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Ravenwood
Ravenwood

Well, I've come across a new symptom.  Not new exactly, just worsening.  In the last 6 months or so, there does not seem to be a fruit that I can tolerate.  No matter what I try, I end up nauseated and close to throwing up.  Anyone else lose an entire food group before?  And if so, did you get it back over time?  Thanks all!

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  • andrew_08416
    andrew_08416 Ravenwood

    Posted

    It's strange but yes. Not entire groups but craving foods I don't usually like.

    Recently green cabage. But has been very specific red watermelon. Walnuts. Prawns. Cheese Coscus things like that. Even craving red wine which gives me chronic migraines.

    I seem to have lost interest in pasta and chocolate

    But nothing makes me feel sick.

  • Guest
    Guest Ravenwood

    Posted

    Hi Ravenwood, firstly I apologise if I am repeating myself as I appreciate some of us overlap in other groups like IBS etc.  I can't say it's quite the same as rather than having nausea specifically after eating something, I would usually wake up with nausea in the morning and throughout the day would suffer ibs(d), however I couldn't eat fruit, wheat or dairy and thought I had a problem with all of them for many years, I recently found I (and a couple of my relatives) have a problem with oils (olive/veg/palm etc).

    Since cutting them out of my diet I can now eat most things, as long as they are homemade or carefully selected shop bought.  I wouldn't say I am 100% recovered but probably 95% in that respect, atlhough that is more because of the fatigue, as I still let the diet slip when I am too tired to prepare anything and have run out of freezer back-ups, I will still occasionally head for the takeout, but at least I now know why it happens so can recover quickly these days.

    Is frutcose allergy testing a thing? if so could you be tested?  as with me sometimes i could eat something and be ok but then most of the time I couldn't and it could be quite confusing with what was going on but with you it sounds very definitely just fruit?

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    Hi Andrew, I know my experience won't necessarily be the case for others but thought I would mention, as I have had migraines regularly since I was a child and though I like red wine it didn't like me for a very long time.  Another thing I have found since cutting out these oils is that my migraines have reduced not only in number but severity too and I can tolerate red wine again smile  Now, I feel I must add that I am 39 so there is a chance I am heading towards menopause and perhaps chemical changes are having an effect on my migraines (as I know this was the case for my gran) but I currently have no menopause symptoms and no real reason to think this is the case and is a big coincidence that the same month I removed these oils from my diet I noticed the difference in my migraines (possibly an Omega misbalance, i'm no expert but is the only thing I can think of)

    • andrew_08416
      andrew_08416 Guest

      Posted

      Ah so what your saying is reach for the bottle then :-)

      For me my triggers have always been the tanning. I'm 37 and male so no chance of menapose. That being said I read up on menopause the other day for a friend interesting subject do glad I'm a guy.

    • Guest
      Guest andrew_08416

      Posted

      hahaha, yeah that probably read a bit funny - oops, wasn't suggesting you may have migraines due to womens hormones, i'm just a bit wary of telling people that it's definitely cutting out oils that is getting rid of mine, as I know someone who swore for years that his mum went to a hot country once and came back and it cured her migraines and perhaps I should go there one day - but what she didn't tell him for two decades was that she went through the menopause whilst she was over there, i'm just aware i'm getting to that age so feel the need to add that in so as not to mislead people, but thats a point given this thought I may reach for the bottle myself! :D
    • andrew_08416
      andrew_08416 Guest

      Posted

      Hi Kirsty 

      Actually its a valid point.  Men also go through a type of Man-O-Pause as we get older we start to produce less testostarone, but generally speaking doesnt hit us until later in life. 

      I had cancer last year and im believing that its my body chemistry which is to blame for all this. but not hormonal, they checked that and apprently im normal lol.

      Managed to get another appointment today   

    • Guest
      Guest andrew_08416

      Posted

      thats a new one on me, after all the health research I have done over the years can't believe I wasn't aware of the male version of menopause - you learn something new everyday!  Perhaps there is hope for men with migraines after all smile  

      ahh ok, so perhaps some of my comments have been less than helpful if you have recently had cancer, glad to hear you are talking about it in the past tense, I truly hope it stays that way for you 

      oh to be normal, lol  ask them to check their medical encyclopedias while you are there, i'm not sure there's a test for that! smile

       

    • andrew_08416
      andrew_08416 Guest

      Posted

      Hi kirsty it's all good my dear.

      I ended treatment last September with positive results. Since then I've always had fatigue and brain fog problems until recently were Ok to deal with all changed towards the end of October. I've wrote about it in another blog.

      xXx

  • alison44235
    alison44235 Ravenwood

    Posted

    I am on the fod-map diet (google it). I can only eat fruit half an hour before a meal or two hours after a meal. I can't have fruit mixed in with any food. i.e. chocloalte and orange cake.I hope this helps. I would expand on this but am just too tired.
    • Ravenwood
      Ravenwood alison44235

      Posted

      Thanks. I will check it out. I'm sorry you are so tired. Hope you feel better soon.
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