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Zantec
So, since I start reacting to meds and foods that my body gets use to after about 2 weeks, I am assuming I am creating antibodies against them. I started taking zantec yesterday assuming mast cells in my gut and low and behold, I have had some rumblings but normans right away (yesterday and this morning). Again, this is just me experimenting bc I havent gotten my histamine levels back yet or had my appt with the specialist-that's not until the end of april :( ...
Jenny,
It's good to hear that it's working so quickly. That pretty clearly verifies that intestinal mast cells are your primary current problem. Histamine levels can change rather rapidly, so even if your test results should come back negative, that doesn't rule out a mast cell problem - it just means that the sample was drawn at the wrong time, (when your histamine levels happened to temporarily be down).
The rumblings may be a good sign, rather than a bad one. When I was reacting, I always cycled from D to N, (Normans), or C, and the rumblings would always be the most noticeable when the D was winding down, and I was about to segue into the N or C phase.
Tex
It's good to hear that it's working so quickly. That pretty clearly verifies that intestinal mast cells are your primary current problem. Histamine levels can change rather rapidly, so even if your test results should come back negative, that doesn't rule out a mast cell problem - it just means that the sample was drawn at the wrong time, (when your histamine levels happened to temporarily be down).
The rumblings may be a good sign, rather than a bad one. When I was reacting, I always cycled from D to N, (Normans), or C, and the rumblings would always be the most noticeable when the D was winding down, and I was about to segue into the N or C phase.
Tex
It is suspected that some of the hardest material known to science can be found in the skulls of GI specialists who insist that diet has nothing to do with the treatment of microscopic colitis.
Tex,
Hopefully this will FINALLY get my symptoms under contol. I have been reading up on mastocytosis and getting myself nervous about how it spreads into bones and organs etc... I really hope that's not my case. I am starting to think this was my problem all along. Should I make an appointment with an allergist for this or wait for the GI appt?
Jenny
Hopefully this will FINALLY get my symptoms under contol. I have been reading up on mastocytosis and getting myself nervous about how it spreads into bones and organs etc... I really hope that's not my case. I am starting to think this was my problem all along. Should I make an appointment with an allergist for this or wait for the GI appt?
Jenny
Systemic mastocytosis is pretty rare, so the odds are very good that you don't have it. Intestinal mast cell issues, on the other hand, are extremely common, and most people who have either Crohn's, UC, MC, or celiac disease, have the problem, (whether they or their doctors realize it or not).
Unless you're talking about about an appointment with an allergist at Brigham and Youngs, your chances of finding an allergist in any other location, who is qualified to treat the issue, are very, very slim. Dr. Mariana Castells is probably the leading expert, as far as allergists are concerned.
Tex
Unless you're talking about about an appointment with an allergist at Brigham and Youngs, your chances of finding an allergist in any other location, who is qualified to treat the issue, are very, very slim. Dr. Mariana Castells is probably the leading expert, as far as allergists are concerned.
Tex
It is suspected that some of the hardest material known to science can be found in the skulls of GI specialists who insist that diet has nothing to do with the treatment of microscopic colitis.