You're missing a presentation. Psychological conditions are not red herrings for food allergies. They're red herrings for physicians having poor physiological understanding. I have IgE seeming reactions with elevated serum PGD2 and sometimes mildly elevated tryptase rapidly after ingesting offending foods. Only thing is that I do not have IgE antibodies to these foods. The presentations are anaphylactic in nature excluding external swelling. There is voice hoarseness, tachycardia, shortness of breath, severe POTS-like symptoms, diarhhea, nausea, vomiting all immediately after ingesting the offending foods. But there's no IgE antibodies present to anything except for outdoor molds, cow's milk, and beef. Many incompetent providers are quick to assume it is a somatoform disorder but this is so blatantly insane. It is like calling women witches in the 1800s because they didn't understand what PMS was. It is incomplete understanding of biology. It is a predictable syndrome that has gotten worse overtime, with almost all foods causing some sort of reaction like this at this point. I have to keep switching foods to ones that don't give me severe enough symptoms to go to the emergency room but i have to rapidly switch back n forth. They did a bunch of MCAS testing which ended up being almost entirely negative. Seems like they're missing something important!
I'm going to put this information out there for anyone who suffers from EoE or just got diagnosed later in life (29 years old) with no understanding of why... I never had a history of any food allergies. Turns out I'm allergic to red meat. I hunt in Alaska and got a bad chigger rash when I was 17 years old. At first I had no symptoms. At some point I noticed a slight change in bowel habits, my stools becoming just slightly lighter in color. I started to get a very mild fatigue as well, not debilitating but noticeable. By the time I was 20 I started to get dry eyes. This is when I became concerned and went to the doctors. Tested negative for everything. Every stool sample, parasite, blood work, labs, abdominal scan, brain scan. No answers. I told myself that I can live with these symptoms, they are not that bad, and I'm not dying so its okay. By the time I was 25, I was having even worse fatigue, having really bad days and some nights were I would get such bad dry eyes that it would wake me up and I would have to put in eye drops. I said we must have missed something. Went and saw a GI specialist, had a colonoscopy, upper endoscopy, another abdominal scan, redid all blood work, tested for every autoimmune disease, and was negative for everything once again. I then turn 28 years old. I am not doing good. So much fatigue that I now hated life. I did not enjoy waking up. I said I would give it one last shot. Went to the same GI doctor again, this time with my parents. They begged for him to help me as I was becoming crippled from fatigue. I tested positive for SIBO. We thought thank god, we can be cured now. I did a month of anti biotics and an Elemental carnivore diet. It all failed. No improvement. The GI doctor was stumped. We couldn't take no for an answer at this point so we went and saw another doctor. At this point I was have steatorrhea regularly. I couldn't digest food. Food was coming out of me raw sometimes. I had been doing a food journal for almost a year at this point with nothing that I could track down. Second GI doctor tested me for IGG in my blood serum. I had high levels of IGG4. Turn's out I was in a permanent allergic reaction that did not trigger IgE (what leads to anaphylaxis). I had another upper endoscopy done and this I was diagnosed with Eosinophilic esophagitis (EoE) which is almost always caused by a chronic food allergy. Turns out it was meat and dairy and gelatin and anything that comes from a mammal. I never considered it after all these years. I didn't even know that was possible. Hope this helps give some insight to someone who is having this and cant figure out why and is completely stumped. Good luck out there. I know you will need it.
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You're missing a presentation. Psychological conditions are not red herrings for food allergies. They're red herrings for physicians having poor physiological understanding.
I have IgE seeming reactions with elevated serum PGD2 and sometimes mildly elevated tryptase rapidly after ingesting offending foods. Only thing is that I do not have IgE antibodies to these foods. The presentations are anaphylactic in nature excluding external swelling. There is voice hoarseness, tachycardia, shortness of breath, severe POTS-like symptoms, diarhhea, nausea, vomiting all immediately after ingesting the offending foods. But there's no IgE antibodies present to anything except for outdoor molds, cow's milk, and beef. Many incompetent providers are quick to assume it is a somatoform disorder but this is so blatantly insane. It is like calling women witches in the 1800s because they didn't understand what PMS was. It is incomplete understanding of biology. It is a predictable syndrome that has gotten worse overtime, with almost all foods causing some sort of reaction like this at this point. I have to keep switching foods to ones that don't give me severe enough symptoms to go to the emergency room but i have to rapidly switch back n forth. They did a bunch of MCAS testing which ended up being almost entirely negative. Seems like they're missing something important!
I'm going to put this information out there for anyone who suffers from EoE or just got diagnosed later in life (29 years old) with no understanding of why... I never had a history of any food allergies. Turns out I'm allergic to red meat. I hunt in Alaska and got a bad chigger rash when I was 17 years old. At first I had no symptoms. At some point I noticed a slight change in bowel habits, my stools becoming just slightly lighter in color. I started to get a very mild fatigue as well, not debilitating but noticeable. By the time I was 20 I started to get dry eyes. This is when I became concerned and went to the doctors. Tested negative for everything. Every stool sample, parasite, blood work, labs, abdominal scan, brain scan. No answers. I told myself that I can live with these symptoms, they are not that bad, and I'm not dying so its okay. By the time I was 25, I was having even worse fatigue, having really bad days and some nights were I would get such bad dry eyes that it would wake me up and I would have to put in eye drops. I said we must have missed something. Went and saw a GI specialist, had a colonoscopy, upper endoscopy, another abdominal scan, redid all blood work, tested for every autoimmune disease, and was negative for everything once again. I then turn 28 years old. I am not doing good. So much fatigue that I now hated life. I did not enjoy waking up. I said I would give it one last shot. Went to the same GI doctor again, this time with my parents. They begged for him to help me as I was becoming crippled from fatigue. I tested positive for SIBO. We thought thank god, we can be cured now. I did a month of anti biotics and an Elemental carnivore diet. It all failed. No improvement. The GI doctor was stumped. We couldn't take no for an answer at this point so we went and saw another doctor. At this point I was have steatorrhea regularly. I couldn't digest food. Food was coming out of me raw sometimes. I had been doing a food journal for almost a year at this point with nothing that I could track down. Second GI doctor tested me for IGG in my blood serum. I had high levels of IGG4. Turn's out I was in a permanent allergic reaction that did not trigger IgE (what leads to anaphylaxis). I had another upper endoscopy done and this I was diagnosed with Eosinophilic esophagitis (EoE) which is almost always caused by a chronic food allergy. Turns out it was meat and dairy and gelatin and anything that comes from a mammal. I never considered it after all these years. I didn't even know that was possible. Hope this helps give some insight to someone who is having this and cant figure out why and is completely stumped. Good luck out there. I know you will need it.