Lady Eowyn

Apart from major problems from glutening like anxiety, depression, flying off the handle (general temperament probs), tearful - to name but a few! I am none of these gluten free - a real happy bunny . Have also noticed it affects my piano playing (for pleasure) and mental arithmatic. It's as if it gets into your brain and then it can't function properly...

A psychologist told me that the DH on my back and scalp was self harming (!!!!!! ). Doc told me that I was spreading it by scratching it !!!! This was some years ago and although I had no idea what it was myself - I did know that I WASN'T self harming.

Hi tennisman I take Lamberts Vit D 1000iu per day available through Amazon (or quality health food store). I think it is a good one and I definitely feel better with taking it. Like you, I am in the UK and struggling to remember what sunshine looks like! Additional thought - have you had your thyroid function checked. I would say that low thyroid...

Hi Been there! It's like getting bogged down in a swamp and like 'what the hell can I actually eat???' All I can say is that it gets better and it gets much easier - I guess, with practice. I am sure some people are brilliant from day 1 but I suspect for most, it's a big learning curve. Getting it wrong is part of learning and providing you keep at it...

Hi The only time mine vanished (to my surprise) was when I had a course of strong antibiotics and steroids to treat a bad chest infection. It came straight back afterwards (this was over 20 years ago). It was somewhat helped by a long course of oxytetracycline antibiotics (sp?) prescribed for it by doc who said it was infected skin (?????????). Came straight...

Hi I have what I call 'classic DH' with lesions like Sqitch (sorry about that abbreviation ) on scalp and just occasional on shoulder blades and buttocks. (Used to have it very badly on all three of those places) and have scarring to this day on back and buttocks. Astonishingly symmetrical! Lesions on scalp vary in severity but never gone and worse for iodine...

Hi I get right shoulder pain - sharp stabbing pain in centre of shoulder blade - that I am sure is gluten connected. It has been bothering me again a bit lately and I have wondered if dairy is now the cause. I have not given dairy up but I now think I have arrived at crunch time and it has to go! I don't have much but if I'm honest, it doesn't agree with...

With apologies for the spelling - optician - that's better! Not with it this morning ....... I had lots done to my teeth as a child. Too many teeth for mouth (including two werewolf style) that came out lower, so had 5 out when about 11 yo then all manner of braces. Also chips came off both front teeth and they are symmetrically (good spelling ) grooved...

Hi Yes it is an old thread but to let you know I have trouble with dried fruit especially dates. You know, those big squishy, yummy ones - medjool, I think. Well, they seriously gluten me (that's just one ) and I have been told that they can be rolled lightly in flour at some stage in their processing! That would account for it !

Hi I don't consider these points for missed diagnoses but the posts above reminded me of a few things re: pregnancy. I weighed a stone less when I had my son - that is a stone less that pre-pregnant weight, so had lost weight in pregnancy. I only breastfed for 6 weeks because it drained me so and made me lose more weight. I think I have read somewhere...

Hi EricaM YES!! I was really glad to see this post because it is something I had considered posting about. I have worn contact lenses for 36 years (gas permeable) all day, every day, taking them out at night, of course. I have loved them and never had any troubles until about the last year/18 mths. It is my belief that gluten makes them fog up...

Personally, I think the majority of the population would benefit by being gluten free or gluten light. I think gluten is at the root of many modern day illnesses and health problems so I don't think anyone needs a 'valid' reason to give it up. It strikes me that gluten is in lots of processed food where it shouldn't be in the first place (along with...

Hi Quincy Personally I would say that your TSH is too high and would recommend the full thyroid tests as above (at least T4 T3 and antibodies). I would certainly be ill with that TSH. Having said that, and as others have mentioned, TSH is a poor indicator for thyroid and should not be relied upon, especially when taken on it's own. I also believe that...

Hi Hannah I can understand your feeling that the eating gluten free is embarking on another 'obsessing over food thing' and that this might seem encouraging to an eating disorder. All I can say is that it hasn't worked out like that with me. Simply DON'T let yourself view it like that. You have discovered what to eat to keep your body happy and healthy...

Hi Thought I would ask if anyone out there has any advice on psoriatic arthritis. It's hubs who gets it. He had psoriasis from age about 11 (I think), not too bad, just on elbows, shins, ankles and backs of knuckles. Had steroid type creams for this (not much good, I believe). Well the psoriasis went away and was replaced by psoriatic arthritis when...