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Has anybody else found themselves developing strange autoimmune like reactions to different foods overtime? I will detail my experience and I am interested if anyone has found anything similar.
For a long time since having cfs, I have had to carefully balance my calcium intake. Too little and I feel horrible, too much and I also feel bad. When I have too little, it feels as though my body is lacking something vital and I feel extremely weak, terrible cognitive function, no sex drive/function, low mood, tingling sensation in feet and toes, ptosis etc. When I have too much it is like my body has produced too much of something in response. I get a rush of energy but cannot concentrate, kidneys get this full feeling, body gets hot and muscles get this unpleasant heavy feeling, like my blood is thick and heavy and I also cannot think clearly, my brain feels clogged.
Note that 1. These symptoms are not simply hypo and hypercalcaemia, my serum calcium levels maintain in the healthy range regardless of which set of symptoms I have. And 2. I cannot tolerate more than around 300-400 mg calcium per day so when I say too much calcium, I don't mean an actual excessive amount. It seems as though my body produces something in response to my calcium intake.
Anyway, for a while I carefully stayed in the correct range of calcium for myself to feel "good" although would sometimes overshoot and trigger these bad symptoms, as it is a very fine balance. But what started happening after about a year, is my body started to develop a bad reaction to foods that I consumed that caused me to overshoot on calcium. For a while I was eating kale as a means of eating enough calcium but then I found that I was able to tolerate less and less. Eventually, eating a small portion of kale would trigger a strange autoimmune like reaction, that is similar to the reaction from eating large portions of calcium, but also noticeably different. At first I get this rush but then soon after I get a slightly stuffy nose and pressure in sinuses and I cannot think clearly. Then the next day, I feel absolutely terrible. I wake up and can barely open my eyes due to ptosis, nervous system feels so weak and I cannot clench my fist, erectile dysfunction and weak feeling all throughout body.
What I have found over the last year is that anytime I overshoot on calcium, it is like my body develops this reaction described above to the food that triggered the overshoot and this pattern has repeated so many times, limiting my diet massively. The package of symptoms that I get is unmistakable and very distinctive and it happens every time I eat that food. It is not psychological, as the symptoms started before I ever thought about this and once I discovered the pattern I was able to improve how I feel a lot.
Does anything that I have described here sound at all familiar to anyone else's experience? I am eager to figure out a solution as this is really making things hard. I am underweight as I have such a limited diet due to reacting badly to so many foods now.
If you read this far, thank you.
For a long time since having cfs, I have had to carefully balance my calcium intake. Too little and I feel horrible, too much and I also feel bad. When I have too little, it feels as though my body is lacking something vital and I feel extremely weak, terrible cognitive function, no sex drive/function, low mood, tingling sensation in feet and toes, ptosis etc. When I have too much it is like my body has produced too much of something in response. I get a rush of energy but cannot concentrate, kidneys get this full feeling, body gets hot and muscles get this unpleasant heavy feeling, like my blood is thick and heavy and I also cannot think clearly, my brain feels clogged.
Note that 1. These symptoms are not simply hypo and hypercalcaemia, my serum calcium levels maintain in the healthy range regardless of which set of symptoms I have. And 2. I cannot tolerate more than around 300-400 mg calcium per day so when I say too much calcium, I don't mean an actual excessive amount. It seems as though my body produces something in response to my calcium intake.
Anyway, for a while I carefully stayed in the correct range of calcium for myself to feel "good" although would sometimes overshoot and trigger these bad symptoms, as it is a very fine balance. But what started happening after about a year, is my body started to develop a bad reaction to foods that I consumed that caused me to overshoot on calcium. For a while I was eating kale as a means of eating enough calcium but then I found that I was able to tolerate less and less. Eventually, eating a small portion of kale would trigger a strange autoimmune like reaction, that is similar to the reaction from eating large portions of calcium, but also noticeably different. At first I get this rush but then soon after I get a slightly stuffy nose and pressure in sinuses and I cannot think clearly. Then the next day, I feel absolutely terrible. I wake up and can barely open my eyes due to ptosis, nervous system feels so weak and I cannot clench my fist, erectile dysfunction and weak feeling all throughout body.
What I have found over the last year is that anytime I overshoot on calcium, it is like my body develops this reaction described above to the food that triggered the overshoot and this pattern has repeated so many times, limiting my diet massively. The package of symptoms that I get is unmistakable and very distinctive and it happens every time I eat that food. It is not psychological, as the symptoms started before I ever thought about this and once I discovered the pattern I was able to improve how I feel a lot.
Does anything that I have described here sound at all familiar to anyone else's experience? I am eager to figure out a solution as this is really making things hard. I am underweight as I have such a limited diet due to reacting badly to so many foods now.
If you read this far, thank you.
