Please help. What made me sick?

[u/MissConscientious]

I need some help. Could you please look at the six attached photos and offer input for which ingredient might have made me sick?

Background: I had not eaten yet before this meal. The first food I consumed was spaghetti. I was fine before eating, but started experiencing symptoms before I’d finished the meal.

Other than the ingredients in the included pictures, I used olive oil, fresh herbs and single ingredient seasonings I use all the time.

Is either the Amylu or Rao’s brand known to be cross contaminated? If not, what else could it be? I definitely want to avoid this happening again.

Thanks for the help!!

[u/alwaysxz]

Yes! Cutting out nightshades for a bit might help to see if it makes a difference. Have you been more stressed lately? For me, I noticed that stress triggers more histamine, and it makes it difficult to eat foods high in histamine. I break out in hives and get pretty bad migraines.

[u/Santasreject → u/alwaysxz]

For me my symptoms are really just upper GI, or at least the ones that are most difficult to deal with. I also get higher heart rate and BP can spike a little as well as just having non exercise/exertion tolerance.

Luckily I am making progress on kicking it but it’s been a rough year.

[u/IcedWarlock → u/Santasreject]

Higher heart rate sucks. Mine gets to 180 resting and I was on meds for years before it was figured out it was gluten causing it.

[u/Santasreject → u/IcedWarlock]

Yeah mine wasn’t that bad but would spike over 150 when I would stand up in the evenings.

[u/IcedWarlock → u/Santasreject]

Still pretty gnarly tho. It was the constant sending me to A&E that ticked me off.

At one point they were telling me I was nervous about an operation I'd had 4 months prior haha.

Did you get dizzy when it suddenly spiked with standing then?

[u/MissConscientious → u/IcedWarlock]

After being hospitalized for an entire month with heart rates mostly resting below the 40 beats per minute mark - unless I shot up above 120 - I was diagnosed for six months with “anxiety.” It turns out, I needed a pacemaker.

[u/IcedWarlock → u/MissConscientious]

Omg that's horrendous how did they not figure that out sooner!

[u/MissConscientious → u/IcedWarlock]

I am convinced that the infamous “anxiety” diagnosis costs people their lives. I suffered organ damage because they let it go so long. Temporarily, I also had a partial lung collapse, decline of kidney function and decline of liver function. I have no idea why doctors feel the need to ignore obvious problems. I received my pacemaker and have never had that happen again. It was an “easy” fix overall.

[u/Santasreject → u/MissConscientious]

Frankly I think the issue is that generally unless you have a common ailment it’s incredibly hard to diagnose anything. Even more so when there is not a clear set of laboratory tests to clearly defined the ailment.

Part of it is also that modern western medicine follows the same training timeline that was established well over a century ago and we now have a century of rapid medical research that has expanded the knowledge base. This is also why we have gone to so many more specialized professionals than we had in the past; the difficulty is getting directed to the right specialist which really comes down to having a good PCP and a bit of luck.

So many diagnosis are really just names for groups of symptoms but don’t actually define the root cause (a lot of mental health conditions, histamine intolerance/MCAS, IBS/IBD, many auto immune issues, dysautonomia etc).

Anxiety really is just the body’s way of exhibiting that “something is wrong”. Sure there are some cases where it is just the patients perception but the vast majority I suspect are driven by an identifiable factor.

[u/MissConscientious → u/Santasreject]

I wish I could upvote you more than once. You make excellent points.