Symptoms increase after meal ?

Are you eating organic only? Are you eating starchy type foods?
What kind of meal are you speaking of? Can you give an example?

This was very very true for me.

For the time being, try and not eat meals that are high in fat, as they can be hard to digest and tough on the digestive tract.

Also, do not eat white sugar or white flour (white flour is essentially processed by the body as white sugar.). Minimize your intake of caffeine.

Check for Candida (which people have many times, when theyhave Lyme, and co-infections, I believe. Antibiotics worsen Candida, which is yeast overgrowth. Candida causes digestive issues, joint pain, fatigue and many other issues. You can also get checked for SIBO.

As you heal Lyme, and co-infections, your stomach pain will get better and most likely go away. I believe these stomach pain issues are probably symptoms of co-infections, probably Babesia or Bartonella, more than Lyme itself, but that's just a hyothesis.

I gave you a lot of instruction. If you cut out white sugar and white flour and minimize caffeine you'll be well off. Also, herbal protocols, such as Buhner buhnerhealinglyme.com/ is amazing. It works just as good as antibiotics and doesn't affect or HURT the gut, for most people, who do it. When I first heard about it, I was like, 'yeah right!. However, it's true. The herxing can be the same, so start off lightly. You can find much of the herbal protocol at whole foods and much of it online so start off lightly. Good luck. Hope this helped!!! Wish I had that advice early on!

Post Edited (AlextheLymeFighter) : 6/18/2015 7:24:46 AM (GMT-6)

Yes, Alex has right! Avoid especially sugar, and gluten, but high fat is also not our friend! I have now a flare-up, and experience the same as yout write: I fell worse after almost every meal. It sux! Do you have gut (GI) issues? What symptoms are increasing after meal? For me the pressure headache and "drunk" feeling.

The answer could be very simple. After you eat, the body puts more energy into digestion and it has to pull it from somewhere. If you eat a large meal, more energy needs to be pulled from other areas. So being tired would be normal.

If possible, I would eat 6 small meals instead of one or two big ones.

As far as food sensitivities, I know for sure I am allergic to dairy (protein not lactose), egg whites, soy and a feel other things. I either get stomach pains followed by diarrhea or I throw up everything.

For a while, I was having ice cream at night. I figured it's dairy so it's good for me. A pattern started forming. I would start throwing up exactly 2 hours later.

Same with egg whites. I was seeing an allergist and he said that most people can tolerate the small amounts found in foods we buy, but I was eating hard boiled egg white. He said that was absolutely the worst way to eat them. My digestive system definitely complained. Egg whites are one of the most common food sensitivities, but it rarely shows up on any of the lists of common allergies.

This is what he told me. To truly determine what foods you are sensitive to you need to limit your food for two weeks. The only things you can have are chicken, white processed rice and salt. No spices, no pepper, no oil. Although if you are allergic to eggs, there is the possibility of a cross reaction with chicken. If that's the case, lamb or turkey were the best choices.

The idea was that you clean everything out and give you body a rest, then add one item in every four days as long as you don't react. If you have a reaction, you have to cut back and let your body rid itself of the food then start again.

The other thing he said was that "when most hear the word allergies, they think of pollen, runny nose, stuffy head, etc. But we both know that allergies can be digestive problems, rashes, etc."

He also said that when I did add something in that I was sensitive to, it would come roaring back and slam me worse that I've ever been slammed. He was 100% right.

It's a brutal diet. I wasn't able to stick to it. I made it 4 days and then had nothing in the house and no one to go to the store. I had eggs so I boiled up 8 eggs and ate just the whites. I proceeded to spend the entire night in the bathroom.

The shame of it was that I had remarkable change in my symptoms. So now I try to stay away from the things I know. I'm also trying to figure out a list of foods that I am least likely to react to and stick to that.

The issue is that we all have multiple foods we are allergic to. Removing one at a time to find the culprits doesn't work because our bodies are still reacting. Removing everything and then adding them back in breaks it down to individual items so you don't have to do any detective work to figure out what was different. The only difference is that one food item. Easy Peasy.

I had so many allergic reactions in my 20's that the dermatologist did the skin patch test. There are two tests available. One is where they poke your back with different environmental irritants. Pollen, dogs, cats, etc. I always test negative to that. I saw a dermatologist about 25 years ago and she did a test where they take a large patch with little cups attached that contain things that cause skin contact allergies. Adhesive, perfume bases, lanolin, etc.
They attach it and you leave it on for 48 hours, then they check for reactions. They check again at 72 hours.

I had the strongest reaction the dermatologist had ever seen. Within an hour, I had unbearable itching. about 12 hours later, I was climbing the walls. I called the doctor and begged her to let me take benadryl. She said yes and if I could pinpoint the area to have my husband cut it out. She told me to be at the office when they opened and she would take it off and determine what was reacting. So when she took it off, I had 5 quarter size welts. After less than 24 hours. I had several things. Balsam of Peru, Rosin, Lanolin, Perfume base and adhesive.

Most of these you can avoid except Balsam of Peru. It's a perfume base, but also a food preservative and flavoring. It doesn't even show up on the list of ingredients as anything other than flavoring.

I just had the testing redone to see if there were any changes. There was one new thing, Budesonide. When I told my primary, she was stunned. She actually blinked and stopped moving even a little bit. Her expression would have been comical if it weren't for the subject. Budesonide is a chemical used in products to treat skin contact allergies. I'm allergic to it so I can't be prescribed any creams meant to treat allergies.

I looked into the Balsam of Peru and found that it shares chemicals with vanilla and cinnamon. It also is found in things like dental cement. Virtually everything we eat has vanilla.

Cinnamon and mustard are also high on the list too. My allergist said i should never, ever use cinnamon.

Even though these were tested as contact allergies they can become systemic. If the allergen is absorbed in through the skin and then enters the blood stream reactions can pop up anywhere. For the same reason, I make sure none of these is in my food. Fat chance of eliminating everything. My theory is that if I take them in orally, then my body still reacts. They have less of chance of making it all the way through, but even a small chance is too much. I also get sore throat/gerd, stomach pains and irritable intestines. The allergist disagrees, but it's my body and I know how it reacts.

Hope this helps even a little.
Kim