Posted by: allergyadventure
« on: April 03, 2016, 04:42:49 PM »Well, I have an intolerance to wheat and oats. It's probably the gluten and avenin. After eating these things for a day or two my head fogs up so much I can't focus on anything. Then my eyes really start to go blurry when I read and I strangely gain whopping amounts of weight around my waistline. I notice that after about one week. My eyes will also itch (maybe it's around my eyes). I tend to become tight in the chest and can't breath properly, and this slightest hint of worry makes it worse. If I stop eating any wheat, oats, tomtos and apples (if I'm eating them regularly) the symptoms alleviate. In past years I've tried to go back to these two things but it ends the same. When the blurred vision starts I have to narrow down my food list or I'll start to get these symptoms plus strange swings in blood sugar. Definitely food related.
Just because something is food-related doesn't mean that it's a food allergy.
You mention in an earlier comment that your insulin levels are borderline high. A lot of the symtpoms you're mentioning (foggy thinking, blurred vision, emotional swings) are symptoms of high blood sugar. When you say you have "strange swings in blood sugar" are you actually monitoring your blood sugar, or just assuming that it must be swinging? If you are in the early stages of Type 2 diabetes, then eating foods like wheat and oats (which are very high in carbohdyrates) could cause your blood sugar to go quite high and cause symptoms, even if your blood sugar subsequently comes down to normal (many doctors only test fasting blood sugar).
It might be worth asking your doctor for a glucose tolerance test so that you can make sure it's not blood sugar spikes causing your symptoms.