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    Contemplating a possible career change because of a health issue is a REALLY HARD decision to make, especially if you love your career. I had to make that decision years ago after having carpel tunnel surgery on both hands as a Dental Hygienist. It probably was related to Celiac and Hypothyroid, though no medical person at the time associated it with either...
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    At the very beginning it helps to remember "KISS" [Keep It Simple Stupid]. Don't panic, just don't eat any preprocessed food until you learn more what is safe and where to go that you can trust not to get glutened. To start off, buy every thing fresh and make it yourself with the simplest of seasoning. For instance, fry/grill/bake meat or fish with olive...
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    I should have posted this here instead of under another topic. So, please excuse my adding it again, if you saw it before. QUOTE (bittykitty @ Jul 12 2009, 02:43 PM) Why should I trust the medical community when they had so many chances in the past to catch it,but couldn't? Oh! Right on!!! I feel the same way. I am so frustrated with the medical...
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    Oh! Right on!!! I feel the same way. I am so frustrated with the medical community and the way I have been treated [or more correctly "ignored"] concerning my digestive problems since I was an infant... for over 60+ yrs. Many, many doctors had a chance to catch it...but NOT ONE of them ever so much as mentioned the possibility of celiac. Oh, I have heard...
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    Found this very interesting article on the internet: CLINICAL RAMIFICATIONS OF MALABSORPTION OF FRUCTOSE AND OTHER SHORT-CHAIN CARBOHYDRATES (from PRACTICAL GASTROENTEROLOGY
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    We are living most of the year in PANAMA (in Panama City) now that we are retired. We visit the kids and grand babies in the US two times a year, Spring and Fall. It has been interesting living in a different culture and attempting to learn a new language, Spanish. Since I am gluten and dairy free, food also has caused some adjustments. The traditional...
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    TiffLuvsBread, my gosh, you sound like you are having classic seizures. Have you been to a neurologists? They usually do an MRI and an EEG to check brain waves. Mine showed some slight calcifications and irregular variations in brain waves in the area just behind my right ear. Two different neurologists have dx'd it as either as Simple Partial Seizures...
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    I just recently discovered that my visual auras [DX'd as either Simple Partial Seisures or Migraine w/o Headache] are probably related to the Celiac - I found an article in a Neurology journal recently that made the connection and made me wonder if anyone else out them has had similar experiences in connection with having Celiac. This is the first mention...
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    I'm another one of those "unofficially diagnosed celiacs". Out of total and complete frustration with doctors, I finally diagnosed myself a few years ago going on a gluten free diet myself. I realized that over the years I could pretty much check all the symptom boxes. I have been to soooo many doctors (including 3 gastroenterologists over the years)...
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    It took years for me to be finally diagnosed: As an only child, I had a problem with dairy as an infant, with projectile vomiting after bottle feedings (Mom didn't breast feed), and was continually underweight. I was very sickly growing up with frequent flu like symptoms, yet no doctor suggested food allergies or intolerances all those years. At 27, I became...
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    Did you know that if you have IgA Deficiency the blood tests for Celiac may be false-negative, or at the best inconclusive? That's because IgA is what is used as the a marker for the current bloods that are done. Note the 2 following articles: 1) DO WE NEED TO MEASURE TOTAL SERUM IgA TO EXCLUDE IgA DEFICIENCY IN COELIAC DISEASE? AU Sinclair D; Saas M...
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