[metmom]

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.

[hennie pennie]

Okay, thanks for your quick response; when you specifically mentioned in that one posting that both fruits & veggies gave you problems, I simply ‘had’ to say something.

I stayed off all fructose for half a year, and then went all-out CARB, simply because I was curious what would happen. It took six weeks to replicate my initial symptoms, which started around age 14 and lasted for decades until last year when I came across comments from the Mayo Clinic about fructose intolerance being pervasive in America, but nobody knowing much about it.

I was quite amazed in reintroducing carbs to learn that EVERY time I had any Tabasco Sauce, that I’d get sevreal bright red raised itchy hives about 36 hours later — something all brand new, as I never had hives ever before in my life.

I hope you have more success with the docs accurately determining what is the exact nature of your problem.

I wonder if there are any medical bulletin boards where you could post all your symptoms and their triggers, and see what medical professionals advise?

Or make an appointment with the Mayo Clinic or with some doctor whose research specialty is histamine?

Please come back to this thread when you get the results of your tests, okay?

Thanks!