Critterina~
I also have histamine intolerance, so your post captured my attention. I also live in Arizona! (In Flagstaff). Where do you live?
What supplements are you taking for your gut rebuilding?
All the best,
Hi
@Timaca ,
I live in Tucson, so we're not quite neighbors in geography, only neighbors in spirit!
Oh, so now I'm accountable - I took the gut rebuilding stuff once today and posted, and now I'm going to have to keep it up!
Ok, so you have to understand my methodology - I took notes from a few gut rebuilding programs, including one list on a forum here, then I headed to the vitamin clearance outlet and bought whatever they had from the list. After that, I ordered some stuff from Swanson. That's the stuff I'm taking. But I also ordered some triphala and slippery elm bark, some glutamine and some N-acetyl-glutamine, about $80 worth that has mostly sat unopened. One gut rebuilding program said that you could get everything you need in 2 supplements - but with histamine intolerance, there were ingredients I couldn't tolerate in one and I couldn't find the other, so I tried this haphazard approach. So, what it is:
Before meals: 1 DGL Ultra German chocolate flavor
thumbsup:this is worth eating even if you don't need it) by Enzymatic Therapies
Between meals (empty stomach):
1 MegaNatural-BP Grapeseed Extract by Swanson ultra
1-3 Colostrum GI Health by Swanson ultra
2-4 IntestiNew by RenewLife
1 of..something. Well, now, this is embarrassing. I think it's Marshmallow Root by Nature's Way. That or it's something I ran out of. It looks like the Marshmallow Root, almost, but not quite. Could be bottle-to-bottle variation. Doesn't look like anything else I have. The thing is, I put out several doses in Tupperware containers at one point and didn't use them, and later I put 4 days' worth in a weekly pill container, in April, when I was doing the second fast - and then decided that it should really be a fast and I should take only bare bones - prescriptions and a very few supplements. That accounts for the different numbers of some things in the different containers. So I'm not sure, only that it was well thought-out at the time.
I also am using Swanson's soil based organisms probiotics and the occasional Costco 4-X Pro B, when I think of it.
I tried PepZinGI, a zinc supplement, but I felt awful. Turns out my mom feels bad when she takes zinc, too, so maybe it's a genetic thing.
Oh, I completely forgot: I was taking Bob's Red Mill Unmodified Potato Starch, about 2-4 tablespoons. I need to add that back in. I mix it in milk with some agave nectar
, or just mix in water. I think this with the soil-based organisms was really helpful. Without the soil-based organisms, it does cause flatulence. One of the key signs for me that I was improving was that I could take it without that happening.
When I did this gut rebuild the first time, my stools went
from loose and light (about this color:
) with undigested food particles visible
to dark (sort of like the wall in this emoticon:
), formed but not hard, and no apparent particulates. I did it for about 8 weeks. Then I stopped for a week and my stools didn't revert, like every other time when I'd been taking probiotics alone. After that week, I did the fast.
So, in May, when I took the antibiotics, my stools lightened and loosened again - not to the extreme that they were, but they are still considerable lighter. That's why I think the gut rebuild may be in order again.