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  1. MariaOfColumbia
    Andy316, I haven't tried going off the methylfolate and methylcobalamin yet. I have read that the sublingual (under the tongue) ones are far more effective than the swallow kind. My choice of brand is determined by what kind of sweetener they use in the formula. I'm very intolerant to artificial sweeteners, so I only use brands that have lactose...
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    Sorry I was gone so long. I thought I had notifications turned on. I take a sublingual methylfolate every day and a sublingual B12 called methycobalamin. I take a B complex vitamin that doesn't have folic acid. Then I take the other supplements that would be in a multivitamin. But I can't take a multivitamin because they all seem to have folic...
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    She's lucky her doctor thought to check! Mine was clueless. It didn't even trigger any sort of query on her part when the B12 levels came back abnormally high. I was desperate at that point. There really wasn't anything else I could cut out of my diet at that point! I'd already trimmed it down to vitamin deficiency levels! I thought I was taking...
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    I'd been on a strict gluten free diet for 7 years, but kept having problems. Things got worse and worse and I kept cutting all kinds of carbs out of my diet until I was left with meat and a few vegetables. Any kind of starchy carb would cause my gut yeast to go out of control and make me bloat and burp and have abdominal cramps like crazy. Reflux and...
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    I've heard an appendix can give you trouble for quite a while before going critical. And my son had lots of nausea and vomiting before his ruptured. Surely they checked you for appendicitis, though! That's so basic.
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    That's OK. And I'm not trying to imply that everyone ought to try a low histamine diet, either. I kind of envy you folks who only have to avoid gluten. When I was on a gluten-free diet, I thought that was hard. When I made a combined list of all the foods the various histamine intolerance websites and sat back and looked at it.... I was appalled....
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    I'm sorry if I seemed to invalidate you histamine issues. I didn't mean to. I'm glad that you got things figured out so that you can be healthy again. Good health is so important.

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    I've proved gluten isn't the issue with me by eating rye products without problem. Not only did I make and eat those rye biscuits as a test half a year ago... but my pancake/waffle recipe now has rye in it as well. And I eat that every day. It was wheat that was and is the issue. One of them. I can eat a little bit of wheat, but not often and not daily...
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    I was so invested in the idea that I was gluten intolerant that when I started reacting to homemade yogurt half a year into it, I assumed that the dry milk I'd been adding to it was contaminated and I threw it out. A new box produced the same result, though, so it MUST be that the factory wasn't gluten free. I did have plenty of reason to believe...
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    Food is such a basic need that people really have trouble imagining that what they were taught was good for them and tastes good..... isn't. For me this whole experience has been like losing my religion. I've eaten "healthy" my whole life. Whole grains and organic food was how I was raised. I believed that I was eating the best food I could for optimal...
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    Yeah, I was going down the spiral of looking for smaller and smaller quantities of possible gluten contamination when I found out about a gluten home test kit. I bought a couple of the GlutenTox tests and started testing food that made me react. Nothing I tested had measurable gluten in it. So I tested some wheat crackers just to make sure the test itself...
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    A year and a half ago I was in pretty bad shape. Acid reflux/ constipation/ esophageal spasms/ constant abdominal bloating along with constant powerful burps- such that they interupted sleep / eczema and then my joints started hurting a lot and I was diagnosed with early osteoarthritis and told I'd better get used to it, that this was who I was from there...
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    I'm 5'5" and have size ten feet. I assume my growth was stunted, because otherwise my feet would be more in proportion to my height.
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    I've had slightly wavy light brown hair all my life. After 5 months off gluten (except for accidental exposures) the new hairs on the top of my head are coming in dark, thick and twisty like cork screws! They won't smooth down to meld with the rest of the long wavy hair. The rest of my hair is very long, so I'm kind of worried that I'll have to cut it...
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    Some feminine hygiene products have wheat based absorbants in them. Pads have always given me trouble, causing intense soreness wherever the pad touches me, and I have to use homemade papertowel pads at night just to give my body a break. This past period, I used the papertowel pads during the day too on the last day, since is was a weekend and I was staying...
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    I finally used up my box of instant nonfat dry milk powder, but when I bought a new box and got it home, it had that disclaimer below the ingredients... you know the one: This product may contain trace amounts of wheat... blah, blah, blah. I didn't even think to check the previous box. It's milk powder! Why would there be wheat???? I've been looking...
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    I'm 48 years old, and never thought that I might have celiac disease. My father's side of the family has a reputation for having stomach troubles, so I never even considered going to a doctor for mine when they started. It's just part of life, I supposed. Eventually, though, things got so bad with acid reflux, constant burping and esophageal spasms that I...
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    I've got it on reserve at my local library now, thanks. It ought to become available soon. Looks like there are 2 editions out there.
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    Well, if the cut heals terribly, then we'll know my immune system is attacking the area visciously. I wonder how the body knows where the gluten is coming from, anyway, when it attacks the villi? Maybe from its point of view, it's obvious that the gut is the source of the contamination. I wonder if gluten introduced in a cut would provoke a response...
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    I just got an impressive paper cut while opening the mail at work. This was right on the edged of the gummed area, and I almost certainly got a few molecules of the gummed stuff inside the bloody cut. Is this enough to provoke an immune reaction? Not that it really matters, though. I've already managed to gluten myself today anyway. But in theory...
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