Tom Riggins

I had duodenitis. Twenty years ago a doctor prescribed Carafate for me. Great stuff and basically inert but when I've asked other doctors over the years to prescribe it they have acted like it was the last thing they would have thought of. I took it about ten minutes before meals.

Thanks for the kindness. Those events were a long time ago. I went to several doctors and specialists along the way who had no clue what was happening to me. It is a shame that ignorance of gluten intolerance is still out there in the medical profession. I'm sure in today's medical world similar Jeckyll and Hyde behavior is first treated with depression...

Way back in 1980 I was exhausted and desperately begging doctors to find out what I thought was killing me. I only felt well when I didn't eat. After a week of upper and lower GI tests, x-rays, and various this and that I was discharged from the hospital with advice to seek psychiatric help for my headaches, fatigue, anxiety, mood swings, and extreme irritability...

Yes, I had panic attacks during the years of being gluten ill before diagnosis. I had mood swings and an extreme frustration response too. Most of that was gone about three months into the gluten free diet but it took about three years to not feel like I had what I could only describe as battle fatigue as eventually the myriad of weird neurological symptoms...

Thanks. My thirty years of trial and error had already led me to Colgate toothpaste, Ajax dish liquid, Softsoap, Speed Stick, and Irish Spring soap. No problems with Gel-Kam or Peroxyl rinse. I am likely one of the more sensitive beings on the planet though I see many of you here are in the same boat.