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EssexHebridean

Redo I assume you have been tested for Crohns (assuming you're not already diagnosed allowing that it appears you are eating totally GF)? For anyone else reading and having issues, the current recommendation with any gut-based issues is to ask for testing for that as numbers seem to be increasing year on year yet only a small percentage of sufferers are actually diagnosed.

RosaBernicia

Totally agree on the time / money balance thing - your sanity needs to be properly valued!



I don't get the apple juice and oats thing - love both separately, but why not just have lovely porridge with a glass of pressed juice? !





Rosa xx

Seasidegal58

Hope things are ok with you redo and you're working with the heat on and enjoying bananas and ginger stem cookies!:D
x

redofromstart

Sun_Addict wrote: »

Now you've made me want a stem ginger biscuit, if they are those Nairn ones they are rather nice

yes they are, and yes they are!

EssexHebridean wrote: »

Redo I assume you have been tested for Crohns (assuming you're not already diagnosed allowing that it appears you are eating totally GF)?

Tested for crohns and coeliac, both fine. The killer fortnight when i had to eat enough gluten for the tests to work crippled me.

RosaBernicia wrote: »

I don't get the apple juice and oats thing - love both separately, but why not just have lovely porridge with a glass of pressed juice? !

I thought that but I am trying to make myself taste more things instead of just assuming I wont like them

redofromstart

Seasidegal58 wrote: »

Hope things are ok with you redo and you're working with the heat on and enjoying bananas and ginger stem cookies!:D
x

I'm ok thanks, having a bit of a flare which has upset me. Its a year next week since the first incident, and I was hoping it was going away. Sadly not

redofromstart

greenbee wrote: »

The oat thing sounds grim. And I thought you did better on low carb anyway?

A couple of things to suggest - try doing the FODMAP diet to identify triggers (I've been through this with my mum recently and she's cut her dairy down and is avoiding onions, leeks and garlic), and read Megan Rossi's gut book and also the Michael Mosley Clever Guts book if you haven't already.

I got my head round the need to heat the house a couple of years ago. It's my workplace - and it probably costs less to heat it than it would for me to commute. Plus if my hands are cold I can't type!

I do tend to low carb but need to try new things or I mostly just dont bother at all. Ive read clever guts, and have been doing some of it, more so in the last week since the scary information that I have gained 9kg in a year of sitting on my backside clutching my sore side,

I looked at FODMAP but it takes out nice things like onion.

doingitanyway

Sorry to hear about your flare-up. What a shame it has stopped you from going away. Was just thinking you had been quiet of late. Take care.

greenbee

redofromstart wrote: »

I looked at FODMAP but it takes out nice things like onion.

That's kind of the point

My mum did it, and although she didn't really do it properly, has identified onions/garlic/leeks and dairy as things to avoid. She still has dairy, just a LOT less of it (oat milk in her vast number of lattes every day, saving the dairy for yogurt and cheese, in smaller quantities than previously.

redofromstart

Thanks DIA
Greenbee, I eat the tiniest amount of dairy and even then by exception. Think it would be the onions that I would miss most and we don't have much as DS1 hates them. I do keep a food diary and there doesn't seem to be a pattern at all. I just woke up at 3am on Thursday and attempted to turn myself inside out for no obvious reason (sorry, but I can't think of a politer description). I would mind less if I had foolishly eaten X knowing it was a trigger. It's the randomness that frustrates me most.

redofromstart

Today has been productive. When I changed car we kept my old 4wd as it was worth pennies and was useful when it snowed. We rehomed it yesterday which meant a refund on the insurance, and a transfer if my larger no claims to the new car, all in all a £135 reduction in my renewal next week as well as no future spend on insurance for the old car. It also cleared room on the drive for a skip, or a builders merchants delivery, or bulk logs instead of buying expensive bagged ones. This removes a big barrier to progress.

£5 on Gulp drive cleaner in H car place did a good job of clearing elderly oil stains of the block paved drive. It'll need another scrub but still money well spent, especially as OH did the hands and knees scrubbing bit.

My snowdrops are looking lovely, and my many transplants took nicely. Will move more this year as the thousands under the fruit tree have expanded to refill the gaps. Love snowdrops. I also frittered under £2 on a pot of white hyacinths in Lidl. They had some lovely zinc planted spring bulb things too for £7 but I haven't anywhere to put it that I would look at daily. I have two highly scented white winter honeysuckles doing their thing next to the path to the cars anyway.

£3 spent on kindle, the Pratchett of the month and a Dorothy Sayers. I'm rehoming the hard copies as I buy new ones. Hypothetically. I will exit the hard copies, I will.