Post by CJSculpts on Dec 27, 2009 18:02:28 GMT -5
Does anyone else experience a stronger rebound reaction after being good for awhile??
Some of the following is a repeat of my reply to another post (sorry).
I have had multiple unexplained or partially health issues over the years. (Fainting, arrhythmia, GI problems out the wazoo, multiple types of migraines, etc.) This all came to a head in late August when I spent three weeks sleeping. Okay so I was awake for 2-3 hours per day. Major leg aches, slight sinusy feeling, etc. After the first week, I realized that I did not have the flu and got really sick of telling the world that I was not depressed I just couldn't maintain consciousness, had trouble accessing my own thoughts, and my brain was literally itchy. MY GP took one look at me and said, "What the hell is wrong with you!?!?" Thus started the amazing battery of test after test. The only this that she found in that round was low potassium. I now think that my high-potassium diet that she prescribed to get me out of that (mostly potatoes, avocados and kiwi) was actually pretty low in fructose which probably helped.
Now, what's interesting is that the crash came after I had been on a lite form of the HFI diet for a few weeks and then went off of it suddenly. I went on it because my mother stumbled across HFI/FM in a Google search of my symptoms and we both thought that it fit. I had put the exact same symptoms through multiple search engines a million times before but somehow never stumbled across it. I started on a mild version of the diet cutting out the obvious. I saw drastic improvement in body shape/size and some in pain. (I was diagnosed with SIBO a year ago and saw similar improvements which also faded over time so this whole issue was confused.) I stopped the diet for two reasons. One, my GI doc who is general fabulous and lecture at Stanford but "never had it as an issue" in his practice took a while to figure out even the breath test and with out a diagnosis, I was reluctant to stick to such an extreme diet. Obviously, because I was not on the full diet More importantly, my fiance opened a new restaurant so I had to eat everything in sight. Duh!
After my Dx, I went 100% on the diet for a week and felt amaaaaaazing starting from day one. My future father-in-law was visiting and he told my man that I must be feeling better because I spoke more to him in the the first morning than all other mornings from seven years of knowing him combined. I have never been a morning person but the FI symptoms really are horrible in the morning for me. Brilliantly, I decided that I could be a "little bad" for Thanksgiving - a few bites of the pies that I made, etc. Unfortunately, we also had a little "misunderstanding" at a restaurant the night before. The combo of the two nights made me ill for days - longer recovery than the week before.
I feel as though for most of my life I have had generalized low-medium-grade symptoms with some episodes of the really bad. Now if I go off diet, I feel like I go straight to bad like some sort of rebound effect.
Is it just me???
Some of the following is a repeat of my reply to another post (sorry).
I have had multiple unexplained or partially health issues over the years. (Fainting, arrhythmia, GI problems out the wazoo, multiple types of migraines, etc.) This all came to a head in late August when I spent three weeks sleeping. Okay so I was awake for 2-3 hours per day. Major leg aches, slight sinusy feeling, etc. After the first week, I realized that I did not have the flu and got really sick of telling the world that I was not depressed I just couldn't maintain consciousness, had trouble accessing my own thoughts, and my brain was literally itchy. MY GP took one look at me and said, "What the hell is wrong with you!?!?" Thus started the amazing battery of test after test. The only this that she found in that round was low potassium. I now think that my high-potassium diet that she prescribed to get me out of that (mostly potatoes, avocados and kiwi) was actually pretty low in fructose which probably helped.
Now, what's interesting is that the crash came after I had been on a lite form of the HFI diet for a few weeks and then went off of it suddenly. I went on it because my mother stumbled across HFI/FM in a Google search of my symptoms and we both thought that it fit. I had put the exact same symptoms through multiple search engines a million times before but somehow never stumbled across it. I started on a mild version of the diet cutting out the obvious. I saw drastic improvement in body shape/size and some in pain. (I was diagnosed with SIBO a year ago and saw similar improvements which also faded over time so this whole issue was confused.) I stopped the diet for two reasons. One, my GI doc who is general fabulous and lecture at Stanford but "never had it as an issue" in his practice took a while to figure out even the breath test and with out a diagnosis, I was reluctant to stick to such an extreme diet. Obviously, because I was not on the full diet More importantly, my fiance opened a new restaurant so I had to eat everything in sight. Duh!
After my Dx, I went 100% on the diet for a week and felt amaaaaaazing starting from day one. My future father-in-law was visiting and he told my man that I must be feeling better because I spoke more to him in the the first morning than all other mornings from seven years of knowing him combined. I have never been a morning person but the FI symptoms really are horrible in the morning for me. Brilliantly, I decided that I could be a "little bad" for Thanksgiving - a few bites of the pies that I made, etc. Unfortunately, we also had a little "misunderstanding" at a restaurant the night before. The combo of the two nights made me ill for days - longer recovery than the week before.
I feel as though for most of my life I have had generalized low-medium-grade symptoms with some episodes of the really bad. Now if I go off diet, I feel like I go straight to bad like some sort of rebound effect.
Is it just me???
