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Didn't get the Proto-type gig, but that's cool. I feel good about the whole thing anyway, and now need to think "waltz scene" over and over, as that would be some beautiful cash money. And I have auditions the next two weekends, so that's something.

And I think I've decided to go get new glasses today. It's been years. And so this is an entirely necessary "extravagence."

Finally, I can now eat chicken, avocado, corn muffins and peanut butter, in addition to all that rice and toast nonsense. I even had vitamin water and a dairy-free chocolate chip cookie the other day without my body going completely insane. I'm not going to add new foods for bit, but just work on eating more of these without incident.

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The Alice Luxton One-Man Symposium on Dietary Issues

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I don't know how much info John's been dropping off here, but since your posts are sending him off into rampant fits of hypochondria, I should probably drop off some info on his stuff -- info un-scarred by the rampant fits of hypochondria. :-)

His thing turned out to be completely, 100% (or 99% -- as far as I can tell from everything he says, his digestive tract used to be robot-perfect, then it was screwed up for a while, now it just works like the standard-issue human one -- which might be due to microscopic amounts of casein he's getting from non-kosher-kept dishes, or not) dairy intolerance. He didn't track this down until I poked and brainstormed and meeped and flailed and researched like mad for the first three months (ish? More?) of our relationship.

It is not like an allergy they can uncover on an allergy test; in his case it has to do with casein and whey protein, not lactose; it mimicks strongly the symptoms and recovery pattern (2 months avg. from ingestion of harmful material to full recovery) of celiac disease. Since they've found that about a third of celiacs have casein intolerance as well as gluten, it makes perfect sense to me that they just haven't medically discovered the celiacs who have casein intolerance but not gluten intolerance yet. I have a website largely delivering information on dairy intolerance from personal experience

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I don't know how much info John's been dropping off here, but since your posts are sending him off into rampant fits of hypochondria, I should probably drop off some info on his stuff -- info un-scarred by the rampant fits of hypochondria. :-)

His thing turned out to be completely, 100% (or 99% -- as far as I can tell from everything he says, his digestive tract used to be robot-perfect, then it was screwed up for a while, now it just works like the standard-issue human one -- which might be due to microscopic amounts of casein he's getting from non-kosher-kept dishes, or not) dairy intolerance. He didn't track this down until I poked and brainstormed and meeped and flailed and researched like mad for the first three months (ish? More?) of our relationship.

It is not like an allergy they can uncover on an allergy test; in his case it has to do with casein and whey protein, not lactose; it mimicks strongly the symptoms and recovery pattern (2 months avg. from ingestion of harmful material to full recovery) of celiac disease. Since they've found that about a third of celiacs have casein intolerance as well as gluten, it makes perfect sense to me that they just haven't medically discovered the celiacs who have casein intolerance but not gluten intolerance yet. I have a website largely delivering information on dairy intolerance from personal experience <a href="http://dairyallergy.chaosbutterfly.net</a>here</a>.

(If you've been eating rice and toast, you haven't checked for gluten. Which is awfully tedious, but you might want to try if you still haven't figured it out in a few months.)

The full-blown, awfully boring, almost foolproof elimination diet, as well as a bunch of other anecdotal and medical advice, is in a book I read half of in the bookstore once while researching in wild panic for John. <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0892818751/sr=8-1/qid=1146800512/ref=pd_bbs_1/104-9767124-4522320?%5Fencoding=UTF8">Food Allergies & Food Intolerance</a>, it's called.

You seem to be instinctively doing your own elimination diet. I advise reading labels at all times and not introducing new foods more than once a week. If the casual version doesn't work, head for the formal version. Nobody wants to eat the same three boring foods for a month straight -- but it will almost always get all triggers and problem foods sorted out and written in stone, and it's better than a lifetime of slow, killing misery.

Other random things you might want to look at and/or return to after a while --

Western doctors won't ever consider the possibility of a yeast overgrowth, largely because some nut once wrote a book that soured them on the plausibility of the idea. But it's perfectly possible, and happened to Becca and John for a week not long ago after they tasted some half-made wine. They cured it by eating *microbially active* yogurt, soy yogurt if dairy is off the plate.

Hope you enjoyed the one-man symposium! I would offer an accordion finale, but that is in my other userpic.

Re: The Alice Luxton One-Man Symposium on Dietary Issues

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Fegh! That was perfectly valid markup, I say. Well, you get your accordion finale, for the trouble.

(It is naturally a rendition of the Thomas Dolby song "Hyperactive.")

Re: The Alice Luxton One-Man Symposium on Dietary Issues

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As this improves I've been strongly suspecting a yeast overgrowth (I had the same thing in high school, but the symptoms were exactly the opposite, but I'm starting to wonder if that's what this is), or something celiac-related. Hrmmmm. It's the sudden onset that is still so odd.