Food Intolerance/Andrew

[celia]

Andrew,

I was thinking of you last night as I was re-reading The E. I Syndrome by Sherry A. Rogers, M.D. The book has an entire section on Food Intolerance starting on page 201. She calls it food allergy but she is definitely speaking about delayed food reactions that are linked with colitis and any number of other diseases.

She gives you a step by step guide on how to detect your food intolerances using a two week diagnostic diet and then adding foods back in one at a time. While it might be a little challenging to do the diet, it's certainly not a starvation diet by any means, and probably far preferable to the misery and occassional depression that your condition brings on now. So check it out if it piques your interest.

Dr. Roger's books have helped me so much.

Of course, you can just wait for Dr. Fine's test too. In my case, my intolerances go way beyond the common ones in MC so I've had to do more detective work. I wish I had done Dr. Roger's diagnostic diet much earlier on!

Dr. Roger believes that many of us have developed food sensitivities because chemicals (and heavy metals) in our 20th century environment have damaged our immune systems and caused our antibodies to recognize as foreign, things that never before were recognized as foreign. She says these chemicals have damaged cells call the T suppressor cells which normally control how much antibody is made against various foods like beef, milk or wheat. Now that these cells are damaged, our immune systems have gone haywire, and we have developed symtpoms to foods that we normally tolerated for years.

She says, like people in this forum say as well, if you diligently stay away from your trigger foods for several months, you might be able to add some of them back in. She recommends doing so very slowly starting with small amounts just once a week. Some foods you may never be able to tolerate again. Also, the process can take much longer if one's immunse system is very damaged. Everyone is biochemically unique so the recovery process is similar but different for each person.

Whatever route you take, I wish you a quick end to your misery!

Now, I'm off to vacation for two weeks...

Be well, Celia

[thedell19]

Celia-

So the book is called "The E I Syndrome"? I will definately look into it! I appreciate you remembering me and thinking of me. I am not planning on starting any diet until after my honeymoon (May6-12). But from now until then I will be researching diets and such. I figure that I will get Dr Fine's tests back before May (I should surely think so) so I will know what his tests show. I think I will probably take his advise first when I talk to him after I recieve my test results. Then if need be I will eliminate other foods as well.

What amazes me about this forum is that most of the topics and posts are not really related to symptoms and this disease. It seems that most people are doing very well through diet and I hope that I can obtain remission through diet as well. It has been a long year struggling through this but I am in good spirits that diet may be my salvation.

Have fun on vacation Celia. Where did you go?

[celia]

You have a good plan. It's true, people really seem to have mastered their illness in this forum. The information and support is terrific. We're going to St. John's in the Caribbean! C.

[celia]

and E. I. stands for environmental illness...

[tex]

Andrew,

I got my test results back from Enterolab in about 10 or 12 days. They emailed the results to me on a Sunday afternoon, believe it or not.

You're right about the high success rate here. Many of our members no longer stop by, because they have their symptoms under control, and they are so busy leading a normal life again, that they rarely visit us any more.

Not everyone chooses to go the diet route, though. Some have good success with maintenance doses of meds, and some combine meds with varying degrees of diet modifications. Everyone figures out what works best for their particular situation.

Tex