Shalia

Iron was *slightly* low, but nothing that would make me think that's the cause. And anemia seems to cause more the "I'm light headed and going to faint" type dizzy to me, not the "what do you know, the world DOES revolve around me" type of dizziness I have right now. Thanks for the suggestion though!

I recently (re)started my gluten-free diet (I know, I'm terrible) and suddenly in the last 2 weeks or so I've had MAJOR dizzy spells, to the point I don't feel safe driving anymore and had to call out of work twice. Has anyone had similar issues? I went to the doctor to complain and got told "sometimes people just get dizzy and we don't know why"...

I'm a veteran, and I honestly have to thank God every day for that fact. I'm absolutely thrilled and consider myself lucky to be in the one of the only socialized medicine programs in the nation. The government doesn't decide what tests I need... my doctors do. And when I show up with sound, logical reasons for something, they do it. When the results...

I'm going to do the A lcat testing. (Take out the space and google it. It changes the words here on this board.) It looks like a really good test.) They'll test for more things than just gluten, which is nice. Of course, you can always Enterolab. Did Enterolab wtih my son and was very satisfied.

Symptoms like that was how I discovered my soy allergy. Good luck to you.

Yes, I already got the notes from him. I'm terrible. What I'm figuring is there will EVENTUALLY be slip ups. Someone, somewhere, will give him what he's not supposed to eat. I'll call THOSE challenges, and leave his intestines alone when I have control. I feel guilty ignoring the doctor, though, when he's all willing to go on dietary response...

No, he wants me to do it once now, and once in the summer when cold and flu season is over. *sigh* And I don't know what he expects in relation to school. Tyler gets so sick he's out of school for a couple of days vomiting. I can't do that to the poor kid.

Well, got Tyler's doctor to listen to complaints, and he even is willing to consider not doing bloodwork and biopsies and go based on dietary response. (Woot!) However... He wants me to put Tyler BACK on gluten not once, but TWICE as a gluten challenge, to make sure it doesn't coincide with a stomach bug, to "prove" that it's Celiac. Even with a positive...

Ah, I forgot the Lamictal dizzy. It'll do that too, but that *usually* goes away. I'm surprised Seroquel didn't give you weight gain. It's notorious for that. Pretty bad on inducing type 2 diabetes too. It has a black box warning for that now. Seroquel MADE me hallucinate. What good is an antipsychotic if it makes you hallucinate? *grin* I...

Did they test you for kidney stones? I ask because *I* have them. I thought I was getting glutened and I couldn't figure out WHERE FROM. It was driving me BONKERS. And my only symptoms were a vague pain in my right side and diahrrea from hell. Finally, a doctor did a CT scan and found out I have multiple kidney stones in my right kidney that...

If you can swing it, Lamictal. It's weight neutral, won't cause sleeplessness, and is good as an antidepressant if you are having mood swings. It's generally only given to bipolars, though. It's technically an anti-convulsant (aka for epilepsy) but it's FDA approved for bipolar depression and "treatment resistant unipolar depression". It'll also cause...

Well, I'm trying to remind myself she's in mourning like I was when I was first diagnosed. I've expected it for Tyler, so it's not a huge deal to me, and I'm STILL bummed. She's devastated. But I think she'll eventually learn to deal. And if not, we'll go to supervisd visitation, and I'll find a teenager to come over to our house on weekends while...

Wow, thanks! Lots of reading. I love medical info. I appreciate you spending the time. I'm gonna go read now. ETA: Teh problem with my MIL is that she watches Tyler on the weekends. I'm a full time student, and that's when I get my homework done, and Randy works all weekend. Tyler goes over there. We need her cooperation or we need...

Unfortuately, our insurance won't cover them, I called and asked. My MIL isn't talking to me now. She thinks I'm mean. And she's pissed. *sigh* This is goign to be fun.

Got his test result from Enterolab. We could only afford the IGA one right now, and that came up barely postive. It came up 11, with 10 being postive. *sigh* I'm trying not to feel guilty taking away all his favorite foods, but I'm having a hard time with it. Maybe it's all in my head since I know *I* do so much better off gluten... but it's still...