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I Want To Send Dr. Fine Some Flowers

AliceW

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Just had to post this: I have had NO anti-reflux medication and not a single antacid tablet since Tuesday!! And I'm someone who had been taking daily high doses of prevacid plus multiple rolaids every day for years and years.

I've been gluten-free since Dec. 15, 2006--about 5 weeks. Astonished does not even begin to describe my feelings about this. :blink:

I'd cut out other foods I'd noticed were bothering me (coffee, most alcohol, onion, garlic) and had already improved somewhat before going gluten-free, but this feels fundamentally different. I feel like a different person (or rather, I feel like the same person with a different stomach!). It feels like my problem is not so much under control as it's just almost gone. I'm still taking some herbs--licorice, slippery elm, and aloe vera--for my remaining occasional faint heartburn, but I almost think I might not even need them pretty soon.

Constipation is gone and gas is almost gone (!!!!), too.

I swear I'm going to send Dr. Fine at Enterolab some flowers or something. This is amazing.

Alice

Now gluten-free, dairy-lite, caffeine- and alcohol-lite, and I haven't felt better in years!!

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ALICE :) :) :)

Wow, you don't know how happy your post makes me. I am SO happy to hear that your symptoms are finally on their way out of the door. I know you have had such a struggle with this: trouble with symptoms, figuring out what is wrong, doctors/testing, etc. etc.

This is what this board is here for: to give people the information that they need to feel better, as it relates to gluten (and, well, other foods).

I'm doing a happydance for you! :wub:

I hope you stick around here, to learn more, be a part of the community, and share your new found knowledge with others.

Congrats, my dear.

Laura

jerseyangel Proficient
jerseyangel
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That's great news, Alice--so good to hear! :)

Ursa Major Collaborator
Ursa Major
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Wow, how incredibly happy you must be to finally be well, after all these years. I think you are right about wanting to at least let Dr. Fine know about your success, everybody can use a boost and a thank-you at times.

Nancym Enthusiast
Nancym
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Horray! That is terrific news!

AliceW Apprentice
AliceW
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Thanks everyone for the good wishes!! :wub: This board has been incredibly helpful to me.

Feeling this good without any drugs whatsoever feels like being in the Twilight Zone...has any one else had that experience? I feel like I'm still waiting for the other shoe to drop...like it's too good to be true. I guess I'll just have to wait and see if it continues.

I also think that I should eventually try to re-introduce the foods I'm avoiding now, just so I can find out what I'm truly intolerant of and what I can eat after I'm healed. I find that the prospect of eating gluten again kind of scares me, though, even though I'm not 100% sure that avoiding it is what seems to be curing me. I am 95% sure that's what it is, and I feel so good that I am terrified of messing myself up again!

Are gluten challenges awful? I guess I have no way of knowing how I'd react to one unless I try it...

Alice :)

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