marfa62

senior, senior?? middle age, I just started living 2 years ago. I still can remember the time I took them all to Spain for the last family vacation. I spent the week in the bathroom or the bed, zoning out and sleeping when I wasn't angry. Now I have a neat racing bicycle, cross country ski and after years of fighting muscle fatigue, am getting some serious...

There is a difference between an allergy to wheat and an autoimmune disease. Besure you get the correct tests. Maybe both. I am sure if you search this web site, the correct auto immune blood tests will pop up. Bring the names of the tests to the doctors, because science sometimes gets ahead of the doctors. Your description of craving wheat sounds like...

This is a little late and by now I hope you know what it is. I often had reflux at night. At first I slept through it, but later I would wake up with acid in my throat. eventually I did some nice damage to my esophagus. There are foods I still avoid. Low fat eat early, take antacids. Be aware it can be happening, if nothing else shows up. M

Rachel, just for the fun of it, go do a google search and fine the Food and Drug web site that lists the content of various soaps, cleaning supplies etc. Then do another google serch and look up sulpher. There is corn starch in confectionary sugar and there is sulpher in constarch. Since you got an allery to heavy metals and I bet some problems with...

some vegies make gas- broccoli family, cauliflower, brusel sprouts. Cabbage is another gassy veggie. Constipation may be related to the neuro aspect of this disease.It is my understanding celiac is a complex of disease states. Oh, you can be wheat sensitive or giladin or gluten or blah, but taken as a concept, an allergen in the body seems to trigger,...

Sound like my nighmare. My blood and biopsies were negative. Try the DNA test. That will not say you have celiac, but will tell if you carry it. My point is that these dumb dermatologists - like the ones at Mass General in Boston - couldn't diagnose a sun burn. So if you go to them and say it is on the genes, it helps them because it wasn't in there text...

the stool could be so runny that it doesn't trigger the muscles that control the movement. A diet change will tell you.According to my GI MD, you must have mass to get muscke movement. Snacks, we go to Costoco and get dried cranberries,(craisins), trail mix with dried fruits. mango strips. my kids will fight over them. rice cakes with peanut butter and jelly...

I was introducted to the idea of 'cross over allergy" from a radio show. iT MADE SENSE. oNCE YOU HAVE ONE diturbance as we have with wheat, other things will be allergic, until the underlying allergy is cleared up. When i FIRST STARTED, every thing made me sick. I ended up like you living on rice, then rice pudding, then cormeal mush. my favoirte meal was...

add one more for the Irish. I heard it said that the Romans never got far enough north to sleep with us. Others say it was too cold and we were too crazy for the Romans to bother with. And that was the second theory, the Irish all slept together and the gene pool got a little shallow. I was always called the kid with the cheap Irish skin. Now I've got a...

Hi Fiddle Faddle, I think I wasn't beeing clear. When I stopped eating gluten, my reflux disappeared. I din't have "real" reflux. So when I ate thetomatoes and got the reflux symptoms, I went looking for sulpher. M

Need Advice, the enamel thing can be corrected. Dentists have prescription flouride that your brush with for a period of time. But the bigger problem is getting off the pizza and beer. and getting a diet you can live with. I am living without a confirmed diagnosis, but not eating gluten is making me feel much better. Try it and see how you feel. The doc...

My doctor is working with me as if I have Celiac. The day I stopped eating wheat is the day my reflux symptoms disappeared. My Herpetiformis started to clear, then got worse and it has been a merii go round. The dematologist did biopsy's (ouch) and they came out negative. We are all now confounded. Here is the kicker. I made home made tomato soup the other...

I stopped thinking about wheat and looking for substitutes. A few billion people on this earth do not use wheat as a main stay. A few helpful hints from this end of the planet. I invested n a quart size slow cooker. I can make a few basic things, then have left overs, for example: grits. I cook up a batch and have them later with cheddar cheese or maple...