[SeamsLikeStitches]

I am allergic to Eggs, Milk, and Almonds. There are a lot of foods that I can't eat, and some that I eat anyway. Maybe there are more that I eat that I am allergic to and don't know it! I can't eat cake, cookies, muffins, ice cream, bagels, pasta, anything made with eggs or milk, cheese, pizza, lots and lots of things.
Sometimes, I just eat them anyway, and suffer the consequences, which is usually cramping in my stomache and diahhreah (sp?) maybe there are other consequences which I am "now" becoming aware of!

I also have extreme allergies to anything with fur, dogs, cats, rabbits, horses, and I grew up in the country on a farm with horses! I was pretty mizerable most of my life thinking I was just the kid who always had a cold.

I have a "turned up nose" from always rubbing it!

Has anyone ever heard of allergies causing PN? Creating neurological issues? I come from a pretty poor family who never had medical insurance, so tests and medicine were never something we had, we just had "mom and Granny" to tell us we were "sickly" and to stay outa the barn when we were sneezin!

I guess I'll have to try a "pure" diet and see if it helps the PN. Any feedback you all have come across would be helpful. I feel so "green" as my Granny would say! Now I'm definitely a city girl, don't have an accent or anything any more, but the country girl still comes out! I don't have the city girl experience as a child, and didn't go to the doctor except for the two concussions and one broken eye socket as a kid until I was 15 years old! Didn't go as an adult until I was ready to start having babies! Even with this PN stuff didn't go until I was about 6 months into the weird pains!
It's a little out of my comfort zone. I was like Izzy on Fried Green Tomatoes, no girls around to make me act like a girl until I went to High school, so I didn't have to until then! Didn't wear shoes unless I went to school, didn't comb my hair unless my mom could catch me and sit on me!

ALWAYS wore shorts under my dress cuz I didn't want the boys to see my girlie panties when I beat them playing tether ball. Only one boy could beat me, and that's cuz he flunked a grade and he was bigger than me! I was the tallest girl in school, and always had to sit in the back.

On Easter, my mom's sister would come with her three pretty little girls to grandma's house and they all had on matching pink coats with bows in their hair and matching dresses. Momma would put those pink curlers in my hair at night, and in the morning put me in a dress and one of those stupid hats with the elastic around your chin to hold it on. She would make me wear white gloves and white socks with black hard shoes. The shoes made a real loud noise when ya swung your feet on the benches in church and banged them on the seat. Momma always put me between the boys to keep them from fighting. When I would bang my feet on the seat, she would reach over and pull that little elastic string on my hat and snap it against my neck. I couldn't squeal though, cuz then I'd get taken outside and get spanked! As soon as we'd get home, I'd run in the bathroom and put water all over my hair and make it flat again because I hated lookin like I had a football helmet on my head. I'd take off that itchy dress and put on my plaid shirt like my brothers and my courderoy pants like them. If those sissy girls could dress alike, then me and my four brothers could dress alike too! I still had to wear my girl shoes though. And momma would get mad when I got em all muddy out in the garage. My brothers found all my Barbie dolls and hung em up in the Garage from Nooses, like they were prisoners, they took the BB guns they got and shot them, like they were bad. At first I was so mad, then they let me shoot too, so I wasn't so mad. It was pretty fun. Then we hung up the GI Joes too! My cousins ran and told on us!

Oh, What were we talking about? The food allergies... Sorry, I got a little Nostalgic there! Did I tell you I grew up with six brothers? No, I'm not Gay, but it's a little hard to be "feminine" when your brothers try so hard to make fun of you when you are a girl. If you can't beat em, join em! When I hit 12 and puberty kicked in, all hell broke loose and those boys never knew what happened! I was a kicking screaming long fingernails fighting hormone raging long haired banshee! They avoided my bedroom like it was Filled with Poisonous Snakes, until I turned 15 and started bringing home my girlfriends, then it was the candy store!


Anyway, any ideas on food allergies, sensitivities and PN would be greatly appreciated. Since it's so closely related to Diabetes, why not?

Thank's y'all,

The Banshee woman !

[Brian]

Hi ,you made me laugh with the barbie dolls episode, anyway you might be on to something here, if its lactose Intolerance, Lactose intolerance can be an early sign of gluten sensitivity. iv'e read that milk causes 90% of food allergies, fish,shell fish & tree nut causes 5% & egg whites, peanuts, wheat & soybeans another 5%
Have you been tested for Gluton Sensitivity ?

CARA -[ Jccglutenfree ] has posted these refferances in our stickies,
http://jccglutenfree.googlepages.com/
http://jccglutenfree.googlepages.com/diagnostictesting
http://jccglutenfree.googlepages.com...ationsofgluten
http://members.cox.net/harold.kraus/...se_Intolerance
http://jccglutenfree.googlepages.com...sceliacdisease
http://jccglutenfree.googlepages.com/atriskpopulation

all the best
Brian

[mrsD]

Lactose intolerance is not an allergy... it is a lack of lactase enzyme to digest
lactose (called milk sugar) in dairy.

True dairy allergy is an allergy to the proteins in cow's milk called casein.

This is very different.

Lactose intolerant people can take tablets containing lactase (Lactaid) and
still eat dairy (from cows). There is also Lactaid milk with it added already.

Diarrhea from dairy is most typically a lactose problem. Systemic effects from dairy would point to casein.

[darlindeb25]

And I would like to add here--Celiacs is not an allergy, it is an intolerance to gluten. Gluten is wheat, rye, barley, and usually oats. Which would explain cakes, cookies, muffins, spaghetti--anything made with flours, etc. They all contain gluten. The sites Brian gave you to check out are all very good ones. As Mrsd says, many gluten sensitive or intolerant people will have a lactose intolerance in the beginning. Many people can return to lactose after several months of gluten free. This is a lifetime diet, cheating is something that should NEVER be done. A gluten intolerant person has a 60% higher chance of stomach cancers. This is a very serious disease.

And yes, celiacs is an autoimmune disease. When a celiac is still eating gluten, their system does not absorb vitamins and minerals. When you are malabsorbing, then a chemical imbalance sets in. A vitamin B12 deficiency does cause neuropathy. My neuropathy was discovered before I went gluten free. Sometimes neuropathy will reverse itself in some gluten intolerant people, it didn't reverse in me, but the progression did greatly slow down when I went gluten free. My first symptoms were carpal tunnel, in which in a very short time, my toes started going numb, one at a time until all of them would be numb at once. That was over 8 yrs ago.

[jccgf]

The research in regard to gluten sensitivity and neurological disease has really been booming~ I have just a few more short references...

"But the two things which are relevant to CD are nutrition and immunity. People with CD have nutritional deficits because of malabsorption; common causes of neuropathy are B12 deficiency, B1 deficiency, B6 deficiency, and Vitamin E deficiency. Neuropathies are also commonly caused by the immune system through autoimmune mechanisims."..."Latov commented that 20-25% of people with CD might have neuropathy."
Celiac Disease and Peripheral Neuropathy, Norman Latov, MD, PHD 2002

While neurological disease has long been a known, although lesser known, complication of celiac disease, newer research is suggesting that gluten sensitivity even without celiac disease can also cause neurological disease. Celiac disease is defined by biopsy evidence of damaged intestinal villi.

One of the researchers leading this area of study is Marios Hadjivassiliou.

From:
The Neurology of Gluten Sensitivity: Science vs. Conviction Hadjivassiliou and Grunewald
The term 'coeliac disease' should now be restricted to describe gluten sensitive enteropathy. The term gluten sensitivity describes a spectrum of disease that have in common an immune response to the ingestion of gluten, but with diverse manifestations such as an enteropathy (coeliac disease), dermatopathy (dermatitis herpetiformis) and neurological disorders (e.g. Gluten ataxia). Not suprisingly, the common aetiological trigger (gluten) means that these diseases overlap considerably. For example, the vast majority of patients with dermatitits herpetiformis also have an enteropathy, as do a third of patients with gluten ataxia (Hadjivassiliou et al. 2003b).

Here is a compiliation of his work...
http://brain.hastypastry.net/forums/...23&postcount=2

You need to be consuming gluten for blood tests to be accurate, so be sure to have blood drawn (if you are interested in testing) before you remove gluten from your diet. Seems this is worth exploring given your symptoms.

Cara