
LadyWicklow
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Thanks Ali,
(Just realised you are right next door in Wales)
To be honest, since I *faced it* a couple of months ago (before that I knew about it, but denied by dismissing the whole idea as, faintly Wiccan, superstition...WHAT IS WITH the denial thing?) celiac is the fast track to a PHD in biochemistry for me too....and everything you say fits everything I have figured so far for myself.
Though, personally I have always had some kind of tannin intolerance. For many years tannin gave me migraines, but, perhaps, only over certain levels, or in certain combinations. Let me tell you how that worked in case you can factor it in to your thinking anywhere...
Until 2001 I smoked up to 50 a day for 28 years, which is LOADS of tannin. During that time, I could either drink tea habitually, or coffee, but if I mixed them (had a cup of tea during a coffee drinking period, or vice versa) I would get migraine. I got migraine, and sick from beer and red wine too, and could not stand the taste of red wine at all.
BUT
After I quit smoking I fell in love with Red Wine...though, mostly, low tannin Shiraz and Merlot, and suffered no particular ill effects (beyond the usual
*hic*). It always puzzled me, why I couldn't stand the taste of red wine until after I quit smoking...I just figured my taste buds had healed or something.
After I quit smoking I started getting severe odema (which has plagued me all my life, and now turns out to be some kind of allergic histamine reaction) if I drank sherry.
So it seems as if I could tolerate a certain amount of tannin before it affected me. Maybe I still can, or will be able to when it all finally settles down...but, if so, I think I'll save that metabolic "allowance" for fruit and veg...not speeding caffeinating my bewildered brain while I stain my teeth brown!
I discovered the SCD recently and it really is a lifesaver...as long as you remember to pull all your other allergies off the legal food list.
Here is a very helpful page I found about tannins in food, with foodlists:
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Apart from "brain fog" (which I have for so many different reasons a little celiac wouldn't notice
) I wonder sometimes if any food sensitivity is a mind bender? In the sense that your body will tend to tell you what it needs through taste, cravings and revulsions...except sometimes the cravings and revulsions seem to get upside down...and you start to crave the very things you must not eat?
LadyW
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Does celiac bend the brain or something?
I just spent weeks ruefully resigning myself to a life without tea, chocolate and Australian Shiraz because of the pretty dramatic reaction I have (the one where I swell up like a water balloon and my mouth ulcerates) while drinking gallons and gallons of coffee so strong you could stand the spoon in it...
My dentist told me there is tannin in coffee, and coke...
But it is in so many more things too:
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Apples, smoked foods, red berries...
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I am also lucky, my dentist is a lady, and has son with lactose intolerance and a weird monosodium glutamate intolerance herself, and is always willing to learn more.
So far no glutening from Dentist.
As far as I know, both bone re-sorption in the jaw, and tooth decay can be related to celiac (as well as gum disease) so, while I am not sure exactly what is meant by "internal tooth re-sorption", my guess is that it is related.
LadyW
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Count me in too.
I always had a huge appetite, but my weight stayed under control.
I gained 45lbs, for certain, between 1998 and 2003 (and I wasn't skinny in '98).
I couldn't lose weight whatever. I gained constantly with weightwatchers.
I did the Atkins diet in 2003, lost 17lbs in the first 3 weeks, stuck to it rigidly for 18 months, and didn't lose, or gain an ounce. "Ate healthy" until early 2006 and gained back 30lbs.
The only way I could lose weight at all was on a very low calorie, low carb, total food replacement diet that I won't name because they slipped over into unethical advertising at this stage. I lost 60lbs and got my weight back into the "sane range". Over 7 months on the same diet, with a few bouts of eating mostly protein, I was "accidentally gluten free" ate a sandwich at a tea party, gained 9lbs water weight overnight and wound up diagnosed at last...and finally free from a mile long list of "metabolic and other problems" I had been trying to learn to live with for decades.
I gained about 18lbs since I started actually eating "gluten free" (instead of total food replacement) so I am now somewhat overweight again, but I am fighting to stabilise my weight and start losing again while actually eating at all.
I have discovered I am sensitive to:
- Dairy
- Eggs
- Tannins
- Peanuts
- Red/oily fish
I also find that certain carbs seriously upset me and the SCD may work very well for me.
I certainly hope so...
I just want to lose about 20lbs so I can be at an "ideal weight" for the first time in decades...particularly as I am menopausal and fighting back.
LadyW
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I react very badly to some kinds of carbohydrates...
I ate one can of gluten free baked beans and a single yam (fried) and gained 8lbs in water weight in a day, recently (put it down to me being a "slow learner"
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It's really very noticeable.
I also bloat, constipate and f...er...become flatulant...are you sure you want to hear all this?
Checking the legal/illegal list of the SCD I realise that as long as I stick to the "legal" list my who body works properly for the first time in decades.
That is not to say I cannot tolerate some of the "illegals" too, I am sure I can, but first things first...
I always thrived on Atkins diet too...
...and, on either, after the first 72 hours I do not feel hungry...
It's worth a try...
Another little trick that I got from my mother (of all the embarassing people to learn "new tricks" from, post-menopause) is to use honey instead of sugar or sweetners.
It really works for me, like magic...though, unfortunately, not when I want to lose weight (as I do now), but it certainly doesn't cause me to gain weight (though I would be replacing sweetners, not sugar).
...and recent research shows that is more than an old wives tale and imagination as honey has been found to have loads of beneficial effects, including regulating insulin.
LadyW
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I read my way through this thread (C'mon, who didn't? That belly is FROM HELL) a few weeks ago and started eliminating stuff...
The good news is that I am still cool with soy and neat gin
No, it's not quite that bad really (I hope!)
Interestingly enough, most of the things I needed to cut out were things I reacted to as a kid and then stopped reacting to (makes sense...perhaps I simply stopped absorbing the irritant rather than stopped reacting to it?). I cut out:
- Peanuts (they went with gluten)
- Oily red fish (was allergic as a child)
- Eggs (reacted horribly to for a few years as a child)
- Tannins (had a migraine reaction to tea and red wine for a very long time years ago)
- Dairy (jury is still out...I have a feeling I may be able to tolerate that again some day)
The sneaky one, for me, was tannins...they are in SO many things...like chocolate, particularly the dark chocolate that is the gluten and dairy free compensation we get for being celiacs...
It's almost TOO unfair.
Literally, I grabbed an 80% bar of chocolate while shopping, ate a couple of pieces and could feel my belly swell and get crazy (along with my ankles etc filling up with water) while I drove a mile...so I checked the web for contents as soon as I got home and found that all forms of cocoa are loaded with tannins (which I already knew I couldn't tolerate).
When I realised that I react to beans and yam too, and that "slimfast" contains traces of gluten, I decided to try and stick to most of the specific carbohydrate diet (it is full of things I do not react to)
...and for the first time, in more than a decade, my stomach is flat and empty all day...UNLESS I accidentally ingest something I am sensitive to.
I also seem to finally be losing weight reliably.
LadyW
- Peanuts (they went with gluten)
What's With The Coffee?
in Food Intolerance & Leaky Gut
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Now there is a funny thing Ali,
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I could never stand the taste of old fags after having coffee
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I get a really nasty aftertaste after tannins too, that is how I am learning to recognise when I have had them, if I keep taking them it, it becomes a very sore mouth in the end...
Not really worth it, but what on earth else can I drink?
Ah well, at least we can get p*ssed cheaply...one teaspoonful at a time
...and yes, I definately am just "across the sea in Ireland..."
LadyW