Food allergy sufferers: Will I be able to overcome most of my food allergies?

I have a gluten allergy which is common with lyme sufferers, and that is fine, but I also have a zillion other allergies to foods I use to love and eat all the time. I don't want to name them all it would take too long. I just want to know if I continue to treat my lyme will I someday be able to eat these foods again? I'm so sad and depressed and miss all my favorite foods... It is such a hard thing to continue on every day avoiding all my food allergies. I have so many it is so awful.

Thanks, I know I could be worse off I guess and it is just wishful thinking on my part. I am allergic to tomatoes, corn, wheat, oats, barely, rye, spelt, buckwheat, peanuts, tree nuts, citrus fruits, pineapple, apples,pears, kiwi, avacado, bell peppers, hot peppers. about 2 years ago, I wasn't allergic to anything. Not one food. Now I spend my day reading labels and avoiding restaurants and trying to find something to eat that doesn't cost me a fortune. I feel literally like I am living a nightmare. Yes you can say I am lucky I can still eat broccoli, but seriously???? I want to have chips and salsa, guacamole, I want a simple peanut butter and jelly sandwich, or any sandwich for that matter, or any nut butter. I want to go out to eat with my family and not worry about every item on the menu and have to have a salad with nothing on it just so I can eat something. I'm so tired of this. Can anybody relate? At least I can still eat meat, and I can still eat most vegetables. But I want to go to a mexican restaurant again, or a chinese restaurant, or darn McDonlads even!!! omg what I would do just to get a unhealthy sandwich at McDonalds for once and the french fries!!!! That would be like a dream!!! I am Italian, and now I cant' even eat tomato sauce or spaghetti!!! I love tomato sauce!! I'm so miserable. I can't even describe how miserable this is making me. I feel like I am in some type of prison. :(

Post Edited (mumma) : 1/5/2014 4:37:25 PM (GMT-7)

Hello Mumma,

I understand exactly what you are feeling I am allergic to shellfish, all tree nuts, wheat, oats, peanuts, citrus fruits, apples, soy, strawberries, eggs. Well my list is really long too I developed new allergies since I became sick with Lyme. My allergy doctor called it sensitivity not allergies. After I started treatment with an herbalist my allergies are not gone but they are better I drink fresh orange juice in the morning not every day and I can put lemon in my water, she told me to rotated my foods and cooked the apples instead of eat them raw, this is working for me. I am highly allergy to all tree nuts and soy, so I am staying away from them.

I don't like to eat out so I don't really miss anything, if my friends go out to dinner they all know I have allergies so I take my own food to the restaurants...allergies are not going to stop me to have a good time with my friends...also some restaurants can accommodate people with allergies.

By food "allergies" I mean I was sent to an allergist and tested over a period of two months on different occasions to individual antigens from the most common foods I was eating and ate often. I was injected in my arm with the specific food (antigen I believe they called it) and then we watched to see if my arm developed a large, itchy hard red bump or not. If it developed a large, itchy,red, swollen hard bump it meant I was allergic to that specific food item. And there were plenty of foods that I wasn't allergic to, but there were a lot that I was allergic to as well. I was sent to see this allergist because of all the stomach pain I had been having and the gastritis I was suffering from. I still suffer from gastritis despite avoiding the food allergens. But also I have much more pain, cramping, and stomach discomfort when I do eat a food item I am allergic to. I even feel like I am going to vomit,my stomach cramps up tight, and I get wheezy, or get extreemly ill now when I eat certain foods by accident that I am allergic to. Lyme is fun isn't it? LOL