to give me new fears! The brain, as Alan says, is very, very sneaky.
i keep finding solutions for the different things and before i give it much of a chance, i start doubting that it is the right thing to do and move on to the next thing. i drive myself absolutely mad sometimes. wish i had an off switch. or a magic bullet would also do.
