But a sister gave me some pure beef sausage for Christmas, and last weekend, I decided to try it. I ate some of it almost every day for most of the past week. A few days ago I noticed that I would wake up with a stiff, sore neck. I didn't pay much attention at first, thinking that I was probably just sleeping in the wrong position, or something of that sort. But it seemed to be getting worse with each passing day. This morning when I woke up (awakened, for any English majors who might be reading this), and couldn't get back to sleep because of the discomfort, it finally dawned on me that the only thing I've done differently recently was to eat beef.
Obviously, when we only occasionally eat a food that's a minor sensitivity, we're not likely to build up a significant level of antibodies against it, so we may not even notice any adverse effects. But eating it every day for a few days is very enlightening. Now, it's pretty clear that I cannot tolerate beef, after all. So one by one, the foods that I thought that I had regained the ability to safely eat, are turning out to cause the same symptoms that they caused when I was still recovering.
At any rate, I'm beginning to realize that we don't really lose our sensitivity to foods that create an antibody problem early on. We just "think" that we can tolerate them, until proven otherwise. Just because they don't cause major gastrointestinal symptoms, doesn't mean that they are being ignored by our immune system.
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I suspect that your GI doc has a vivid imagination that comes in handy for dreaming up creative reasons for symptoms that he doesn't understand.
