Yes, I can eat wheat. I'm not very allergic to gluten, except when it is in very concentrated form, like in fake hot dogs and things like that. I also just remembered that I am allergic to black pepper.

Many years ago, bobad, I was tested and found to be allergic to many things. I don't remember what the results were from those tests, because there wasn't much I could do about them at the time, and I didn't realise then the extent to which they were making me sick. Plus, I don't think my allergies were anywhere near as severe back then as they have since become.

More recently, I have used the elimination diet to find out what I'm allergic to. I eliminated things from my diet to see how I would feel, and then I added them back again to see how I would feel.

For a while, before I discovered that I'm allergic to corn, I was in a perpetual state of free-floating anxiety attack. It got to the point where I couldn't eat anything at all without having one, and believe me when I tell you, they are dreadful. You feel like you're going to die, and you fear it, and you wish you could die all at the same time. And I would be sick and too weak to move almost all of the time. I didn't realise at the time that I was having an anaphylactic response to the things I was eating. I've been to the emergency room three times because of anaphylactic responses to food, and nobody ever figured out that that was what was wrong with me.

After I started avoiding corn in all of its forms (and the other things I'm allergic to), I stopped having the anxiety attacks. And now, although I still don't feel entirely healthy, and I am not as strong as I could be, I am making very good progress in getting gradually better.

Of course, I still experience setbacks because there are a lot of allergens hidden in foods that I am not aware of until after I have a bad response. For instance, I bought a whole bunch of Newman's Own spaghetti sauce a while back, because the labels showed no corn or corn products present in the sauce. I ate some, and it made me sick. I checked the Newman's Own website and saw that they do, indeed, use corn products in their sauce. I sent them an email and they confirmed this. So I was eating something I was allergic to even though the product label said otherwise.

Interestingly, the only way I was able to find out about my corn allergy was by spending a month and a half in Canada where you all don't put corn in everything. I found that I was becoming much healthier while I was there, and then I got sick again after returning to the US.

BTW, in the US, even iodised table salt contains corn.