antares4141
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I've been sick now 15 years, I discovered 12 months ago that food reactivity is a big part of this illness. When I first tried the gluten free diet I had like three days were relatively symptom free. Normal level of illness is not bed ridden but miserable and unable to do anything beyond simple chores. I've bought and used all the alternative grains, off gluten, off casien, off nuts, etc. Still was not able to reproduce those first three days of blissI had 12 months ago but KNEW that food reactivity IS a big part of this illness.
A month ago I fired up 15lbs of patatoes, there a comfort food for me when I am in a lot of pain and I thought why drive all the way to walmart to get them when I can make them myself.
To my amazement I had like 5 good days in a row because I was pigging out on all of my comfort food till it was gone. Than I started regressing back to the same old rut, bad days good days mostly bad.
So I tired an experiment, just fried patatoes, and meat (I've never to my knowledge reacted to meat but it's impossible just to eat meat) I introduced peas for a couple of nights and got sick. Quit the peas got better, tried a candy bar got sick, waited a few days than tried one of those trays of assorted fruits from walmart which was a lousy test cause any one of them could have caused my reactivity but I crashed.
WHAT I AM TRYING TO SAY IS FOR MYSELF AT LEAST I THINK I DISCOVERED A BASELINE DIET WHERE I GET POSITIVE RESULTS EVERYTIME I AM ON IT!
JUST MEAT AND "FRIED" PATATOS!
I know there bad for me and I don't care, they have given me an amount of relief from this illness I have not experienced in years. More importantly I have a baseline to go from now so although I have to get sick for a little over 24 hours for each test an elimination diet is at least feasible for me now!
Only theory I have regarding why this works and nothing else does is the high temperture denatures the food somehow??? Mycotoxins maybe I really hate that theory but maybe it's possible. I really don't know anything except I SWEAR IT WORKS! (for me anyways)
ROBERT CHRIST
A month ago I fired up 15lbs of patatoes, there a comfort food for me when I am in a lot of pain and I thought why drive all the way to walmart to get them when I can make them myself.
To my amazement I had like 5 good days in a row because I was pigging out on all of my comfort food till it was gone. Than I started regressing back to the same old rut, bad days good days mostly bad.
So I tired an experiment, just fried patatoes, and meat (I've never to my knowledge reacted to meat but it's impossible just to eat meat) I introduced peas for a couple of nights and got sick. Quit the peas got better, tried a candy bar got sick, waited a few days than tried one of those trays of assorted fruits from walmart which was a lousy test cause any one of them could have caused my reactivity but I crashed.
WHAT I AM TRYING TO SAY IS FOR MYSELF AT LEAST I THINK I DISCOVERED A BASELINE DIET WHERE I GET POSITIVE RESULTS EVERYTIME I AM ON IT!
JUST MEAT AND "FRIED" PATATOS!
I know there bad for me and I don't care, they have given me an amount of relief from this illness I have not experienced in years. More importantly I have a baseline to go from now so although I have to get sick for a little over 24 hours for each test an elimination diet is at least feasible for me now!
Only theory I have regarding why this works and nothing else does is the high temperture denatures the food somehow??? Mycotoxins maybe I really hate that theory but maybe it's possible. I really don't know anything except I SWEAR IT WORKS! (for me anyways)
ROBERT CHRIST