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Tested for hydrogen and methane, unfortunately gastros just diagnosed it as ibs and don't even test for sibo here. I paid out of pocket and worked with naturopaths to get it done, but they only had a glucose/lactulose test that wasn't triosmart.

I've since developed histamine issues as well after having covid, so it's been a great time.

I don't understand how this stuff is tolerated, absolutely disgusting

I really like it, care to share your recipe?

My brother said it was hail the size of golf balls falling in his neighbourhood, all the car windows are smashed. They should have made it more clear in the warning but I think it was a valid reason

The funny thing is any blueprint you get will be in metric. But if you want to do something like bend a conduit, all the benders use imperial measurements.

Unfortunately I do. Anything that feeds gut bacteria messes me up. Antibiotics make me feel better for a bit but it always comes back. My only diagnosis is ibs, I've tested negative for sibo multiple times.

I used to be able to tolerate things like tomatoes and certain berries, even small amounts of lactose like in cheese. Little bits of garlic powder when used sparingly as a seasoning.

Not anymore though

Plant proteins are all fodmaps. Beans, lentils, peas, etc are some of the worst ibs triggers out there. If I eat any of those foods I'm in excruciating pain on the toilet for a week. Not eating any protein would kill me yeah. I guess I could try to survive on powdered rice protein isolate which is the only plant based protein that doesn't fuck me up. But fuck that. More plant foods absolutely destroy me than not. Fruit? Forget it, that's fructans. Vegetables? Sure, if it's lettuce or something. Beans? Nope. Broccoli? Nope. Tomatoes? Apparently also high fodmap. Used to be low fodmap but Monash seems to have changed their mind. Sweet potatoes? You betcha that's a fodmap. Garlic and onion? Oh yeah those are the worst triggers ever. Nuts? Absolutely brutal reactions as well.

I've lived wth this shit for a decade. At first I could tolerate some fodmaps in small amounts. Recently? It's zero fodmap or I'm dying on the toilet.

I'm literally considering carnivore diet as a potential treatment. So yeah, all you lovely vegans and environmentalists are advocating for making my life either impossible, incredibly expensive, or excruciatingly painful.

Landlord is right in that it's unsafe to plug in and the circuits are likely not rated for it. I worked on many old buildings and often you'll have barely 2 circuits for the whole unit. Sure it might draw as much as a hair dryer, but a hair dryer alone maxes out a circuit. That's why the US code for example mandates a dedicated 20a circuit for bathrooms. Canadian one is behind in that regard in my opinion. Meanwhile in these old shitboxes you have your fridge on the same circuit as your living room, etc. Overloading circuits is a legitimate risk of fire, especially with older wiring and breakers that are basically never replaced when they trip and are in service for decades. Or the old oversized fuse/penny in the fuse trick.

It's not as easy as just slapping an ac unit in your window, the wiring needs to be updated.

Now I do think these people need air conditioning, absolutely. The government needs to step in and either force the landlord to pay for wiring upgrades (specifically dedicated circuits for window units, maybe panel upgrades to increase capacity, maybe service upgrades for entire buildings to accommodate the need) and/or subsidize the upgrade to some extent.

It's definitely not going to be a cheap fix though.

Great sentiment and all, but shit for all of us that have ibs (estimates are as much as 1 in 5 people). If I can't have animal protein I'd literally die, or have such a shit quality of life I might as well be dead

I mean the alternative is voting for someone who time and again has proven they're not acting with your interests in mind, and I'm talking both red and blue here

Maybe in university educated society. Any blue collar work place, lots of men's sports teams, etc. has these problems in my experience. When I shifted careers in my 30s from the office to a construction site I was blown away by how right wing everyone was while working for a union.