Anticlimactic

[desayunoencama]

I've been fighting off a sore throat these past few days of off-and-on rain and cold, and it seems the sore throat is winning.

I went to get my intestinal biopsy results, and the final determination is that I have a non-celiac wheat intolerance. Sometimes what looks like a duck and quacks like a duck is not, in fact, a duck. Although to all intents and purposes it is. That is, the same treatment for celiac applies: just don't eat it. The only upside is that since it is not an immune-based reaction, I merely have unpleasant symptoms that are less severe in their repercussions than having full-on celiac would've implied.

I've been wondering if (apart from or related to the wheat issues) I might have a salicylate sensitivity. This would explain both the rash (on my arm) that I got after my recent dental cleaning, and the sores I get around my lips after drinking orange juice, for instance (I tested negative for an allergy to oranges, but still wind up having a reaction, something that has only happened to me since going off the wheat in February).

I think I need to just stop worrying about all of this for a while, though, and make sure to eat as well as possible from among the limited diet I have left. I can experiment again (elimination or reintroducing) later.

One further health-related note: On Saturday I was out with some friends who stopped at Palazzo on Gran Via for ice cream. I was all set to order a water-based sorbet... but I'd been so good for so long, I ordered the mint chocolate chip ice cream instead.

Which was delicious.

Although I started having a headache before I even finished it, and then upset stomach and etc. as per usual when I have dairy. Sigh.

(And the encroaching sore throat started that night after the ice cream, too. Sigh.)

Comments

This is troublesome

[bodandra.livejournal.com]

And not just for you, wish I could give advice, but I am not a doctor.

(perhaps the sore throat might be Strep throat?)

[beckycochrane.livejournal.com]

I'm glad it's not celiac. I know it sucks, though, to have all these tummy issues.

[skytale.livejournal.com]

gute Besserung, man!:)

[redbird]

One possible upside to its not being celiac is that you might be okay with some other grains that people who have celiac need to avoid.

[artemisin.livejournal.com]

That sucks, man, but at least it's better than celiac and you know what's wrong. After so many months of uncertainty, I'm sure you were anxious for some kind of result.

Big hug.