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    Open Original Shared Link *snicker*
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    I'm pretty sure my constipation was caused by dairy products but when I was eating wheat it gave me diarrhea, so they kind of balanced out... but once I cut out the wheat, the constipation took over full time. I've cut out the diary too, and all other grains as well, and things are almost like clockwork. I give a lot of credit to drinking kefir made from...
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    Well, gluten does cause brain damage in many people. You might want to read up on that, perhaps it'll inspire you to stay gluten-free. It can be permanent too, so this isn't something you want to flirt with thinking you'll get better later on, you might not. The link in my siggy "The Gluten File" contains oodles of information about brain related issues...
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    When I gave up dairy I found it was just easier to try to give up all the "old" foods and not try to substitute for them. It just means finding new favorite foods that don't involve cheese, milk, etc. That was easier to do than live with the disappointment of new foods not tasting as well with weird substitutions. I think it was also easier in some regards...
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    Well, we know what opinions are similar to, because everyone has one. Anyway, your doctor is entitled to his opinion but there are other gastroenterologists out there that know there is a connection. Congratulations on feeling better!
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    ARCHIVED Ny Times Article

    Nancym replied to DrMom's topic in Publications & Publicity

    Well, I definitely agree that's the sort of thinking we should adopt toward food, but I think it doesn't go far enough. I don't really think we're well adapted to many of our neolithic foods. It takes a long, long time to adapt to new foods and I think the few thousand years we've had of eating grains isn't long enough to expect that we've adapted. What...
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    Now you know why so many of us are so frustrated with medicine/health and all the issues surrounding gluten. Now imagine getting a negative diagnosis... but you KNOW how much better you feel off the stuff. Yet the medical establishment will put you in a padded cell if you insist you are gluten sensitive.
  8. Nancym
    Definitely get the biopsy done and even if it is negative, give the gluten-free diet a trial. Some of us have wonderful responses to the diet despite the test outcomes.
  9. Nancym
    Horray! That is terrific news!
  10. Nancym
    Well said, Happy! I'm in Category #1.
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    Were you gluten-free during or before your testing? That'll skew the testing for sure. I'd say you're definitely gluten sensitive, if not celiac.
  12. Nancym
    Even if your biopsy is negative try the diet. So many of us have and feel so much better for it. What've you got to lose?
  13. Nancym
    Brain food? Starchy, sugary junk food is called brain food these days? Holy cow. No wonder kids are getting fatty liver disease and Type 2 diabetes.
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    Wow! That terrific. I've been taking lots of extra B vitamins too and my brain is feeling very perky. Not sure if it is the B vitamins or just more time on the gluten-free/CF diet. But I was having pin prick feelings, a weird vibration in my intestines and other weird neurological effects. Plus I read that folic acid helps alzhemiers patients... not...
  15. Nancym
    Why are teachers feeding kids junk food anyway? We didn't do this when I was in grade school. Some how I managed to get through college without teachers shoveling me full of junk food!
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    I heard something really interesting last Saturday, I heard a doctor speak who treats autoimmune diseases and he was speaking about the one I had, they know it is something environmental that causes the disease, like a bacteria or virus because they breed rats with the gene who will get the disease. However they don't get the disease if they're placed in...
  17. Nancym
    My understanding is that DH might not show up in blood test results. You need to have a skin biopsy.
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    If you want an "official" diagnosis don't go off the gluten, in fact eat lots more of it until you're done testing. It can be very hard to get an official diagnosis if you've been gluten free. I don't give a whole lot of credence to an official diagnosis personally. I think there are tons of people running to the toilet who were given false negatives....
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    Just an interesting side note, I think the reason two genes (some have more than two genes BTW and some only have 1 as was recently discovered) the same can be worse is those genes actually produce enzymes or proteins that the body reacts to. So if you could have double the protein production that your body is reacting to. At least, that was how it was...
  20. Nancym
    Just to throw this out there, almost all autoimmune diseases have fatigue and brain fog as symptoms. So if it isn't thyroid, get to a rhuematologist, there might be something else going on.
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    Sara, how long have you been gluten-free? My brain fog cleared up over a few months but I think some of it was due to dairy products (casein), not just gluten. Your thyroid disease, if you have it, might go into remission if you're very, very good about staying away from the gluten (and the casein if that's an issue for you). Having a TSH over 1 doesn...
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    One thing to be aware of, and few doctors are, you can have a positive biopsy and a negative blood test. So if you're having symptoms, don't stop at just blood testing. Insist on a biopsy. And even if the biopsy is negative try the diet, but not until you're done with the testing. Meanwhile, eat lots of gluten so you don't have healing before the biopsy...
  23. Nancym
    Sometimes the pituitary gland can get out of whack and not properly signal the thyroid. Yeah, post the reference ranges, they're not something I have memorized.
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    What timing, interesting article from the guy that discovered Zonulin, Open Original Shared Link This is also why all these autoimmune diseases are related to gluten intolerance. Personally, I think anyone with an autoimmune disease should not eat gluten.
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    Actually, there was an study posted recently where wheat causes that to happen in EVERYONE, but celiacs have a worse reaction. Google zonulin on pubmed, there's lots of fun reading.
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