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  1. 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...
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    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.
  3. Lady Eowyn
    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...
  4. Lady Eowyn
    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...
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    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...
  6. Lady Eowyn
    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...
  7. Lady Eowyn
    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...
  8. Lady Eowyn
    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...
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    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 !
  10. Lady Eowyn
    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...
  11. Lady Eowyn
    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...
  12. Lady Eowyn
    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...
  13. Lady Eowyn
    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...
  14. Lady Eowyn
    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...
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    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...
  16. Lady Eowyn
    Hi there I thought I would send you my thoughts on your post and questions. First, from my own experience with eating problems, in my view it is more likely the other way around and the celiac has caused chaos with your eating and eating habits. At least, I think this was the case with me. Over 20 years ago I had an 'eating disorder' that involved bingeing...
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    Hi I didn't know you could use it for humans. We use it for our chooks (hens) to control red mite/mites, etc. Dust the chook and put in their house and scratch/rolling holes in dry summer weather so they can dust themselves with it. I think they are ok eating a bit too. Sorry, not much help.
  18. Lady Eowyn
    The recipe sounds delicious GottaSki ! Haven't eaten marshmallows since a child but will give it a go - I have to say though, not feeling very hopeful. Have had (supposedly) gluten free hot chocolate - cadbury's - (not for a while) as it gets me with a soy type reaction and palpitations. Actually, (sorry, off topic) I have palpitations this morning...
  19. Lady Eowyn
    I'm going to give cocoa powder a try !
  20. Lady Eowyn
    Hi I have to say very, very, very sadly that I have problems with chocolate too . I assume it's the soy lecithin although is more likely a combination of that with sugar and the other ingredients . Have always been a milk chocoholic (don't like plain) so it is hard and I still have the odd piece and have tried lots of varieties - with no success...
  21. Lady Eowyn
    Used to eat out lots (pre-gluten-free) - love eating out . Since gluten free, not so keen on going out to eat - just more reluctant. Have yet to eat out and not be glutened . The restaurants are very helpful and I have plain grilled meat/fish and plain salad, no dressing. No starter or dessert. Coffee to finish. Never right the next day - but then again...
  22. Lady Eowyn
    Oops! Spoke too soon! ! Back to being signed in!!!! Got a whole thread to myself here .
  23. Lady Eowyn
    What's love got to do with it? - Tina Turner
  24. Lady Eowyn
    Hi Sorry to see you are in the wars! Don't know about some of the medical problems but when I first went gluten free it wasn't very long until every other food seemed to be causing problems and I felt so ill from everything. I started cutting everything out - rice, potatoes, soy, dairy, histamine foods, salycites (sp?), all processed food, other nightshades...
  25. Lady Eowyn
    This problem seems to have resolved itself and I am now back to signing in .
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