@sussistrikesmichelle As I was reading through your story, I couldn't help thinking about allergies in addition to food allergies. Have you been tested by an allergist? I have allergic asthma, and do allergy shots for molds, dust, weeds, grasses, ragweed, and cats and they help me significantly. I do have cats, but I manage OK and have HEPA filters.

Another problem I had came as a bit of a surprise. I was creating excess phlegm in my lungs and I have a physical problem with one side of my chest being too tight and not expanding properly, so I was trapping phlegm and it would progress to a chest infection which I noticed when my resting heart rate went up. I also had old dental work. All of my silver amalgam fillings had been removed several years ago and they can release mercury vapor. I used to get a sore throat after chewing my food which stopped happening after those fillings were replaced. I also had old root canals and crowns because of breaking my teeth as a kid, and the root canals were starting to fail. Eventually I went through the process of replacing those teeth with Zirconium dental implants which are a type of ceramic and they contain no metal. It is a long process of healing bone before implants can be placed, and then more healing before they are solid enough to attach new teeth. As soon as the bad teeth were removed, my breathing improved dramatically and I no longer had the extra phlegm all the time. For the first time, I had no metals in my body and I could breathe.

Then 3 months later, I broke my ankle badly, and I needed titanium plates and screws to fix it. Again, I had breathing issues with excess phlegm, and I also developed chronic hives and my ankle hurt with the hardware on it. It's a year later, and I just had the hardware removed, so I am back to being metal free again, and I am breathing much better in spite of my allergies. If you were living at higher elevations in Colorado, there is no ragweed and a lot less mold, so that could account for the improvement you had, however, Colorado has had poor air quality due to wildfires this year and last which has actually spread across the entire country. It sounds like you have serious allergies to molds, and I do too. Even with doing my allergy injections for molds, if there is a piece of fruit in the kitchen that grows mold, I will have a lot of symptoms until I find it and remove it.

Have you been seen by an environmental medicine doctor? I have been helped a lot by a doctor in this specialty. There is a provider search button on the top right page of the AAEM website at https://www.aaemonline.org/

I had a lot of problems with out-gassing of new building materials. Carpeting and pressed wood products like plywood or masonite release formaldehyde vapors. We built a home with formaldehyde free insulation and I seal coated all the plywood floors before the hardwood flooring was laid on top of it to greatly reduce formaldehyde. We have no carpeting. That has helped me a lot and some people need to avoid things like this.

Have you considered environmental allergies as a possible cause for your symptoms?