I've been doing much better with my night cramps since starting on 3000iu's of D3 and 375mg of magnesium daily. Thanks, Tex! But...
In an attempt to try an elimination diet to see if I react to soy this last week (just to be safe), I started using almond milk. Almost immediately after drinking it in my masala chai (the ginger and anise help my stomach immensely and we make the concentrate ourselves) I had gas, bloating, and pain. It also caused a bit of D and nausea later on. Looking at the label, I realized it said "may contain gluten and soy", so we threw it out and got another brand, assuming a mild glutening.
Today, though, with a certified gluten and soy free brand of almond milk, I had the same experience. Almost immediate bloating, gas, and pain with D not far behind. I never felt like this with the soy milk I was using and I haven't had day-time symptoms since I stopped dairy in June. And then I remembered an incident months ago with almond flour pancakes that created the same reaction.
In conclusion, I think I'm sensitive to almonds, not soy. Go figure!
I should have known it wasn't gluten contamination because I didn't have a Durhing's break-out, but I was so focused on my GI symptoms at the time.
It's so crazy what our guts will react to!
Out with Almond
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Out with Almond
Kind Thoughts,
Liz
Liz
It sounds as though you've certainly tracked this one down, and it's difficult to argue with that kind of evidence. Almonds are an interesting enigma. A number of us are sensitive to almonds, but we can tolerate almond milk just fine (if it's really pure), even though we react to almonds. Why, I have no idea.
About 10 or 12 years ago I tested negative for soy sensitivity. But several years ago, after I had a reaction to peanuts (ileus), I found that I was now sensitive to soy. So nothing is chiseled in stone, apparently.
Luckily, there are other milk alternatives, in case you are sensitive to soy — cashew milk, hemp milk, rice milk, and and coconut milk, for example.
In fact, for all I know, camel milk might be available in Jordan. If it is, milk from the 5 types of cameloids do not contain the type of casein to which we react, so it should be a safe alternative to cow's milk.
Tex
About 10 or 12 years ago I tested negative for soy sensitivity. But several years ago, after I had a reaction to peanuts (ileus), I found that I was now sensitive to soy. So nothing is chiseled in stone, apparently.
Luckily, there are other milk alternatives, in case you are sensitive to soy — cashew milk, hemp milk, rice milk, and and coconut milk, for example.
In fact, for all I know, camel milk might be available in Jordan. If it is, milk from the 5 types of cameloids do not contain the type of casein to which we react, so it should be a safe alternative to cow's milk.
Tex
It is suspected that some of the hardest material known to science can be found in the skulls of GI specialists who insist that diet has nothing to do with the treatment of microscopic colitis.