It's very personal

but its also like something that I really wanna talk about

Because I feel like there is a lot of people

they're gonna wanna come to japan and they have allergies or chronic diseases

And they don't know how to deal with those things

And I think that I wanna put that health aspect on my channel

because it's important. I have a deathly peanut allergy

I have psoriasis

I have scoliosis

I have asthma which is a chronic longe disease

I have allergies to pollen uhm and

dust mites and all sorts of things

I have chronic acid reflux gerd

It's like something that I had to deal with

like all my life. I'm a mess and

It keeps me from doing things with other people

It keeps me from.. you know

taking opportinities and

I have anxiety

I have like mild depression

like those things, anxiety and depression like are things that I've been able to

work with in my life and things that I've been able to help

But I have a lot of problems and I have a lot of digestive problems

aswell I've grew up with digestive issues and

all sorts of things and as you get older things get worse and

you have to treat them

I grew up lactose intolerant but I grew out of it when I was 7

uhm.. I was allergic to shellfish growing up so

I grew out of it aswell and I'm not allergic to that anymore

as a recent which is something that I found out uhm..

a couple weeks ago is that I'm intolerant

which is a class 2 allergy to

soy beans and egg

which is something that I eat a lot of

In Japan so I was pretty shocked

upset that I was allergic to

those things

allergic to dogs and cats but I knew that already

but getting those test results back

and seing that was such a hard thing to stomach

because in Japan it's so hard to avoid those things

and

you think like can I live here?

can I.. am I gonna survive?

but it's something that I kinda have to omit from my diet

as often as possible

Going back to december I ended up taking a ton of anticiotics

I had nemonia, I was very sick and

I never got sick before

any of this before I started teaching children

which I do right now. I never got sick

until this moment like it was very rare for me to get sick

teaching children I feek like at this point in my life

my body is just not equipped to be doing it as much as I love it

like I love the job I think

the job that I have is very good and it gives me the time to do my youtube chanel

and like other things on the side

which I love uhm.. so it's

like the ideal job for what I do in my life

going back to december

I had nemonia and I took two rounds of really strong antibiotics

I got better

uhm.. a month later went back to work got sick

because you know parents bring their kids to work sick sometimes and

you know they dont wanna miss a day

so that can be

rough when you're a teacher here in japan so

I got sick again and I ended up going to get more antibiotics

because I couldn't get better like my body was not healing

my imunesystem was already surpressed

from my asthma and my allergies and

all the things that are happening in my system so

after those two months I started to feel a lot of swelling in my throat

and I didn't know why

I got a fever, I had my ears started to pop

I had extreme allergies like my nose would be running

and I would feel like I had a cold but it wasn't a cold

Uhm and then it would shut off like it was a faucet

it would just shut off, immediatley everything would go away

And I was like.. what just happened?

Like it was almost like the storm like went through my body

and then came out.

Anyway I started to get a sinus infection again and it looked like it was a sinus

like an actual sinus infection

I was about to take a plane uhm and

I remember Gretchen came my friends

just to say goodbye to me and I was miserable

I was having asthma problems, horrible asthma problems

I did not know what it was

I thought maybe it was anxiety or something else.

I had a some virus or....

I have no clue what was happening to my imunesystem

It just went into overdrive

and decided to attack me

I landed in LA uh.. I still had the problems

and I felt bad because I was.. my voice was gone

and I looked like I was sick when I first met my boyfriend

and I was taking allergy medicine

and I didn't understand why

and then one day it just went away again

like faucet - turn off everything was gone

and I was like what the heck?

what is happening to me?

everything was gone I was like okay..? well I guess I'm better now

A couple days later I started to develop some pain in the back of my tongue

And I was like looking and nothing was there

just felt like I burned the back of my tongue

and then a couple days later I started to develop these red bumps

in the back of my tongue

and I was like what the heck? It looked like it was just swollen taste buds

It still hurt by then but I didn't pay attention I thought I would go away

Uh well.. it didn't and eventually started to turn white

And I was like oh my God

what is happening

so my whole tongue turned completly white

So at first I was like maybe I'm just getting sick

so I went to urgent care during my vacation

and the doctor was an idiot like I

urgent care you know urgent care it's not really the best place to go

but I didn't have a lot of money

and it was the cheapest option so

Uh.. and I didn't have insurance either because I live here

when I went there I saw the doctor, he didn't seem to care

he messed up my Name like

when he wrote the perscription he switched my name with somebody elses

it was really weird

And then he was like, he didn't even really check me

He was like oh looks kinda like strep throat or whatever I dont really know

so I'm just gonna give you some antibiotics

Because you know when you go to a doctor

antibiotics like they give it to you because they think it's gonna cure you

Anyway so he gave me antibiotics

and uhm.. didn't work

At first I thought like okay initially I'm gonna say like TMI

I thought it was an STD

So I thought maybe STD oral thrush

uh, was the possibility

because of all the antibiotics that I took and like my imunesystem is crap

oral thrush was the most likley one

and still kind of as on the table as if right now

yeah.. nothing went away with antibiotics

I had a fever like a low grad fever

It wasn't anything like bad but I still had one

and I was confused like what the heck

is going on with me?

Because this didn't start happening until

you know after I took the last bowl of antibiotics

and I got sick. People think going to the doctor can just cure you

But honestly it can't

It's all about your diet everything, all of your diseases

anything you have whether it's arthritis or

autoimmune disease like eczema all of that stuff

starts in the gut in the stomach

all of that comes from the stomach and uhm..

even asthma and acid reflex

all of this starts from the stomach

and if you don't eat the right foods

so if you always eat you know processed things, sweet things

lots of sugary things which is something that I've been eating a lot

bread and pastas which I also eat a lot of

ehm.. looking at my diet

keeping a food diary for a while and I eat a lot of that stuff

and its processed

and it's sugary and I have intolerances and allergies

and these things can .... on your gut

no matter if you have allergies or not

like if you're eating bad if you're not eating correctly

and you're not using simple ingredients and home made cooking

then you're gonna have problems

in the future

I don't snack a lot like I don't eat chips or anything like that because

it irritates my acid reflux

so I never touch those things but I eat a lot of sweets

and I eat a lot of pizza and cheese

and tomatoes that can really agrovate your stomach lining

and your

just digestive system in general

so honestly all of these things that I'm propably having currently

is something that I can cure with food and the right kind of diet

so I went to

a doctor when I came back

I immediatley called the ENT as soon as I landed in japan again

and I set up an appointment for the next day

so I went to my ENT

and he looked at my throat and my tongue

and he's like "Oh.. looks not that bad"

like "it doesn't look like oral thrush to me"

I was like "Really? It does to me"

It really did cuz I showed it to my aunt

she's a nurse and she's like "that's oral thrush"

and I was like "yeah right? It looks like oral thrush"

Like I, it looks like I'm having a yeast infection in my gut or my body

Something's happening and overgrowth of bacteria

So the doctor didn't see anything weird

Uhm.. he did a swap test

he did a strep throat test which was weird because I already did that

I had antibiotics for a strep throat and my throat wasn't even hurting

so like..

I didn't even understand that

But he checked and nothing seemed abnormal

they came back negative, no yeast, no bacteria

I wanted a second opinion so I went to a super expensive doctor

and it was an american doctor living in Japan

and uh..

he doesn't take insurance so it was extremly expensive

but I wanted answers and I went to this guy before after I was misdiagnosed

when I first had nemonia, which was like

4 years ago I had it before

and I was consitently misdiagnosed

he listens

this guy is also a psychologist or a psychiatrist aswell

so I feel like I can really talk to him

about my fears and my issues

And so he was like "you know what?"

"I'm gonna give you some antifungal medicine to see if something clears up"

"and we'll swab your throat"

"and or your tongue again to see if there's any yeast."

So he did it, came out negative uhm..

he gave me antifungal stuff

Didn't go away

I was taking it for like 3 days at that point

and nothing was changing. Also I went to primary care doctor

I found a new one and

they are amazing, I love them

It's an international doctor I will

link every doctor I've seen down below who's been good for me

And speaks English

But this doctor tested me for

CBC blood test

I think its complete blood count test

And she tested me for all STDs like every single one

oral and you know the urin test and stuff

Everything was negative, blood test was normal

So I was like "Okay what the heck is happening?"

I still have these bumps in the back of my tongue

The pain went away

My tongue was still white. And then I started to have pain in my throat

like tightness and stiffenss

increased acid reflux

trouble swallowing.. things like that

it was confusing I would go to work and I would be talking

and then all of a suddden my throat would start to hurt

after talking for so long and then I started having TMI

constipation, digestive problems

all that stuff I ended up to get an allergy test

and thats when I found out I was allergic to those things

so I thouht "oh God I was eating so many eggs"

in LA maybe I was having reactions

my body was like not digesting it correctly

Which is propably what this could be

Like this could be just complete

like completly just allergies

but I'm having pain in the side like my left side