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Hello all. Just for the hell of it, my herbalist has suggested to try a food elimination diet. I have no known allergies to this point.
This diet has eliminated the following
Dairy Wheat Gluten Corn Eggs Citrus Fruit Coffee, Alcohol Refined Sugar (or anything that contains it) Food Additives (Artificial) Soy Most oils (except olive etc...)
...so very restrictive, right? I've been living off of chicken or pork at dinner, spices, vegetables, rice products, and non-citrus fruit.
Today finishes my two weeks on this diet, and I don't feel any different at all. No better.As of tomorrow, I'm supposed to start adding things back in slowly, one at a time, to see if my "allergies/sensitivities" flare up. This doesn't make a lot of sense to me, considering that I had no major reaction to the diet.
Has anyone else had a similar experience? I'm thinking of calling my herbalist tomorrow and explaining all this. This has also made everyone else in the house miserable eating under these restrictions (not that I ask them to do so, but they don't wish to cook two meals). Is there any point in continuing?
I'm guessing I just don't have a food allergy... Thanks!
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You should also eliminate things that you love such as sodas.
I was allergic to dark colas,carmel coloring.I loved pepsie. Pain came back with returning those to diet. That was 1994.I have eliminated them since.
The elimination diet book that I read said most likely your allergies were things that you love and ingested frequently.
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Oh, I don't drink soda so much anyway. Besides, this diet also eliminates anything that contains the above, so I couldn't drink soda - it either contains high fructose corn syrup (normal sodas) or cane sugar (healthier sodas). I didn't eat anything with added sugar of any variety.
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I am finishing a very similar radical diet tomorrow -- two weeks. Although I have also been taking herbs to detox from parasites and candida.
I actually feel worse on some days. I am pretty sure that cutting out sugar, caffeine and dairy has helped my pain, but I am in much GI distress and feel very full of toxins.
So, I think your herbalist might be naive. The problem may not be food allergies, but the toxins that are associated with this disease.
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Yes, the same thing happened to me...turns out I was reacting to the chicken, rice and lamb that was supposedly a "safe" food. I ended up doing some electrodermal testing to see what foods I reacted to and that confirmed that lamb, rice and chicken and a host of other things were not good for me.
Once I cut those out I started to feel better. I'm at the point now where I'm able to add a few things back in.
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Well I spoke with her today and she wants me to add things back in one at a time as planned, despite the fact I had no recovery being on the diet. Today is milk...
Had a skim milk/strawberry/blueberry/banana (all organic) smoothie and I don't feel any worse for wear... I suppose that's one down!
She told me that generally blood tests and such can produce false positives and negatives, which does make some sense. Any idea where I should progress from here?
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Cave - As many who have followed my postings can probably tell, I'm science-minded and realistic so a little bit of negativity is often the sign of sanity
Anyway, I'm glad to hear that certain people just don't have food allergies. I'll finish off as she said for the sake of completing the protocol, but at least this is one thing I can rule out.
I've actually been through a lot of PO antibiotics and antiprotozoans (mepron, alinia) in the past and I'm sort of at a holding point, not really improving. Not to say I had huge improvements OR herxes on antibiotic therapy... it was more of a gradual thing. I couldn't even recognize herxes unless looking at things from months afterwards. My LLMDs and this herbalist believe that I've pretty much eradicated any living bacteria, and now we're just dealing with a disregulated immune system, or something way more arcane. Weather or not this holds true, I am unsure... (200+ CD57 etc).
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My intuition tells me that it is not just toxins from this disease that I am dealing with, but perhaps also toxins from allergies or things that my body feels is contaminating.
This could be from food and a host of other things that we are exposed to. But, for food, my thinking is that if I stop a food for 2 weeks it does not necessarily rid my body of the toxin(s) of taking that food in the recent past.
In other words, I am thinking, that for some foods, it may be that I need to detox from that substance in order to feel better, not just stop taking it.
Being on alot of ABX, I think can gunk up my system and make it hard for it to process and eliminate properly. So, I try to detox, detox, detox. Just stopping the irritant may or may not produce results.
Just my opinion and gut feeling.
Robin
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