Please tell me about your intolerances

[NotOnTheSofa]

I've been having a lot of stomach issues for a really long time. I have a lot of bloating and wind, lose stools, stomach cramps occasionally nausea. I'm pretty sure it's not IBS and I've been tested for coeliac with a blood test and an endoscopy which came back negative. GP doesnt seem to think it's a big issue but obviously its annoying for me. I'm currently trying to figure out if I have an intolerance by cutting foods out one at a time to see if it helps, starting with dairy (i couldn't quite face a full elimination diet!)

Theres a fair amount of info online but I'd really appreciate some real life stories, what were your symptoms? How did you figure out what was causing them? Any tips?

I've got CMPA and it's pretty much the same symptoms as you. After giving up dairy a felt a little better after 24 hours, much better but 3 days and by 2 weeks I was symptom free.

Cow’s milk, gluten (not coeliac though) and pork. Took years and years and years to figure out!

Life is so so so much better!

Life is so so so much better!

Mine too although it can be a bit limiting when you go out for food but I'd rather have that than the symptoms

DH was the same.
went through ages of removing different things (gluten etc)
finally went to the doctors and onto a fodmap diet where you restrict almost everything then slowly add different things in.
It identified that for him it’s any garlic/onion/leek

pesky… onion is in so much stuff.

Thank you for your replies 😊i guess it's a long game of trying to weed out what it is...it feels like looking for a needle in a haystack!

I've been tested for everything as my stomach is a mess. Onion is terrible for me. But the problems continued...

I had an accidental vegetarian week last week. And noticed my stomach was near normal.

Had meat. My stomach was a mess again.

For whatever reason, my stomach cannot digest it well at all anymore. Beef, chicken and pork!!

Yes I have developed food intolerances with peri menopause. Mine is quite extreme and I get anaphylaxis but I have cut out wheat and dairy and follow a low histamine diet and I feel amazing. I have not had an anaphylaxis for a few months .
all my allergy tests have been negative but intolerances can be just as bad as allergies.

I just did the York test after trying to eliminate things myself and this has come back with intolerance to cows milk and eggs - I'm going to try and eliminating them for a month then try to intro them in small amounts as it mentions egg whites worse than egg yolk and i would like the odd egg. My symptoms were the stomach pain, bloating and gas but i am also menopausal so fear my digestion has changed in general so willing to give it a go
I had switched to lactose free milk but i had continued with cheddar and butter and going to try removing them and had continued with eggs. I thought it might be wheat too but that came back ok i thought nuts also but it says ok for those too.
has anyone else tried this test. My friend had and it changed her wellbeing entirely when she gave up things she never could have pin pointed - might be worth a go for you ?

I had a gut biome analysis done for similar problems. The culprit was high levels of bile acid. I'm not intolerant of gluten or sugar, but I've cut them out of my diet because they are inflammatories. I see a functional medicine doctor regularly to keep things under control and my gut healthy and well-functioning.

@Bideshi csn I ask how/ where you had gif biome analysis done ?

I had it done at the suggestion of my Functional Medicine doctor. I had appalling gut issues as well as a raft of worsening auto-immune conditions. The FM doctor was a real last resort but she's absolutely turned my life around. I think you need to do a gut biome exclusively through a doctor. In any case the results are a print-out of a lot of arcane abbreviations and numbers that a layman couldn't make head or tail of. God! it was enlightening though. And, of course, it enabled the changes and tweaks to target the awful issues I had, and, as a subsidiary, to strengthen my immune system. It cost around £350 for the analysis alone, but worth it. I thought I was going to end up faecally incontinent, but in the event, it was ridiculously easy to put right once the tools are there.