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  1. PaulaJ
    I know how you feel--I have had multiple foods allergies for about 15 years. I have finally found what I think is the answer--LDA: Low Dose Allergy Immunotherapy. My advice to anybody who has multiple food allergies and/or chemical sensitivies is to learn about LDA and then search for a doctor in your area who practices environmental medicine and employs...
  2. PaulaJ
    Stefani--I understand your frustration and pain, believe me - food allergies suck so very bad, and I have more food allergies than I have fingers and toes combined. Tonight I had a hive in the back of my head and my back and face itches (I think I've got some hives going there too). I think I am allergic to tea (or maybe it was something else I got into...
  3. PaulaJ
    I hear you--I'm allergic to a lot of foods and I envy those people too. Paula
  4. PaulaJ
    Turning off the autoimmune response is exactly the goal of LDA. From what I understand, LDA therapy helps your body make suppressor t-cells to turn off t-helper cells that are misidentifying substances (chemicals, foods, pollens, molds, danders, etc.) as foreign invaders and thereby setting off a chain of events that make the body sick. I will keep posting...
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    My allergy doctor recently said to me before I switched from standard shots to LDA that the standard shots are more of a way to "control" allergies and that LDA is the "closest thing to a cure" for allergies. I didn't find that the shots (neutralization therapy) worked for my food allergies. Of course, I am a bad example of a neutralization patient because...
  6. PaulaJ
    Yeah, I did the home, inject self weekly treatment too--it's a different treatment from LDA. I'm sorry--please pardon me for guessing about the cause of your allergies--half the time I am unsure of how I got my own! In my case, before I got allergies, I suffered from horrible anxiety for many years, took way too many rounds of antibiotics, drank too...
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    That's cool that it works for autoimmune diseases-I've read that too--there's a comprehensive list of what conditions doctor's are using LDA for on Dr. Schrader's website (I listed the link in post above). Please keep me posted if you decide to go for it. If you don't have any food allergies, the diet part won't be nearly as difficult for you as it is for...
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    You could try curezone.com - they have a "MCS" forum there. Paula
  9. PaulaJ
    Are you sure she was doing actual "LDA" because LDA didn't get going until 2002 and before that there was a similar therapy called EPD (Enzyme Potentiated Desensitization) which was developed 1960. For EPD, a person would get a shot which was of a cocktail of antigens (including foods, molds, chemicals, pollens, dust, etc.) in the tiniest of doses with the...
  10. PaulaJ
    You're right - it won't cure gluten intolerance. It is a treatment for allergies only (food, inhalants, molds, pollens, chemicals, etc.--I think there's 300 or more subtances/foods in the shots if I am recalling correctly). From what I understand, LDA is the closest thing to a cure for allergies that's out there. It helps your body build suppressor T-cells...
  11. PaulaJ
    I've just started LDA (Low Dose Allergen) Immunotherapy--I had my first shot on 12/22 and am just about done with the 3 weeks of careful post-shot dieting. Besides having gluten intolerance, I have many food allergies and this, I understand, is the closest thing to a cure for allergies. Anybody else doing it, and if so, how are you coming along--what differences...
  12. PaulaJ

    ARCHIVED Celiac, Maybe, Desperate

    PaulaJ replied to Robink's topic in Doctors

    Hi Robin - I don't know of any docs in your area (I'm not from there) but I do know that you can get the test done through enterolab.com.
  13. PaulaJ
    Jessica--I see something suspect--in your signature/statement, you say you are allergic to "whole" milk. Cow's milk is cow's milk--it doesn't matter if it is whole milk or 2% milk, nonfat milk, etc. It is the protein in cow's milk that is the allergen, not the fat content, so if you are allergic to cow's milk it will make you sick. So both the 2% milk...
  14. PaulaJ
    This one time at cake camp.... Open Original Shared Link
  15. PaulaJ
    I followed Nancym's link to the Gluten file (thanks Nancy) and read this article - it touches on pancreatic insufficiency "which often accompanies celiac disease, especially in its early stages of treatment." So, as I said, it is possible your pancreas has some resting to do yet and could probably use some help in the form of digestive enzymes to help ease...
  16. PaulaJ
    Until not long ago, I used to notice a lot of undigested foods in my stools--it was quite frightening really. For me, I think going gluten-free was a big step in helping turn things around. Some other things I have done to help my digestion, is take HCL (hydrocholric acid) with any meals containing protein (any meal or snack that was more than just a piece...
  17. PaulaJ
    Hi--I didn't realize the original post was from 7/15 at first when I wrote my reply, but here it is anyway!
  18. PaulaJ
    Hi--I think the drastic "cave man" diet (mostly meat and veggies) is meant to be strictly followed only for a short period of time--like 6 weeks. Since all food eventually turns into glucose in the blood, the point of the Candida diet is to not give big surges of sugar for the Candida to feast on, thereby weakening it, and then killing it with antifungals...
  19. PaulaJ
    Hi Hacilar - I am from Seattle, WA. Good to know that there are at least two of us in WA that have this problem How long have you been at this and how are you getting along? I've only been "confirmed" since June of this year, so I have some mental adjusting to this to do yet.
  20. PaulaJ
    I have been shedding quite a bit for about 3 years and I'm pretty sure the gluten/gut issues contributed to it, but I also had very very low progesterone levels, which can also be an issue with hair loss (currently supplementing with natural P--I am 41). I have been gluten-free and on natural P since June of this year and the hair loss seems to have slowed...
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