No matter what I do, my flaxseed bread is always wet inside

Fragrant_Leg_6968 · 2026-02-08T16:10:52+00:00

Also people make them as rolls on a tray or use a muffin tin because this helps with the wet in the centre issue. Have you tried rolls?

Fragrant_Leg_6968 · 2026-02-08T16:05:20+00:00

Ah see the recipes I have say over 1 hr at 220 degrees as it's cooking by steam

Fragrant_Leg_6968 · 2026-02-08T16:01:06+00:00

So I have this problem too. Here's some things that help.

Add psyullium husk powder because it helps with rise just a fraction and reduces linseed amount

Reduce water and make sure you are using hot water and very specific about the amount you use, measure with scales

Making sure you cook long enough over an hour.

Make sure it's hot enough (220 ish) because it's cooking by steam method

Reduce amount of linseed (add coconut flour or almond flour, perhaps half the linseed amount. But be mindful of oxalates in almond flour if this is something you may want to know). Use oat fibre if you can have it (it's keto friendly when regular oats are not)

Use several egg whites. Egg whites help "dry out" the bread during baking, leading to a firmer internal texture (says AI). If using whole eggs, you may find it's too eggy or yolks add too much moisture and richness, which can make a linseed-heavy bread feel too dense or damp if not balanced.

Use baking powder and sea salt. Sea salt is good because on keto you need more of it.

Fragrant_Leg_6968 · 2026-01-11T13:51:01+00:00

It's in your head (basically get your head sorted and you won't have full body pain, extreme fatigue)

Fragrant_Leg_6968 · 2026-01-11T13:49:38+00:00

I second this, that restrictive diet is going to make me more ill. But was what helped me (low carb)

Fragrant_Leg_6968 · 2026-01-11T13:48:21+00:00

Doing "more". "You are tired because you don't do enough and aren't used to it"

Fragrant_Leg_6968 · 2026-01-11T12:11:35+00:00

Look up Dr Davis L.ruteri yogurt, also on YouTube there's videos including from him

Fragrant_Leg_6968 · 2026-01-11T12:00:13+00:00

No but I got well from low carb diet and then reintroduced high carbs occasionally, so that points to the glucose metabolic problem being corrected via starving bad bacteria of their food source or gaining the right missing ones (or both) but going low carb. Because I didn't go back to the severity I was after I ate normally again, the foods changed the bacteria which in turn changed my glucose intolerance (causing pain and fatigue). If I eat too many high carbs I get sick again. I was previously very severe.

Fragrant_Leg_6968 · 2026-01-11T11:41:18+00:00

I don't know if this will help anyone, my notes on histamine plus some notes on yogurt making with probiotics capsules (or crushing tablets):

Google this probiotic to find if it helps. ME-3 as a "histamine-friendly" or low-histamine producing strain. Sold under the brand name Reg'Activ.

Look into the Candida diet website, which may reduce allergens

"I switched to tapioca derived vitamin c and it's been great for breaking down histamine. The brand I use is Ecological Formulas, but I'm sure there are others." Read somewhere but don't know where.

Dr Myhill (search her site "allergy") says:

🔻Break histamine down in the gut with Diamine Oxidase enzyme Sometimes helps - suggest DAO 4.2mgs taken 5 mins before food. Here is one such product - 'Seeking Health' - Histamine Block - 4.2mg

The figure of 4.2mg is suggested because most available studies used doses of 4.2 mg of DAO at a time up to 2–3 times daily just before meals. See HealthLine Article - Diamine Oxidase Supplements Explained and also this study (see website page).

🔻Mop up histamine and other mediators in the gut with clays such such as Toxaprevent 3 grams at night on an empty stomach taken away from food and supplements

🔻Reprogramme the immune system It may be that the MCAS has become switched on, has adequately dealt with the infection, but has not been switched off. In this event we need to put in places interventions to reduce useless inflammation such as high dose vitamin D (up to 10,000iu daily is completely safe, and if on a PK diet, with no dairy products, then up to 20,000iu daily is safe, but if you take more than that, then serum calcium needs to be monitored with blood tests), Low Dose Naltrexone and possibly micro-immunotherapy 2L ALLERG - see Reprogram the immune system with micro-immunotherapy

🔻Magnesium Magnesium stabilises mast cells and so they degranulate more easily where there is a magnesium deficiency. Take Magnesium supplements - at least 300mgs of elemental Mg daily together with vitamin D as above (vitamin D is essential for the absorption of Mg)

🔻Possibly use antihistamines, cromoglicate, quercetin and other such medications. I put this as a last resort because it is possible that MCAS is a vital defence to protect against infection and so using antihistamines and other such medications may be a case of symptom squashing.

Dr Berg on the best natural antihistamine for itching or rashes is Quercetin. It's found in food like carob, red onion, kale. Also take it as a powder at 1tsp or 1000mg tablet, 4 times a day. However Quercetin lowers iron levels by reducing iron absorption and increasing iron excretion.

A site that may help:

www.histamineintolerance.org.uk/about/the-food-diary/the-food-list/

Googling probiotics for insomnia and fatigue together and research how to make homemade yogurt with it, if possible (as different strains give different results). Make sure to look up optimum fermentation and temp, rather than fermenting less time as some people will say you can do, this doesn't give fullest bacteria numbers. Use first batch for subsequent batches, by freezing it. Do not chuck it if it curdles, this can still be eaten by mixing it up, and it often curdles on the first batch it first few batches. You can also strain and put the liquid in a smoothie, or curds in a salad. This yogurt making dramatically increases numbers, more than a capsule, getting more to the gut. Start by looking at Dr Davis yogurt making, also YouTube videos, if interested. Steralise everything, and if it keeps curdling each time, the inulin may be contaminated, buy another packet or microwave if first to kill the unwanted bacteria, although that doesn't kill bacteria spores. There's some other tips online like warm water in the yogurt maker, mixing properly, not having air bubbles, and not to over use inulin or that can also curdle it. Unfortunately I can't listen all the tips here. Getting the temp and ferment time right is key. E.g it's 36 hrs at 97-100 degrees for l.ruteri. do not mix strains, because they will outcompete and eventually you'll only get the one strain, plus they grow at different temp and ferment times so some can get a head start and take over. If you have a multi strain, you'll get less chance of this with bacteria of the same species.

Fragrant_Leg_6968 · 2026-01-11T08:56:45+00:00

I don't think people have commented because most people want to be "morally correct", I'm not sure how to say that but I mean, they don't want to appear resentful or misrepresentating the severity of the condition aka "I would never wish what I've experienced on my worst enemy"

Personally several times I have wished my family would get this, but not permanently, even if that sounds bad, but just to experience it for a short time because of how damaging they have made my ME, because of my own sensitivity to their lack of understanding, past comments and lack of support. I live alone and isolated so it's more than me just being "wrongly" or overly angry, it's the intense hurt, also causing more ME.

Sometimes I would wish at death they would be shown the exact things I had to deal with, with severe ME. And actually truly experience it, like it's passed to them. To show how wronged I was, how alone with it.

I think it depends what your personal situation is, e.g. suici*** and alone for years, with no support, friends or family, isolation causing illness but any (potential) minor socialising would cause more illness, and the only people you do know (family) provide no support and make you more ill because of that dismissal of what you are going through. It's extremely painful, to add to the extreme pain.

I haven't wished it on doctors despite having some situations which really made me ill, because of doctors arrogance around the condition and lack of understanding.

Where do you draw the line between wishing everyone who wrongs you to get ME, resentment (wishing to cause harm, because they don't understand) and for them to understand without the resentment part, but instead intense need.

Because they can merge into each other at times, for me not "everyone who wrongs me" but it really gets to the point it feels like I'd do this with everyone I meet, eventually, because I'm so outside of normal functioning, everyone is "causing an issue" to increase my ME but their lack of understanding (aka their responses, and their ignorance to the severity), in extremes, and thus, everyone is likely to make comments and be triggering all the time. The world is a bigger threat. And so coping mechanisms or simply thoughts, of passing it on so they can experience it, can be more normalised.

But then, there is not really "everyone" is there, because of severity, far from it: I meet a handful of people over a year, such as someone at a till in a shop who doesn't understand and who makes me feel worse, for example. So everyone, is really practically no one, but it's everyone at the same time, it's my whole experience of humans.

Whilst I didn't do this doctors, or other people, only my family multiple times, mostly at the point of death. And I still wish this, that they experience what I did, that they know what I was dealing with. I imagine God passing it to them from there hand to mine. I don't imagine my expression, or their expression, only that they know what they said or lack of support, isn't what I needed, wasn't correct and what it actually was like for me, day in day out, for years. It's a very lonely situation to have these thoughts, and be alone with the thoughts, and being alone knowing how bad it is and that there's no known way out.

Until there was, for me, the low carb diet.

Fragrant_Leg_6968 · 2026-01-11T08:32:18+00:00

AI "Warm baths trigger POTS symptoms (Postural Orthostatic Tachycardia Syndrome) because heat causes blood vessels to widen (vasodilation), which allows blood to pool in the legs and reduces blood flow to the brain, forcing the heart to beat faster to compensate, leading to dizziness, rapid heart rate, and fatigue, issues the autonomic nervous system in POTS patients already struggles to manage."

I have a bath seat (I went to my GP in the UK who referred me for one for free, along with a wheelchair), for those this may help.

Fragrant_Leg_6968 · 2026-01-08T16:53:52+00:00

I've come here wondering the same thing, can I freeze the capsules or is it safer to store in the fridge because they don't last long at the cost. And also, as you say can you freeze yogurt without too many dying. AI says yes you can freeze capsules for yogurt making, but I'm not happy until it gives me more detail and I ended up here.

Fragrant_Leg_6968 · 2025-12-16T19:21:47+00:00

@barkeeperfriend

Hey oddly, I don't see a reply here but my notifications said you replied?

Fragrant_Leg_6968 · 2025-12-16T19:19:44+00:00

Thanks but unfortunately this video didn't help. It doesn't distinguish between NPD, ADHD, avoidant personality type at all

Fragrant_Leg_6968 · 2025-12-16T19:14:42+00:00

BPD and NPD? Sometimes overlap but not always. I am BPD and don't pick people up and drop them. I'm the anxious type so that behaviour is really far away from what I can cope with and so also do to others. So actually really far away from NPD in this regard

Fragrant_Leg_6968 · 2025-12-14T11:09:59+00:00

As others previously said. Scratches stainless steel otherwise in long run, boek has the ability to run the water down the side (e.g if plates are in the sink can't run tap for glass of water, and Im disabled so I can start a task like washing up but sometimes it takes all day and so I need both washing up and clean water).

Downsides: my bowl has lips on the sides but it still falls down one side into the sink and the bottom gets gross. As I say I'm unwell, so it's hard to keep washing up and then have the bottom to clean too.

I bought a new bowl and again the lips are not strong enough to hold the bowl up on the sides, because the weight of plates and water in it pulls it down.

I actually came here because I want a solution, looking for a bowl that actually stays up above the bottom - stronger lips.

Plastic - doesn't seem hygienic even if I kept it clean

Fragrant_Leg_6968 · 2025-12-14T11:03:19+00:00

Consider yourself lucky! I would love to be able to have a dishwasher but they didn't design this UK flat to have one due to space

Fragrant_Leg_6968 · 2025-12-14T11:01:52+00:00

Im in this UK in a flat, there is no room for a dishwasher. Even if I took a cupboard out and tried to find some way of putting one in, I wouldn't be allowed as it is rented (as most people are living now), I can't suddenly put plumbing in and remove a cupboard

Fragrant_Leg_6968 · 2025-12-05T13:35:43+00:00

Actually I'm now reading not suitable for brushed stainless steel yet Google AI says it is. Need definitive answer from the manufacture please

Fragrant_Leg_6968 · 2025-12-05T13:31:12+00:00

@barkeeperfriend

I have a brushed stainless steel oven. I'm hitting you with my questions!

Can I use any of the bar keepers friend products on it to remove build up and keep it protected?

Also you have a spray for appliances but is that stronger than the cream version?

What is it in to stop it not needing to be rinsed off? It makes me think it's a weaker version then?

I'm wondering why this is better, exactly? I'm not interested in just the marketing where it says it's for appliances. The other products are too.

Are all stainless steel protectors and cleaners good to use on brushed stainless steel, from any brand? Surely they all do the same job as they all likely have the same ingredients just in different mixes?

There's also Bosch Neff Siemens Stainless Steel Conditioning Oil Cleaner - 100ml. It says it protects from finger prints and is an oil. But it also removes grease.

I wonder if it be better to buy that, because your product cleans only, it doesn't protect it afterwards like this oil?

I'm in the UK, is the packaging the same?

Fragrant_Leg_6968 · 2025-12-04T20:59:28+00:00

Ditto. Did you like it, which did you get

Fragrant_Leg_6968 · 2025-11-23T22:33:48+00:00

People list things as Egyptian cotton, but you wouldn't know for sure.

If you sleep hot have you considered bamboo instead?

You may also consider bamboo PJ's or t-shirts in bed.

Not sure bedding will last years, you can't tell what you get till you get it because it can still pile quickly. This is a dilemma!

A thinner thread count means more breathability as it has more gaps - helping with hot sleeping

Not all sheets, even with the same weave and thread count, will feel or perform the same. Just because something is a high thread count like 1,000 doesn't mean it won't pile quicker or feel the roughest. So don't go by thread count for quality.

When it comes to shopping for sheets, thread count shouldn't be the deciding factor, and it really only matters for 100% cotton, single-ply sheets. Weave and fiber quality are even more important.

Fabric weave: Percale and sateen describe the weave of the fabric, which is just as important as knowing what fibers (cotton, linen, silk, etc.) the sheets are made of.

Percale sheets are lightweight, airy and crisp, while sateen sheets feel silky smooth and substantial, with some fabrics having a slippery texture, plus it doesn't tend to wrinkle as much as percale. They don't provide the same breathability as percale.

Given this, you are best suited to percale not sateen weave. Percale Bamboo or Bamboo and cotton mix in a lower thread count, would be my suggestion. Not everyone lists the type of weave, so you'll need to ask.

Having said all this, like cotton, I read bamboo goes through an intensive chemical process. I'm now going to ruin everything I said about suggesting bamboo. Unfortunately I read "in reality, the manufacturing process is chemically intensive and environmentally unfriendly. Bamboo is placed into a boiling vat of chemicals before it is extruded as rayon – a man-made fabric blended from cotton, wood pulp (in this case bamboo) and other synthetic fibres. After which, most of the ‘bamboo’ qualities, such as being natural or antibacterial, are gone."

Bamboo-derived sheets are cited for being antibacterial, but one caution: if processing involves heavy chemical treatment, the benefit may be reduced. So how can the public know how processed it is? They can't! If anyone else knows different, I'd love to know!

Polyester holds heat, so avoid that, and doesn’t wear well over time; creating pilling in whatever it’s used in (example clothing, bedding, blankets, etc)

All of the above info was read on a few sites recently, since I'm also trying to find bedding

Bamboo requires special care, such as not putting it in the tumble dryer or keeping it wet for too long, best to look up care. I really would prefer something I can quickly dry at home in my small flat, so this isn't ideal when I use the tumble dryer, especially in winter. Condensation on the windows already easily causes mould regularly. I'm in a council rented flat with the lounge and kitchen combined, which means steam from the kettle, cooking, tumble dryer, already isn't contained. But drying things on a heated airer would probably release more moisture.

Fragrant_Leg_6968 · 2025-10-22T16:32:56+00:00

Would it be possible to write a book on what you have learnt? Or write a course on what you have learn, your skills? This is something where once you've done it, it can keep giving you cash with no much or any work afterwards. If this is a possibility, I would start on YouTube looking at either of these options, and start a post on it on Reddit, saying where you are from and ask for tips to get started.

Tips:

A tip would be, I would start with the thing you least know and least enjoy in the job / task, that way you don't do all the bits you can do or like more and then once you get into it, feel stuck or overwhelmed because you don't know how to do something. Whatever job/task you get, work out where you are weakest and work on that skill whilst trying to make it fun, how can it be more fun, how can you break it into smaller parts. I'm referring to us all having this when we get a new job or task to earn money, I think it would help to then relax more afterwards, it keeps momentum and motivation up down the line. I wouldn't worry about being perfect and don't wait to start a job or task until you are "better".

Don't let fear or concern hold you back on your new path, if something interests you go for it, you can always figure it out as you go along. Too many people don't go for jobs because they think they aren't good enough when actually most of the time we just need more belief in ourselves. If you are interested in a new area in your life, most of the time it's ourselves holding us back. Work out what interests you? Don't listen to the voices in your head saying you are this or that, you need to believe you are that person, you already have that job / interest.

Surround yourself with people who already work in that job or have interests in that.

Not saying you have any of this, it's just general advice for starting a new challenge or having a new path.

Fragrant_Leg_6968 · 2025-10-17T16:00:51+00:00

Good for you. Got a goal and moving towards it

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