Gluten

Think I may be allergic to gluten. Attended a nutritional seminar this weekend and muscle tested positive for it. Gonna give it a two week elimination, and strong day dose of gluten and see what type of reaction I get. Guy also pinned my chronic achilles tendon problem back to me having an adrenal problem...... I told him I had colitis after that and the prednisone had killed the healing of my tendon. Also killing my adrenals.


Any anti-gluten eaters out there? I know elimating it isn't bad anyway, just a little complicated figuring out how to substitute.

I emailed my GI office. Have a visit with them next week. Another Golimumab injection. Asked them to do a Gluten test on me then too. Curious on what that will yield, and also curious what their response will be to me asking, lol. "Hey, some guy put gluten on my chest and my arm basically went limp so test me already, lol"

Anyway, I picked up and learned a ton of stuff getting ready to implement. Not so much to target UC, but to target some other things not functioning to well. If I get a side affect of some good UC changes I'll pass them on. Good thing is the doc said he would help me fight my UC for free, so it puts another tool in the belt against this.

You ever tried making your own bread with some of those mixes?

I'm mostly gluten-free - actually mostly grain free now. It's a major switch from the typical Standard American Diet, but there's plenty to eat and a GF diet is very healthy. I've found I feel my best when I don't try to "substitute" but eat naturally gluten free foods... lean meats, eggs, healthy oils, low carb veggies, nuts, nut butters and fruits.

Check out www.celiac.com for lots of good info and a supportive forum.

Dr-A said...
Think I may be allergic to gluten. Attended a nutritional seminar this weekend and muscle tested positive for it. Gonna give it a two week elimination, and strong day dose of gluten and see what type of reaction I get.

You should be aware you probably won't notice any dramatic improvement in only two week's time. From Dr. Mercola's site:

Unfortunately, most people don't feel better immediately after eliminating gluten from their diets as it may take 30 to 60 days for the inflammation to subside, and up to 9 to 12 months for the lining of your small intestine to heal. 

On rare occasions an individual may experience significant improvement within weeks of eliminating gluten from their diet.  But in other cases people may feel considerably worse upon initially starting a gluten free diet.  This is usually due to other unidentified food allergies and food sensitivities -- a problem that plagues about 75 percent of the population.  In fact, food cravings can often serve as a gauge of food sensitivity. Craving dairy products or breads, for example, can be an indication that you are sensitive to that food, especially if you crave it but then feel worse after eating it.

For most people with gluten intolerance, by around 6 to 9 months of being gluten free, noticeable physical and mental/emotional changes will have taken place.

princesa said...

Dr-A said...

Think I may be allergic to gluten. Attended a nutritional seminar this weekend and muscle tested positive for it. Gonna give it a two week elimination, and strong day dose of gluten and see what type of reaction I get.

You should be aware you probably won't notice any dramatic improvement in only two week's time. From Dr. Mercola's site:



Unfortunately, most people don't feel better immediately after eliminating gluten from their diets as it may take 30 to 60 days for the inflammation to subside, and up to 9 to 12 months for the lining of your small intestine to heal.

On rare occasions an individual may experience significant improvement within weeks of eliminating gluten from their diet. But in other cases people may feel considerably worse upon initially starting a gluten free diet. This is usually due to other unidentified food allergies and food sensitivities -- a problem that plagues about 75 percent of the population. In fact, food cravings can often serve as a gauge of food sensitivity. Craving dairy products or breads, for example, can be an indication that you are sensitive to that food, especially if you crave it but then feel worse after eating it.

For most people with gluten intolerance, by around 6 to 9 months of being gluten free, noticeable physical and mental/emotional changes will have taken place.

Yeah, the purpose initially is not so much to look for improvment. More to identify if I have a sensitivity or not. General rule for us to test some of the allergies is to give it a couple weeks to get out of the system then overload yourself with it. Any sort of reaction in the following 72 hours other than a normal day would indicate a sensitivity, backup the muscle testing, and give me something good to look at against the blood test I'll get on Monday.

So...... the GI np called today and was wondering why I wanted a gluten test. I told her my reasoning and that no one had ever check or even asked to check it before. They call back a little later and conferred my blood test for Monday, and decided they wanted to add in an endoscopy and biopsy, lol. I was like, "Uh, why?" Evidently to check for celiac sprue. I declined. I really don't need a tube stuck down my throat and cut on, just because I brought up a simple blood test.

therearemiracles said...
https://www.digestivewellness.com/


you can get prepared

But like Dr. A, I was tested for celiac and it came up negitive but I know I can't do gluten foods, nor corn, rice, oats.

I read that can happen. Get neg. on blood but can still have the sensivity. Always better to trust the body than a test.

no gluten for 3 days but a little more sugar than normal yesterday, I had two eggs in the morning too yesterday, baked pork chops and cabbage dinner (no meat) for dinner and this morning I was dead on the toilet in pain, pain and diarreah. Mabey it's eggs, which I know I've scored low sensitivity to them by a blood test. I can't figure it out what is giving me the ok poops to the terrible poops. The day before I had ok morning, I had two pieces of rice bread, pork chops, can spinich, sunflower seeds (at seperate times) dinner what steamed chinease food with rice and a egg roll. No sugar really that day but a 12oz Pepsi. Also, Tension Tamer tea really helps my gut and I had one cup the day before as well.

I'm back today with the rice bread and tension tamer tea so far and see what happens tomorrow. I just want answers, I don't see this allergist for another month! Now I'm thinking bacteria not so much yeast problem b/c of the sugar I had yesterday.

My test showed I was not allergic, just high on the scale of intolerant, something like 800 on a 1000 scale.

I did feel better than I had in ages within the first week, so remember that studies and stats do not determine your own response!

Hi Kim,

How are you doing on your LDN, good still I hope? I had a better morning today not as severe and when I woke up I didn't run to the toilet as normal, it was about 5 min delay and then I went. Yesterday I didn't have eggs and normally I would have eggs 3-4 times a week.

If I wanted a pop and it's really not often, just sometimes I just crave a pepsi, is one that is ok to drink that wouldn't be as bad for me?

Maybe I should look at spriters pops.

Thanks,

Linda

a skin test would be much more accurate than the blood test for the gluten, or any food testing. The blood test only shows if you have a full blown allergy, whereas a skin prick test will show a sensitivity, an intolerance or an allergy. Even if you have none of these staying away from gluten can still be beneficial because gluten proteins are very difficult for the body to digest. Best way to stay gluten free is not to substitute as someone else mentioned, but rather to simply avoid. most premade and prepackaged gluten free things are gross. Do it from scratch and the results are so much better.

Gluten Free Baking Classics by Analise G. Roberts is amazing. I even used its recipes for my cake decorating class final. just be aware that no gluten free baked goods will be very moist.

http://glutenfreegirl.blogspot.com/ is full of gluten free recipes.

Tinkyada is the best gluten free pasta. hint, only make what you plan on eating that night. It does not reheat well at all, gets all mushy.

Glutino is excellent for everything from cookies to crackers. very similar to the real thing.

You get used to not eating bread after about a week. But be wary at restaurants because a lot of seasonings have gluten in them. Ask for a gluten free menu most have them. Some stores even have gluten free shopping guides, i know Trader Joe's does. you'd be surprised what kind of things have gluten in them.