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I should have posted this much earlier, but I have had problems with the keyboard on my laptop, and have also been dealing with low energy and low grade depression.
Anyhow, a while after getting my colonoscopy done last year, I decided to do a second MRT test, as it had been 3 years since my first one. After dropping all the high green, yellow and red food from my diet the first time around, I had incredible success and was feeling better and better, culminating in BM's being very close to perfect normans. Then symptoms started coming back.
A colonoscopy last fall left me with a diagnosis of Mastocytic Enterocolitis, along with resolution of the LC markers. Since then I have tried different things, like antihistamines, cromolyn sodium, a grain free diet, etc., but with only short lived improvement in symptoms. I should say that my primary symptoms are varying degrees of soft BM's 2-3 times a day and lack of energy.
Getting back to MRT - I was so hopeful when I got my results, and thought that this time I would get my diet under control once and for all. So like the first time, I dropped all the high greens, all yellows and all reds. However, instead of a rendez-vous with norman, I had a rendez-vous with WD with shredded food
. Since the results showed that practically all the food I had been eating since my last test, was now either high yellow or red, I had to change my diet completely. Naively, I thought that since it worked so beautifully the first time, it would work just as nicely this time. However, my body obviously did not agree, so I had to slow way down on the changes to figure out my new, relatively safe diet.
Regarding the test results, the first time around, I had 10 red and 23 yellow; the second time I had 8 red and 14 yellow, so at least there was a decrease in reactive foods.
The staple foods I had been eating from the first test where tilapia, crab, chicken, pork, beef, rice, avocado, yellow squash, cucumber, broccoli, cauliflower, raspberry, ginger, black pepper. All of these, with the exception of pork, beef, broccoli and cauliflower were now high yellow or red!!!
This goes to show, at least for me, that I can never allow myself to think that I have "nailed down" my perfectly safe diet, as intolerances keep changing. It also tells me to take a rotation diet very seriously, to decrease the chances of developing new sensitivities.
This post should have been made on the MRT board, but since most people seem to only come to the main message board, I thought it was better to post it here. Tex - pls feel free to move it any time you deem appropriate.
Love,
Kari
but surely, the observation that "the body doesn't know the difference between good and bad stress" will come to be known as Kari's First Rule of Stress. 
- you made my morning bright and cheerful with that post Tex :) - it's a long time since I've been laughing out loud while all by myself :). Wish I could take credit for that concept, but it's something I learned during my psych studies in college, and it has stuck with me ever since. 
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