Hi Anaphylaxis,
I should've known better than to try that BBQ sauce but I went a little nuts when I started feeling better. My bad.
... I'm learning that I can't go back to eating trigger foods tho.
Ok, confession time.
Chocolate is back in my diet and I may not eliminate it again.
My reaction was horrible pelvic pain and swelling (vulvodynia ?) and that's not happening anymore. All this time I thought it was from oxalates but it turned out to be from mast cells.
What brand of spices do you use ? I've been using Mc Cormick
single spices most of the time since 2005. They were the only ones at the time that we were told were definitely GF. I'm a celiac. I use their Red Curry without any problems but that's they're only combo I use.
I've never felt well from using any of the Annie's, Veganese, So Delicious, etc etc products either tho so I make my own food. I hate cooking so it sucks.
I checked out the low histamine diet and may need to look at my foods more closely. I eat quite a few of those. My diet is just so restricted right now that I hate to give up things that I "seem" to be ok with.
I've been on a mostly organic Wahls diet since Jan 2012, but I've been on the organic Paleo / low oxalate diet since 2007 - 8. And I went on the GFCFSFEF + chemical free diet in June 2005.
Tomatoes and bacon are FM triggers for me so I gave those up a few years ago. Soy causes phlegm in my throat within 30 minutes. FWIW, I found soy in a lot of supplements this way. I could get a job as a human soy detector.
Dairy causes shiners and Paget's of the skull growth spurt. Gluten causes multiple neuro symptoms and digestive damage. Nuts and chocolate cause pelvic pain. Poutry, esp chicken, makes me sleepy.
I eliminated scented and bleached products too. Even those bleached paper towels bother me whereas the all natural ones don't. I just figured out last year that I needed a non bleached toilet paper. DUH !
Thanks for all the advice. It means a lot to me to have others who are going through this that I can talk too.
tc .. Marcia