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Mia, I tried to send you a PM but I get a message that I am not allowed to use the messenger feature on this board. Its puzzling since I haven't been informed of any problem with any of my posts nor of my PMs and have had 0% warnings. I noticed the last time or two I tried to send a message that it wouldn't go, but I missed the message that I was not allowed. Sorry for the inconvenience.
If I can figure out a way to let you know it without posting for anyone to see
, I'll send you my email address as I'd like that information you mentioned.
Sherry
Sherry,
you can send me a mail to this adress: leaina@web.de
I don't mind to make this one public because it's the "send all spam to this adress" email
I'll then write back from my regular mail.
Mia
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Sherry,
I tried to send you a pm but didn't succeed for some reason. There was no problem to send a message to Jan, but when I try you the system tells me that an error has shown up
If I don't succeed later, maybe send me a message so that I can answer you.
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Sherry,
I thought about this antibiotic, too, and my dr. even agreed to put me on the same antibiotic again when I suggested it last autumn. Unluckily it did not have the same effect.
Ali and Jan,
my naturopath friend suggested that I'd try a special liver cleansing because my liver is enlarged and I don't digest fat very well despite taking enzymes. Now I'm going to do it as soon as I feel stable enough. If you like I'll translate it and send it per pm to you both. maybe it's another kind of cleansing than yours, Ali.
Jan, just some days ago a friend who's gynaecologist and suffered from breast cancer several years ago told me to try dark field microscopy to see if there is some infection which cannot be discovered by conservative tests. You're right, my low energy level seems to have to do with something besides the gastro problems. Or like we say: You can have lice AND fleas
And you're right - that's what I always am unsure about: How much dragging my body to work is good and where is the point to stop. I just stop as soon as I would have to use something like caffein to keep going.
Anyway I must say that during the last days it was astonishingly okay - blood pressure felt better, no feeling like fainting. We had a team party last night - made only with scd legal food and nobody realised! - and I was on my feet from 6 in the morning until four the next morning. But it still seems better than usual, altough I had some more fructose (zucchini and cucumbers). But I still strictly avoided histamine, and maybe this is one of the keys.
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Jan,
like pele I don't have any more bigger problems with my digestion if I stick to my diet. The downs are concerning my energy and that starts getting really frustrating. More downs than ups still. I've never layed in bed because I always feared that it would become worse then and I would maybe not be able to get up again... But mostly I have to drag myself to work, no matter what I do, and that is *so* tiring.
Maybe it is a little better now with totally avoiding histamine, but I think that will take some more time - and it requires lots of patience!
Rhoger and Ali,
although I always had problems, the collaps seemed to come out of nowhere. The first one, when I also was diagnosed gluten intolerant, was after kidney surgery when I did not manage to recover. Then after taking an antibiotic because of a kidney inflammation, all of a sudden I was completely well again for three months last summer - fit like never before during the last 20 years. And then the gastro symptoms returned, and from one day to the other I totally crashed again and did not recover since, concerning the energy. But I really hope it just takes lots of time.
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So do you just avoid high histamine foods? I am looking into this. Also, do you (or anyone really) have any experience with hormones? According to my lab results, I am post-menopasual at 24.. I was at 21 actually. Amenorrhea for almost 8 years. My endo wants me on hrt, but I refuse. I know there are other ways. I am curious what other women do regarding their hormones.
Yes, I do. Currently I eat exactly the same every day - some plain rice and millet with steamed zucchini and mozzarella, steamed turkey with steamed chard, scd yoghurt with some blue- and cranberries and coconut oil, and two tablespoons flax seed oil per day. And every now and then if I feel I need some energy I take a tablespoon of coconut oil.
I didn't feel very well yesterday, but compared to other days on which I have so much work it was still better, I think. I was tired all day, but although my blood pressure was only 90 to 60 when I had a look at it, I didn't feel extremely dizzy like I did before. Usually I felt somewhat tired all the time plus had some extreme "crashes" when I nearly fainted. For the last three days I had no such crashes.
My hormons are not okay - no amenorrhea, which is about the only reason docs believe me that I'm not anorectic... But I don't have children although I didn't take contraceptives, and every time I have my period I feel terrible, night sweat, cramps until I sometimes vomit, and returning gastro problems in general. They wanted me to take progestagen, but I don't think that is a good idea. Like most others round here I think that the hormones will balance themselves if I find and keep the right diet.
At least I found that my PMS is better if I avoid histamine and take antihistaminics.
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No - don't wish to be skinny. It's not really desireable to have no reserves at all... It's not even useful for diagnosis - no fat between the organs makes it nearly impossible to get clear images!
The orthopedic surgeon told me that my coccyx is too much curved versus the inside. He also told me that he already has seen people with this problem who were not able to sit at all and had to have surgery to straighten the coccyx a bit. Not recommendable, though, because there is high danger that the tendons and muscles get injured. First I tried a non-steroidal antirheumatic, which helped, but only as long as I took it. Then, after some days of that hydrocortisone, it vanished completely. Now that I stopped taking the hydrcortisone it does hurt a little, but not much - if it doesn't get worse, it's okay. Maybe it's worth a try - four weeks glucocorticoid to kill the inflammation?
The Pylonidal cyst is very rare, and usually it is easily palpable. But if you say that the doc told you there was some kind of lipoma, they should make sure it really is some lipoma and not such a cyst.
Also I think that x-raying would make more sense than sonograhy. Sonography is for soft tissues such as muscles, but not suitable to image bone structures. If you wnat to check if maybe your coccyx is too much curved, this will be through x-raying.
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That's interesting. I also have a sore coccyx that makes sitting quite uncomfortable. Not sure that I really want to go down the hydrocortisone route with it though. When this Ultrasound appointment finally comes through, I think I might ask the Doc if it can be used to check that out rather than worry about the swollen liver, etc., which all seems to have dissipated anyway.
There seems to be a bit of a lump around it which one of the Doctors dismissed as a 'fatty' lump, but although that itself is not sore, the end of my coccyx is and has been for about three years or so. I can sit on hard surfaces, but anything softer that impacts on the coccyx and I end up having to shift from one cheek to the other!
I have kept hoping that the diet/liver cleanse/parasite/higher fat things might just deal with it but it is still persistently there. It does seem a little better some times than others but as yet I haven't figured out why.
That sounds quite familiar to me. It started with the coccyx and then spread over the whole sacrum - at least I couldn't sit longer than ten minutes without shifting, and that was painful, too, because the sitting bones also ached. The doc told me that was because I'm so skinny and sit on the bones. But then why was it so bad on hard AND soft surfaces? And now, after that hydrocortisone, it's nearly gone. Not completely, but so that I don't mind.
Usually you would not use hydrocortisone for this purpose but glucocorticoids.
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Maybe I can solve the dextrose and sorbitol mystery:
Dextrose is glucose, a monosaccharide. Even if it's made from wheat, it does not contain gluten - gluten is a protein, and glucose is the pure sugar. Sorbitol on the other hand is a sugar alcohol, the sugar alcohol of glucose. It is not metabolized through insuline like glucose but gets metabolized into fructose. As the body even of "normal" healthy people cannot metabolize more than about 60 g fructose per day, greater amounts of sorbitol dont't get metabloized in the small intestine and so go into the large intestine where they cause trouble - especially in already damaged guts, of course.
Shelled peanuts very often are treated with starches to keep them dry - so I suppose they're illegal bcause you don't know what starches they might contain.
By the way, I had a very reasonable doc who had the idea to prescribe me hydrocortisone just to see if my blood pressure will rise - just in case their would be some latent hypocortisolism. So I took the highest dosage of hydrocortisone for some time - but nothing happened except that the inflammation in my sacrum went away. But that's something, I now can sit without having pain!
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I've had these problems my ENTIRE life. They happen all at once.. I do not really have gas either, it is more like trapped gas, if that makes sense or "bubbles" in my stomach. When I was a baby, I could not drink apple juice, for example and as a kid I've never been able to eat things like raisins or fruit in general or veggies. I do not digest them or something. So no, I noticed these problems when I was like 4 or 5, that I had horrid constipation and bloating when eating these foods. I train for figure comps and do intense weight lifting.. I have always had a very difficult time building muscles. I can lose weight, but the muscle is not there! I've been really fatigued and weak in the past year or so.. my legs feel SO heavy. So yes, the same thing basically happened to me. I have gone from sprints and jogging to walking on the treadmill. I feel SO weak, especially compared to people much older than me. And when I do workout, it takes a lot out of me.
Thanks. Well, I couldn't drink apple juice either, nor sweetened things in general. Vegetables mostly were okay, but sugar always made me sick. I suppose my guten intolerance was a consequence of the fructose malabsorption. It started when I was 8 years old - nausea all the time. The nausea went away with avoiding gluten two years ago, and I was so happy to be able to eat without nausea that I didn't realise I was bloated all the time until it got so bad that I had cramps in the intestines all the time.
Now today I worked in the garden for two hours, and as all the grasses are blossoming I stuffed myself with antihistaminics. I'm quite tired now, but my muscles are not as numb as they used to be last time I worked in the garden. Also my blood pressure seemed to be better today. Maybe this histamine thing really is worth considering. I'll report if this improvement keeps on the next days.
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Yes, thanks, darkhorse, that helps a lot. I knew about the pesticides and of course the genetical modifications but actually not about the dangerous substances. I can't eat soy anyway, but I wondered - now I have something to tell a friend who uses to eat his breakfast musli with soymilk and wonders why the heck he starts to feel uncomfortable with soymilk like with cows milk...
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Hi Jan,
that stuff is a kind of salt, sodium cyanide. It's said to be not toxic because the cyanide is tightly bound to the iron and the daily intake is very small because of the very small amounts which are used. But nonetheless it's a cyanide - talking about homeopathie and information, your body gets the information of cyanide...
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Another jump in topic concerning the scd:
Having a close look at sugar and carb contents due to that fructose malabsorption, I found that tofu nearly contains no carbs and sugars at all. Nuts and almonds have much more sugar and starch than tofu. I can see the point with soy milk - all the carbs and saccharides from soy go into soy milk, but tofu is just protein. So I don't see why it is illegal on scd? Any ideas?
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dtgirl: Since when do you have those problems? Did they occur all at once?
I always wondered - I had gastro-problems all my life and never was able to develop many muscles no matter how much I worked out. But still I was a great sprinter, could jog one hour or climb mountains the whole day without getting tired. I slept six hours and was fit for the rest of the time, could work endlessly. But then, all of a sudden, everything literally collapsed - from one day to the next I was weak and faint and exhausted all the time.
Last year I was totally fit in august, and in september - bang - collaps.
Did something like that happen to you, too?
Just wondering.
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I am sure that a deficit of zinc and particularly D would have an impact on the muscles, and possibly even the BP.
To quote from the Vegetarian Society's site, 'Zinc has a range of functions. It plays a crucial role in growth and cell division where it is required for protein and DNA synthesis, in insulin activity, in the metabolism of the ovaries and testes, and in liver function. As a component of many enzymes, zinc is involved in the metabolism of proteins, carbohydrates, lipids and energy. Our body contains about 2-3g of zinc. There are no specific storage sites known for zinc and so a regular supply in the diet is required. Zinc is found in all parts of our body, 60% is found in muscle, 30% in bone and about 5% in our skin.'
One indicator of zinc deficiency is fatigue and I know that it is an essential factor in immune support.
I was also reading in a BMJ note that low vitamin D can be associated with muscle weakness. It can lead to bone demineralisation. Again it is oil based - fish, namely the oily ones like salmon, mackerel and sardines, and cod liver oil capsules are a good source. Amazing isn't it that sailors would get rickets from a lack of vitamin D when they were surrounded by an ocean full of fish! But it is not surprising if all they had was ship's biscuits and grog and it didn't occur to them to catch any fish.
I also picked up links that low D can also be a possible link to high blood pressure but how true that is I haven't a clue. Of course, there is always a possibility that a deficiency can affect the blood pressure in either direction, simply because the body is not getting enough to make things work properly.
Interestingly though low D and zinc also seems to be linked to adrenal insufficiency and that can lead to low blood pressure so although your tests appear to be 'normal' it is always possible that there is a subclinical deficiency going on. The fact that your body is producing enough cortisol doesn't mean that the adrenals aren't struggling to keep the levels up. Vitamin C is a good adrenal support too and is needed for healing and repair.
It's interesting that your cheese craving is satiated by the flax oil - just perhaps the craving is actually for oil or oily food, not specifically cheese! Again, apparently a craving for salty and fatty food can be an indicator of adrenal insufficiency - sometimes the body actually does crave what it needs..........
Ali,
thanks for the detailed information! I didn't consider that low D and zinc are linked to adrenal insufficiency. Well, yes, from that point of view you're certainly right (and so is pele) that even balanced levels of cortisol and aldosterone don't necessarily say that the adrenals aren't struggling. Sometimes I'm too much stuck in conservative medicine which says that people with adrenal insufficiency don't have problems until very advanced stages of or even complete insufficiency.
I just wondered because it seemed to become even worse after starting zinc and vit. D supplementation, but if my intestine was still flooded with histamine this would certainly mean that the zinc and vit. D could not be resorbed.
As I said, sometimes I have one or two okay-days, so that I think, well, what are you fussing about, it's quite okay. And then suddenly the next day I'm worse than ever. First I thought that was because on good days I try to do all things I didn't manage before, so I knock myself out by working twelve hours like a complete idiot. But coming to think about that I suppose it was the combination of too much physical work and foods high in histamine. Physical "stress" inhibits the decomposition of histamine.
Now I'll see what happens the next days - I'll have lots of stress until sunday...
Concerning the cravings - did you know that sweet cravings can mean that your body needs tryptophan? I'm not at all sweet toothed, but sometimes I felt the strange urge to eat something sweet. Usually I crave salty things - which fits with adrenals. But people with fructose malabsorption often have disturbed resorption of zinc, folic acid and tryptophan, so that they don't produce enough serotonin which makes sweet cravings. I found that I can kill those cravings by eating non-sweet things containing lots of tryptophan such as sunflower seeds, sesame seeds, yoghurt, fish and meat. Cheddar, too, contains lots of tryptophan, by the way
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Ali,
I increased my coconut oil intake drastically one week ago, and I must say since increasing it plus taking that zeolithe powder I feel more satisfied after eating. Before I always felt hungry, no matter what and how much I eat, but now I feel full with normal sized portions and stay satisfied for hours.
But I have to admit that I changed some more things during the last days. Besides taking more coconut oil I completely banned everything containing or provoking histamine. Also I take high doses of anti-histaminics because of severe hay fever. I take the zeolithe and two homeopatic remedies, i. e. arsenicum album D 12 and crataegus tincture.
One week ago I had smoked salmon, smoked roast beef and mature cheddar within 30 minutes - and afterwards I thought I'd collapse. My heart was racing and my blood pressure went down to 80 to 45 - I felt absolutely terrible. So I thought okay, that was the histamine bomb - smoked stuff and mature cheese. That was last sunday. Since monday I only eat millet porridge, some rice noodles, mozzarella, steamed chicken, chard and zucchini, SCD yoghurt smoothies with cranberries, blueberries and some stevia, flax seed muffins, butter, coconut oil, flax seed oil and olive oil. I had that period-related vomiting on wednesday, but otherwise felt great concerning my intestines, and for the last three days my blood pressure seems a little better. Yesterday I jogged 30 minutes and had the feeling that my muscles did better. Not sure - I always have days which are better, I'll have to see if this stays like that or even improves :-)
Magnesium and Calcium are okay - only things which weren't okay were zinc and vit. D3 which I started substituting four weeks ago.
I think that fatty meat is better then lean meat because it contains more micronutrients. Lean meat mostly is protein - but fat stores fat soluble vitamins which we need.
Concerning the fat metabolism, rest and exercise: I think like dogs and wild hunters like lions etc. we are programmed to be economical. In the beginning of human being we had to run around all day to gather our foods, so our body looks out for every minute it can rest to save energy. With walking around all the time, the metabolism is in a mode to burn fat. But now that we sit on desks mostly, this mechanism doesn't work any longer. You need not exercise like mad as some suggest. You only have to bring the metabolism back to that fat burning, all day walking around mode which you achieve by walking half an hour per day. Mind that our ancestors didn't run at high speed - they wouldn't have lived to our days. They walked around steadily but so that maybe they could still talk to one another - and that's what we have to imitate to bring our metabolism back to that fat burning stage.
By the way - I figured out that when I have a cheddar craving I can kill that by taking one tablespoon flax seed oil!
Pele - I totally agree with you. The problem is that the ranges for normal test results are too broad. They don't look if you're at the lower or upper end of that range but only if you're WITHIN the range. My DH is a physician himself and he told me that it's the same with blood pressure. They're so anxious about HIGH blood pressure that they don't look more closely as long as the pressure is not high - just because they see "okay, it's below 130, so it's not dangerous, it's good!"
I had a look at my test results (made the blood test for cortisol and aldosterone - thanks for the link!), and I have to say that they're not at the end of any range but perfectly in the middle. Not high, not low, but evidently balanced. Only thing I'm not sure about is the thyroid because the level is "normal", but low. But anyway it's the question if that's a cause or a consequence. The hen or the egg...
I'll see what happens if I continue that low histamine track.
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Hi dtgirl,
I tried a diet of meat, fish, SCD yoghurt, almonds and some chard and zucchini but lost too much weight - Atkins is working wonderfully... So I skipped the almonds and added in some tapioca, rice and millet, brown rice syrup (just a little, but I'm fine with it), flax seed and mozzarella - that's the only cheese I can have at the moment. Also I tolerate very small amounts of cranberries, lime juice and blueberries. My intestines are quite happy with that - flora is back to normal, no bloating (except during period), regular BMs. Only my blood pressure still is so low and my muscles don't work properly. I used to be a very good sprinter but now I can barely jog, let alone sprint. Just like the muscles were numb. The same with the arm muscles - they are exhausted as soon as I've brushed my teeth! That is completely ridiculous.
Breathing is no problem during the jogging, but the leg muscles.
What do you think the rheumatologist should look at? I'm grateful for every idea!
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Jan,
no, I only reacted to the yoghurt mix during my period. Normally I do fine with it, but as evidently the gut mucosa changes during the period, I then can't manage things which normally are okay. By the way the amount of fruit in that smoothie is totally ridiculous: five blueberries and ten cranberries and about 1 tbs. lime juice...
Pele,
my aldosterone is totally normal. The whole endocrinology is okay, so that's evidently not the problem. As I've always done a lot of sports, my blood pressure never was more than 100 to 70. I had that orthostatic thing all my life (eyes going fuzzy and black and nearly passing out), but now my pressure is between 85 to 50 and 90 to 55, and even the doctor admits that this actually isn't fine any longer. I now try to avoid absolutely EVERYTHING that could contain or producec or provoke histamine. Histamine widens the vessels so lowers the pressure. When I was at the hospital for three days, I nearly starved because first I had to do lots of tests before eating anything, and then they couldn't manage to get me food low in fructose, so I barely eat anything. But funny enough, my pressure was okay then, so I thought maybe it was the food. Now I try to figure out kind of new elimiation diet which is gluten-free, low in fructose and low in histamine but high enough in calories so I don't become thinner. I suppose this is no longer SCD - I'm really sorry because SCD is the closest thing to what I'd like to feed on, but seemingly impossible for me.
Ali,
I'm feeding on lots of virgin coconut oil currently. I got to know the man who distributes that stuff in Germany and he gave me some booklet with research about it. It doesn't bother the pancreas and can help improve fat digestion.
By the way I found an interesting book: Good Calories, Bad Calories, written by Gary Taubes. He tries to clear all the myths about low-fat, low-calorie, high carb diets. Most interesting.
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Hi all,
I was very busy lately so somewhat lost track of the thread...
Cashews are the nuts highest in sugar and starch: Per 100 g they contain 1,525 g glucose, 13,725 g sucrose and 15,250 g starch
Maybe it's helpful if I post the sugar and starch contents of other nuts, too:
Macadamias have no sugars and starch at all.
Walnuts: 6,890 g sucrose, 3,710 starch
Hazelnuts: 1,054 g glucose, 6,324 g sucrose, 3,162 g starch
Brazil nuts: 1,420 g sucrose, 2,130 g starch
Pecans: 0,222 g glucose, 1,998 g sucrose, 2,220 g starch
Coconuts: 0,143 g glucose, 4,637 g sucrose
Almonds: 3,700 g sucrose
I saw a cardiologist one week ago to check if my very low blood pressure and the murmur are caused by some valve deficiency but luckily everything is okay. Only my pressure is ridiculously low, so I still feel ridiculously low... The good thing is that my last flora analysis told me that the gut flora is back to normal, yay!!!
Then yesterday I found another very interesting thing:
First of all, since I take additional zinc and Vit. D3, avoid histamine and take anti-histaminics, my PMS has gotten MUCH better. But the thing itself hasn't gotten better. During the female cycle the gut mucosa can change, too, so the flora is inhibited and foods you normally do fine with suddenly make trouble again (bloating). So far so good, but sometimes it got so bad that I suddenly had the worst cramps, couldn't breath with pain and even threw up because I got so sick. That's just what happened yesterday. I had a SCD-yoghurt smoothie with cranberries, lime juice, stevia and coconut flour, and as soon as it was in my stomach I got cramps and threw the whole thing up. The smoothie was away but I still just couldn't walk with pain and felt nauseous and shaky. Then I remembered that some days ago a lady told me that she has made great experiences with zeolite for cleansing. It's a lava mineral which absorbs all kinds of toxins from the gut. I knew I had some of that stuff sitting in my cupboard for ages - never knew what to do with it - so I just swallowed a glass of water with zeolite - and immediately felt better!!
Now I'm taking zeolite thrice a day and feel great with it. Although my gut was so much better and the flora seems to be restored, I can feel the detoxing effect of that stuff. Maybe it's because it is said to remove excess histamine from the gut, too.
But anyway I think this would be a great addition to SCD to help the cleansing process.
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Ali and Mia,
Thank you so much for your responses--it's very helpful. My doctor actually tested me for fructose intolerance a couple of months ago, and she said I was negative, but I'm sure that you can still react to too much fructose when healing is in its early stages.
I think starting tomorrow I will try to cut out the fruit for a few days and see what happens....I just feel so limited at this point and fruit is kind of my "treat"----without the fruit, I'm down to eggs, meat, fish, and vegetables. And I just feel so hungry a lot of the day between my meals, and I feel like how much meat, eggs, and vegetables can a person eat?? Maybe I'll make some chicken soup and start having that between meals instead of the fruit to tide me over.....
And Mia, I did just start taking magnesium along with the calcium--thanks for that reminder.
Thanks again to you both!
Martha, I really can understand you missing fruit badly! Summer coming now with all those strawberries, peaches, nectarines, melons etc. nearly drives me crazy, but I just remember last summer with all that bloating and cramps and that's enough to kill my desire...
My "rescue" for the badest cravings is cranberry marmelade. I cook frozen cranberries with rice syrup - you would use honey for strict scd - and spread some plain pancake with it. Just beat one egg with a little honey, make an omelette and spread with some cranberry marmelade. I also do okay with lime juice - mix some lime juice with water and honey and make jelly out of it.
Maybe that helps, too :-)
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Hi Yenni,
I agree with Ali - just jump into the main SCD thread :-)
Actually I think that following the SCD without nuts and dairy is no problem at all as long as you can eat meat, fish, eggs, fruits and vegetables. After following the SCD very strictly for some time I had to modify it, too, because I had to cut out nearly all vegetables and all fruit except some cranberries due to fructose intolerance and several other things due to histamine intolerance. That means that I'd basically be limited to meat, fish, very few eggs, scd yoghurt, corn salad and chard. If I were overweight, maybe that would be fine - kind of Atkins diet, so to say... But as I'm extremely underweight and my body fat content is only 8 percent, I need some sources for carbs or my muscles will digest themselves. After lots of research and lots of trial and error I found that I do fine with flax seed, small amounts of rice, tapioca and millet and small amounts of rice syrup. So while mostly following the scd, I substitute the fruit and vegetables with small doses of starches and rice syrup, combined with flax seed for fiber, and do fine with that - my digestion is perfectly normal now.
If you don't have to cut out fruit, vegetables and maybe legumes, it's absolutely no problem to follow the scd :-)
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Hi Everyone,
I hope you are all doing well---it's been a while since I've been on.
So now I'm probably into about week 6 of the diet.....still haven't tried the yogurt again since the first time, but I think I will try to make the goat's milk yogurt as soon as I get the non-dairy starter sent to me (keeps getting back-ordered from GI Pro Health....any other sources for it that you know of?).
I think I'm seeing small improvements, but I'm wondering how long it's going to really take......I had to totally give up on the peanut butter (even though I LOVE it) because that seemed to bother me, and I've had to stop eating anything with almond flour because it really doesn't seem to agree with me. I guess I must be having a nut problem.....
The other thing that is bothering me is that I'm wondering if I'm eating too much fruit---I'm having Welch's grape juice in the morning, with lunch I have some baked apples and pears (baked with apple cider and cinnamon), and then after dinner I make a smoothie with banana, frozen peaches, frozen blueberries, and apple cider. After I eat any of those things I tend to get a very bloated, full feeling and end up belching more (sorry if that's tmi). But with such a limited diet as it is, I can't imagine cutting out the fruit.......any suggestions?
The only other thing I'm ingesting is my supplements (acidophilous from GI Pro Health, digestive enzymes from GI Pron Health, Frieda multivitamin, Frieda calcium, magnesium) and my daily 20 mg. of generic prozac (which I was told may contain trace amounts of corn startch).
I really want to stay on the diet and want it to work, but I would just like to know at what point you have to decide that the diet just isn't working?
thanks for any feedback! I'm going to my dr. (at the Celiac Disease Center at Columbia U.) next week and hopefully can get a blood test to see if my antibodies are going down. 9 months gluten free since diagnosis now.....hoping things begin to really improve!
Best to all,
Martha
Hi Martha,
you say that you are very bloated after eating lots of fruit. As a matter of fact, even in the best case our body can only digest about 60 g fructose per day. Even most people who are not fructose intolerant are supposed to digest less than that, and especially people with damaged gut mucosa are supposed to have trouble digesting lots of fructose as long as their intestines are not healed. The amount of fruit you take in at once is huge - considering that especially apples and pears are very high in fructose. Peaches also contain sorbit which inhibits fructose digestion, so eating apples and pears and drinking apple cider plus peaches and the other fruits is way too much fructose at once.
Peanuts, by the way, contain lots of sugar, and having trouble with fructose mostly means having trouble with peanuts, too. Maybe try what happens if you have some macadamia nuts - they don't contain any sugars, so if you are okay with them, maybe the problem with the nuts is because of their sugar content.
I know it's not nice, but the gut will have more rest if you cut out fruit for some time and only have veggies which are low in fructose - green salad, spinach, chard, some zucchini (not too much), maybe a bit broccoli. Sorry, I can't remember if you are okay with meat, fish and eggs, but if you are, try to limit yourself to those plain things and small amounts of green veggies for some time. If fruit sugar was your problem you will improve very soon after leaving out fructose. And then you can start adding some fruit again after being symptom free for some weeks. If you reintroducce nuts, start with almonds, because they are lowest in sugar.
The other thing is - you say you take calcium - please take magnesium, too, because calcium requires magnesium to work.
Hope that helps :-)
Mia
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Welcome Yoekie
You already did quite some research!
Now - if your stooltest came out negative, there are some things to be considered: First of all, how reliable is that test? I'm in Germany where most regular tests don't say anything about your flora - they don't even really say anything about candida because they consider candida normal to a certain degree which is far too high to be healthy.
Then - what symptoms do you suffer from? There are other things, too, besides gluten or lactose which can cause very different problems.
Your gut consists of small intestine and large intestine. Carbs are digested in the small intestine. The small intestine contains only very few bacteria while the large intestine contains lots of them. If carbs don't get digested in the small intestine, they reach the large intestine where they feed bacteria which normally shouldn't be there - or should be less than they actually are after feeding
But you also have to see which kind of carbs don't get digested in the small intestine and why they cannot get digested.
I'm fructose intolerant, too, which means that I cannot eat things which contain fructose as a monosaccharide nor anything that contains sucrose - like honey, which is legal on the SCD. But I do very well with rice syrup which in fact contains polysaccharides - long chain saccharides - because my system can digest that.
Actually the SCD is the perfect diet to balance hypoglycemia because you have a diet of fruit, vegetables, fat and proteins. The combination of carbs and fibre in fruit and vegetables plus protein (e.g. meat) should calm the bloodsugar down and keep it stable. So if you are sure you can handle fruits and vegetables you'd really give it a try.
Concerning FOS etc. the wiki article is right - except for the fact that FOS and other oligosaccharides can cause huge problems in people who don't digest carbs well and whose large intestines are already troubled.
The SDC yoghurt contains no FOS at all, no inulin etc., but tons of lactobacteria which help to restore the regular flora. Personally I don't think that it's enough to restore a really damaged flora. But you should be really sure whether your flora is damaged or not. Eating SCD yoghurt will never hurt, but taking additional probiotics above the yoghurt when not needed isn't the best idea.
Maybe you should either just find out if you don't digest carbs well - and which carbs cause you trouble, e.g. by breath tests. Or you jump into the diet and give it a try. You won't hurt yourself anyway if you do the SCD because it's simply a diet which is very close to what our bodies are made for - which is not bread
Mia
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Just curious--did they test you for adrenal failure or adrenal fatigue? Adrenal failure is Addison's Disease, while adrenal fatigue means the adrenals are still functioning, but not as well as they should. Adrenal fatigue is usually diagnosed with 4 saliva samples taken over 24 hours. I believe adrenal failure is a blood test.
Also, have you been tested for testosterone? Lack of it will cause weakness.
Both - failure and fatigue. Everything seems to be perfectly normal in this field. And no, I haven't been tested for testosterone. Maybe that's an option, too. But now I had a short talk with my family doc who read the report and told me to look if maybe there's some heart insufficiency. They used to think there was something with my heart since I was a kid because there's kind of murmur. As I never seemed to have heart or circulation problems - always made sports without problems until now - and they couldn't for sure find anything, they dismissed that idea. But as hepatomegalie and increased CK could point to heart insufficiency and he still can hear that murmur he recommends looking into that.
Jan,
I just happened to read an article about furctose intolerance which said that modern research assumes that MOST cases aof depression which are combined with the so called irritable bowl are actually caused by fructose intolerance, because persons with fructose intolerance have too low serotonine levels. In their study they didn't find one single person with depressions who hadn't "irritable bowl", too, and turned out to be fructose intolerant. They also say exactly what you think, that maybe generally a great deal of psychological problems indeed arise from physical problems and not the other way round.
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Mia, did they do copper levels? My doc explained zinc and copper should be about the same ratio. Can you do your own research on those findings? At least you could take some minerals and D3??
I think to dismiss your symptoms as psychosomatic just because they don't understand them is a travesty. On the other hand, since we are whole people, help in one area sometimes helps in another area. Dr Klinghart's writing is interesting in that regard.
Thanks, Sherry - It's just so good to be able to "talk" with people who have gone through similar things (physically, at least). Yes, I'll see to the vit. D3 and zinc. One year ago my naturopath already told me that there had to be something with copper because of my muscle cramps. I'll see that I get someone do my copper levels.
I'd never be so foolish as to deny that there always is a link between body and soul, and of course I know that it is quite possible that there may be things wrong without me knowing it, too. In our place we are the ones who preach the holistic approach, and I'm working on things my way with the people I choose. That's what made me angry - I'm working with a great lady who happens to do regression therapy. She is good - so good that the police round here consults her to work with heavily traumatized people from incest families although she is not a psychiatrist but "only" psychologist without academical degrees. And this idiot of a psychiatrist told me this couldn't be successful because it wasn't some classical psychotherapy and evidently it didn't help. Now of course I'll talk to that lady again, but I'll for sure track down the test results which tell that there is something wrong physically, too.
Yellow Corn Vs White Corn
in Food Intolerance & Leaky Gut
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Hi,
ang1e0251 is right, the white corn flour (masa de harina) is kind of fermented so it becomes better digestible. I've made the same experience as you have. Not with kernels (they're not available here), but with the white flour.
Mia