Posted by bleauberry on November 22, 2007, at 13:34:49
In reply to Re: How can food allergies lead to depression/anxiety? » bleauberry, posted by Jimmyboy on November 20, 2007, at 19:04:19
Question: What test did you do? Was is RAST or ELISA? Something else? I am interested in finding an affordable test. My gluten has already been documented, but I am suspect of other things, including dairy, corn, and chocolate. What test did you use?
I think it should be standard procedure for any patient not responding well to the first try of an antidepressant to run food intolerance/allergy tests on them. As you have witnessed yourself, someone can be poisoning themselves into depression on a daily basis and have no clue they are doing it. And as you said, drugs do absolutely nothing to touch it. It isn't a serotonin deficiency thing. It is a poisoned with toxins thing.
A lady discovered she was allergic to wheat. Stopped it. Improved a lot. Then with over confidence ate a whole pizza. She went into a suicidal crash. She was monitored and hand-held for a couple days as the reaction passed.
So you like a bowl of pasta? No prob. At most grocery stores and natural food stores you can get pasta made from brown rice. It tastes very similar, texture is similar but maybe a little gooier if over cooked, and you can eat all you want.
Actually being gluten/corn intolerant, or whatever intolerant, is kind of an adventure. We have to embark on studying labels before purchase, trying new foods, and such. After a few months you actually get to prefer your new foods over the old ones. It takes a little hunting to find the sources locally, or you can find them on the net easily, but all kinds of excellent gluten free foods are available...donuts, pastries, cookies, waffles, pancakes, breaks, crackers, chips, pizzas, alfredo pastas, whatever, everything. The adventure is in trying the new foods and finding which ones you like and will repurchase and which ones you didn't care for.
Study hidden gluten sources. For example, if you see barley malt as an ingredient on a label, forget it. There's gluten in anything derived from barley.
Ready bought stuff is expensive though. A dozen fronzen gluten free donuts at the grocery store are about $7. A box of ready-to-go bread mix to make your own bread is about $5. A package of oreas is about $5. Rice chips (triangular like doritos) are about $2.50 a bag. I am discovering how to make these things myself at home much cheaper. Favorite flour so far is Red Mill's All Purpose Baking Flour. I made donuts that tasted like Dunkin Donuts. I made cream puffs just like you get in Chinese restaurants. Not hard either. Just takes a little time. Not as easy as throwing it in a shopping cart. Anyway, it is a new life, but a good one.
Even people who are not gluten intolerant notice health and mood benefits when they avoid gluten.
Like you, I have lost weight. I think we should write the next blockmuster million dollar diet book...stop eating gluten and lose weight fast. :-)
With your food intolerances and hypoglycemia, that brings me back to something I mentioned before...mercury. Everything you have said so far is picture perfect for mercury toxicity. I hope you do not have amalgam fillings. If you do, your existing symptoms will become worse and you will develop a bunch of new ones too. If you do have them, you need to make it a number one top priority over everything else in your life to get them out with a sense of urgency. ASAP. Hopefully you don't have them though.
> Thank you Blueberry,
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> I got back tests that said I was allergic to gluten and corn, both of which I eat all the time. My depression has been constant and no drug can touch it - for years. For several weeks , I avoided carbs ( thus wheat) , b/c I found out I was hypoglycemic. All of a sudden I started feeling much better, then I quit following the diet so close. And started feeling worse.. then last weekend ate a huge huge bowl of pasta and went from being pretty much OK, to freakin thinking about suicide for about 2 days... so something happened there. I believe it totally, it was immediate. And horrible.
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> Thanks for the informative post, maybe you can give me some more pointers if you have time. This meat and vegetable diet I have adopted is hard to do as well as making me shed pounds so fast I look emaciated.
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> Much thanks Blueberry
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> JB
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