I need to log the updates on this as they go.
Around November 18th or so, I jumped back on the SCD lifestyle diet. I started off with simple meats and pureed carrots, removed potatoes and kabocha squash and rice. Immediately I'm feeling better, the near-constant gut pain and bloating subside in a few days.
Except my gut isn't taking the change without some protest, it becomes a case of yucky soft BM's (the puree gelatin?) and all day long urges to poo. Ugh. Off to Alaska with that.
Right before we leave, I'm having cloudy urine again, now it's every morning. Along with the pain, and it went from 1-3 a month, to 1-3 a week, to everyday for a few days. Somethings gotta change!
LA gets thinking, and we read across oxalates. I won't go into the science here, the actual chemistry is murky to me, but the overall summary: oxalates are either soluble or insoluble, the insoluble go with the poo. But the soluble can be absorbed through the gut (I'm not sure it's normal, or a leaky gut thing?), and accumulate in the body: joint pains, etc. Later the soluble gets filtered out by the kidneys where it interacts and tightly binds to calcium and magnesium forming a precipitate. Is this my cloudy pee?
Dr St doesn't think so, but says if I want to try a lower oxalate diet, to go ahead with it.
My research revealed that I eat a pretty high oxalate diet. The worst offenders are chocolate, and I eat LEAST 3-4 tablespoons of cocoa powder everyday! Other daily foods that are high: black tea, beets, raw carrots, walnuts, black olives, and more. Geezuz, my only safe foods here are the meats I eat.
ETA As of 12-16-20, I'm completely off potatoes and squash. No bloating or pain at all. I'm OK with rice and 1 serve of oats a day.
I'm also off dairy since....first week of November. No chest swelling and pains, skin less itchy.
As of Nov 23rd or so, I stopped adding salt to foods. This lead to no ankle swelling at all.
As for oxalates, no chocolate, potato, 1 black tea, 1 T peanut butter only. Still pains daily in the Ur area but no cloudy since Dec 5th. Now it's just pain.
My energy is crazy better, my gut is flat and not swollen, my joints feel like they are working better.
Did I figure things out finally?
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