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good luck - and enzymedica is a good product line - consider too their Glutenease

For the newcomers to this site: Taking Glutenease does not allow a person with Celiac to safely consume gluten.

Didn't somebody just post somewhere that Xanas is not gluten-free?

Just a reminder:

Xanax contains gluten, as does the generic version of it by Greenstone, a subsidiary of Pfizer.

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I've had a few brown spots on my teeth my entire life. Before being diagnosed several years ago with celiac disease, I was constantly in the dentist's chair as a child and adult. I have three bridges due to extractions, several crowns, and numerous root canals. Many of my teeth grew in at an angle, sort of sloped inward, and when I had bridges put in these areas one dentist shaped the fit to correct this.

In one instance, a few weeks after a tooth was extracted, a large mass of tissue grew in the space where the tooth had been. I had to have oral surgery to have it removed, and the reason was found to be a severe vitamin A deficiency. This was probably due to my not eating enough food, because I felt better when I ate next to nothing. This was over 30 years ago.

Don't hold your breath waiting for dentists to consider celiac disease a cause for dental problems.

My 11 year old doctor told us everthing look fine after the biopsy with the naked eye and did not think she had celiac. A week later the test showed she was at the very beggining of having it and went ahead a diagnsod her with Ceiac

When did your 11 year old doctor obtain his/her license to practice medicine?

The changes can sometimes be seen if the damage is very, very severe. But the diagnosis comes from the pathologists examining the biopsy for particular changes.

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Damage does not always have to be "very, very severe" to be recognized by a gastroenterologist during an endoscopy procedure. Intestinal damage was seen during my first endoscopy for celiac, and the doctor described it as "mild to moderate". The diagnosis was confirmed after the biopsy results came back the following week.

There seems to be a problem with the forum software...........................

It's not a problem or a software glitch. It's programmed to change the abbreviation of celiac disease to the full words. You can't abbreviate compact disc, certificate of deposit, etc. - they must be spelled out. You can go back to the posting and edit.

I would recommend getting a blood test first, which is simple. If it comes out negative for Celiac, it's up to you whether to go further with more tests, or just go gluten free because it feels right to you. As far as Enterolab, they cannot diagnose celiac disease, but the majority of people's results seem to be positive for gluten intolerance.

Have you considered seeing any of the other doctors at Columbia's Celiac Disease Center? Dr. Green has several colleagues on staff that specialize in Celiac. One of them accepts my insurance plan, so I went and had a very comprehensive visit. I was able to have a bone density scan (in another wing of the hospital), and also had a very enlightening visit with their nutritionist - all on the same day I was there. Good luck.

That is an excellent article - they bring up many important points that have not been known, or properly addressed. Besides the higher mortality rates in people who are diagnosed with celiac as children, it explains a great deal about how gluten affects the brain, and subsequently behavior. I could relate to much of it and I'm sure that many other people with Celiac or gluten sensitivity can as well.

Maybe it should be listed in Publications and Publicity section, or wherever it will get more readership and responses.

The link does not always work. You may have to find it on celiacchicks' home page, under the second or third photograph, called The New England Journal of Medicine.

There is an article from the current issue of New England Journal of Medicine, about medical progress in the treatment and diagnosis of celiac (copy and paste the link into browser):

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If it does not open, go to celiacchicks' site, the article is linked on the first page, under the second or third picture from the top. You normally have to have a subscription to see full articles on the NEJM , but the CeliacChicks have generously reproduced it.

Ok, heard something about some dental products used by dentsist NOT being gluten-free. Anyone ??

Going in for a root canal tomorrow.

I was worried about this also, but there's not really much danger. There's a slim chance that some of the flavored paste they clean teeth with might contain gluten, but most do not. I recently got another bridge and the dentist assured me that there was no gluten included in the adhesives used on either the temporary or permanent bridges. All you can do is make the dentist aware of your condition. He'll know what the ingredients are in the supplies he'll be using - especially regarding allergens and such.

Good luck with the procedure.

Novopharm alprazolam IS gluten free.

Is there any official documentation that Novopharm alprazolam is gluten free, such as on their website(s)?

My mom went to the doctor this morning and they suspect that she has RA. We are now waiting on the blood test results. Several people in our family have celiac disease (mom included), but we have no experience with RA. I know people with celiac disease are more likely to develop RA. She is 61 years old. Right now it is in her fingers and wrists. Does anyone have experience with this? What kind of prognosis is there for a woman her age, with her symptoms? What kind of treatment options are there? Thanks in advance!

I'm going to be speaking with someone soon who has had a very bad case of RA for almost 40 years, and will try to ask him about it. I do not know if he has celiac. My mother-in-law also has it, but it's not as severe.

In the meantime, I have a question: Has she been following the Celiac diet and if so, for how long?

Yes, I went to Anne Roland Lee of the Celiac Disease Center at Columbia University. She is one of the few Celiac nutrition experts in the country and the visit was very worthwhile. She answered all of our questions, and the information we received from her made the diet much easier to follow. Good luck.

Well, darn! I guess we all know we can't trust Pfizer, we have been warned enough times about this company. I have taken Xanax for years, only as needed. For the last several years it has been in a generic form. In September my doctor gave me a new RX for it and it is from Greenstone labs, I will be calling them today, if I can find a phone number for them. I do not know which lab my old pills were from now. I do know that taking them was always a big decision for me. I had to decide if I needed them bad enough right now to deal with tomorrow. When I take Xanax, the next day I usually have a bad day, a day of jumpiness, on edge, a day where anything can set me off--could that have been a gluten reaction----who knows.

How sad to know we may be glutening ourselves when we felt we were being safe.

You've been glutened. I had similar symptoms, and other reactions, the day(s) after taking Greenstone's Alprazom, which is generic Xanax.

Sorry to tell you this, but Greenstone is owned by Pfizer, and the ingredients, including gluten, are the same in both companies' Xanax. We called Pfizer and confirmed it.

I don't know why that link didn't work, but you may have to google Pfizer Pro Gluten Xanax

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Xanax has been incorrectly included on lists of gluten-free meds.

From a Pfizer website:

Table 2. Pfizer U.S. Pharmaceutical Products That Contain Gluten as an Ingredient

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We use Vance's DariFree, which is a milk substitute made from potatoes.

Sounds like he could be suffering from anemia. He should get his iron and ferritin levels checked. For many men, including myself, if the levels are low, and there are no other causes, gluten intolerance is often the culprit.

I was not involved in the original discussion, and didn't call it in, but all suicide threats on message boards are taken very seriously. If they are not reported to the authorities, and something happens, the owner of the board can be held legally responsible.

I take 5-HTP and L-Theanine Suntheanine, manufactured by NOW FOODS. They are gluten-free. L-Theanine is made from decaffeinated green tea, and is very relaxing. 5-HTP, which increases serotonin levels, is made from the bean of an African plant.

The title of this posting should have been "US..." (as in United States), but the program assumes we can't type and automatically changes the second letter to lower case.

US issues draft Codex positions on gluten-free

By Lorraine Heller

9/26/2007- Standards for gluten-free foods must encompass all types of foods that do not contain gluten, said the US in its draft positions for the next session of a Codex Committee meeting.

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