[quote]When I eat most foods, especially vegetables and fruits, grains not so much, I get a great many of those symptoms.[/quote]
Hello metmom,
I had to register when I read your posting about your intolerance to so many fruits and vegetables.
Please do some online research on FRUCTOSE - almost all fruits, except berries, have huge amounts of fructose, and many vegetables, such as carrots, for instance, also have VERY high levels of fructose.
It is possible that you have what is called: Fructose Intolerance.
This condition used to be termed Dietary Fructose Intolerance, to separate it from an inherited condition called Hereditary Fructose Intolerance.
Some experts suspect that at least 45 percent of all persons of white European descent have difficulty digesting fructose. However, they have no idea whether other races are similarly affected, as the only real research done thus far was in Europe.
There are a number of low fructose vegetables such spinach & red leaf lettuce & celery, but there are not many.
I strongly encourage you to research the exact phrase, ‘FRUCTOSE INTOLERANCE’ on google.
And to get advice about what foods to avoid, you’d also want to check out all the online resources for the genetic variety, too - referred to as HFI for Hereditary Fructose Intolerance.
I’ve dealt with Celiac Disease for decades, but within four days of going on a total ZERO-Fructose “fast” I was pain free for the first time in memory, and had a total complete cessation of any/all digestive problems and peculiar “allergic-type” reactions to food. It all vanished in mere days.
Two American researchers concerned with the impact of fructose upon human health are John LUSTIG, M.D., and Richard J. JOHNSON, M.D.
Also, the European Journal of Nutrition recently had an article suggesting that in order to successfully combat obesity there should be a Fructose-Index of all foods, to replace the current Glucose-Index, as much recent research suggests that the massive fructose consumption of modern times could be behind the obesity epidemic, and could also contribute to the drastic rise in type 2 diabetes.
In past times, most humans consumed diets based upon STARCH - such as rice or potatoes or cornmeal - all of which are exceptionally low in fructose. And before agriculture, most hunter gatherer societies had a diet based primarily on meat & fish.
I had NO idea that all those “healthy” fruits & vegetables, of which we are “supposed” to be eating NINE servings of each day, were making me so ill, and for many years! It is really unfortunate that so few nutritionists are aware of how great a percentage of people have severe problems with fructose — and perhaps ??? you are one of them?
Well, I am not a doctor, nor a nutritionist, but you might want to try a NON-veggie, NON-fruit diet and see how you feel in a week or two.
And you might try going on a strict gluten-free diet which Freepers muawiyah and blam are so knowledgable about.
Also, you might get a copy of the book entitled, “THE SUGAR FIX: The High-Fructose Fallout that is Making You Fat and Sick,” by Richard J. Johnson, M.D.
Good luck to you!
Thanks. I’ll look into that. I can’t eat berries, they really bother me, so I’m not so sure about that. But I will check it out.
I think I may be histamine intolerant, as the foods listed are the list of ones I can’t eat, about in the order they dropped out of my diet. Likewise with histamine intolerance, what I’ve found on the internet seems to come mostly from Europe and some from NZ.
What’s with the American medical community that is doesn’t want to deal with out of the ordinary, not easily fixable conditions?
I was checked for Celiac disease and came back negative. I wish it were something so simple.
I have an appointment with an allergist in NYC at a major allergy center there.
Right now, I’m down to pork and oatmeal and Loratadine. The goal is to find something, anything, that I don’t react to and eat that for survival purposes and try something new every day and hope for the best.
It is very difficult to get the medical community to work with you on this. Unless you’re more obviously close to dying than I appear, you just can’t seem to get any help dealing with this.
I’m going in for testing on my digestive tract in the nest few days and a couple weeks later. Not going to be fun as I am apprehensive about how I might react to the stuff I have to ingest for them.
Thanks for your concern.
And welcome to FR.
I just did a quick google search on fructose intolerance.
I don’t think that’s it. The symptoms don’t fit for one thing, and the foods listed don’t fit what I can’t eat.
I tend to break out and itch with this, even though I don’t test allergic to a lot of what I react to.
The histamine intolerance fits better with my symptoms and connects the dots better for my health history than anything else I’ve come across so far.
Now the problem is trying to find a doctor who will take it seriously and look into it. There’s got to be SOME way for testing for it since they know it exists and what causes it, just like they can test for other intolerances.