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  1. Bell
    Also some cold meds can make you feel a bit spacey. I know that anything with phenylephrine in it tends to make me feel a bit vacant. At the moment I'm getting a similar thing from some nasty antibiotics, and it used to happen if I had anything with nutmeg in, though that's not so bad now. Some substances either directly affect your moods and brain, but...
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    Is it really true about the colour of beet coming out in your urine being a sign of leaky gut? I remember as kids, me and my young brothers and sisters all laughing hysterically at each others purple- filled potties after pickled beetroot. Surely we weren't all suffering as toddlers and young children? _After this we used to eat as much as we could, just...
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    ARCHIVED Iud Options

    Bell replied to melmak5's topic in Related Issues & Disorders

    It's not necessarily true that IUDs are only for those who have given birth. I chose to have the paraguard even though I've no children. It wasn't PARTICULARLY uncomfortable to have put in - though obviously not much fun either. However I did then get Bacterial Vaginosis, which i think happens fairly commonly after the procedure. My periods have always...
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    Codeine can cause stomach pain - I'm not sure exactly what it does, but I found that if I took it for any length of time, then when I stopped I would have that awful raw feeling in my stomach. It took a good week for the rebound D (after codeine constipation) to go too. I hope it hasn't done any lasting damage to either of us
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    ...actually I've just checked, and don't think flaxseed is legal. Which is a shame, as it seems to be the only thing that holds my biscuits together! Ah well. Sorry bout that. I'll try coconut milk, but I have a vague memory of trying it in tea a few years back, and it separating. What other SCD legal emulsifiers could maybe hold it all together?
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    I've been experimenting with the SCD life, but miss milky tea like you wouldn't believe! All the commercial nut milks have sugar in them (and are thin and expensive) and my own attempts at making nut milks have been less than perfect. I like my milk to be full-fat, and have tried using a little ground flaxseed in my nut milks as an emulsifier to hold the...
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    ARCHIVED Candida

    Bell replied to Lexi's topic in Related Issues & Disorders

    I'm always reading that difflucan is not a good thing to take for candida, because it damages your all your gut flora. I admit I know very little regarding the details of this - but I was wondering if you could do a strong course of difflucan and then follow it with a strict anti candida/scd diet, with masses of live homemade yoghurt. Maybe I'm looking for...
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    I thought I had ADD before I found out I had celiac disease. Now I don't - but I really do go back to my old self when I get glutened! My memory is starting to really improve now, and my focus and mental clarity is just joyful to me! Also, I'm happier, but I think I just feel more at ease with myself. I can trust my brain to be on form. Before it was stumbling...
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    When my insides are playing up i often wake very early in the morning, feeling fine, but VERY tense. It gradually builds up, and finally my stomach tells me why it woke me up, in a most unpleasant way. There is a strange rise of tension in the body when it has some alien substance which it really wants OUT, but has limited ways to do so. I've just started...
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    How much fat do you eat? I think we need more than is generally thought, especially good quality organic animal fats, butter, coconut oil and olive oil. I find that the more fat i eat, the more satisfied I feel. And I can easily go all day on a good breakfast, whereas if I ate something low fat and/or carb heavy, i would have a real problem with low energy...
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    AliB, I appreciate your repeated references to the SCD. I'd been feeling somewhat better on the gluten-free diet, but old symptoms were creeping back in. I was quite sure i wasn't being glutened, so I cut out pretty much all starchy carbs and sugars for a week. As a result i am suddenly filled with energy, my skin looks clearer, and the mental fog has...
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    I haven't had a period in ages, and am hoping to welcome my old friend Flo with a small party when/if she returns! .... hopefully she won't come back as vigorously as she used to though ... 2-3 weeks of heavy bleeding with breaks of months at a time inbetween. I'd love a neat little 28 day cycle, (thankyouplease God).
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    Be really cautious about going back "off the wagon" again. It feels worse each time you try to give up gluten, and then go back again. Also in the first of the 2 links there was a statistic: "Mortality in patients with celiac disease and their relatives: a cohort study This study compares 1072 celiac patients with 3384 of their relatives over 25 years...
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    Did your new allergies appear after you stopped eating gluten? I'm not sure why but it seems to be quite common for this to happen. When I stopped eating gluten, suddenly I became intolerant to dairy - but now I am eating gluten again in advance of my biopsy (ugh!) I am not bothered by milk any more. The symptoms in response to dairy are quite different...
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    I was wondering too, but yours doesn't sound like mine. Maybe we need a poo analysis forum! Sorry bout this but ... it sticks to the sides and looks greasy/sticky. Every time I have gluten - or corn/rice for that matter!
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    I can vouch for the fact that going gluten free can really improve your state of mind. It's stunning to me, that I can now concentrate and feel calm, and not "scattered" like I did before. I know when I've been glutened because my thoughts race about, I keep losing one train of thought and racing off down another, and coming back again, without a clear sense...
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    I actually did eat some gluten yesterday (licorice. I missed it! I did know what to expect, and was just testing... afterward went for Indian food knowing there was a high chance of being cc). Anyway, I was up at 4:30, threw up, D for a few hours and then I went to work. How can I do this for a month? My head is so much clearer being off gluten too. I can...
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    My biopsy should be at about the end of January, and so I'm supposed to be eating gluten until then. I've been off it for about 2 months so far, and want to stay off through christmas, just because I want to be happy! But here are some questions: how much gluten is enough to have an effect? how can I limit the other effects than the villi being damaged...
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    I've been reading the SCD thread with great interest, but wouldn't it make sense to have a whole forum for SCD discussions? At 67 pages the one thread feels in danger of collapsing under the strain! and it's hard for newbies to find the basic info in there. anyone else agree?
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    ARCHIVED Milk.

    Bell replied to Bell's topic in Food Intolerance & Leaky Gut

    I don't find soy milk to be mucous forming for me at all, but I am quite dubious about its supposed health benefits. I think I'd rather try and give up milk completely than drink as much soy as I would habitually have in my tea every day. Coconut milk - isn't that really thick and creamy? lovely too, but surely you can't put it in hot drinks? I am very...
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    It's a funny question to ask us, if you really are sure you have no issues with anything other than gluten... what did you mean by being in a perpetual state of brain fog? do you mean even when you are not eating gluten? If you are, it might be that the diet needs to have a little more time to heal you, or that there might be other things making you feel...
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    ARCHIVED Milk.

    Bell replied to Bell's topic in Food Intolerance & Leaky Gut

    I know it sounds daft, but I'm still surprised, and comforted by the fact that my experiences are so familiar to the folks here. I still feel embarrassed to be "picky" when I'm out with my friends, but here i know it's understood. I will find it hard I think to find a replacement for milk, but actually I would like to give up cheese too for the time being...
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    ARCHIVED Milk.

    Bell posted a topic in Food Intolerance & Leaky Gut

    I've been off gluten for about 2 months, and feel much better for it. D has stopped, and my mind feels clearer, which i'm sure you'll understand, is an enormous relief! The only thing is, now I think I'm allergic to milk. Or intolerant perhaps. When I drink milk I feel within about 30 mins or so that I need to clear my throat. Every 2 minutes or so. It's...
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    The stress of celiac disease definitely unbalances your body, hormones included. All I can think is that as long as we are eating the right diet, the hormones should be (gradually) returning to their correct levels, as far as they are able to. But then again, it is possible too that there has been some actual damage in the body's regulating system, and it...
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    I've been gluten free for a few months now, and I definitely noticed some tenderness in my breasts. How are your hormone levels? I had hoped that the tenderness was a sign that my system was waking itself up, and hopefully that my periods would return to normal, after vanishing for the last year. any other pre/post-diagnosis symptoms? I'm really curious...
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