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    It can be tough finding a doctor who recognizes celiac as a disease, let alone finding one who recognizes the multitude of autoimmune connections or the un-reliability of celiac tests. Medicine is driven by patient complaints. If a patient sees a doctor, and complains of a sore swolen tongue, oral thrush, anal or vaginal itch or rash, athlete's foot,...
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    I got, or recognized I had, celiac after about 25 years fighting candidiasis. Here is a Lancet article showing that candidiasis and celiac are essentially the same disease .........at least for many people: Open Original Shared Link Yes, for all of my 25 year fight, dizziness was and is one of my strongest symptoms. There are probably many reasons....
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    Yes, I think gluten is causing your daughter's symptoms, and so do you. But your daughter doesn't think so. Every family member around her has celiac. She's acting bipolar, and ignoring the celiac facing her from every direction. I can't make her try gluten free, and apparently neither can you. I face the same thing with family members. I've even told...
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    The above revelation that roughly 2% of Americans have celiac-related disease at any given time ..........combined with the statistic that 1/3 of Americans possess at least a half dose of the as-yet associated DQ2 and DQ8 genes ........means that up to 1/3 of Americans would probably acquire DQ2 or DQ8 associated autoimmune disease except for those killed...
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    A major flaw in the statistics circulating about autoimmune celiac disease is the time-related cross section. For instance, at any given time, X percent have celiac-related autoimmune disease. Medicine is a population science. Using the above statistical method, populations with a life expectancy of 40 years have very little autoimmune disease .........
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    The more one looks into the research on gluten damage and associated genetic iterations the more one sees that, at this stage, it's a very inexact science. Here are some of the issues: So far medical science has identified two genotypes associated with celiac. They are generally lumped into HLA-DQ2 and HLA-DQ8. Of celiac cases they represent roughly 9...
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    What Paulina said. You might need to prove to someone else that you have celiac disease. In that case the tests might be useful. But if you're just trying to satisfy yourself, you're going through a very rigorous, fatally flawed exercise for nothing. There are many doctors who, I believe correctly, test for celiac using nothing but a gluten-free diet. ...
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    Open Original Shared Link -------------------------------------------------------- Question : Recently I have developed what appears to be a strange abrasion on the top of my tongue. It follows almost directly down the mid-line of my tongue from the back to the tip. It looks like a burn. It is also sore and is very sensitive to heat -- i.e., coffee...
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    Please don't take this as pushing, but as a defense of candidiasis. There're a lot of social stigma issues associated with the subject of candidiasis. I believe there's no subject which cannot be discussed, if discussed sensibly. Some people believe candidiasis to be a venereal disease, and mentally stigmatize candidiasis patients, especially female patients...
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    As I write this reply, I believe mods could be moving the thread, but....... Practically, this gluten-free forum is a place for celiac patients to get help. Candidiasis appears when a celiac patient asks what else could be causing his/her unresolved symptoms .......an ancillary celiac issue. A candida section seems misdirected in a forum dedicated to people...
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    First you asked if your physician should have noticed your yellow skin. Then you said you're in a country where they speak another language. It finally occurred to me that you could be in a place, or seeing a doctor where yellow skin is seldom an issue .......or at least not a standard diagnostic tool. I checked out gfpaperdoll's Hemachromatosis. That...
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    I didn't mean to scare anybody. I'm certainly no expert. As the link says, jaundice is not a disease, but can be a symptom of disease. I think doctors would use the observation of jaundice on a patient who came to them with health complaints which a jaundice observation would help diagnose. If you had a related complaint when you saw a doctor, and he failed...
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    Open Original Shared Link ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Jaundice is not an illness, but a medical condition in which too much bilirubin
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    I've read so much now that I can't find all the links. Here's a good one on molecular mimicry. Open Original Shared Link Portions of wheat gluten are capable of plugging into nerves because they mimic human endorphin. The multi-step process is theoretical, but all of its parts are proven. Portions of the Epstein Barr (mononucleosis) virus, the varicella...
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    veggienft replied to jim123's topic in Related Issues & Disorders

    .....oops, I linked a follow-up diabetes experiment. Here's the experiment which implicated nerve inflamation in diabetes: Open Original Shared Link ----------------------------------------------------- ......Dr. Dosch had concluded in a 1999 paper that there were surprising similarities between diabetes and multiple sclerosis, a central nervous...
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    veggienft replied to jim123's topic in Related Issues & Disorders

    Yeah, I've experienced Wolf-Parkinson-White Vfib, and lately I've picked up some athlete's brachycardia. This should be no surprise from a disease which is capable of such nerve damage that it's implicated in autism, Schizophrenia, ALS and multiple sclerosis. Humans replace most damaged tissue, but not nerve tissue. The body attempts to repair damaged...
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    Try taking your daughter totally off sweets of all kinds, including fruits. This comprehensive article explains how the foods we crave most are the foods most likely to make us ill. Open Original Shared Link The gut turns starches into sugars which it releases into the bloodstream. It's prophetic and profound. People who get diagnosed with diabetes...
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    The way it works for me is the difference between clinical diabetes and candidiasis. Doctors generally tell diabetics and hypoglycemics the problem is sugar levels in the blood. And since the body turns stomach starch into blood sugar, don't eat sugars or starches. Starches other than glutenous grains give me no trouble. Sugars of all kinds give me...
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    The proteins which celiacs react to in gluten are also present on the surface of the common yeast candida albicans. Open Original Shared Link The operative theory says that people get gluten intolerant via exposure to candida. I got celiac disease after years battling candida. In the gut candida thrives in an environment of sugar and oxidants, chlorine...
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    I called your advice telling candidiasis sufferers to drop their sugar-free diets "inappropriate" and showed the reason why. For that you called me "irresponsible". You called my characterization of your, what was YES, bad medical advice an "attack". You blamed both candidiasis and autism on metal byproducts of western civilization, then objected when...
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    Look around. You're posting on a celiac board. The person asking about the prognosis for candidiasis, yes, presumably has celiac. Why else would he/she be here? You gave advice which would harm the probably-thousands of people who like me probably have celiac via candidiasis ......when you said: The "something" wrong with the candidiasis...
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    https://www.celiac.com/articles/695/1/Does-...ease/Page1.html --------------------------------------------------------------- This interesting study compares a specific amino acid sequence found in Candida cell wall protein to a the gliadin amino acid sequence that triggers the immune response in celiac disease. The researchers found that the sequences...
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    Your argument says the primary reason for the association between celiac disease and candida overgrowth is celiac's tissue damage. You are wrong. It is not. Celiac's primary means of attack is zonulin and membrane permeability ......not just in the gut, but throughout the body. Yes candida thrives on damaged gut tissue, but its means of systemic opportunism...
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    The mercury thing is a "catch 22" for us celiacs. Celiac causes tooth erosion and cavities. We fill the cavities with mercury, and the mercury exacerbates the celiac. I too try and get a weekly fix of fish oil in spite of the mercury warnings. Tracking celiac through genetics is fascinating. I'm about 1/2 Irish, and half of that is Western Irish. The HLA...
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    I beg to differ. I'll lead with apologies to people who take Genesis literally. So speaking scientifically..... Evolution determines genetics, and evolution relies on survival of the fittest. Within a species, Genetic changes only occur when an environment kills the species down to a mating pair or two ......with an adaptation which allows only them...
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