If you're thinking of trying an exclusion-type diet for yourself, I'd recommend the one in the book You Are What You Eat. It's a TV tie-in, but don'tlet that put you off. There's amazing advice in there on how to feel happier, stronger and healthier by eating the right things. It's led me to cut down massively on dairy products, caffeine, refined sugars and wheat, and I do feel that I have more energy for it.
Have you asked your GP? If so, why wouldn't/couldn't he help?
I mean, I just said to mine that I was feeling under the weather (tired, low-level stomach upsets, headachey, etc.) nearly all the time, & I was sick of taking ADs which always just made me feel worse, and I wondered if at least some of the symptoms might be diet-related, and was there a good way I could test this? And he went away and asked a nutritionist & then got back to me with a diet-sheet and said I could follow it myself if I wanted to.
But it's not a "diet" that you stick to for ever. It's a fixed-duration process where you basically eliminate everything from your diet that's even vaguely likely to cause allergies, for 2 weeks (IIRC), and then reintroducing things in a controlled fashion. (The reintroductions sound about as horrible as the abstinence -- you have to have enough of each thing that it would definitely cause a reaction if you were allergic/intolerant to that thing, e.g. drinking a pint of milk a day - blehh!)
I can do you a copy if you want, but I've never tried it, because it really does require having several weeks when you can completely control what you eat... and usually in any given month I have too many meals-out and parties and stuff that I just don't want to miss! The symptoms I get are all so vague and low-level that I can't quite convince myself that the hassle of the diet is worth the potential gain...
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I mean, I just said to mine that I was feeling under the weather (tired, low-level stomach upsets, headachey, etc.) nearly all the time, & I was sick of taking ADs which always just made me feel worse, and I wondered if at least some of the symptoms might be diet-related, and was there a good way I could test this? And he went away and asked a nutritionist & then got back to me with a diet-sheet and said I could follow it myself if I wanted to.
But it's not a "diet" that you stick to for ever. It's a fixed-duration process where you basically eliminate everything from your diet that's even vaguely likely to cause allergies, for 2 weeks (IIRC), and then reintroducing things in a controlled fashion. (The reintroductions sound about as horrible as the abstinence -- you have to have enough of each thing that it would definitely cause a reaction if you were allergic/intolerant to that thing, e.g. drinking a pint of milk a day - blehh!)
I can do you a copy if you want, but I've never tried it, because it really does require having several weeks when you can completely control what you eat... and usually in any given month I have too many meals-out and parties and stuff that I just don't want to miss! The symptoms I get are all so vague and low-level that I can't quite convince myself that the hassle of the diet is worth the potential gain...