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  1. Nancym
    How about a risk of his insurance rates increasing?
  2. Nancym
    I always feel like I'm healthiest when I go once a day and it doesn't take a lot of toilet paper to clean up! But I suppose pregnancy could really throw a wrench in the works in any number of ways!
  3. Nancym
    Changing your diet is virtually free and should give you at least some idea of if you're on the right track. Some people need the "whip" of a positive diagnosis to keep them on track though. Ask yourself if you're that sort of person or will just feeling better be reinforcement enough. Another option is to use Enterolab.com which is much cheaper, but not...
  4. Nancym
    Well, it certainly could be more than one thing going on. But if the gluten free diet is making everyone healthier, seems like a no-brainer to me.
  5. Nancym
    Not likely if you eat a reasonably healthy diet. There really isn't anything in wheat nutritionally that you can't get in other food. Do you eat veggies, protein, fruits? I suspect you're either dealing with a virus or else perhaps gluten withdrawl. The gluten peptide actually resembles opioids, so you're breaking a wee heroin (aka wheat) addiction here...
  6. Nancym
    The fecal test is definitely going to show problems before the blood test will. Sometimes you never get SO severe that it'll show up in the blood, yet you can be perfectly miserable. Giving the diet a shot is definitely the best course of action!
  7. Nancym
    I've had all three of those but not at the same time. You might be getting chronic sinus infections and that can be caused by low thyroid (I think). Or it might be due to something else. TMJ might be a separate issue. My TMJ was caused by autoimmune arthritis. Getting treated for that, going on a good paleo diet really handled it. But I had a lot of...
  8. Nancym
    Was this the one about the boy with the seizures? I saw that one quite a while back.
  9. Nancym
    There's other drinks out there than beer, most of them are gluten free. As far as variety, I think I've got plenty of variety in my diet and yet it is very restrictive. I suppose in some ways it is better because there aren't so many tempting foods out there to get fat on. It puts food back into the category of nourishment rather than entertainment...
  10. Nancym
    I like it better when they ask you what person, dead or living, would you invite for a dinner party. Of course, they don't smell so good when they're dead. But in the future you might want to think of 3 people in the medical profession you'd like to meet. What about the fellow who discovered H. Pylori?
  11. Nancym
    Hops is the stuff that gives beer its bite-y taste. The grain is mellow and sweet, the hops is generally a little on the bitter side. It is an herb.
  12. Nancym
    I have an autoimmune disease called Akylosing Spondylitis. It can affect people pretty early in life, especially boys. It is connected to Celiac disease, as most autoimmune diseases are. But I've read that some people with this disease had a lot of bone pain in their teen years that doctors always blew off as growing pains. Hopefully it isn't AS but...
  13. Nancym
    I can overeat on chocolate too but I found a secret... bittersweet chocolate as dark as you can stand it. It really satisfies my craving but I can't eat more than a square or two of it. There are some really excellent brands of it out there, its become quite trendy. The other positive is that it is low in sugar and does't contain milk (which neutralizes...
  14. Nancym
    The overactive thyroid might disappear once you've been off gluten for awhile. I wish I'd known that when I had Graves Disease, instead I had my thyroid nuked with radiation and now I'm on thyroid meds for life.
  15. Nancym
    I had a lot of fatigue as my symptom along with intestinal problems. The intestinal problems stopped about 2 days after going gluten-free but the fatigue slowly but surely got better. I remember how at first I was utterly exhausted after work and the idea of going out or going shopping was hideous. Then I started actually feeling ok enough to go shopping...
  16. Nancym
    Gluten is my hobby. I love reading new research about the disease. For me I was totally absorbed for a few months, now I just cruise a few of my favorite boards and try not to spend too much time.
  17. Nancym
    There's a link between many mental disorders and celiac disease. I think if you click on The Gluten File in my signature you'll see quite a lot of information about this.
  18. Nancym
    The T1 diabetes was probably caused by the Celiac disease, it can cause all sorts of autoimmune issues. I have a few myself. Celiac is really serious, especially when it comes to pregnancy. It really does cause a whole pile of problems especially later in life. I'd like to recommend a book called "Dangerous Grains". And you might also want to...
  19. Nancym
    Actually, I was going to say a bunch of your symptoms sounds like Graves Disease, hyperthyroid. I had it myself in my 20's. But if you're up for it and don't care about getting an "offical" diagnosis, give the diet a try.
  20. Nancym
    I think what you need to realize is that gluten intolerance leads to some very bad things down the road: Obesity or malnutrition, cancer, autoimmune diseases, T1 diabetes, autoimmune arthritis, possibly brain damage in some people, skin diseases... that's not counting all the stuff that just causes you not to feel your best everyday. So regardless of...
  21. Nancym
    I just did a google search on "villous atrophy and negative blood" and it turned up quite a few things. Like this: Open Original Shared Link It could be something other than Celiac, but it can't rule out celiac.
  22. Nancym
    Your health is definitely in your own hands. You don't need anyone's permission to eliminate gluten, other than your own of course! Give it a month or more if you can. Just see how you feel. To me, the change was nothing but positive. Diagnosis diaschmosis! I am my own diagnostician. If it is thyroid then getting off gluten might increases the chances...
  23. Nancym
    Gluten can attack the skin or brain and often those people have no detectable blood results and no villious atrophy.
  24. Nancym
    Not terribly expensive. Its an amino acid normally found in small quantities in food so nothing you're not already getting, but you get more of it. I don't bother asking my doctor, chances are he won't know a thing about it. Personally I just take it while I have symptoms. Once I get healed, I stop taking it. So usually a bottle will be all I need...
  25. Nancym
    How do you suck up to things like autoimmune diseases, colon cancer, brain damage, liver damage, vitamin deficiencies? Those are just a few of the things that might plague you if you choose to "suck it up" just because you're afraid of annoying people. Personally, I'd say "screw that"! I'd rather be annoying. Lots of people have to wait until they...
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