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    Post Nov 2016: ACA: What now?, health, mental health, gardening, organic, recycling, labeling
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Diagnosed with celiac disease in 2010; diagnosed with sleep apnea 2018 with low normal BMI; A1C: 5.4

  1. plumbago
    If you are waking up choking on your saliva, you might consider getting evaluated for sleep apnea (when the pandemic subsides a bit).
  2. plumbago started following Trouble swallowing choking on my own saliva?
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    If you are curious to know your levels, you can order the test and pay for it yourself. It should be between $75 and $99. Not cheap, but it may give you piece of mind. I would think that if you were ever deficient, your doctor would order at least an annual D level, and if she or he did, then insurance...
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    I didn't even know they were available in the US. I wouldn't have made such a big deal asking a friend to bring me some back from England, if I did. But interesting they are gluten free in the US but not England. I wonder why that is. I also never stop wondering just what exactly wheat adds to a...
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    Note to self: read the ingredients label on foreign sweets you used to eat as a child that someone returning from said foreign country just brought to you (and who did not read the label either to forewarn you!) before scarfing down 2/3 of the tube. Translation: Smarties are not gluten free...
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    Thank you. Can I ask a couple of questions? What is your and her understanding of how a bad glutening triggers POTS? Second, how was the POTS diagnosed, and what special precautions, if any, does she take? Thank you.
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    Hi, and thanks for responding! Let's just say I was born (like a baby as relative once said) in the 1960s! What you're describing in the first paragraph is orthostatic hypotension, if I'm not mistaken. I don't think it's that, and the reason I say that is I had been standing already, for a while...
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    Hi all, Yesterday morning after eating toast, the last of my breakfast, and while standing doing this and that in the kitchen, I felt my heart strongly in my chest. My rate was increasing, so I sat down and put a pulse oximeter on my finger and my HR was 155. I had to do a couple of vagal maneuvers...
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    A week or so ago, I called and spoke to someone who indicated that they are (still) attempting to sell, but it will probably change locations. Meantime, they are continuing to sell their equipment, which I don't totally understand if they are selling the business. Plumbago
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    Thanks! Yes, I just saw this myself, and o sure, I'll go plunk down a check tomorrow! But actually it's been a dream of mine to open a gluten-free restaurant in DC and call it Gluten Free, so there'd be no question. It's just strange because the rest of the web site is open. If it weren't for...
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    Hi everyone, If you live in the DC or Baltimore area, do you know the story about One Dish Cuisine? After nine years with my dx of celiac disease, I was finally preparing for a weekend trip/pilgrimage there, but saw on a sidebar twitter feed on their web site, that it's closed. Does anyone know...
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    Stress probably still can cause ulcers, as far as I understand, but from my reading online, the discussion so far is correct. H. Pylori is responsible (probably) for the majority of ulcers. However, I would keep my "no connection" (celiac disease and HP) powder dry until I do more investigating,...
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    Regarding the greens, I actually like them, and jam a lot in my smoothie in the morning. I almost always add ginger, which helps immensely. I have tried twice to eat organ meats, and I could not muster any enthusiasm, it felt like I was eating wrought iron. I am not precise on what I’m doing, so I...
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    Wow: more than what she calls for?! Incredible. How do you do it? I know you said lettuce, but that can take you only so far, I would think. Do you have anything to cite regarding food and eczema? I also have eczema but thought in my case it was triggered by an environmental allergen. But your arthritis...
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    I can imagine you may be tiring of our skepticism, but one more: are you curious what this was due to? CD3 immunostain demonstrates increased intraepithelial lymphocytes throughout most of the architecturally preserved villi.
  19. plumbago
    Chuck, Was that a normal endoscopy you had in 2012? From another post you made at https://www.celiac.com/forums/topic/121153-six-years-after-diagnosis-2nd-endoscopy-results/?tab=comments#comment-990090 you mentioned the results which I've copied below: Duodenal mucosa with increased...