Sinenox
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How strange. I always had symptoms - acid reflux, white tongue, abdominal cramping...but when I got Mono 2 years ago I became so immune suppressed because of the celiac that my body wasn't able to deal with all of the infections and walled one off in my neck in the form of an abscess. The doctors were confused that I had mono as well as a 3-inch abscess...
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ARCHIVED What Would You Do If There Was A Cure?
Sinenox replied to cgilsing's topic in Coping with Celiac Disease
My understanding was that this is a genetic problem. Treating a genetic problem with pills and not gene therapy just seems like treating symptoms to me. I wouldn't want to take a pill a day for the rest of my life and ignore the underlying environmental/genetic problem, in case later generations don't have the opportunity to benefit from the convenient treatment... -
I agree. This is really quite difficult. I'm in college and the people who serve the food don't understand. So I tried to withdraw my money and do my own shopping and cooking. Luckily I have friends living off-campus whose kitchen I can use regularly. But my schedule is hectic and I don't have much money and I can't go out to eat or drink with friends and...