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I can now only tolerate two foods.
What are the two foods you are able to tolerate?
Exactly, when do you get the allergic reaction? Immediately after food touches your tongue, throat or stomach?
The Homeopathic hospital (I think) has changed it name to something like "the hospital for integrated medicine".
My PCT was trying to limit access there but I put in a request direct to them to have my treatment continued and they finally approved it. You could consider doing this as other patients with PCT's denying access have caved and let patients go there after direct challenges. It been like this for the 20 years or so I've been treated there with access to the hospital being denied off and on for years at a time.
Sorry I don't have any names of useful homeopaths there as I think that they may just be carrying on the work of Dr Jenkins (now retired from there as well). I'll take a look at the link you posted (thank you). Have had little sucess with homeopathic treatments in general and only went to the hospital in London as they had a doctor who did EPD and in the early 90's offered other experimental ME tx.
Symptoms: tingling lips and face (warning, I will not continue eating when this happens).
Welt on the right cheek, left cheek swollen, or swelling under the chin, sometimes throat symptoms,upon immediate contact. I tried a little yogurt on the lip and had to wipe it off immediately.
A few years ago I went through an acute phase of MCS. As a result, I was unable to eat most foods for several weeks and spent almost two weeks unable to eat anything and sleeping one or two hours per night if at all. Ordinary smells were like torture.
I discovered that it only takes exposure to one thing to upset the immune system for it to react to almost everything else unrelated.
What helped me survive was the Qlink pendant, it reduced the intensity of my reactions so that I could endure nibbling at a few foods here and there and avoidance of the original triggers. However it took several months for reactions to abate a bit. I then tried NAET which helped eliminate all reactions completely.
xrunner: I am amazed at your having improved from such a level of food sensitivity. I think I might investigate these QLink pendants! There seems to be different products. Are they all pretty much the same? Would a bracelet serve the same function as a pendant? If only I could have NAET at home I would give that a try too.
Dainty: I too am interested in what you have to say. I have been reacting to ALL foods for close to a year now. I simply eat and suffer because I have to, but the reactions are gradually getting worse.
My decline to this level of sensitivity for foods was gradual with a few sudden major worsenings.
xrunner: I am amazed at your having improved from such a level of food sensitivity. I think I might investigate these QLink pendants! There seems to be different products. Are they all pretty much the same? Would a bracelet serve the same function as a pendant? If only I could have NAET at home I would give that a try too.
Dainty: I too am interested in what you have to say. I have been reacting to ALL foods for close to a year now. I simply eat and suffer because I have to, but the reactions are gradually getting worse.
My decline to this level of sensitivity for foods was gradual with a few sudden major worsenings.
Qiurky, your situation has deteriorated much more than mine. The rest of my post may not be applicable for your extreme condition, but could be helpful to those with many seemingly perplexing food intolerances.
I am down to a handful of foods. By the way, have you tried pears and fresh green beans (steamed)? Pears are the fruit of last resort for those with MCS (but only some varieties, see link to Failsafe Diet below).
For other who are facing the puzzle of why some foods are tolerated, others not:
I am now on an anti gluten, salicylate, amine, sulphate (and any other additives and in addition to rice and beef, I can tolerate pears and fresh green beans and only the big unbrushed potatoes - simply because many vegies are high in the offending chemicals, or have been treated. I even have to peel my pears (they must also be soft). I am not supposed to eat cooked beef which has been kept overnight etc, because of the buildup in amines. The recommended extreme course for this diet is to not fry or bake food. Most cooking oils will have additives which will exacerbate a chemical buildup. For a safety first diet, only steam your meat and the vegies I mentioned and eat fresh. Do not even keep fresh meat in fridge for more than a day.
For more info on amines - it'll blow your mind at how far you have to go. But once you get things planned it gets easier: http://members.ozemail.com.au/~btrudget/Karls Pages/Managing Amines and MSG/Managing Amines.htm
The rest of my diet is structured around the Failsafe Diet recommended for autistic children and those with MCS. This is not a fad diet, but relies on reporting of reactions to supermarket products by the community, those that have MCS. It is become a sort of way of life for families with kids who have intolerances and behavioral difficulties: http://fedup.com.au/
Although the above diet is about Australian based products, there are links to US equivalent.