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  1. Skylark
    An inconclusive blood test is VERY different from negative if gluten-free makes you feel better. Before you pay for Enterolab, can you get the test name, the result, and the normal range and post them here? A borderline blood test result and a huge response to the diet is plenty of evidence for celiac - it's hard to get positive blood tests. Enterolab...
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    Wow, that was my TSH exactly. Mine went over five last summer. Dr. started me on a little more T4 and a little T3 but I was still depressed. Numbers were TSH at 2.2, low-normal T4. I didn't have a lot of physical symptoms but I was so depressed my Dr. started me on wellbutrin for my safety. It popped me right out of the depression but antidepressants...
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    OH, geez. I can't believe you're still waiting. Low B12 could explain some of your symptoms.
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    I do not feel well with TSH over 2.0 or free T4 in the low part of the reference range. My mental symptoms kick in first and resolve last.
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    Why do you keep using words like "scare" and "paranoid"? I don't understand why you are attacking me. The facts are very straightforward, that oats act as gluten in some celiacs. Since you apparently haven't read it, here's the CSA recommendation (which is very close to my original answer since both are based on the biomedical literature). Open Original...
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    Celiac can be the underlying cause of thyroid trouble. For me, my brain recovers last from thyroid problems. I can be only mildly hypo and very depressed.
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    I'm wondering about thyroid because what you describe is dead-on what I've been experiencing since my TPO antibodies got high. (The antibody is TPO by the way, not APO. It stands for thyroid peroxidase.) It's hard to get the mental symptoms of Hashi's to go away. Like you, I feel somewhat disabled. It takes me hours to do work I could have done in minutes...
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    An endocrinologist needs to determine whether you need thyroid medication. We cannot do that on a message board. If you need it, you have to take it come hell or high water. You can't skip doses, or play with it. Your body isn't designed to work that way and you can make yourself ill. You have to work with your doctor to find the proper dose of thyroid...
  9. Skylark
    ...only eating at mediocre big chains that have gluten-free menus. I miss being able to walk into a hole-in-the wall ethnic restaurant and order anything, getting omikase in sushi bars without having to take crazy caution to avoid soy sauce, or going for dim sum and taking whatever looked interesting off the cart. Oh, and right now it's not being able...
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    The facts are readily available. Most celiacs tolerate oats, but a few celiacs have gotten villous atrophy in studies with very clean oats. The oat reaction is common enough that it's been documented in studies, and common enough that we have folks on the board who can't eat them. It makes sense to try because oats are a lovely grain, but also to use reasonable...
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    Bartfull, did you get your test results back? I've been worried about you!
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    Meds are lovely if you tolerate them and they help! There is nothing that works for me, which is what finally made me try other stuff.
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    You have to be on a constant dose of thyroid medicine, taken at the same time every day, for about three months to stabilize. Also, part of the reason you got put on thyroid is to suppress the amount of TPO enzyme your body makes, which lowers the inflammation and autoimmunity. I'm not feeling right either, but I'm finding that GAPS diet is slowly working...
  14. Skylark
    My mental status didn't recover until I went on a multivitamin/mineral/trace element supplement and lots of fish oil. I had been gluten-free for a year and was still bipolar. I also took probiotics for about six months to be sure I was absorbing the supplement. It took about four months for me to come out of the fog, and I felt a lot worse before I felt...
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    It's even more than that. Oats are typically crop rotated with wheat because they grow in the same conditions. Wheat plants from previous seasons volunteer in the oat fields and the grains are virtually indistinguishable so the wheat grains get mixed in with the oats. Wheat is never planted in fields where certified oats are grown, along with separate...
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    My first elimination many years ago I went down to lamb, rice, and lettuce for two weeks. I felt better so I started reintroducing foods three days apart. I'll usually have a reaction within 48 hours if something is going to make me sick since I have pretty good intestinal transit time. I was reacting to soy, cow dairy, and gluten. (This before celiac...
  17. Skylark
    Yowza. You are celiac. IgA- 228 (70-400) -- This is not strictly a celiac test. It checks whether you make normal amounts of IgA (mucosal antibodies). You do, so your doctor reads the IgA part of the celiac panel rather than the IgG. Endomysial Ab IgA- POSITIVE -- autoimmune antibody, 100% specific for celiac disease Deamidated Gliadin Abs IgA...
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    Hi, Puddleduck Your concerns sure do sound familiar. I don't eat much processed food at all. I usually bring dinner leftovers for lunch or make batches of homemade soup or stew and freeze them in single servings. Will your mum let you loose in the kitchen? I also throw in some fruit, cut vegetables, nuts, or other finger food. Chunks of homemade...
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    Most of the medical articles I've read say to introduce oats only when you are fully recovered and antibodies gone, or after six months gluten-free, whichever is longer. They also say that you should have followup blood testing after six months eating oats (assuming you had a positive blood test to begin with). I don't worry about rice, other than to give...
  20. Skylark
    You are 18 weeks pregnant, celiac, and eating gluten? If we were in person I would slap you, same as I would slap a pregnant woman drinking alcohol. Active celiac disease causes miscarriages; you might not have even conceived had you not stopped eating gluten. As if that wasn't enough, poisoning yourself makes you a worse mother for that child. At least...
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    Sounds like your first baking project is pizza crust! Boy, I can't even think about pizza right now. I'm avoiding starch, currently sensitive to dairy, and I think I might be reacting to tomatoes too. About all I can have are the toppings. I suppose it's not much of a loss since to me pizza was mostly a convenient platform for olives, sausage, and mushrooms...
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    I wonder if there is a way to get that awful unripe persimmon pucker into a muffin? That would be awesomely funny.
  23. Skylark
    Hi, MegRie. You are describing major depression. I had that happen, and it was a bad flare-up of my Hashimoto's thyroid disease. Then the physical symptoms of hypothyroidism hit and I headed for the doctor. I got on enough thyroid but I have also become dairy intolerant and dairy makes me feel dizzy, foggy, and apathetic. There is another food intolerance...
  24. Skylark
    I'm glad l-tryptophan helps you but making it as a general recommendation to bipolars is dangerous. L-trypophan and 5-HTP often trigger manic episodes, just like anything that interacts with the serotonin system. Perhaps you're not really bipolar if you find l-tryptophan so helpful. Bipolar illness is somewhat overdiagnosed. You also seem to be confused...
  25. Skylark
    The Seventh Day Adventist study is interesting, but a little difficult to interpret. The main meat eaten by non-vegetarians was beef rather than chicken or fish. The beef consumption increased the risk of heart disease in men, which isn't terribly surprising. They found reduced mortality in people consuming whole grains, and that frequent consumption of...
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