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Will I Ever Have A Normal Immune System?

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I was diagnosed in mid March after a few weeks of vomiting and a biopsy that revealed excessive lymphocytes. In the first week I went gluten free, I was exposed twice and threw up twice. I may have thrown up maybe once since then when I ate something questionable (gluten free, but in shared facility). I *think* I am truly gluten free because I no longer throw up. But once or twice I have felt a little off and thought maybe I wasn't as sensitive as I was when the throwing up started.

So it has been over a month... but I am still getting sick ALL THE TIME. My winter, much like last year's, looked something like this-

Nov: bad cold

Dec: bad cold

Jan: sinus infections

Feb: laryngitis and bronchitis

Feb: vomiting started

March: flu/pneumonia

Apri: bad cold, UTI

REALLY??? this is just NOT NORMAL. I have two little kids, but they AREN'T sick. I am! They haven't been sick nearly as much as me. I do not work outside the home, I wash my hands like crazy AND I have started taking vitamins, as recommended by my doc to increase my immunity.

How long will it take??? Is this sick-all-the-time cycle familiar to anyone else?

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I was diagnosed in mid March after a few weeks of vomiting and a biopsy that revealed excessive lymphocytes. In the first week I went gluten free, I was exposed twice and threw up twice. I may have thrown up maybe once since then when I ate something questionable (gluten free, but in shared facility). I *think* I am truly gluten free because I no longer throw up. But once or twice I have felt a little off and thought maybe I wasn't as sensitive as I was when the throwing up started.

So it has been over a month... but I am still getting sick ALL THE TIME. My winter, much like last year's, looked something like this-

Nov: bad cold

Dec: bad cold

Jan: sinus infections

Feb: laryngitis and bronchitis

Feb: vomiting started

March: flu/pneumonia

Apri: bad cold, UTI

REALLY??? this is just NOT NORMAL. I have two little kids, but they AREN'T sick. I am! They haven't been sick nearly as much as me. I do not work outside the home, I wash my hands like crazy AND I have started taking vitamins, as recommended by my doc to increase my immunity.

How long will it take??? Is this sick-all-the-time cycle familiar to anyone else?

It will probably sound familiar to quite a few, maybe not quite that bad, but...

I had to quit my bridge club because people would come in all the time with the sniffles, I would end up with a major cold followed by chest infection and antibiotics. It got to be real old. Dh was the same, only his specialty was sinus infections. In middle of summer we both did the ferry crossing between the two islands here (3 hours). Both ended up with a three-week flu starting at exactly the same time. Probably a tourist from Asia brought in the latest Asian variety. And so '07 went...

Went gluten-free mid-Nov. '07. Played bridge at the club in Dec. (for the last time!). Two days later, flu which lasted until after Christmas and through New Year's Day. Had one good week then started coughing again and coughed for three more weeks with acute bronchitis (refused prednisone and antibiotics which they tried to foist on me--I thought I had pneumonia), and said I was used to coughing now so I would just keep doing it. All this time, constant UTI. Many courses of antibiotics, never clear. Finally read a column by a naturopath in the Sunday paper about cranberry tablets. They kept it at bay unless I forgot to take them (which I did last July). However, that is the last time. No more UTI's, don't even take the cranberry tablets any more, no infections, flu(s) or bronchitis. So it took 8 months for my immune system to kick in. There is hope for you yet, LizaJane. Hang in there.

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My immune system is much stronger since going gluten-free. Although I have to vote you the Sickest of Them All!! I have increased my vitamin regimin as needed. I added the sublingual B12 and that gives me a boost and sense of well-being, I have to think my immune system loves it. Beefed up the magnesium and reduced calcium.

By the way for UTI's, my sister swears by Vit. C. She keeps hers away with it. My Mom was getting severe ones and hers stay away now as long as she takes her C. They are not a problem for me. I suffer more with yeast infections. I seldom have one now where before I had them at least monthly.

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