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I've been using the mySymptoms app to track my diet, BMs and symptoms, and it correctly identified my enjoylife protein bursts as the cause of increased frequency / loose stools before I did.

I cut them yesterday, re-introduced them today and loose BMs within a couple hours.

They are supposed to be low fodmap but there's a lot of other stuff in there I don't trust, especially vanilla extract.
 
Time for an update.

I followed the low fodmap diet for about a month before discarding it. I made sure everything adhered to my nutritionist's standard and submitted a full food diary.

Meanwhile my symptoms got worse from many of the foods I introduced and she continued to push for me to introduce more.

I stopped, dropped all the problem food and have basically rolled back to a pure carnivore / keto diet for now.

I'm using a multivitamin to supplement my micronutrients until I can re-introduce plants to my diet.

I believe that I was over consuming sugar which may have lead to dysbiosis. Oddly sugars were the only carbs not causing me diarrhea or other gastric problems - but I believe that may have been from the altered gut bacteria.

And while my digestion was okay I had a lot of other problems, with my skin, emotional level, energy levels, etc.

My back has been badly broken out with fungal acne, I developed an infection on my face from shaving and a large hydradenitis-like lesion on my back.

The back lesion has been receding with daily application of zinc oxide cream.

The facial one I took antibiotics for, it went away and came back and now I'm using black tea compresses with fairly good results.

This weekend I started supplementing magnesium and I think it's definitely been beneficial, if nothing else, to my mental state and emotions. I feel much calmer, I sleep better and my emotions are a full range again instead of just shades of grey.

Plan is one month of zero-carbs followed by a slow re-introduction of generally safe plants like plantains, sunflower seeds, pumpkin seeds, strawberry, blueberry, cantaloupe.

I plan to avoid oats except in forms I can consume without sugar added, such as breading for chicken, or as a bread.

Added sugars are going to be eliminated and kept at a bare minimum as a "treat."

Oddly I even had a very bad reaction to some of my probiotic supplements, the Saccharomyces I was taking before (jarrow's I believe). The pills didn't even break down and I threw them up a few hours later.
 
Well I'm just confused at this point.

Recently I haven't been able to digest fatty meats, or basically any animal fats. Pork, beef, butter, ghee, all are giving me issues.

Probiotic supplements cause me pretty much complete gastric peristalsis. I have to induce vomiting to clear my gut if I take any, this has happened with two separate supplements now.

I'm pretty much living on fish & shellfish, oats and protein shake at this point. I can have about 1 egg a day.

I would like to introduce more fruits and vegetables but I've had so many bad reactions to them in the past I'm scared to do so.
 

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