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  1. cristiana
    Yes... I think that is also possible. My son literally just now asked me to switch the light on which involved putting my arm upwards behind me, as if I was swimming the backstroke, and I turned, and the pain came back. Sometimes I feel like I'd like to pay for a full body MRI scan and find out what on earth is going on. Since my diagnosis I've had...
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    I couldn't agree more. I had several different tests at the hospital including an ECG and some sort of other monitor and the doctor assured me I wasn't having a heart attack on Sunday. I went in because I was convinced I was, having read that's where women's heart issues can show.
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    Hi trents. Thanks for responding so quickly. Yes. You are right. I'm totally floored by what's going on because the one moment it feels totally muscular and then it doesn't. Just now I bent down to take something out of the oven and wham, upper back pain. And yet just now I sat down to dinner and a wave of nausea went right through me. ...
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    Another question... related. If this is gastric pain after all. I wonder - can gastritis pain, heartburn pain, reflux pain etc just be felt in the back alone, without feeling it under the ribs/behind the sternum where I've usually felt it in the past? (BTW, I'm taking a course of pills and if it doesn't get better in a few days I will see my doctor...
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    I've been mulling over your reply this afternoon. My grandmother was always complaining about arthritis, and rheumatism - a word used by former generations that one doesn't really hear used by doctors in the UK these days. Looking it up in the dictionary it defines it as: "any disease marked by inflammation and pain in the joints, muscles, or fibrous...
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    Thanks Icey That sounds similar - very interesting. I wonder if anyone reading has every had this because if that is what it is I'd be so interested to know how severe the pain felt. Also, when it happens, it feels quite central but perhaps it is only on the left side? But between the shoulder in the spine is a good description. I must pay more attention...
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    Hi Ravenswoodglass That's so interesting - maybe that's it? I did have an x-ray at the time of a chronic cough in January - they didn't note anything. Years ago I had a car rear shunt me, and it happened again a few years later, and that winded feeling in my neck/shoulder area is similar to the pain I had then. Ditto the pain I experienced when...
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    Hi Trents My numbers went from 14 to 20 or 40 - can't recall - in the autumn after time in France where I got glutened despite my best efforts, but by the time I had my scope (January) with biopsies, all came back normal. The reason I had this scope was I had a cough that lasted months. My gastroenterologist concluded that it must have been caused...
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    Hello everyone, I've been encouraged by Awol to start a new thread so hear goes... For some months now I've been in a good place with my celiac disease. I occasionally get gastritis and have flares of silent reflux but normally after careful eating and a short dose of Nexium I feel a lot better. However, over the last few weeks I've had some...
  10. cristiana
    Will do - thanks Awol!
  11. cristiana
    So interesting to read this thread which started back in 2015. I have very similar symptoms every now and again to the OP and it is so severe at the moment following probable gluten exposure that I feel quite sick with the pain. I last had it on holiday in France last year - shortly after the holidays I was tested and my numbers were up. In the past...
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    Great thread. Those eggs look great and it would be fun for the children to ice them, too. As a reluctant gardener and housekeeper I was really glad to read in the Daily Telegraph online that councils in Britain are warning people off major gardening projects and spring cleaning because it will create a sudden build up of rubbish that councils are...
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    There are a lot of grey areas at the moment but I think in your shoes I'd do the same. One of the most testing times for us as a family was that half the family went to North Italy skiing mid part of Feb, returning just days before news of the big outbreak there hit the screens. Even the national health helpline didn't have advice for returning travellers...
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    I agree.. always worth letting the manufacturer know. I bought some gluten-free soup which in my own mind was cc'd - typical reactions each time I ate it from the same container. The manufacturers did look into it and although on this occasion they couldn't find any proof mistakes can happen, as evidenced in my own country by Coeliac UK's food alert page...
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    Hi Makoa23 From the UK there is this info for asthma sufferers that might help: https://www.asthma.org.uk/advice/triggers/coronavirus-covid-19/ I would have thought that asthma alone could be an important consideration for you, but in case it helps, here also is a link just posted on the Coeliac UK website: https://www.coeliac.org.uk/information...
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    Notme! That's great news, much needed at the moment. You have given me hope that one day oats will be back on the menu again. I really miss them!
  17. cristiana
    Couldn't agree more about oats. I used to eat them for England before my diagnosis. Now I get a burning sensation that feels like gastritis (my standard reaction to gluten, too) when I eat more than a few grams, but in my case this is true of pure oats. Apparently some coeliacs react to the avenin which is a protein in oats. Here's some more info from...
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    Off topic, but I saw something that made me laugh today that I thought I'd share. Well, I suppose it is has a tenuous link as not only have bananas and toilet rolls disappeared. So have summer holidays. It was published in The Times online and someone was posting about post-corovavirus travel. The poster said that he had given his wife a dart, and...
  19. cristiana
    I can't really offer much advice as I've got no qualifications to do so but I just wanted to say hi. Are you in an area which has been badly hit by this yet? I've had to visit a dentists twice and a surgeon in a hospital setting recently. One practitioner wasn't wearing a mask and was coughing away during my consultation.. ? I felt sure I would have...
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    Well done, glad you got your toilet roll! I managed to pick up four myself! Just one query - is everyone wiping down their groceries when they get home? Because I'm not the only shopper in the house this isn't being done by everyone. I'm wondering how long this virus can stay on bananas, or anything else for that matter. My fear is trying to wipe...
  21. cristiana
    Here in the UK there was a huge amount of panic buying at first but at least in some parts of the country now the toilet rolls and bananas and baked beans are back in the shops and aren't disappearing quite so quickly. So hopefully this will happen where you are. Over here we are being asked to stay indoors, and to only go out if we need to walk the...
  22. cristiana
    If you are also getting a burning stomach, see below an old thread that I began when I had what I thought were gastritis symptoms in 2017. https://www.celiac.com/forums/topic/118711-gastritis-or-glutening-slippery-elm/ Since then, I've had gastritis and reflux at the same time caused by a course of antibiotics for a UTI. The antibiotics felt...
  23. cristiana
    That is interesting. Certainly, my own consultant told me I was immunocompromised as a coeliac (and I believe him in my own case, because I've had a lot wrong with me since long before my diagnosis and even since adopting a gluten-free diet) but I've read so much to the contrary ever since that I'm completely confused. I'm not medically trained so I...
  24. cristiana
    Hi Jim! Thanks for posting that. (My grandmother here in England was a great fan of your programme! I never thought I'd be talking to you like this!) It does sound as if we are not at a severe risk. I know, though, that I don't feel as well as I did before I first fell ill with coeliac disease which makes me wonder if my immune system isn...
  25. cristiana
    This is the latest advice from Coeliac UK, emailed to members today. https://www.coeliac.org.uk/information-and-support/coeliac-disease-and-coronavirus-covid-19/ It seems reduced spleenic function is an important factor affecting up to 30 per cent of us - but as this isn't really tested routinely among coeliacs, it seems we are being encouraged...
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