Diet soda-Idon't drink too much. I actually tend to go with the coffee and milk. However the milk is usually accompanied by cereal or cookies and after snacking on either, I get symptoms. I thought it was the milk, but after some experimentation, I find that its the grain. Im wondering if its wheat. Either way, junk food makes me totally sore all over.
There is a blog out there where a group of people are swearing that artificial sweetners ruin your joints and that they got better when they quit. I read that blog and quit diet pop cold turkey. Havn't noticed it making any difference. Google splenda poison. Sorry, I didn't save the address.
As far as low grade allergies go, I was having some eye swelling and I couldn't pinpoint why it was happening. So I went to an allergist and got allergy testing. On your results there are 4 boxes for each food. Depending on how many checkmarks in each row, that's how allergic you are to that food. I had a few foods with 3 and 4 checks and cats I know im really allergic to was 4 checks. But there were a huge number of foods with only 1 and 2 checks. So I call that low grade. They said any one of those foods checked, no matter how many checkmarks they have, could be a culprit and some may not bother you at all. Well I had about 30 foods with checkmarks, lol. Pretty hard to eliminate them all or do a food challenge without starving to death.
I think wheat and corn are biggies for me, judging on how I was feeling after eating cereals. The only cereals that don't bother me are rice cereals. I also get sick from soy sauce, which is a wheat product,l think.
If you really want to know, get tested. Its painless. You'll be lucky if its only a couple things and easy to eliminate. I had so many, i don't know where to start. But I know the way my symptoms wax and wane, its got to be food related.
Funny thing too, I had my sed rate tested when I was taking truckloads of NSAIDS and it was 40. Then my doc said to stop them because she was freaking out about my blood pressure being a little high, so I did. I also behaved myself in the eating department. OFF NSAIDS and on a better diet, my sed rate dropped to 30. Go figure.
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Diet soda-Idon't drink too much. I actually tend to go with the coffee and milk. However the milk is usually accompanied by cereal or cookies and after snacking on either, I get symptoms. I thought it was the milk, but after some experimentation, I find that its the grain. Im wondering if its wheat. Either way, junk food makes me totally sore all over.
There is a blog out there where a group of people are swearing that artificial sweetners ruin your joints and that they got better when they quit. I read that blog and quit diet pop cold turkey. Havn't noticed it making any difference. Google splenda poison. Sorry, I didn't save the address.
As far as low grade allergies go, I was having some eye swelling and I couldn't pinpoint why it was happening. So I went to an allergist and got allergy testing. On your results there are 4 boxes for each food. Depending on how many checkmarks in each row, that's how allergic you are to that food. I had a few foods with 3 and 4 checks and cats I know im really allergic to was 4 checks. But there were a huge number of foods with only 1 and 2 checks. So I call that low grade. They said any one of those foods checked, no matter how many checkmarks they have, could be a culprit and some may not bother you at all. Well I had about 30 foods with checkmarks, lol. Pretty hard to eliminate them all or do a food challenge without starving to death.
I think wheat and corn are biggies for me, judging on how I was feeling after eating cereals. The only cereals that don't bother me are rice cereals. I also get sick from soy sauce, which is a wheat product,l think.
If you really want to know, get tested. Its painless. You'll be lucky if its only a couple things and easy to eliminate. I had so many, i don't know where to start. But I know the way my symptoms wax and wane, its got to be food related.
Funny thing too, I had my sed rate tested when I was taking truckloads of NSAIDS and it was 40. Then my doc said to stop them because she was freaking out about my blood pressure being a little high, so I did. I also behaved myself in the eating department. OFF NSAIDS and on a better diet, my sed rate dropped to 30. Go figure.
June 4, 2009 - 8:07pmThis Comment
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