Post by venusillegitima6 on Oct 17, 2012 20:08:24 GMT -5
Hi everyone! i can't tell you how happy I am to find this forum! For whole my life I have known no one but myself to have HFI and I have always felt like an alien in an alien land where I was the only one who had different dietary regime. i don't crave sweets since i hate the taste of sweet food in my mouth (figured out several years ago it was common for HFI individuals), yet i always had to explain to people who offered me sweet food why i couldn't eat it and what fructose intolerance was. I don't mind explaining but from time to time it does feel a bit boring.
Oh well, lets start from the beginning. I was diagnosed HFI when I was a few months old and my parents were told that I mustn't eat fruits and sugar. Unfortunately for me, doctors haven't told them that the great majority of vegetables also contained large amounts of fructose (such as tomatoes) so they spent considerable amount of energy and effort to make me eat vegetables because they were "good for my health", they used to say. I really tried to eat them, even forced myself to eat them, but I hated them. When I was a child, I used to pretend eating tomatoes, for example, kept the slices in my mouth without swallowing them, excused myself to the bathroom and spitted them in the toilet. I did not know why i hated veggies so much; after all they were good for my health and I knew I had HFI and had to consume vitamins through veggies.
Whenever I took a fructose-rich vegetable in my mouth, the immediate response was to try to chew it as long as possible, as if my organism wanted to prolong the intake of fructose. When, after a long chewing and constant scorn from my parents to swallow the food quickly so it would be better for me, well, when i finally swallowed it, i always had the most terrible sensation of a rush of something literally hitting my brain from within and the worst sweet taste in my throat that took a long time to go away. Nevertheless, i was made over and over again to eat veggies.
But I didn't have problems eating some of the veggies - like spinach, for example. It was tasty and I felt good eating it. My parents would always joke how I only ate a small and specific amount of vegetables.
Hypoglycemia was another thing I had problems with even though I didn't know i had it in the first place. My parents never bothered telling me about the condition though they knew about it unlike the infamous vegetables they didn't know about. I thought there was something wrong with me psychologically when I observed other kids having seemingly boundless energy, while i often felt like my whole being was in a survival mode. I even had to eat more often than other kids. I did not know why.
Five years ago, I decided to check the internet for the information on fructose intolerance (back then I didn't know it was hereditary) and realized that all the time my organism was right in avoiding most of the vegetables. I've learnt to trust my organism and not to eat food that my organism made me have aversion to and I must say that after several months of listening to my organism instead of other people, I felt like my whole organism was cleansed of toxic materials and I felt healthier.
The problem of hypoglycemia persisted though I stopped thinking I had psychological problems.
And several months ago I discovered dextrose tablets that helped me a lot whenever I felt the first symptoms of hypoglycemia coming. When I first tasted them, I remember thinking "Hm, so this is what happens when non-HFI people taste sweet food! It's sweet and it's good!". I was truly amazed.
Sorry for the long post, but i had to share my story with people who will understand it
Oh well, lets start from the beginning. I was diagnosed HFI when I was a few months old and my parents were told that I mustn't eat fruits and sugar. Unfortunately for me, doctors haven't told them that the great majority of vegetables also contained large amounts of fructose (such as tomatoes) so they spent considerable amount of energy and effort to make me eat vegetables because they were "good for my health", they used to say. I really tried to eat them, even forced myself to eat them, but I hated them. When I was a child, I used to pretend eating tomatoes, for example, kept the slices in my mouth without swallowing them, excused myself to the bathroom and spitted them in the toilet. I did not know why i hated veggies so much; after all they were good for my health and I knew I had HFI and had to consume vitamins through veggies.
Whenever I took a fructose-rich vegetable in my mouth, the immediate response was to try to chew it as long as possible, as if my organism wanted to prolong the intake of fructose. When, after a long chewing and constant scorn from my parents to swallow the food quickly so it would be better for me, well, when i finally swallowed it, i always had the most terrible sensation of a rush of something literally hitting my brain from within and the worst sweet taste in my throat that took a long time to go away. Nevertheless, i was made over and over again to eat veggies.
But I didn't have problems eating some of the veggies - like spinach, for example. It was tasty and I felt good eating it. My parents would always joke how I only ate a small and specific amount of vegetables.
Hypoglycemia was another thing I had problems with even though I didn't know i had it in the first place. My parents never bothered telling me about the condition though they knew about it unlike the infamous vegetables they didn't know about. I thought there was something wrong with me psychologically when I observed other kids having seemingly boundless energy, while i often felt like my whole being was in a survival mode. I even had to eat more often than other kids. I did not know why.
Five years ago, I decided to check the internet for the information on fructose intolerance (back then I didn't know it was hereditary) and realized that all the time my organism was right in avoiding most of the vegetables. I've learnt to trust my organism and not to eat food that my organism made me have aversion to and I must say that after several months of listening to my organism instead of other people, I felt like my whole organism was cleansed of toxic materials and I felt healthier.
The problem of hypoglycemia persisted though I stopped thinking I had psychological problems.
And several months ago I discovered dextrose tablets that helped me a lot whenever I felt the first symptoms of hypoglycemia coming. When I first tasted them, I remember thinking "Hm, so this is what happens when non-HFI people taste sweet food! It's sweet and it's good!". I was truly amazed.
Sorry for the long post, but i had to share my story with people who will understand it
