So... What do you do if you're HI and broke af
Can't afford a billion supplements. Eating fresh is fucking expensive. What the flying fuck do you do? I feel helpless.
Do I just eat rice and potatoes forever? Just starve? When I say broke I mean BROKE as in, no income. I can't work for multiple reasons. One of them being that nobody will hire me. I have an unpleasant face.
I rely on the kindness of strangers and my roommate who's been keeping me alive.
Edit: I'm going to add that I live in the literal middle of fucking nowhere. It's an oilfield town in East New Mexico. All foods are trucked in from an ungodly distance. There are no farmers markets because there aren't really any farms.
The weather is too turbulent to grow my own food, I also have a black thumb of death when it comes to growing anything other than pot. Literally it'll be in the high 80s one day, and snowing the next. It's also very dusty.
There are no farmers markets.
I have located one food pantry within walking distance of me.
I do not qualify for SNAP under the current administration. God I wish I did, but you also can't buy food supplements with SNAP.
Zyrtec and Pepcid bring SOME relief.
Oatmeal sets me off really badly in regards to the bloating side of things. So do yogurt, sour cream, cream cheese, soy sauce, probiotics, beans, beer, and straight up sugar. I'm still trying to figure out if honey sets me off. Cinnamon probably does too.
I probably also have SIBO due to tons of antibiotics I had to take in the past for skin problems likely caused by HI.(Developing cysts and abscess') As well as dietary intake issues. My main symptoms are severe bloating, itching, ear clogging, mood changes, frequent urgent urination, extreme fatigue, pounding heart, shortness of breath, gas, prickling skin, and I become either extremely red or extremely pale. Right now I'm super pale which means likely my blood pressure has dropped.
I'll admit I'm partially just really upset about this situation. It feels hopeless and endless and stress sets it off as well so I'm just one big stressy depressy messy ball of histamines.