Heather -
Now I'm totally confused! Dates and berries (and I assume this includes blueberries) are on the DO NOT eat column on the low-histamine diet. I've been trying hard to avoid them, and you had them as one of the few things you could eat?! Sheesh. But then I don't know which low-histamine diet to believe. They all seem to agree on the big things like fermented/aged stuff, but not on some of the minor things.
(Now that you mention it, I have seen those same ingredients on special diets for pets as well!!)
I don't care for a lot of eggs, but I do eat some, as well as beans. I've been avoiding nuts to some extent, because they seemed to be bothering me. I guess I need to experiment and see which ones are problematic. Right now I'm trying to determine if it's the PB, the Jam, or both that are giving me intermittent problems with our favorite go-to travel food! (I'm trying PB & honey, as I suspect it might be the blackberry preserves.)
Julie -
I laughed out loud at your description of pant sizes!! I couldn't figure out how I could have dropped as much weight as I had and STILL not have any pants that fit, until I finally realized just how huge my belly gets sometimes. I can go out to visit friends in pants that fit and be strangling in them by the time we come home.
I've gone off of gluten before to try to help with headaches/dizziness, but that was before my GI issues got so bad, so I'm not sure if it made a difference there. However, soft white bread seems to be one of the few things, along with rice, that are okay when I'm really flaring, so I'm guessing I'm okay with gluten.
The soy thing is really hard to deal with. It seems that the more processed a food is, the more trouble I have with it. Tempeh (basically just soy beans pressed together) are okay, but texturized vegetable protein made into something like a veggie burger doesn't do as well. Soy milk still seems to be okay.
I find it interesting that Align helped you. I've been taking it for months now and finally decided to stop wasting money on it as it really hasn't helped at all. I may be interested in seeing your GI doc after I see Dr. Afrin! It would be nice to have docs who actually understand what's going on in my body. The article was interesting...I'll be curious to see if my old biopsy samples show anything, as it says everything can look normal but they can still find lots of mast cells.
So, if you can't have gluten and you can't have soy or any legumes, what the heck do you eat?!!!! I don't have the energy to make all sorts of special things, my husband and I can't seem to have the same things for dinner any more, and I have no idea what to eat when we travel!
Thanks so much for sharing....after I read a few quotes from these posts to my husband we both laughed and remarked that at least I'm not alone in this weirdness!