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  1. pricklypear1971
    And if you don't want it to stick after you drain it, rinse it with cold water. We usually combine sauce with noodles in the pot before serving so temperature doesn't matter.
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    I noticed I had to skip crunches or anything that put upward pressure on my esophagus during a GERD episode (week or so). If you do anything like that, perhaps skip that for a week and see what happens?
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    Yes, it does. For me, symptoms fell off (and appeared) in phases. Healing happened the same way. One day, it's just gone...
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    Progesterone, or lack of it, caused spotting for me. Natural progesterone, no rx needed, 2x a day (morning/night) fixed it. Took a few months. Then, I went down to using it 1x a day for the last two weeks of my cycle.
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    Yay yay yay!!!! Congrats!!
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    What Takala said.... And from experience I can say that meds can interfere with the healing process. I was on an antipsychotic which is also an antihistimine for Dermatitis Herpetiformis (skin form of Celiac) - and I could definitely tell a difference between me on it and off it. I also had neuro symptoms - muddied by hypothyroidism and steroids (rash again...
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    I've been hearing it the other way...that they used to say its AI and now it's not. I always thought it was - all of the earlier reading I'd done at the time (10 years ago) said it was AI. I don't know...but they do say many with endo are AI, regardless.
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    Is it possible you got into gluten and this is your reaction?
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    From what ive read, they don't know what NCGI means, other than it doesn't seem to show up on traditional Celiac blood tests and/or endoscopies (at least enough to be called Celiac). So, yes, if you read between the lines plenty of people dx'ed with NCGI have nutrient deficiencies. But you also have to consider why they are dx'ed thus, instead of Celiac...
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    If you have been dx'ed withultiple autoimmune diseases there is little chance that you'll feel great, even off gluten, so quickly. It sounds like you have several health challenges. I suggest a new doctor with an approach to helping you feel better - addressing supplaments (have you been tested for vitamin deficiencies?) along with your diet. It sounds...
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    The Ttg-iga can be falsely elevated in the presence of another developing autoimmune disease. Open Original Shared Link
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    Here is some info about orthopedic massage. They also have a practitioner directory. Open Original Shared Link
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    We all have or have had leaky guts to a degree. It's what happens when gluten destroys your intestine (or what happens first....chicken/egg argument). I've tried acupuncture and while it wasn't unpleasant, and I did notice some relief, I didn't continue. So, give it a whirl. I have tried orthopedic massage and found it by far the most beneficial when...
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    Oh, pms is a beetch. I swell, too. Good news is you're likely to see changes (what, who knows) after you get on the right track. And I don't know what you're eliminating but there are some pretty creative sweets out there using bean flours, stevia, etc.
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    You have an AI disease. Most of us don't realize the stress it can put on our bodies. We don't all experience the effects the same way. I have two AI diseases. Maybe three, depending on your pov. As my doctor put it, one is enough for your adrenals to be challenged. Two...you will always need support. It's the nature of the disease. I fought the adrenal...
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    Oh my goodness. I'd say do whatever has traditionally made you feel better. Try to sleep on whatever schedule works - plus a power nap each day? Eat unprocessed food (cook a chicken and pick off if it all week) and take digestive enzymes with each meal. They help me. Drink lots of water and whatever else makes you feel better. Just play it smart...
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    My DH would swell and pop at night, and itch at night and in the morning. Ice helped calm it. That said, in the very beginning I had one spot on one quad. Took a while for it to become bilateral. Iodine is found everywhere. Egg yolks, potatoes, asparagus, and anything with carageenan got me. A little milk/butter not so much. It was cumulative. Try ice...
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    You've got to get your brain around healing damage body-wide. That was difficult for me - to accept that these things with my intestines and thyroid (sounds isolated, right) had torn up so many other systems. I also had to accept that I needed more than "gentle" supplemental nudging. I did much better once on adrenal cortex and dhea - after fighting the suggestion...
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    Well, come visit! My palm trees are actually coming back to life after our blizzard (yes, blizzard in Tucson!). They may have full fronds by fall! The acacias (smell like bubble gum) have bloomed, and leafed out and now the mesquites are following. The desert willows are finally turning green, no blooms til summer. The sage has a few blooms; but they...
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    I have had cherry lime slushes there, since going gluten-free - and I was fine. Other than that - didn't even attempt it.
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    For me the type of pain you describe is a combo of celiac and thyroid. I was gluten-free for apx 6 months before some of the hand shaking went away. The hand pain was there til I started a workout routine at 1 year. Now, I will get joint pain/tendon pain when I have a Hashimotos/thyroid flare. Working out helped - but you must go incredibly slow. I am...
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    In the long term, mine improved greatly. It may be the wrong activity, too frequently for the stage of healing you are at? Overdoing it is just as bad as not doing it...and it's quite difficult to find the sweet spot, especially since it moves as you heal and progress. I had luck starting with light cardio (walking), then upping cardio resistance (add...
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    Lots of us take digestive enzymes in the beginning of healing. Your body has alot of healing to do if it's healing from celiac disease. Digestive enzymes help, as do probiotics. Just make sure both are gluten-free.
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    You will eventually figure it out. I know it's confusing...but eventually it will make itself clear. I have not intentionally eaten gluten in almost 2 years. But if weird things happen within 24 hours of eating out, repeatedly, even when you order gluten-free....well, you start to learn the signs. And don't eat off the salad bar again like that. You can...
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    To have different symptoms at different times, yes. To have one set before gluten-free and another after, yes. It may change again. Seriously.
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