Now I think I know why I felt so bad before!!!!! Food detective work

November 24, 2008

Hi to everyone who responded to my previous message ' the good, the

bad and the ugly',

Looks like I might have found the culprit that caused my extreme

exhaustion, lethargy and foggy thinking since last week after I ate

a thin slice of icecream cake at my daughters birthday. I had been

on a really healthy diet prior to eating the cake (no artificial

anything/no refined sugars/lots of vegies,good nutritious food etc),

so I thought it might have been a reaction to the refined sugar.

I went and saw my doc yesterday and he thought it was a classic

response to gluten ingestion, but said that it could have been a

reaction to any of the ingredients in the ice cream cake that I

ate. I called the company who made the cake (who have supplied

gluten free products for time immemorial) and found out that they

changed their formulations about a year ago and started to add

gluten. I didn't even ask them when I bought the cake, as I've

bought their stuff forever and it has always been ok. Eech. I

usually ALWAYS re-check ingredients, but on this occasion I didn't

because I thought it would be fine. Lesson learnt.

No wonder I felt so bad. It all makes sense now, and I can

thankfully report that today is the first day in over a week where I

am feeling pretty good. The gluten must have shifted through.

Perhaps I also had a reaction to something else in the cake because

the response was pretty extreme and debilitating. I was so

concerned that my thyroid was playing up again, but it looks like it

was probably a reaction to gluten. Whew. I even feel like I might

be able to go for a walk again today, so things must be getting

better.

Thanks again for all of your responses before. They were really

helpful.

P

November 25, 2008

> I went and saw my doc yesterday and he thought it was a classic

> response to gluten ingestion, but said that it could have been a

> reaction to any of the ingredients in the ice cream cake that I

> ate. I called the company who made the cake (who have supplied

> gluten free products for time immemorial) and found out that they

> changed their formulations about a year ago and started to add

> gluten. I didn't even ask them when I bought the cake, as I've

> bought their stuff forever and it has always been ok. Eech. I

> usually ALWAYS re-check ingredients, but on this occasion I didn't

> because I thought it would be fine. Lesson learnt.

Hi P. Thanks for this update. Once again , exactly the same thing

happened with me. The company changed their supplier without me

knowing and after being assured the product was wheat free when I

first began eating it some while back (oats actually), including non

contaminination on the production line, I couldn't understand why I

started to feel bad again.

It was only after a bit of detective work and a few phone calls that

the company told me that due to the change over of supplier they

could no longer guarantee the product was wheat free. I haven't

eaten the oats since and my symptoms have disappeared.

I don't assume anything anymore. It's just not worth feeling ill for

days at a time. Lesson learnt here too!

So glad you're feeling better though. What a relief for you to have

nobbled the culprit and to be on the way up again.

x

November 25, 2008