Gluten Free Follies

[wyld_dandelyon]

So, Sunday and Monday I only ate things I had reason to believe were safe. The foods I ate at work were all things I've been eating safely for weeks, and the dinner, while at a restaurant, was at a restaurant where I've ordered the exact same meal repeatedly and been fine. The only thing I did that I haven't done since being on this diet was go to

Comments

[the_vulture]

Given how much care you've taken to avoid gluten, are you sure this attack wasn't something else, like maybe a mild case of food poisoning?

[wyld_dandelyon]

I don't think so--when my stomach doesn't like the food that hits it, it's happy to send it right back out the way it came, and that didn't happen. I also have a good sense of taste, and nothing tasted old or stale. But can I be certain? I have no idea which of the things that went into my stomach caused the problem, and no set of empirical tests to use to figure out the chemical reactions happening in my unhappy gut.

It's like trying to figure out if I have a common cold or was exposed to airborn allergens--the symptoms are so similar it's often an educated guess rather than certainty.

[the_vulture]

A mild case could've snuck past the taste buds and only really begun brewing in the gut. Just sayin'...

[wyld_dandelyon]

Silly vulture, I already admitted that's a possibility, and said why that's not my best educated guess.

[quility]

Yikes! I'm glad you are making progress - tho sorry that the consequences are so severe. :(

These things are so hard to figure out. Good job!

[wyld_dandelyon]

Well, there could be progress on that end too--it used to be that when I had a bad reaction like this I had all the food poisoning symptoms, instead of just the pain part. I kept a food diary for two years without identifying the culprit, but then the products that include forms of wheat and corn myriad and sometimes mysterious. (Most "soy-sauce" contains wheat--and some has no soy at all; most sausage contains corn syrup; etc. etc. etc.)

[seekerval]

Sounds thoroughly miserable, and I'm extending my sympathies wrapped in warm ribbons of healing yellow light.

[wyld_dandelyon]

Thank you!