My chronic pain has really lessened. I still have some headaches and nerve pain in left hand, but overall my pain is gone. It has been almost three year since surgery for thoracic outlet and I still had sever pain. My neurosurgeon ordered ALCAT testing. It showed food intolerances. I started the elimination diet in mid December and now 3 months later, I am feeling like a new person. I have accidentally ingested something on my No No list and later felt pain. It is hard to eat but worth the effort. It is wonderful not living on pain pills.

That's wonderful to hear.

I'm not sold on ALCAT at all, and it's not really necessary for doing an elimination diet (The Specific Carbohydrate Diet (SCD) is another) and/or identifying food triggers.
Doc

All I can say is that the ALCAT testing is working for me. I have accidental ingested different things on my NoNo list and I started hurting. I am just happy to start living a normal life.

So great to read your post....wishing you the best going forward

Debi from Georgia

If you use google scholar you can find different articles where they are using the iGg blood test. I have found other labs that do this test. The Integrative Medicine Physicians use this to diagnose and to treat many conditions. It really is cutting edge.

Yes, but for what? IGg testing is used in many different contexts, others of which have been validated & accepted.

Immunoglobulins

Goggle Schoolar will also yield different articles skeptical of iGg testing usefulness/validity in this context, e.g. Food elimination in IBS: the case for IgG testing remains doubtful and:

emphasis mine


I have difficulty characterizing something that's been around for ~25 years (and yet has still not been validated/accepted) as being "cutting edge".

If I were to take 10 symptomatic people at random and give them a list of 50-100 (or more?) foods at random that are known antigens, statistical chances would be highly in my favor that I'd get quite a few coincidental matches. This is not medical science—it's statistics & probability.

I'll reiterate, it's wonderful that your pain is lessened and you're feeling better, so let's not let that be overshadowed.

Doc

That is great to hear. I have never heard of ALCAT testing but after years of feeling tired, achy, nauseous and bloated all the time I did an elimination diet. I went to all sorts of specialist doctors to find out what was wrong and they never gave me any help. Luckily after cutting out gluten, eggs, dairy fat, and peanuts I feel less awful. I highly suggest experimenting with your diet to anyone who has GI or pain issues.