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  1. Ursa Major
    Okay, I've started doing some research on Wellbutrin. Here are some things I have come up with: A quote from this website Open Original Shared Link A quote from this site Open Original Shared Link Read through this lawyer's site, who represents patients injured by Wellbutrin Open Original Shared Link I don't want to scare you, but it...
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    The depression could also be caused by celiac disease, it's a very common symptom. Usually, people are addicted to what they are most intolerant to. My daughter also LOVES milk, and ice cream, and it's so annoying when she eats ice cream at her friend's houses, and then I have to deal with her being so hyper, and not being able to sleep at night. Also...
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    Ursa Major replied to nikki-uk's topic in Board/Forum Technical Help

    Okay, it messed me up the first time I tried this. I wasn't sure if I told you to do it wrong. If you haven't copied what you want to quote when you click the 'quote' button, it will bring in both the brackets with quote and unquote, and you then copy what you want to quote, and put in in between the two. If you want to add a quote in between text...
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    Ursa Major replied to nikki-uk's topic in Board/Forum Technical Help

    Okay, here goes: You highlight what you want to quote by left clicking your mouse, and going over what you want to quote. You right click what you've just highlighted, and choose 'copy' from the menu that comes up. Now in your reply box, you click on the quote button (the one with the talking bubble, which strangely is square), which brings up a first quote...
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    My mother undoubtedly had celiac disease, she had all the exact health problems I did, and died of liver cancer at the age of 66 in 1986. Her mother died of stomach cancer when my mother was 20, and I never knew her. I imagine that she likely had celiac disease as well. From my mother's stories, her mother was never very well, and her grandmother took care...
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    Sio, I doubt that Valtrex will cause celiac disease. It is more likely that your mother had it all along, but the Valtrex finally was the last straw, and made it obvious. This is what happened to me: I was never well, had obvious celiac disease symptoms as a child (no doctor ever recognized it, though), but then with my first pregnancy started gaining...
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    Jeni, what medication is your daughter on? The ADHD part could very well be caused by gluten intolerance, and possibly dairy intolerance as well. My youngest daughter gets totally out of control when consuming dairy, bouncing off the walls, laughing hysterically, it's almost impossible to describe how extremely annoying she gets. If she takes Ritalin...
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    I agree with ChelsE, that is terrible, that your doctor didn't tell you that you have DH! Because that also means you have celiac disease, and it is essential to change what you eat, or you will set yourself up for other autoimmune diseases and cancer down the road, not to mention malnutrition (which by the way you can have while being overweight). If...
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    Depends on where you live. My daugher's took nearly four weeks. And since my doctor never seems to have anybody tested (she copied what to test for from the brochure I gave her), I doubt that this lab ever tests anybody for celiac, and so I don't trust their negative results (and they didn't give me any numbers, either, just said it was all negative )....
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    You're too funny!
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    Well, I do it on purpose, but not by choice!
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    Hi Shai, I am probably intolerant to at least as many things as you are, probably more, and I manage! Most of the time I feel so much better when I stay on my own special diet. All your symptoms sound like you have celiac disease. And you're right, if you stay on the gluten free diet, some of your allergies might go away........but it could take a year for...
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    Oh, right, I agree totally with TCA, prunes or prune juice for constipation are far superior (because they're natural, with no side effects) to those suppositories! That's what I gave one of my kids when she was constipated as a baby (forgot about that, it's 20 years ago), and it worked like a charm. She actually loved prune juice!
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    Sounds like maybe other intolerances as well. You react to other things (maybe corn?) differently. That's what happens to me. I did a gluten challenge a week ago for four days, and didn't even get diarrhea. But I know that I have had no gluten since, in fact I fasted for 24 hours, and then ate all things made from scratch last night, no chance of cross...
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    Ha, another one who cares more about comfort than fashion! I despise having to dress up, and do it only if I absolutely have to. At the same time I like nice clothes, as long as they're comfortable and soft (nothing is allowed to be tight), and I have to take out all the tags. Often just cutting them out isn't good enough, I have to undo the stitching and...
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    Well, it is possible that many of us won't live as long as we would have, had we been diagnosed as a toddler. But at the same time, I am sure we will live longer than we would have, had we continued eating gluten! So, be glad of the better life you have now, and the added years, rather than dwelling on the lost ones. And you know, many people who look...
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    I love not aching all over and having to take strong painkillers 24 hours a day any more. I love especially that I am finally losing weight, this far 30 pounds in six months of being gluten free. I am finally able to start exercising again, I swim once a week, and have gone back to my table tennis club to play serious table tennis (and I do NOT play...
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    Well, her bowel movements sound normal for a breastfed baby, I wouldn't worry about it. I see no harm in starting solid foods now. Four out of my five children refused anything but breast milk until they were eight months old. Three out of those weaned themselves within a couple of months though, somehow they loved solids. Only my youngest still needed to...
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    Wow, I've never heard that about the seafood before! Fortunately I won't eat shellfish anyway (looks gross in my opinion, and I can't eat anything I don't like the look of ), and I use only sea salt, not iodized table salt. I eat fish, but not a lot of it. I can't eat chips, either (I wished I could, though). You learn something new every day!
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    I am glad that you are managing better with age. Some Aspies, especially the ones that barely register as such (and you likely belong in that category) appear to adapt better socially with age. If you would do the Aspie questionnaires (developed especially by Simon Baron-Cohen in England, who is, other than Tony Attwood in Australia, the foremost AS specialist...
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    What does seafood have to do with it? If it's really DH, that's nonsense as far as I am concerned. Otherwise he is right. But is it really worth it? Doesn't he know that the deposit under the skin that cause DH won't be gone for at least one to two years, sometimes up to five, and can still cause DH outbreaks for that amount of time, even gluten free...
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    Sorry, didn't see this until now. No, you didn't offend me, as you're honestly trying to help. It was just that I didn't know what to say, because some of your suggestions wouldn't help at all. In principle, your way of trying to explain learning to fit in better, is good. In reality, it would only help to understand that particular situation where...
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    Since you have this rash all of the time, and a skin biopsy that confirms DH will automatically give you a firm diagnoses for celiac disease, why not start with that? If you are already a patient with a dermatologist, you might want to ask him to do a skin biopsy (from at least a couple of different spots) to be tested for DH. If you don't have a dermatologist...
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    Even though it is excellent that a major paper had an article on Celiac disease, it will serve to further perpetuate the false picture most people have of celiac disease. It only gives the 'typical' picture of celiac disease, as in having diarrhea, weight loss etc., nowhere does it mention anything about anemia, possible weight gain and other autoimmune diseases...
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    Well, it seems to me that about 2% of those people ended up getting lymphoma, even on a gluten free diet. Now, 158 people aren't that many, and it is possible that the percentage is in reality smaller. But even if it isn't, what's the point in being angry and bitter about it? Sure, I could be really mad at the doctors who didn't diagnose me as a child...
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