Wow, it's been a long time since I picked this up. It's amazing how much things. Hangs and yet how much they stay the same. I am restarting this more for myself than anything else, just as a way to keep notes. Why not? It's public, so it's kind of weir that I will be sharing some pretty weir details on here, but at the same time, if we don't share this stuff, how to others learn? So here we are.
Since I last posted, I have had another baby...a baby who is now one! How time flies, and how much less of it I have! Luckily with all of the gut healing I did, she seems pretty healthy. Not too much to worry about this one food wise. Beyond strictly adhering to my crazy hippy food requirements, lol! No birthday cake for this one. It's okay though, she loves all things food and noshes on everything under the sun. She has a particular affinity for bones, asparagus, and summer squash right now.
N was doing really well for a while, but as my surprise pregnancy progressed and I became more stressed, we fell off of the paleo wagon, and fell into a more traditional foods paradigm. Which lead to various episodes of take out. For a little while things seemed to be going pretty well. But increasingly N's symptoms began to resurface, and now that he was getting older some sensory stuff starting becoming more obvious. He continued to have GI issues, mostly constipation. He continued to be be finicky with his meals...as do most toddlers, I suppose. His behavior just got worse and worse, and I remember it like a dark cloud over us.
Once we started to get back to a more paleo approach, his symptoms in terms of behavior improved significantly....but again, baseline was still eluding us. We brought him to a GI specialist, who told us to give him mirilax indefinitely. If removing gluten made us happy, then that as cool. But she didn't "deal" with allergies. It was a waste of time and money.
Next we went to an integrative medicine place. It was awesome. The doctor knew our story, since he has seen it hundreds of times before. He was familiar with our dietary ideas and endorsed them. He even had a few of his own to offer. First we did a stool test, then a food reactivity test. I was alittle skeptical of the food reactivity test, called electro dermal skin testing. But you know what, it worked, so I am not complaining. Then the stool test told us N's levels of inflammation were through the roof high....like one of the highest the doctor had ever seen high. There were a couple of other markers that were elevated, and evidence of yeast overgrowth. But no way to really address the other issues until we get his inflammation down.
The food tests eliminated a lot of our go to foods, and combined with the what I already know he reacts to, gives us more than 20 major foods to eliminate or significantly reduce exposure too. Foods like eggs, and bananas, and apples, and dates, and beef. In addition to the dairy, soy, corn, and gluten. Even rice and avocado. So that's what we are working on now. Plus I think that we are seeing more things crop up. It's like what is happening with me...the more I heal, the more my body is healthy enough to react to.
Currently, by removing eggs, N has gone from chronic constipation to diarrhea. And I am having some pretty rotten symptoms myself. So that is where we are. I will be posting lists of the food chemicals that we will have to test, then trying to come up with a rotation diet to test them. Or do the GAPS intro diet and figure out the best order to reintroduce....but I am afraid of dumping high levels of toxins into the bloodstream....along with actually getting N to eat.
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