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JenCO

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  1. I don't know specifically why your change of diet may have caused the leg cramps, but I used to suffer from morning calf cramps myself, and I found that it was due to a calcium/magnesium imbalance.

    Basically calcium help muscles to contract and magnesium helps them to relax. I took 2 doses of 300mg magnesium per day (taken in magnesium citrate form), and found that within a week, the cramps went away.

    The only way of knowing whether this will help is to try it.

  2. I'm both lactose intolerant and dairy (probably casein) intolerant.

    For me, the two intolerances cause different reactions.

    If you are lactose intolerant it means that your body does not produce the enzyme lactase which is needed to digest the lactose. My symptom is that I will feel sick within a few minutes of eating something containing a pasteurised dairy product.

    The pasturisation process destroys the lactase enzyme which naturally occurs in milk. In the UK, it is possible to get unpasteurised milk (but only directly from the farm). I tried this, and sure enough, I didn't feel sick after eating it. However, within a couple of weeks I started to get eczema, which I had never had before (I used to be a vegan). So obviously I was dairy intolerant too. If you are dairy intolerant, you may have ezcema, or of course you may have a completely different reaction.

    I hope this helps.

    To answer one of your other questions, the only place I've seen lactose without casein is in some medications, but they tend to be in very small amounts, so you would have to be very sensitive to notice them.

  3. I was diagnosed with a very large fibroid (size of 5 month pregnancy) in 2003. It was growing rapidly, and my doctor said I had candida, so I went on a yeast-free diet. Co-incidentally, I also pretty much gave up wheat because I noticed it was making me feel very tired after eating it. My fibroid stopped growing. In fact, I found that it grew only when I went on holiday, and these were the times that I found it difficult to stick to being yeast & wheat free. This happened 4 times.

    Fibroids are usually associated with high estrogen levels, however my estrogen is extemely high, but it's not growing at the moment.

    I already knew I was lactose intolerant (pasteurised makes me feel nauseous, and unpasteurised gives me eczema), so in March 2008 I decided to have a food intolerances test done. They measured IgG antibodies. I'm intolerant of 14 foods, including gluten (gliadin), wheat, yeast, dairy, eggs, sesame, oats, tomato, peppers.

    I suspect I have celiac disease because I have daily diarrhea and a strange itchy rash if I accidentally eat wheat.

    I also have hypoglycemia (not diabetes), and my gallbladder area feels uncomfortable, so I'll soon find out if I have a problem there too.

    So I've given up gluten, wheat, dairy & yeast completely, and mainly given up the rest.

    You'd think with all that going on, I'd be pretty downbeat, but I'm not.

    Instead, I'm now wondering when things are going to start turning around.

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