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How many of you have these? And what are your food reactions like? Do they induce lyme symptoms?
How many of you believe that the food allergies are from candida, and how many of you think the allergies are just from the lyme?
I can hardly eat anything without getting sick and it is killing me!
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TheCrimeOfLyme
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I had them. My food reactions included headaches, head pressure, VERTIGO ( ugh), headaches, lightheadedness, neck PAIN, shoulder pain, jaw pain and often times, itchy rash on the chest area as well as itchy rashes on my face that would
leave acne like marks ( but they weren't) and I couldnt think , at all, felt drunk . Sometimes, I had all these at once; sometimes a symptom or two, but I ALWAYS reacted.
It wasn't lyme, it was leaky gut induced by antibiotic usage for me.
* Im now cured of food reactions EXCEPT caffeine and chocolate*
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I too, had leaky gut from taking antibiotics without taking pro-biotics. Bad news. I developed food allergies to wheat and legumes, which I still have.
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how long did it take to heal your leaky gut?? and how did you do it?
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Anyone know what is the most reliable food testing method? Would an alergist or a GI specialist be the best place to start?
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luvs2ride
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Your advice please.
I am currently under treatment for leaky gut, systemic yeast, heavy metals. Dr wants me to get a food allergy test done (bloodtest) but he said "whenever I want to do it is fine".
I have suspected food allergies as well and am not against testing for it, but I would like to wait just due to costs, so many things happening at once and the effort to do it. I have to eat foods from a long list the week before I give blood and I can't have any Vit C supplementation the week before. Dr. has just recently put me on powdered Vit C plus he has me on a multi-vitamin that contains Vit C.
So do you guys think I should test for food allergies before clearing up the yeast and metals (I feel the leaky gut is resolved) or can it wait? No matter which way you answer, please give an explanation as to why.
Thanks for your input.
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yes, test for food allergies now!
My 4-20-06 new aLLMD has me do extensive testng. I bouht my posts up to the top; check it to see what lab did mine.
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Luvs2ride: I would test for food allergies anyway, if you are still sick in the least amount of way.
I didnt do blood testing. I did ART testing and NAET to eliminate the allergies. ART found them ( no needles, etc) Some believe in it, some call it snake oil. I call it leaky gut healed.
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The ELISA ACT test (completely different from the Lyme Elisa test) is a test for food and chemical sensitivities. It is different from allergy tests and I had different results than from blood allergy tests through Quest.
I just started seeing an integrative medicine specialist to help me interpret and deal with the results and general nutrition. He said this was a good test. I accidentally ate something with lemon the other day, lemon is something I'm sensitive too. I realized when I started feeling nauseous and woozy.
I also have found other food sensitivities through an elimination diet. An elimination diet is best done with a doctor. You cut any potential trigger foods out for 2 weeks, then add one in every 4 days and watch for symptoms. This helped me discover soy made me nauseous, this was confirmed on the ELISA ACt test. I also discovered a reaction to brown rice. Brown rice causes my throat to close slightly, a foggy/vertigo feeling and hours of nausea.
I don't think it's yeast for me and the integrative medicine specialist does not believe I have leaky gut. I'm getting a stool test from Great Smokey Labs that will help him figure out what is going on.
My diet is down to mostly carbs including lots of fruit. I can't eat a lot of protein or veggies. I get nauseous and just can't bring myself to eat it. I was on an anti-yeast diet for a while. Personally, I think that diet may have lead to some of this. I also probably have pancreatitis, my LLMD thinks that is Lyme induced.
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so in other words, you think lyme alone can cause the food allergies?
i have noticed the more foods i cut out to try and treat yeast the less i can now eat.
things that didn't used to bother me cause severe problems for me now.
i used to make homemade yogurt all the time and i loved it! well then some idiot told me there would be too much lactose in it and i shouldn't eat it on the candida diet. DUH. well now a few months later i decided i missed my yogurt and i made some.
about an hr afterwords, my whole head filled up with pressure and all sorts of symptoms started flaring. yogurt does not feed yeast, if anything it helps, especially homemade. so this tells me i got something else going on besides yeast.
i am just a total mess now when it comes to food.
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I had lot of food sensitivies before Lyme treatment. Preservatives were the worst.
After I started treatment I went on a very strict anti yeast diet. I stayed strict for a year and now have added a few things back in.
Almost all my food allergies are gone now as are my headaches, sinus pain, food cravings...
I don't know how much was the treatment & how much the diet but the 2 together are a winning combo for me. Despite being really sick with Lyme, in some ways I feel better than I used to! Hats
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so you did not have yeast issues prior to treatment and your food allergies were caused by the lyme itself?
you went on the strict diet to prevent yeast, not to treat it, correct?
preservatives kill me too. lunch meat? forget it! my pee gets all cloudy if i eat any of that and i get all sorts of other symptoms.
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