Finally, I have been diagnosed!
After not being well during these past, at least five years, I have been given a diagnos and a diet to follow that makes me feel fantastic (well that is if I don’t eat anything that I shouldn’t..which takes five days of symptoms before I am fine again).
I was sent to a new dietician by my GP after moving back to Sydney and deciding that I have to find out what is wrong with me (again…thinking perhaps a new Doctor might have a new solution). The Dietician suggested that I might be suffering from a missing enzyme that brakes down Fermentable sugars. When she described how it feels when you have this – it was like she knew what had been going on (and was going on ) in my body.
She put me on a strict Low FODMAP diet. Six weeks of a special elimination diet with the plan to reintroduce some of all of the eight different groups of Fermentable sugars there are. Mostly people will be able to tolerate some of the groups.
After two weeks, I started feeling Great! First time in many years I was not feeling nauseous when hungry, which was every two hours if I did not eat anything within this period…and a lot of other symptoms that had gone. I slept better, had more energy and felt amazing.
The re-introduction did not go well and so far, I have not been able to add any of the groups.
Therefore my diet is very strict. More on this in other post.