@LetTheRedeemed Interesting. I have heard of the product but didn't know that was the source. Thanks for the information and I will look into it.
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RE: Reintroduced Wheat - Confused With Results
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RE: Reintroduced Wheat - Confused With Results
Oh and @mostlylurking, I do often struggle to walk in a straight line. It's especially bad if someone else is walking towards me... I have to try and not focus on them.
Today was worse because I skipped the digestive enzyme this morning. So it varies depending on how symptomatic I am.
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RE: Reintroduced Wheat - Confused With Results
@LetTheRedeemed I stopped buying supplements years ago as everything seemed to just cause issues, even topical vitamin d and magnesium.
Even if my diet is not ideal. Perhaps my body just wanted calorie bombs to refeed in a sense and maybe wheat isn't as problematic for me as I thought - I guess I will find out soon enough. If my digestion maintains hopefully I might be able to actually see some effects from certain supplements, so I may look into it. I'm going to focus on thiamin for now though.
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@mostlylurking My diet right now is steamed zucchini, eggs, coconut oil, chicken breast, lattes, ice cream and pizza. I have been eating some waffles as someone at work gave me some.
Maintaining decent BMs twice a day, usually after lunch and dinner when I have ice cream after the meal. Wish I could go without relying on these meals to trigger it but it's better than nothing, I guess. Still not sure if things will start to go downhill soon, I am worried the pizza/gluten and pufa will catch up to me. I would love to be able to transition to rice as a staple but I haven't been able to digest it since 2018 but I might try it on a day off so if I feel really bad I am not working. I do awful on fruit and juice.
I'm taking one NOW super enzyme with my first meal, I feel worse when I don't take it. Hopefully the thiamin does help.
I will keep you posted.
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@mostlylurking Yeah, my brain does not function. My head feels empty and I have a kind of pressure in my forehead.
I appreciate you sharing your knowledge and experience and I will finish the remaining articles, order some thiamine hcl and update you with how things progress. I hope it can be tolerated and offer some relief, even if it is not as significant as what you experienced.
At this stage diet wise I am okay to continue eating processed crap? I really don't know what else to do as I'm not digesting anything else.
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@mostlylurking I have read a couple, but not all.
On my day off I will go through everything you have posted.
I have quite extreme brain fog - I hope it is reversible and not something as serious as you have posted.
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@mostlylurking Phenomenal post, thank you.
Low stomach acid is why I can't eat proper whole food meals. My gums receed rapidly even if I try eating a cooked steak, let alone rice or potatoes. Last time I had a cup of rice before bed I woke up and couldn't walk because my knees and legs were so arthritic and locked. Had to crawl to the bathroom and have my mum cook for me until late afternoon.
You have motivated me to give b1 another try. Amazoniac had mentioned to me in the past to not take orally due to potentially feeding microbes - would a topical b vitamin solution suffice? Also does the dosage have to be so high?
Likely I will also try topical magnesium and d3. Maybe even a tsp of pine pollen to try and drop my estrogen. Just worried about the potential allergenicity of the latter, I don't want to mess my gut up any further.
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@LucH Truly kind of you to take the effort of providing all of that information to a complete stranger and I will keep it in the back of my mind.
The last part you mentioned resonates with me and scares me. In 2018 a doctor said to me 'It worries me you don't know how bad you are.' and unfortunately I am multiples worse now and I find my self lacking the energy to continue after I have been beaten so low, probably half a dozen near recoveries and one full recovery and I never managed to maintain it - always managed to slip up.
I am going to try to continue eating intuitively and hope this time it may end up being different, sustainable. I have a half decent job, despite being a walking corpse I have managed to move out away from family that burdened me with excessive stress so the only thing I am missing is getting my health back on track...
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@LucH Yes, this is my concern.
..and based on my past experience it will slowly be causing bowel inflammation and eventually the bowel movements will get worse and worse and I will probably end up constipated and merely put on a few more lbs of bodyweight.
What is your suggestion?
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RE: Reintroduced Wheat - Confused With Results
I am going to just continue to eat calorie dense food that digests and maintain the ice cream and lattes as they seem to help move things along as well as mitigate some of the negatives from these food choices.
Ray said that calcium was protective to the intestines and that is how I feel when I eat the ice cream and coffees.
I just hope it's sustainable and I don't start declining after a short while. I know there are people that have tried reintroducing wheat and reverted back to a more 'normal' diet to only eventually have it catch up with them.
When I initially recovered I was eating a moderate carb, low fat diet and taking vitamin d, k2, magnesium, b1, b2, niacinamide and pine pollen. I will try some b1 as recommended by @mostlylurking over the next few weeks. I haven't had any luck with supplements in the past couple of years except some digestive enzymes working by luck when I had reached a very low point but they also no longer work.
I feel like my body is stuck in starvation mode, which is why supplements or nothing else seems to do anything for me anymore. The past 8 years have been brutal and I really don't know how my body has managed to survive to be honest.