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  1. Lizking531
    Have you ever considered Lyme disease? Not saying you do, but many of the symptoms are similar - Lyme can cause a number of different ailments, actually. It may be worth looking into, maybe not. One of the symptoms is persistent sinus symptoms - amongst d@mn near everything else under the sun In my case, there's several factors that have slowly...
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    Thank you very much. I've been perusing that site. A lot of this makes sense. I can relate to so many of the symptoms on here. Although so many of these symptoms are the same for so many different things, I feel like this may be shedding a bit more light on what I'm going thru. Honestly, I kinda scares me, but I can't really ignore it any longer.
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    Hi ya'll! I've been lurking around celiac.com for some time now, but just recently stumbled upon this thread. Little did I know about the controversy & difficulty regarding testing for Lyme. It really makes my head spin now. I spend a lot of time outdoors - backpacking, hiking, hunting, etc, etc. I have had plenty of run-ins with ticks. Probably...
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    Yeah - in short, I've been wondering exactly the same thing. I went to a few doctors about all my problems & had tests, etc & long story short, I'm still looking for answers. The town I live now is horrible for allergies to start with, so that doesn't make things much easier.
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    & what sucks about it all is the friggin feeling of chasing my tail around. The symptoms are the same for so many different things & having one thing trigger something else, etc, etc - I'm not really sure what direction to look. Does anyone have any experience with Lyme disease? I don't know much about it, other than ticks. I have had some...
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    Sorry, not to hi-jack, but this sounds somewhat familiar to me. One thing I have been wondering Can you be sensitive to oats, but not gluten? I can't really see why it wouldn't be possible, but I haven't ran across any mention of just being intolerant of oats before. Hell, I dunno - I feel like I'm chasing my own tail half the time trying to...
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    Yeah - that's been my modus operandum for years now. Vomiting, for me, is fairly uncommon, but it sometimes gives a surprising amount of relief - like my body knows there something there that shouldn't be. I also have tons of gas in the morning - sometimes I can be my own alarm clock...
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    Well - Now that's why I like coming here, there's got to be some place to ask these questions. I am right there with ya on that. I would describe mine as a burning sensation. I feel like it is from contact with something I expelled, as I have never had that feeling otherwise. It can be so friggin painful! Does anyone experience what I can best...
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    So, I heard a while back that Enterolab was the way to go for testing. The issue for me is the price tag. Does anyone have experience with different test? I came across this test from Canada that all you do is put blood on a card - no sending things back & forth and it's only $50 - but then again, you get what you pay for, right? I'm still not sure...
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    I'm still working on a diagnosis (possible celiac, also possible fructose malabsorption), but I definitely know what you're talking about. The intense cravings for crappy simple carbs & gluten (chips, sweets, etc) can take me to new levels. I've been thinking quite a bit lately about the correlation between foods I crave & foods that hurt me. I...
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    Yeah - I used to get horrible night sweats as well. That was one of the indicators originally to go to the doctor. When I originally got my bacteria overgrowth issues under control, my waist slimmed down a lot & the seat went away. Now many symptoms have crept back in, but luckily, the sweats have stayed away for the most part. For me, it felt...
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    Well, yes & no - a lot of both (not sure if that makes any sense). Overall, I would say more constipated than when I smoked, but that is not without bouts of D here & there. Granted, there's a lot of things at work with cigs & GI stuff. The fructose stuff does hit home on some accounts, but, as always with this stuff, there's still room...
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    Hehehe - and quarters: if you get back 2 dimes & a nickel, ya got a problem I cant' say I've ever noticed, or thought about, cooked bananas. I can't say I've had an itchiness in my mouth that stood out specifically (except maybe bananas), I'll have to pay attention better. Bananas can sometime taste kinda metallic/acidic to me, but I just thought...
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    No, I started going that route, but I never made it completely to gluten-free - I read to keep gluten intake while testing, so I quit trying to change the diet for a bit. Once tests came back with bacteria overgrowth, I went to (what I call) a "whole food" diet - very little, if any, processed food & sugar, supplemented with probiotics. Everything...
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    Alright - been thru the gamut of Dr's offices - long story short, after test & test & hernia surgery - ended up with a doc telling me I had bacteria overgrowth. Between diet, exercise & probiotics, had everything under control for the past year or more. Lately, eveything has been sliding back to how it was. Right now I have 3 specific foods...
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    the timing sounds so very familiar. I was doing great for just about 2 years - no problems, no this fall it seems like I'm sliding uncontrollably back to square 1.
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    Oh man - that sounds familiar. i don't get the shaky hands feeling, but it will feel like I have the flu or just totally horrible nauseous (sp?) dizzy, lightheaded, etc. - It will even force me to sit down & re group. Sooner or later though, I'll have to fart so bad, but then everything feels sooooo much better afterwards.
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    I couldn't tell you whether or not it's celiac - but your symptoms sound identical to mine (besides the ovaries part, being a guy an all). I went through blood, stool, urine, & breath tests, upper & lower scope, & biopsy. They told me that I had a bacteria overgrowth & gave me an antibiotic and sent me on my way. Now after being on...
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    I wasn't gluten free during the testing phase of my doctor extravaganza, but right after I got my tests done I went gluten free. I felt a lot better pretty soon then after I got my results and the doctor told me not to do gluten free because he said I have a bacteria overgrowth, I stopped it. In 1 months time, I'm getting back my old symptoms. I started...
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    When I went gluten-free, I felt a lot better. Once I had been doing it a few days, a lot of my internal discomfort subsided - I just figured it was because it was an easier diet to digest. Then I got an anitbiotics & that made me feel better again. So I went off the gluten free. It hasn't been anything that just hit me or stands out, but slowly...
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    Yeah, dont you just love how meds are the ONLY way to go with some folks? I went through all sorts of GI stuff & went through all the tests and finally took it upon myself to go gluten-free. When I went in for my follow up appt with my GI specialist - he straight told me that I don't have Celiac Sprue & to stop that diet. I told him that the diet...
  22. Lizking531
    I went through all the testing and such (blood, stool, upper & lower scopes) for the doc to tell me that I have a bacteria overgrowth - Prescribed the antibiotic Xifaxan for about 45 days now - at first my symptoms ( big D, soft stools, fatigue, etc) cleared up quick, but lately (as I am getting close to running out of anitbiotic) they have been coming...
  23. Lizking531
    So I've been having problems for months now - After a while I went in to the doctor & they gave me an upper & lower scope, blood tests, stool tests, biopsy, & breath test. The breath test came back positive, everything else negative (no celiac). So I get diagnosed with bacteria overgrowth. The doctor prescribed me Xifaxan - a newer anitbiotic...
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    I'm gonna go out on a limb here & say that whatever way you choose to think about cigs - you'll be able to find a research/multiple research papers to back up your own idea. It would be way harder, imho, to find any research, especially in America, that isn't anti-cig - whether its right or wrong. I was shocked to come across the topic somewhere on...
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    Totally - I can't remeber off the top of my head, but in another thread on here, the whole topic of discussion is neurological symptoms - I remember reading something about the GI system can be considered the second brain in the body - it does way more for mood and mental aspects than I ever realized. I know, for myself, that is/was totally the case. ...
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