Posted by: Girrlock Holmes on: April 16, 2008
On Monday morning I found out that my hydrogen breath test was positive for small intestinal bacterial overgrowth. Today is my second day on 1200 mg of Xifaxan. I am also taking VSL #3. I am trying to keep my regular low-carb diet with minimal lactose. It’s going well. I don’t feel so great. Kind [...]
Posted by: Girrlock Holmes on: January 30, 2008
Tonight I saw my nutritionist for a review of my detection diet journal. I was anxious to hear her take on it all. I had known since our last conversation that she didn’t doubt my suspicions of fructose/sugar intolerance, so I wanted to see what she thought about whatever else might have been bothering me.
I [...]
Posted by: Girrlock Holmes on: January 23, 2008
“It is certainly delicate,” said my friend with an amused smile, “but I have not been struck up to now with its complexity. It has been a case for intellectual deduction, but when this original intellectual deduction is confirmed point by point by quite a number of independent incidents, then the subjective becomes objective and [...]
Posted by: Girrlock Holmes on: January 16, 2008
This is what I get when I play with my food. Salty and five-spicey. Salt is fine. Five spice is probably cheating.
A lot has happened in the past two and a half days.
The meat-eating was getting to me. Sunday night in bed, nearly every progression towards sleep’s doorstop was met with a vision [...]
Posted by: Girrlock Holmes on: January 13, 2008
I woke up this morning with one major observation. Just one day into the diet and my gas level has been significantly reduced. Amazing. However, everything else remains the same. I was bloated last night, I bloated up big right after my breakfast of half an avocado & celery with tahini butter. Pain last night [...]