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  1. coldnight
    I always wonder how someone could be an alcoholic, it has no appeal to me. Sometimes I catch myself thinking that about a lot of addictions, pffft, why would someone even start using heroin, let alone let it become an addiction. I've taken opiates for years and had no problem leaving them. I can go out and get completely drunk and have no desire to do...
  2. coldnight
    So I guess it depends on the dietician or nutritionist, whatever they are called. I never have good luck with doctors so it might be a waste of time. The SCD diet sounds interesting, I will look into it for some ideas. It's pretty easy for me to keep a food diary, I only eat dinner. And that is basically the same meal (some sort of steak meat and rice...
  3. coldnight
    A couple months, besides the times I have messed up and ate something wrong. I think it's slim odds that I have celiac disease given the genes, but flour and wheat definitely hurt in only small amounts. I'm leaning to nightshades, the common ones I avoid because they make me sick, didn't know bell peppers were one. =)
  4. coldnight
    I've posted it a couple times, but I accidentally went gluten-free and felt a 90% improvement within a week. I don't -think- I'm eating the wrong things, but I keep getting sporadically sick and it'll last for a couple days, then I'll feel pretty good for a week, or maybe two. But this is not a whole lot better of a situation than I was in, eat what I...
  5. coldnight
    That's a possibility, but I do eat other stuff fine. I guess my main concern was why it was making me sick, i.e. causing diarrhea. If that was not the case, it wouldn't be a problem. I take insoluble fiber, and eat other insoluble fibrous foods that don't cause the same problem. But it seems like it might make sense if there is some reason these certain...
  6. coldnight
    Well, I ate some brussel sprouts, as a test. They were baked in the oven for quite some time at about 400f, that seemed to work. I saw some betaine HCl, and the pills were about 600mg, so I broke about a quarter off, and it felt like a little too much acid. I'm thinking the nightshade theory seems to fit pretty well. Quick question, some nightshades are...
  7. coldnight
    Try and see if you do. I can confirm that you will feel gas build up, this used to be our remedy for heartburn as kids, learned by watching our father do it on many occasion. I'm not sure about doing it first thing in the AM or any of the science behind that, but I can assure you that it usually does make you belch, if memory serves. But how do you know...
  8. coldnight
    Don't know that it does, could be made up... but I don't know why certain foods make me ill either, so I guess it's trial and error. I don't especially need to do the test to try HCl. If it works, it will be self-evident.
  9. coldnight
    Thanks for the info. I'm not sure there will be a site to reference it... probably because most sites shy away from home testing medical advice for legal reasons. But, it makes some sense, before I was ill, as a child, we would do this for heart burn, and there was definitely immediate reaction, gas build up. As long as HCl doesn't cause any harmful...
  10. coldnight
    Same here. I'm not sure about the long-term detection either, however, the only thing I can think of, is this is sort of how vaccine's work, if I'm not mistaken. Your immune system is exposed to a dead or weakened version of the invader, it then creates anti-bodies to fight it. That way, when you are exposed to the real thing, even years later, your body...
  11. coldnight
    Having just ordered an enterolab test, this thread is pretty interesting. Like some people, I stumbled on not eating gluten, one week, just stopped having diarrhea, which I had had on a daily basis for about 9 years, by process of elimination. It's been months and I'm still weaning off the opiates I was taking just to make it to work, and I was still sick...
  12. coldnight
    Thanks for all the ideas, I think I will try to cook them and perhaps take this baking soda test, I can't find details online, is it just seeing how you react when taking baking soda? We used to take it as kids for heart burn, nothing works quite as well. But the taste is pretty weird.
  13. coldnight
    It's kind of odd that Europeans are more prone to it. I'm not sure they mean genetically, although that is hard to explain. I assume europeans have been grinding grain longer, or just as long as, anyone else. I posted elsewhere, but reading Michael Pollan's "In Defense of Food," he says that as the "western diet" makes its way around the globe, with it...
  14. coldnight
    Mother of Jibril, that might be worth looking into. I only eat once a day, for like 7 years, I wonder if that has changed how my stomach operates, of course I think it would just turn on full blast acid when I ate. I will google it and try the test, I've never taken HCl, but some enzymes off and on, didn't seem to help. But thank you! Juliebove, Hrmm...
  15. coldnight
    So, I've been on a gluten free diet after stumbling onto it and making my diagnosed IBS waaaaay better. Lots of medicine, down to very little. Uncontrollable D to C in a week.. Anyway, I've been eating meat and rice and bananas, plain stuff. Recently I figured this diet probably is kind of limited long term, so I tried salad and green peppers in the...
  16. coldnight
    I don't know if any of you have read any of Michael Pollan's stuff, but he kind of touches on this a little, at least with the modern diet. Thinking back to what my grandparents ate, they did eat bread, but they also ate mostly meat, like venison which they would get almost every year, and they grew their own vegetables, or bought them locally. So, no...
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    Heh, that's funny. I might have to steal it. How long have you been off of gluten? I tried to go medicine free, but for some reason this last .5 of a pill kills me if I don't take it, tolerance maybe, the first 8.5 were fairly easy to get rid of though, so I'm not sure. I mean, the difference is immense, but maybe it will take time before I can completely...
  18. coldnight
    That makes sense, what do you do about work? I've been dependent on 9 lomotil and 120mg of codeine to make it to work every day for about 4 years. So, it's hard to give up that security blanket, even though I don't even need it when I avoid gluten, I take ~1/2 a lomotil now, and that is far less than when I started taking it 4 years ago. But yea.....
  19. coldnight
    From what I understand, this technically can't diagnose celiac disease, but can prove an immunological reaction to gluten? Is this correct? Or can it indicate celiac disease? I wasn't going to do it, because the diet has been proof. I'm taking, I estimate, 1/20th of the medicine I was, and even that is too much. But, I guess I'm just neurotic? I need...
  20. coldnight
    Ok, been here a few times, have been off gluten for a few months now and feeling really well. After many years of just being told I had IBS, i've been on a ton of motility medication. I'm stepping off it, but if I mess up and eat something bad, then I get sick, and take medicine for a few days, but then it's over, then it's too much medicine and it's quite...
  21. coldnight
    Yea, I think it makes sense, from what I read that corn syrup would have less proteins than corn starch. I think that in avoiding gluten, I have also avoided corn, up until I tried to branch out into gluten free foods beyond meat/rice/salad. There's no test for corn antibodies is there? hah. This is really not normal oscillation, I don't think you go...
  22. coldnight
    Fedora, Yes, I've only been researching for a few days now, but it appears, at least in my layman's understanding, that DQ2.2 can show some immune reaction to gluten? This makes sense to me, I haven't read much about gluten since it is fairly new to me, but I've read reams about IBS, serotonin, histamine, mast cells.. etc. It seems to me, that most of...
  23. coldnight
    I'm suspecting corn at the moment, supposedly gluten free corn chips bother me quite a lot. I'm thinking of cutting corn. I have no idea why it would bother me, but I'm suspecting it does. I was going to go buy some specifically made gluten-free corn chips and see if they bother me. =) Good old trial and error.
  24. coldnight
    So far the diet has worked incredibly well. I've said it before but pre-diet medication = 8+ Lomotil, Klonopin, 120mg of Codeine, occasionally immodium on top. During diet, dropped very quickly to 1 Lomotil. (Which is like a strong version of immodium). It has helped insanely well, really, haven't been able to get these symptoms under control for around...
  25. coldnight
    Got results from Enterolab, they were interesting and they did give and explanation, two gluten sensitivity genes, but not celiac disease. Not sure how common that is. I've seen some people post some really indepth information here, and I'm wondering if there is anything else anyone knows about these genes, or if they are fairly standard fare.. etc.. :...
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