Irritable Bowel Syndrome Message Boards | Re: My GI gave me the same advice

Hi! I went totally wheat free along with many other things from 1980 to about 1990. I learned to make rice breads, actually anything flour (safe) and NO eggs even. I used applesauce which acts a lot like eggs.

There is something I learned about a year ago. I thought I was having problems with lactose. I got some cheese as one old doctor who has done great work on this subject said cheese had no lactose. I got upset on cheese so I cut it out not understanding why it bothered me. One day I bought some soy cheddar cheese thinking I'd made a GREAT find. It got me! So I got into the label, and it was CASEIN!!! I cannot handle casein. So if any of you ever come across this check those labels and look at casein and whey hard. I can do whey, not casein. But I rarely even do the whey. I did find a true non-dairy sliced cheese made of soy some months back. It's "okay" and melts onto san in microwave or whatever!

My former internist actually told me in the 70s to go see a shrink! Well, I was already having counseling so that was not the right answer. This went on and on until someone in his family began having food sensitivities. Must have been earth-shattering as the entire family changed course and ate differently. Then all he could talk about were food sensitivities! These doctors just don't know until they or a loved one falls ill to IBS via food sensitivites. Most of my problems have to do with food sensitivities (like allergy I think).

I don't think I'm allergic to wheat (I love French bread, but I overdo so maybe it's time to stop or straighten up). Maybe I should do all the tests again as in "Elimination Diet" as I did in 1980! I truly got along well, but I was not having much problem with IBS. My other doctor found allergies in my blood tests.

Right now I just want whatever is wrong to be gone! Real gone! I'm just miserable. I'm all over the message boards on it so I won't repeat, but when someone says they are discouraged I understand. I am just about ready to join the chorus of "give up" except I have no way to go. If I'm just dealing with an infection perhaps this will grind down. I can only hope.

Anybody else have problems with all antibiotics? I get so ill now that it's awful! I can be IV'd with most, but the other morning two, or at least one, about ruined me! I got SO ill. It surprised me! I was then asked to take Cipro and Clindomycin (think I'm allergic to it). Yikes! On Flagyl and got really bad reaction!

What do you do when you need antibiotics? I'm really getting concerned as this is first time I've needed anything since I had intestinal surgery Dec. 2003 (not for IBS so don't even go there!).

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