Hi, my first post here. I will post my accutane and fin history soon.
Just to put the pieces together for this topic.
Histamine intolerance is a common problem for women. And almost none for men. Especially older women become histamine intolerant. Imbalanced oestrogene and hormone levels are the cause of that. Guess what we have.
Some more pieces. The gut needs hormones to work. Most of us have IBS due to use of fin. The small intestine produces DAO. The needed enzym to break down histamine. And it can not produce DAO when it is inflammated.
I have periods with high libido. Guess when? When my gut symptoms are almost zero. Every each and then it gets triggered (or hormones go crazy again) and I become inflammation for a week. In that time span my libido is zero.
I did the elemental diet (google it) for 13 days. My libido skyrocketet and my brain was working like it did 25 years ago (before I took accutane). I was on a good way and my gut felt better and better. Then, after the diet, I messed up my gut again (took Fluconazol to kill candida). It’s been 3 weeks now I stopped Fluconazol but my libido is still zero and my brain fog is huge. I have still lots of inflammation = high histamine.
There is a big connection between our fin problems and the gut.
But I am not sure if you can heal your gut without healing pfs (get your hormones right) and if you can heal pfs without healing the gut (can it heal without balanced hormones?)
Fact is, every time I try to fix my gut, I make it worse and crash again for weeks. From January this year until April I was recovered. My libido was like it was with 15. Then in April I took Allicin to “heal” my gut. Had a crash for 2 months. Things got started to get better again. Then with the diet I was feeling superb. Fluconazol -> crash.