Diet Related Question

[woolwhippet]

Hello! I havebeen on and off gluten for the past year or so after gradually getting sicker and sicker. The reason for the off and on was a negative blood test. I took the neg as permission to go ahead and eat as always. Of course, I wound up sicker than I have ever been. So last week I gave up gluten entirely. The 4 days ago I started the specific carbohydrate diet. The "d" stopped yesterday. I am happy! BUT since I have now eliminated all grains, starches, refined sugar, and lactose (still eating cheese so milk protien must not be the problem) so I do not know which one of these things caused my problems!

Any advice from someone whose been there? I think I should stay on the specific carb diet for a month or so and then start adding things back. But how and in what order?

Thanks so very much!

Lenore

[ravenwoodglass]

It can take up to a week for the D to stop gluten-free. This would not be unusual. If you are feeling better I would stay with what you are doing for a month and then you would add in suspect items one at a time. Add them in in pure form, for example when you add back in wheat add it back in as cream of wheat or triscuits. Eat the suspect food for at least 5 days three times a day. Drop the food when you get a reaction and if you don't add another food the next week. I could be wrong but I think your cessation of the D was related to your going gluten free and dairy free and the addition of the other diet restrictions was coincidental but continuing on may help you to heal faster because you are doing what we all really need to do as far as dropping processed foods as eating pure naturally gluten free stuff.

[woolwhippet]

Thank you thank you! I think what you say makes perfect sense. I will add rice 1st and go from there. I don't think I will go back to those proccessed foods in any great quantity. Thanks again.

[kbtoyssni]

I guess there's two ways to add food back in: in the order that's most likely to make you sick (so milk first) or the order that's least likely to make you sick! It might be easier on the body and on you to add them in the least likely order. If you add rice back, it's unlikely that's the problem so it's not like you'd have a week or two of "recovering" which you might have if you added a bad food back in. Plus you'll have more food options if you do the least likely foods first.