Anyone else gone gluten and dairy free to help improve symptoms

Right there with you….. plus I have gastroparesis & my Hubby is diabetic…. I found a lot of recipes on Facebook & Pinterest….. it’s helped a lot! I’m so limited to being lactose intolerant per Mayo Clinic not being able to eat much on my gastroparesis diet also….Prayers For Solutions!!!!

I just applied my status right now is pending hope I get in cause all my problems since has been awful. I am on Facebook I don't know if I'm allowed to put my full Facebook name here though

I have had chronic, life altering diarrhea all my adult life. I tried all sorts of things but never tried cutting out gluten because A) I always heard that it was a crock unless you have celiac disease and, B) I thought it would be too hard to do. I cut way back on carbs a few years ago when my husband was diagnoses with Type II Diabetes and my digestive track improved greatly. So I thought my problems were related to eating sugars/carbs (I didn't think about how I was also greatly reducing gluten at that time, duh!) But when I got my cancer diagnosis had lost 20 lbs and they wanted me to gain weight. So I threw out my low carb diet and ate carbs with abandon for a few days and felt awful! All the old out of control diarrhea problems and gut pain came roaring back. I then realized that eating more carbs meant I had also gone on a gluten bender. I cut out all gluten and within a week or two I had a truely normal digestive system for the 1st time in over 40 years! I also have RA which has been in remission since around the same time that I lowered my carb intake. Don't know for sure that it's related, but I don't want to find out. I have a cancer dietician who insists that "gluten free" is just a fad. She claims there is no real test for it. On the other hand I have friends who are gluten free who insist they have been tested. One of my friends' Drs believes that NOBODY should eat gluten. It turns out that cutting out gluten isn't as hard as you might think. Gluten free or gluten friendly stuff is pretty easy to find. I don't know if this is the proper place to name brands/stores etc...But I have found a ton of good alternatives. My gluten free friends were the best resource. I'd say give cutting out gluten a try for a couple of weeks. The difference was so dramatic for me that I don't feel I need a test. Good Luck! I hope you get an answer.

Thank you and your post did help. I'm glad cutting gluten out has helped you. I just started yesterday. I'm hoping it helps me. It surely couldn't hurt. I wasn't eating well at all prior to getting sick. I think this is a way of life I need to do. I also see a naturopath dr next week and I'm curious what he will say and how he will help me. Good luck to you too. Best wishes ❤

Thank you. I'm hoping no gluten and dairy will help. I belong to stuff that works too. Do you know if there is a group for people who had a adverse reaction to the Moderna vaccine?

Also be aware, there are fillers in our meds. And each month the manufacturer we are given can change which is why mail away pharms etc change the pill every month. Whatever is cheapest. But gluten and dairy powder is used as fillers in most meds. If you are allergic to the filler used, you won't absorb the meds correctly. And esp with generic thyroid. I also have hashimotos and only the brand name synthroid will keep me regulated. Generic my TSH once went up to 105! Yes, 105 (ended up with carpal tunnel surgery because of it. My insurance insisted I use Generic for 6 months. Nearly killed me. Tsh of 105 will have you in the ER pretty sick.

Our thyroids are so sensitive. Even pharmacies are not allowed to give you generic thyroid if you doctor orders brand name. Brand name synthroid is not even special approval on my current part D. Same with anti seizure meds.

But regardless, you can feel like you are on a gluten free diet and find out that the months your meds don't work, they contain gluten and are not digestable for you. And if it changes every month, hard to say meds aren't working when you are allergic to the ingredients. I have a friend who told me +blank+ drug never worked for her. I know it does if you get the right brand. Most are from India and there is very little FDA oversight. Research generics online. You will find many who get headaches like you do from a drug but when they changed to a different manufacturing, the headaches stopped. So it's NOT maybe that you can't take the meds, you need a filler you aren't allergic too.

Brand name synthroid stopped me from having my thyroid removed. My thyroid doc was the first one to tell me he thought I was allergic to the filler and it would be all fixed if I only used brand name. Many who work with thyroids know this, but some don't believe it's true.
There is a well researched book on amazon about the real deal with generic drugs. Very little supervision. Some manu plants in India don't even have one employee with a high school diploma and have no sterile rooms but lots of mice.
Look it up. Esp Sun Manufacturer. And most of the ones, the cheapest, probably on your bottle. You can have your doctor put the name of the manufacturer you need to get on the script. Like generic lamictal. There is only one that doesn't cause seizures to start up again which mean better control of bipolar too.

All meds are not created equal. Best of luck.
Check your meds for allergic items. Find a good manufacturer and stick with it. And even that, if it looks different next month, recheck the filler. Esp if it stops working. If your thyroid goes off the charts even tho "nothing changed. " The generic filler may very well have changed.

What I am saying is true. So some research. These places are closed down and reopened all the time. Many times with nothing fixed except drug shortages makes the FDA reopen filty manufacturing plants. Esp if tramadol etc get short. And not all tramedol works the same. I could say tons as I've done a lot of research and only use meds I've checked out. And then found a drug store carrying that brand. Ever wonder why some blood pressure meds work one month and not the next and the next thing you know you are on 4 blood pressure meds.

Sorry I went long. This is really important stuff.

So this is why I will never do mail away pharmacies. All white pills that are changed every month as they get the cheapest ones they can get that month. Or three months supply. I would rather shop local and know the manufacturer name.

I just got 10 vials of a med I inject myself (anti-inflammatory.) Within 20 minutes I am usually pain free for a day. Last time, nothing. Like it was water. I looked it up and it was a known bad manufacturer and NOT the same one I had last time. I found a pharmacy who could get the same as last time and got it refilled when I could 5 days later. I really want to take these vials to a lab and see if it's just water. Which is exactly how this was exposed. A cancer doctor had pts dying who shouldn't have been. He took their drug infusion drug to a lab and it WAS water. True story. Some of our pills are just pure corn starch. Sorry to go off on y'all it's just so vital to not decide a drug doesn't work when it might not be the drug which could really help you if it was a better manufacturer. Very few generics are made in the US, but some are. And Italy and israel can be a better choice than India or China for generic meds.

I jusr joined Facebook's Neuro V Long-Haulers and Neuro V-6 + Long-Haulers. The first group is international with thousands of any Covid 19 vax ijnured members. The second group is for people still suffering more than 6 months after any vaccination.

All that you have can be healed or controlled through the gut. If you eat a typical American diet then you will be full of inflammation and irritations and particles will be getting thru into your bloodstream that shouldn’t.
If you change to AIP eating and don’t do it half heartedly, you can improve your health immensely. I had Hashimotos, hormone snd adrenal exhaustion, my muscles were being eaten away and I was in bed crying most days.
Changed to aip and within two days thought hmm maybe I feel a bit better and by two weeks I was a different person.
Basically it’s meat and fish and chicken with veges. No dairy no nuts no tomatoes, potatoes or peppers. Definitely no wheat or gluten. I kept eggs in my diet.
Breakfast: chopped sweet potato with any other vege and spinach with leftover chicken stir fried in good olive oil, salted with good mineralised salt, black tea.
Lunch: beef or chicken broth with veges and meat. Rice sourdough bread.
Dinner: pancakes made with tapioca, cassava flour, with banana mashed., with maple syrup and coconut cream just as examples.
Stay away from gluten free made products they are full of extras