I have many, many food intolerances.
When I first found out about them after an elimination diet, it was a
groggy stu**** that came on about 1-2 hours after eating the food. I would
have to lie down and later I'd have joint pains, a lot of emotional
reactions like anger and depression.
Then a couple of years later I found more food reactions. My reactions
were milder. I would start feeling sick about 1/2 hour after eating the
food and it would really come on about 4-5 hours after, rather suddenly
sometimes. The following day I'd be too sick to go out and face the
world. I felt out of it, lowered awareness. Many other symptoms that
used to happen, like itching, frequently having to pee, urge to eat a lot,
back pain.
Apples were one of the foods that caused the groggy stu****. I tried an
apple after maybe a year of no apples and I was a little surprised to find
it didn't cause the same groggy stu**** but rather the more mild reaction
that later foods caused.
I ate a date after 2.5 years of not eating any dates. I was sick for 6
days. So the reaction lasts for years, I don't know how many years.
And 5 years later, I've found that I've developed new food intolerances.
I've been rotating my foods, but I developed reactions to some foods that
I wasn't carefully rotating. And not to any foods I didn't rotate. So I
have to very rigid about rotating foods, not to lose them.
My reactions seem to be somewhat milder still, this time around. I
went out to the grocery store the following day, though I stood
around and stared in the store, a good deal.
It might be celiac disease. This kind of food reaction is very familiar
to celiacs. Most celiacs have some other food intolerances, although
having it as bad as me isn't common. I live on exotic foods, and I can
list the foods I *can* eat in a single page. I had much higher than
normal IgA antigliadian and TTG antibodies in ENterolab's test.
Possibly, a gluten-free diet is generally curative for people with this
kind of food reaction, since mine have seemed to get less intense over
the years, and that's what celiacs say, that their other food intolerances
don't last, they can go back to eating everything but gluten eventually.
I've been gluten-free for 5 years and
I'm still getting new food reactions. Maybe the immune system in my
intestines is ramped up or disturbed somehow, and it takes years for it to
stabilize.
But some questions:
- Does anybody have a clue about what's going on with my kind of food
reaction?
- Has EPD helped people with this kind of food reaction? Or is it only
for people with IgE allergies? I have many -53- inhalant allergies. But
I've been told that reactions like this aren't IgE allergies, but maybe
related to IgA. Or possibly IgG, although I don't think IgG reactions are
supposed to last for years, as mine have.
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