Lindsy

Skylark, THANKS!! To be clear--which I do bad at when aiming for brevity!--the Dr. wasn't going by that to diagnose Hashimoto's. An endocrinologist first diagnosed thyroid antibodies in 2003 (age 19) and said I'd develop hypothyroidism. The integrative Dr. found out the diagnosis from me and assumed I had celiac's from that (because he thinks...

I don't have POTS. But, I know that POTS can be from having faulty connective tissue. You might try looking up the Brighton Criteria to see if your daughter might have that.* If so, you might try asking others with POTS and bad collagen for advice. I'd try www.hypermobiity.org. There's a very helpful messageboard there! *Keep in mind that several...

Hi, I don't think I have Celiac's. BUT. . . An integrative health doctor diagnosed me with it based on lab tests not normally used for such diagnoses, plus Hashimoto's (an autoimmune thyroid disease). Other Dr.'s hadn't diagnosed me, he said, because "they don't know how to read the results." He then filled out a gluten test order, but he didn...