Lisa A

Sorry I took a while to respond to your question Brandiwine. Yes that is the product I tried initially. Just a little update on pelargonium sidoides: I was away on vacation for the past week, at one of those all inclusive resorts in the Caribbean. I was fairly terrified to eat the food at the buffet but I did, with a lot of caution. I also took 6 capsules...

Every time I get glutened I google the heck out of the internet, trying to figure out how and why does this toxic process work and is there some kind of herb or anything that will help. So, this last time I got glutened, I stumbled on something that was actually helpful. Pelargonium sidoides, also known as umckaloabo. A herbal remedy you can buy for...

I will try that, and thanks for the info!

I'm super sensitive to gluten and as such, get glutened way too often and spend a lot of time trying to find ways to lessen the impact. A couple of things have actually worked for me, which might work for some of you other super sensitive people. First, I happened to read something interesting about glucosamine, that it binds to gliadin thus reducing...

Yikes what a story. At least it worked out in the end. We are a wheat-based culture and people sure do like their wheat. Anyone who goes against that is regarded with suspicion.

Wow reading your post was a heckuva lot like reading about myself. Is 6 weeks long enough for a gluten challenge? Maybe, maybe not. I got the blood test for celiac disease at 6 weeks. It came back negative. I ate gluteny foods 6 more weeks although less enthusiastically as I was pretty sick of feeling sick. Then another blood test (this time 3 months...

(Well sorry to revisit this but I had to put in my two cents worth). I agree! If gluten-free is abuse, then what do you call it when you let your children eat junk food? Geez. What do you call real abuse? These words are chucked around too freely. There seems strong evidence that both celiac disease and NCGS can be equally devastating to the body. Villi...

LOL! Okay I don't feel so weird about eating it off a spoon now. Rice cakes with Nutella are good too of course.

I haven't taken it for IBS, but I was on amitriptyline for 6 months -- 25 mg -- to treat a chronic permanent headache that showed up after a bad virus. It sort of helped the headache. Mostly it made me sleep soo so well. That part was great. However the mornings were pretty bad. Mornings would have been okay if I didn't have to speak to anybody, but my 2...

I went gluten-free (mostly) last August 2008, because I started to realize that bread, pasta, etc was making me feel crummy. At a checkup last month, I mentioned this to my doctor, and she suggested I get a blood test for Celiac. But she said I'd have to eat gluten for 6 weeks first. Okay, I thought, I'll do it. Ugh... the first few days were miserable...

It could be unrelated to gluten. The more you wash your hair and the more you strip the natural sebum from your scalp, the harder your scalp works to replace those natural oils. Sort of a vicious cycle. And of course the less you wash your hair, the less often you need to. But who knows... It could be related to gluten. Gluten intolerance and celiac disease...

If at some point you think you might want a definitive yes or no to celiac disease, you really ought to get a second blood test done NOW before you are 100% gluten free for much longer. Otherwise if you decide later, when you've been gluten-free for months or years, the only option to get a diagnosis is to do the gluten challenge. The gluten challenge is...