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    I saw some "gluten free" cookies at the health food store the other day, and on the back of the package it said "processed in a facility containing wheat" and it listed xantham gum as an ingrediant, which i understand contains trace gluten. I thought of e-mailing the company and asking them, "just what the deuce are you fools up to?" but figured i did'nt...
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    now that i think about it, i had a near death experience in '95 with mushroom poisining, and @ 3 years ago i had a really bad staph infection on my knee. a lot of my symptoms got significantly worse after this I realize now.
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    From what I understand, DH can take up to 2 years to go away on a gluten free diet; this is because the antibodies which are attacking you and causing the inflammation are deposited between the layers of the skin in the case of DH. Even if your immune system stops producing more antibodies, the ones stuck in your skin will persist in causing the rash.other...
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    Try finding ways to be as kind to your tummy as you can, I found that peeling my apples, and not eating the skin of my sweetpotatoes helped. When I phased out quinoa, the only grain I was still eating it definately got better, it's pretty rough on your guts!
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    you said itchy, but is it really really itchy almost all the time? DH is super itchy to the point of being more painful than just itchy like a mosquito bite itchy.Also, it kind of "erupts" when it flares up, and oozes. I just found out about how iodine makes DH worse recently after suffering for years, so I'm not sure if the rash would react to iodine being...
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    just because it is "all in your head" doesn't mean it's not real.(the pain, reaction) Robb Wolf mentioned in his podcast 'the paleolitic solution' that when someone looks at sugary food they can actually have an insulin spike that is measurable using blood tests.Our vision can effect us very strongly; i've heard cigarette smokers are equally addicted to...
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    but wait, grains are one of the major "food groups" and so is dairy!, i remember learning this in school, and remember noticing that the text book was published by the american dairy association when i looked at the fine print. so i wonder why all the sheeople out there believe, "well it must be a disease,and there's something wrong with YOU if you can...
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    After being off of gluten , even the slightest trace amount, and dairy, other grains, and nightshades for @4 months my mood has improved amazingly, I am starting to feel like an entirely new person. I had stopped eating wheat @3 years ago, but because I wasn't sufficiently informed about celiac, how an auto immune 'reaction' works, ect... I thought I could...
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    I'm really only 4 months in, and do feel like a different and much improved person; if i have an episode of anxiety/panic, it's only a 'mini' compared to what i used to go through regularly. way less intense, and only lasts 20 minutes instead of 2 days. truly amazing. feeling more comfortable in social situations and with meeting people/ interacting with...
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    I ate at PF Changs recently, after not eating at a resturant in months, and was shocked that there was nothing on the gluten-free menu that I could even eat, there is corn starch in the sauces, ect, always something, so I asked them to just cook me some chicken and spinich and bok-choy, and thats it, no salt, just those 3 ingrediants, and they accomadated...
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    I've heard that there is "invisable" DH that itches only, and doesn't blister, and is not apparantly to the eye. There's no rash, just the signature insane itchiness of DH
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    No, really, thanks for posting this thread it makes me actually feel better knowing I'm not the only one who is sick of everything surrounding what I'm doing , ironically enough, to get better. Feeling alone just seems inevitable with this. Am I wrong?? I mean, even to the rare person who actually comes along and sincerely asks about what you are going...
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    I don't like the word disease to describe celiac, I think it's inappropriate for example if hypothetically I had been fortunate enough to never had injested gluten my entire life would I have a disease? No , I would be fit as a fiddle of course, it was in my baby formula and I've been sick ever since, but my point is that it doesn't mean there is something...
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    ARCHIVED Dh And Iodine

    rdunbar posted a topic in Dermatitis Herpetiformis

    Does anyone know anything about how/ why iodine makes DH worse? I've just learned this recently from a friend who attended a celiac conference at Stanford with Dr Peter Green I'm avoiding seafood and iodized salt for the last few weeks and I'm getting better when I first went super hardcore gluten casien free a few months ago and was using no salt at...
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    According to Robb Wolf who is a bio chemist and has done research on this, gluten is a gut irratant and it causes inflammation period. This doesn't mean everyone has full blown celiac, but it is harmful to everyone. Check out his podcast called paleosolution. The more I've learned about this the more I observe how peoples health seems to be impacted negatively...
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    Please don't be hard on yourself for not being able to follow through on this you will go through a lot of changes as you heal, and none of us are perfect still, I know you want to get better and be well you wouldn't be on this board if you didn't gluten is hugely addictive, I understand it mimics opiates to your body and brain. Don't underestimate it...
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    I'm so sorry to hear that I know it's a scary feeling; my father just passed away a month ago from cancer; and to be struggling with your own health and well being at the same time, and then to have little real understanding and support from anyone, it's really really tough. I get so broken hearted about people in general just not getting it even when...
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    the problem with any kind of processed corn is that is contaminated with gluten always. it is harvested with the same machinery as wheat, stored and processed in the same facilities as wheat is, so it's just always contaminated enough to be harmful. I stopped eating any kind of processed corn, chips, tortillas over a year ago, and I noticed my DH improved...
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    Thanks for starting this thread. I've been wanting to ask people what they know about the adhesive used for the labels on my oliveoil bottles, like labels on a wine bottle. I decided to be very careful when I wash off the label and adhesive because I reuse the bottles for water; I wear rubber gloves, scour the sink afterwards with comet was just curious...
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    Are you using dairy? I believe your body can confuse casien with gluten , and reacts to it the same way by producing the antibodies. I was off of gluten for over 2 years, but did'nt start getting better until i kicked the dairy @ 3 months ago.
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    Hi! I'm totally familiar with having huge social anxiety, depression,constant crying spells,attacks of trembling and shaking, ect... being chronically unmotivated. Also a host of other symptoms too many to mention here. I stopped eating wheat over 2 years ago, and corn about a year ago, and some improvement but not really; I found out that I had to stop...
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    I felt like that when I got off of casien after not eating wheat for almst 3 years just 3 months ago. I was also careless about gluten cross contamination, and ate processed corn (which is always CCed), but when I cleaned up I felt like I had been kicked in the gut, and could barely get out of bed for 2 weeks. From what I understand gluten or casien cause...
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    I was working as a caterer up until this last december, and when I was near someone slicing bread for a big party the reaction would hit me like a frieght train, my nosr would start running in what seemed like only seconds, I would lose my balance to the point where I could barely even function, have a feeling like someone placed a vice on my head and was...
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    Check out Robb Wolfs podcast very informative and entertaining as well I'm not sure why they use the term paleolithic to describe this diet you don't have to go back but a few generations and it was common for people to cook over fires and bread from what I understand was reserved for rich folks flour was expensive because of the machinery required...
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