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One day I was feeling perky and having quite an animated discussion with my doctor. I had previously not wanted to consider cutting gluten from my diet.. Desperate as I was, it could not be that helpful. I always thought that my homemade breads were so good for me. Then, I drew a new line and I could avoid gluten if I could just feel better consistently.

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I needed to feel like I didn't have to give everything up, so I said, that I wasn't ready to do a rotational diet. I thought I might be intolerant to many things I was eating. We hoped that gluten free would be the answer to any and all of my food tolerance problems. Six months later I finally went in for testing.

My test was incredible. I discovered that I had a low level of antibodies for 52 foods which I have eaten. I even had problems with vegetables! Two foods I had a higher number of antibodies. One of these buckwheat, I have it frequently for breakfast. The other, crab, maybe it is in my supplements or on the seaweed I eat. Eleven foods that I have been eating were good, I had no antibodies for them. I was so glad that eggs was in this category. I have had soft poached eggs every day for breakfast for the last 5 years.

The high number of foods that I had antibodies for seemed to be saying to me that I had a leaky gut. My body was having to fight off food that was out of place. Now, I got a rotational diet plan with my results and am working on trying to put it into action. The first several days I ate different fish for lunch. Now, I am back to my having the same dish for supper and lunch, but at that time I begin the next day plan. So day one runs from supper one day to lunch the next. I think I can do it this way. I am trying not to repeat a food beyond 24 hours, until atleast 4 days after eating it.

I am now about a week into trying to follow the rotational diet. I had been exaperiencing major fatigue. I think my buckwheat may have been cross contaminated. Two days ago, after lunch my fog cleared and I was not fatigued. By supper I was back to dragging. The next morning I was still dragging. Later that afternoon my mind cleared again. This time, I was in for a treat. My energy came up and the day seemed bright. Is it the new diet plan? Is it just wishful thinking? I have told myself not to get giddy this time. I don't want to emotionally crash when this too isn't the answer to all of my problems. I seem to do that with each new health attempt, so this time I am trying, trying, trying, not to get all of my hopes up.

I need to decide where to draw my next line. What will I hold back from trying next? That I guess will be the next line which I might one day be willing to cross when this one doesn't do it all.

Meanwhile, perhaps I can look for buckwheat which is not cross contaminated.

On I go after 30 years of untreated celiac, hoping, praying, and expecting the energy to do my job fully one day.