Food insensitivity results...how to interpret the results?!?!

[Annacat69]

A new doctor recently ordered extensive testing as he suspected food sensitivities to be the reason why my body does not use thyroid hormone at cellular level (as shown by a 24 h urine analysis).

I have just received nine pages of results covering over 300 foods, and those above range (>7.5 U/mL) are marked either + (unconfirmed) or ++ (confirmed).

Most are marked +, and quite a few ++.

The ones marked ++ are: cow milk, casein, yoghurt, cottage cheese, egg white, fennel, squash, pumpkin, almond, thyme, rosemary, garlic, cod, fish roe, rabbit, turkey. Or why is iceberg lettuce OK but not ruccola?

Many more are marked +, including things egg yolk. In an attempt to lower my carb intake, I have been eating 2-3 eggs daily lately. The idea of giving up eggs is just unbearable...there are many things I hardly ever eat, like cottage cheese, fennel, and rabbit, but the idea of not being able to eat eggs, Greek yoghurt, or cod...so I am not sure how to interpret those results? Should I see them as recommendations or just exclude the foods marked ++?

It seems foods where the result was >20 U7mL are marked ++ whereas the ones where the result is 7.6-19 are marked +.

I am not sure what to eat any more...

I don´t understand why I should avoid cod but can eat halibut and sole, or why I should avoid turkey but can eat chicken.

Has anyone else had this kind of testing and results like these?

[SlowDragon Administrator]

Sounds like an expensive test

Many Hashimoto’s patients have food intolerances due to leaky gut

Most typically gluten, dairy, less common nightshades (tomatoes, peppers, aubergines, potatoes)

[Annacat69 in reply to SlowDragon]

I have not received the bill yet, but I´m sure it´s very expensive...!The doctors said it´s essential to have that test, but I´m not sure...there are over 150 things on that list I should probably or most definitely avoid, but it would not make sense to go off all of them at the same time, or I will never know what worked...I think the best thing would be to avoid gluten and dairy, but not necessarily peaches and broccoli. If I can eat nectarines, and cauliflower (which belongs to the same "family" as broccoli, if I´m not mistaken), I am not really sure that giving up on peaches and broccoli would make much of a difference...I don´t even eat them every day or even every week...

[penny in reply to Annacat69]

Sounds a bit odd to me, but then I’m no expert. Why don’t you try giving up the things you know about and seeing what happens? I’m not sure about the validity of these tests. I know that my OH is allergic to lactose and so he avoids this but no and again has some without any ill effect. What about just the gluten and dairy as that is quite common and wait and see - 150 items seem ridiculous.Good luck.

[Annacat69 in reply to penny]

Yes, I agree...not sure how valid these tests are. Many of the things on the list I´ve eaten without problems, like cod, so just excluding gluten and dairy seems like a much more sensible approach.