I've tried coconut milk (and don't like it!) but have never tried hemp milk or the brand you mentioned.
But the entire protocol fixed my GI issues, and I assume reducing the inflammation helps my immune system, so I am trying to stick with the no dairy for that reason.
That makes total sense why you would stick to this. It's possible it's some one or some few foods from the protocol, but I've never really looked into "
x foods are inflammatory in everyone" hypothesis to see what it's based on, so without having any evidence for or against, I'll go with your ND (all the NDs?) and say that's possible, too.
I figure out my trouble spots by trial and error (they did correlate to a good degree with my ND's squalling machine, though... the machine even said I could have table sugar, which has never bothered me, and this result made my ND unhappy!
).
I haven't been able to tolerate the taste of any of the other milks (almond, coconut, rice milk, etc) and just can't get past the taste.
Yes, they all have different tastes and some of them have an off flavor. I can never get used to rice milk (although have occasionally found an horchata I liked well enough, so I think it's possible). Even when I make coconut milk hot chocolate and it's a little nice, I miss the flavor of milk in there. So I don't really make hot chocolate or drink any substitute milks, not so much because the products are bad but because they are not dairy milk, which is what I wanted. But for baking, or for something I think I really have to have like a protein shake, I'll use an alternate.
I tried Florinef for three months and it never helped me and just gave me bad headaches. But drinking the electrolyte drinks has been very helpful for me. Both yesterday and today I have forced myself to drink two cups of Pedialyte (diluted with a little water!) and also drinking plain and sparkling water, etc, along with salt stick tablets and adjusting my Atenolol dosage. I have felt significantly better the last two days and I am praying that this improvement will last (although it never does
.)
Everybody is different as far as medicines (can't recall if I mentioned mine before; if I'm repeating myself, sorry about that). I can't use atenolol, for instance. I'm happy that your hydration is helping. I do hope it sticks. At some point, it's most likely that something will stick, at least for a few months or years.
Thank you so much for your support, Willow, and I really appreciate it. I am trying to tell myself that I am not a failure and am just ill but sometimes it is so hard!
You are such a kind and encouraging person, you could never be a failure, Gingergrrl.
I understand that it is hard, though. So many years in and I have to tell myself the same thing. Hopefully we will get better treatments soon. I think this is a reasonable hope.