IBS Tales

I’ve now been dairy and gluten-free for 10 days, and I remain spectacularly symptom-free. No pain, no diarrhea, no constipation, no nothing. I go to the bathroom once in the morning like a normal person, and then I go about my life for the rest of the day (mostly like a normal person), and then [...]

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Had a quick chat with my nutritionist today, and have booked an appointment in a couple of weeks to go through the results of the food intolerance test and the CDSA test (the CDSA results haven’t come in yet).
The nutritionist said that he had only ever seen four or five results on the food test [...]

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I’ve got the results back for the ELISA food intolerance blood test – these guys work fast!
The results they send you basically split foods into one of three categories, colour-coded red, amber or green to show which foods you should avoid (red), which are borderline (amber), and which can be eaten freely (green). They also [...]

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OK, I’ve now sent off the second (and last) test, which was the food intolerance ELISA test. This was certainly not as gross as the CDSA test but was more painful – you get a little ‘lancet’ which you have to use to puncture the tip of your finger, and then you squeeze the wound [...]

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(Don’t read this if you’re eating. I mean it – you have been warned.)
OK, today I finished taking the comprehensive digestive stool analysis (CDSA) test, which checks for little bugs and beasties like unfriendly bacteria and parasites. And it was pretty unpleasant.
Basically, you get a home test kit, and then you have to collect ’samples’ [...]

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