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  1. Ursa Major
    Hineini, I believe that there is always a specific cause (or sometimes, more than one cause) for fibromyalgia. It is a syndrome, meaning that there are many symptoms. These symptoms have a cause, that need to be figured out and eliminated. It could be gluten intolerance. It could be only salicylates, or only lectins. It could be hypothyroid. Or it could be...
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    Hi Dessa, I find that if I eat out (once every few months), I can tolerate a caesar salad. No croutons, obviously, and bacon bits only if they're real bacon. Fake bacon bits are made with wheat. It's probably not a very good idea, but I take my chances at times. It is not possible to be 100% safe with the many intolerances I have, anyway. I don't believe...
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    You may be intolerant to gluten, but you're also very likely intolerant to other foods as well. The welts could be an allergic reaction caused by food, but brought on by scratching your skin. I used to have that problem, too. I had joint and muscle pain. The joint pain (very severe) was caused by lectins (gluten is a lectin, and they ALL cause gastrointestinal...
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    Yikes Armetta, that doesn't sound good! I understand about the terrible pain a broken bone can cause, I broke my right ankle four and a half years ago, and I was in awful pain for weeks. I hope you get it casted soon, that should help the pain at least a little. Darn Canadian snowbirds (I can say that, I am German , and I LIKE Canadian winters, anyway...
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    Hi Alison, I had 'fibro' symptoms from the age of three, terrible 'growing pains' in my legs, backaches, headaches, awful muscle and joint pain, chest pains, etc. Throughout my life the pain got worse and worse. Finally, in March of 2000 I was diagnosed with fibromyalgia. From the summer of 2000 until the middle of last October, I was on codeine contin...
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    I used to have debilitating, unrelenting muscle, back, head and joint pain, day and night. It was so bad at times that I, too, would be writhing in pain, crying, and unable to sleep. For five years I was on codeine day and night, just to be able to barely function. Now I very rarely need any painkillers at all. The difference? Being lectin free and salicylate...
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    That's excellent news!
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    Hi Katherine, and welcome to this board. Your doctor is wrong in saying it will only take a week on gluten to get valid bloodwork. Since you have been gluten-free for three months, it would take from six months to a year of eating at least four slices of wheat bread a day for a test to be (possibly, not necessarily) positive, even if you have celiac disease...
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    I think Jukie forgot to include the link to that site. Here it is: Open Original Shared Link The problem is, that the German cards have a very bad spelling mistake. They say "Lutenunvertraeglichkeit" instead of "Glutenunvertraeglichkeit". Which in English would be 'luten intolerant' instead of 'gluten intolerant'. I did a google search in google.de...
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    I absolutely hate taking pills, too. But even though the ones I take are regular sized (about the same size of any other brand I've tried that made gel caps, which are the ones you can open if you want), I have no problem swallowing those. I HATE pills that have any square corners, I wonder why anybody makes those. Those get stuck in my esophagus (or more...
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    Open Original Shared Link Here are the Spanish ones.
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    Hi Alice, and welcome to this board. It has been shown over and over that Enterolab is (this far) always right. Your symptoms are typical of what many people here have gone through. Yes, you absolutely need to stay away from gluten for the rest of your life. Even a little tiny bit is too much. The good news is, that Italy is far more advanced than the...
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    Sandy, peel everything. Amy, I hope you figure it out and get well. Come to think of it, maybe I'll need to do the same thing, I tested to be intolerant to MSG six years ago, and sort of dismissed that until now! I don't buy things that say MSG, but never thought about what you just said. Darn, maybe I'll need to be even more careful (as if my diet isn...
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    Kathy Ann, try the hypoallergenic vitamins from Open Original Shared Link. They'll let you buy a sample pack for only $3.85 I believe (I've done that), to see if you react to them before you order their large packs (which last a long time). Those are the ones I am taking, and I am intolerant to many things.
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    Actually, I find I have loud and smelly gas ONLY when I have eaten certain foods. Like I gave in to a craving for bread and ate some gluten-free bread, and bingo........smelly gas. Or potatoes, or even chocolate (all gluten-free, of course). If I am good, and stay on my stupid restricted diet, I don't have gas at all, or at least it isn't loud and smelly...
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    Yes, seriously, all your symptoms could be caused by celiac disease. Also, you could be low thyroid. Check out this website, and keep track of your body temps for a while to see if you may have that problem. It could potentially be causing your hands and feet to be cold all the time, as well as some of the other symptoms. Open Original Shared Link You...
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    My tests for thyroid came back negative as well. But I have consistently temperatures that are way, way too low. I charted them for a couple of weeks, and based on that my naturopathic doctor put me on thyroid meds and adrenal meds (I have adrenal burnout as well). Those blood tests for thyroid miss a lot of people with low functioning thyroid. Check this...
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    It could be celiac disease, but sounds a lot more like hypothyroidism to me. Do you normally have lower body temperatures than what is considered the average? That would be a good indicator for low functioning thyroid.
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    Some blue cheese is not made with mold cultured on bread. Some others here will likely be able to quote brands.
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    Hi, and welcome to this board. Good for you for finding us so fast. Your best bet right now is to stick with naturally gluten-free food like meat, eggs, veggies and fruit, until you get the hang of the diet. Plus, while your intestines are healing, simple food is best anyway. Check out Nini's 'newbie survival kit' on her website, and download it to your...
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    Heck, no! Anything that makes you feel better and is comfort food (even though you'll be unhappy in the long run for gaining weight ). I hope you feel better soon. And tell your daughter to be nice, because you have been glutened and are in a terrible mood. I bet she'll understand that.
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    No, sweet potatoes are not nightshades.
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    Hi, and thanks for telling us a little about yourself. Well, when will the doctors ever understand that IBS is a bunch of symptoms, that have a cause, not a valid diagnosis in itself? It is so frustrating. I am very glad you figured it out, and made them diagnose you accurately. I hope you feel better soon, and find a better job, with a more compasionate...
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    Kris, my twin grandchildren are both intolerant to nightshades (as well as many other things), and potatoes would give them diarrhea (and they do that to me, too, and I get very sore) and give them such horrible rashes, that it practically took their skin off. That was while they were still breastfed. When my daughter stopped eating potatoes (as well as tomatoes...
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    Hi Pugsymom, and welcome to this board. Being 5"5' at 117 isn't too bad, really. When my oldest daughter, who is 5"6' was 105 pounds because of nursing twins for a year, I got worried and practically ordered her to wean those babies! She went back to her normal weight of 120 pounds after that. She seems incapable of ever getting above that, no matter how...
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