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April, I, too, sometimes have a strange, dull ache on one side of my back occasionally. It's always in the left kidney area (lower than yours) and my first inclination is always to stretch it. But then I remember that that never works and it's a different pain than a tight muscle. Like it's pain or aching from the upper descending colon that is referred to...

JamieD, I've read quite a few medical journal articles that are testing this hypothesis: one gets a blood testing for IgG food intolerances and then goes off the offending food for a while. Then, they follow up with patients in the short term and about one year later to see how they do. Many of these studies are done on people with IBS or other functional...

eLaurie, I took L-glutamine for about 2 months only, as recommended from my Integrative Medicine doctor for leaky gut symptoms. Unfortunately, I did not see any results in my digestion. (I was taking a variety of other supplements, too.) Since that time, however, I have cut down on my dairy and in the last 5 weeks, cut way down on my sugar (but not my...

Nicole, I have gone off dairy for several times. I can't speak for what the research says, or what the experts say, so I will give you my experience. My lactose symptoms occur within an hour of eating lactose and I get over them within about 24 hours. If I go off dairy for a few days, I feel pretty much back to normal. There's a but...I also have some...

Gail, Thanks for the very, very interesting information. It gives me some key words to search the journal articles to see what exists on this topic. I am also thinking that my newfound lactose intolerance could just be a coincidence, spurred on by my drastic changing diet, that would have happend to me anyway as I aged. I was very intrigued by your...

All of the research articles I have read and online forum postings have addressed the problems of lactose-intolerance occurring before one goes off gluten, with typical improvement of lactose symptoms when one's villi heal. Well, I had the reverse happen. I went off gluten and after 3 months I started having strange, occasional pains in my upper GI. One episode...

Your reaction could be to the tuna. Maybe you have a reaction to the amines in the tuna? I always wake up with a stuffy nose and slight headache the day after eating a tuna sandwich.