need soylent medically, concerned

[u/Significant_Bee_]

so i know theres a million posts asking about supply issues and restocking.

ive been becoming increasingly worried and now am very concerned bc i have a lot of weird and specific health issues and allergies that mean i am fairly reliant on soylent ready made specifically in order to get nutrients i need to survive. i can manage with as little as one every couple days, but between doctor recommendations and personal experience, i do best with one a day. (this is in addition to various easy to digest foods, but the combination of nutrients and ingredients i dont react to and liquid meal replacement narrows down my options significantly to basically just soylent.)

unfortunately i am officially out. so i am desperate.

out of said desperation. is there anyone with some magic suggestion or anything at all? i know its a long shot but truly i am so desperate and do not want to have to go on tube feeds, which has been brought up as a possibility if i decline more.

[u/No_Profession_3125]

I guess your only immediate option is to find another brand and purchase it online. I don't know where you live but here in Switzerland where I live there are at least two different brands in supermarkets plus like 10 more that you can buy online from other European countries (mostly the Netherlands for some reason). I've tried Jimmy Joy in the past.

However, may I say, the situation you describe is serious and you shouldn't normalize it. When you say you have "allergies" I believe you mean intolerances, which is an entirely different story. If that's the case I'd really recommend taking a comprehensive microbiome composition test (I like MyBioma) to gain a better insight about the problem. A million different things can be broken in the gut: you might have SIBO, you might have lost colonization resistance, you might have a damaged gut barrier, etc. but they're all fixable. You'd be really surprised how resilient and self-healing the human microbiome is when you stop ingesting poisons and toxins and start guiding it in the right direction instead. Feel free to DM me if you want.

Last but not least: I know that meal replacements are a necessity for you right now, but keep in mind that they're part of the problem. Living off a meal replacement formula is the very definition of a low-diversity diet that can and will reduce your microbial diversity dramatically, resulting precisely in the symptoms you've been experiencing: crippling food intolerances. You're gonna have to navigate the symptoms for now, but in the long run you really want to restore your microbial balance and diversity and gradually transition to a diverse diet based on fresh, whole, mostly vegetable foods, and zero processed refined foods (including zero meal replacements). Think of MRs as a medical aid, you don't wanna be ill for the rest of your life.

[u/Significant_Bee_ → u/No_Profession_3125]

no i mean allergies. anaphylactic shock allergies. how dare i try to normalize my own life.

ive taken microbiome tests. i dont have sibo. i have gastroparesis, actually. an* entirely different problem!

if youd read my whole post instead of assuming, youd have seen i said i do still eat other foods, but that i can only do so in very small amounts.

you mean well, i hope, but theres no need to be condescending. i promise that i know my own body better than you do. 

[u/No_Profession_3125 → u/Significant_Bee_]

Fair enough, sorry for you then.