Apr 7

 Pattern.

It is tentative, but seems reproducible.

If I eat bread I get the worst nausea results after half an hour or so. Different types of bread hit differently. The worst is a multi seeded wholemeal. That being said. Even a sesame seed white bread caused issues.

If I don't eat that things are better. Not great. But much better.

Initial nausea and queasiness has nothing to do with bread. This seems to be a completely separate issue.

This is my months long - at this point years long - dance around is bread an issue and results coming back telling me its not gluten, its not celiac. And yet.

Another difference in recent months is I stopped buying the gluten free bread. It's super expensive, and I was not clear about the benefits of it. It didn't seem to be a gluten problem. But. I now suspect gluten free bread - whilst it might not be a gluten issue - doesn't trigger the same shit I am having with normal bread.

It could just be a level of fibre issue.

In previous bad bouts I have noticed that brown rice can cause me some issues. I had already concluded that it could be a fibre issue. But hadn't entirely proved it.

I think I need to make a meticulous record of food and symptoms at this point. Whilst I have been doing this previously in a roundabout fashion, I haven't been meticulous about it. I guess really my science approach to it was sloppy. 

Some of this has been a realisation where I am eating simply, and sometimes the same thing.

Yesterday I had 2 eggs. Some salt. Some garlic. And two slices of wholemeal seeded bread. Nothing else.

Sick. 

Yesterday I also had chicken - just plain chicken thighs, not processed, not packaged - potatoes and some veg. All of it was "whole foods". No processing. And I was better. Not great. But better.

I think I need to just try eggs on their own, no bread, and see how I react.

I do wonder if it's also not linear. In that sometimes I can tolerate some breads / fibre level. But if its having a bad spot I definitely can't. This would be a no brainer inline with some kind of inflamed gastro, and eating a problem product just massively irritates something already inflamed. If it's in a better state however, I can get away with it.

A mark against the fibre argument, or it not just being that, is that I can get bad effects when I eat white pasta, bugger all fibre. Same effects. It is however another wheaty type product.

Uh huh.

I think the thing to try and do here is find some basic food that gives me the best feeling result. And then fold in possible problem foods one at a time on top of it to see if you get a reaction.

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