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Wow...that truelly is amazing.

Will we get "People" in Rachelville?? Are we gonna be totally lost on all the gossip? I think I may need to smuggle some mags. in from my endeavors over the hill to the Over-The-Mountain-Mall.

As long as it's auxigro histamine inflammation gluten dairy free...bring it on.

Donna, I am thinking the inflammation and the histamine issue might go hand in hand as well.

"Histamine is an important protein involved in many allergic reactions. Allergies are caused by an immune response to a normally innocuous substance that comes in contact with lymphocytes specific for that substance, or antigen. In many cases, the lymphocyte triggered to respond is a mast cell. For this response to occur, a free-floating IgE (an immunoglobulin associated with allergic response) molecule specific to the antigen must first be attached to cell surface receptors on mast cells. Antigen binding to the mast cell-attached IgE then triggers the mast cell to respond. This response often includes the release of histamine

The release of histamine (hist = because it's made up of histidine residues, amine = because it's a vasoactive amine) causes several allergic symptoms. 1) It contributes to an inflammatory response. 2) It causes constriction of smooth muscle.

Histamine can cause inflammation directly as well as indirectly. Upon release of histamine by an antigen activated mast cell, permeability of vessels near the site is increased. Thus, blood fluids enter the area causing swelling. This is accomplished due to histamine's ability to induce phosphorylation of an intercellular adhesion protein (called (VE)-cadherin) found on vascular endothelial cells. That is why histamine is known as being vasoactive. Gaps between the cells in vascular tissue are created by this phosphorylation, allowing blood fluids to seep out into extracellular space. Indirectly, histamine contributes to inflammation by affecting the functions of other leukocytes in the area. It has been suggested that histamine release triggers the release of cytokines and inflammatory mediator by some neighboring leukocytes. These chemicals in turn increases the inflammatory response. "

Things to associate with Donna- Bumble Bars and a nice bottom

Thanks for the info...yes that does seem to tie in with what I've read so far in the book. The biggest factor that triggers the inflammation response is a dietary related. The book mentions celiac and gluten intolerance a few times. Their basic diet premise is to follow the Paleo diet and to balance pro and anti-inflammatory foods. Still reading....

Thanks Donna, she said to fill a plastic coke bottle , fill w/ water, freeze, roll feet on bottle 5 min each foot 2xa day and stretch calves 2x a day-hold 30 sec. ea. and to do more stretching. I'm going to do more soaks and drink more water( have been thirsty alot). LL

Yes, I've heard the frozen coke bottle recommendation before too from other people. Drinkikng losts of water and doing epsom soaks will help flush out the toxins.

Yes! Me! I haven't had a sense of smell in years. I went gluten-casein free in December and have actually noticed a little improvement. I still can't smell most things, unless like you said they are strong, but I'm finding in the last few months I catch little whiffs of things...like my unscented soap, lol. I'm hoping that it will slowly keep getting better and better the longer I stay off the gluten/casein.

Cool, all the way from Kansas! How cool! I'm pretty sure I'll be there, so getting together would be great! Besides, I have to meet the keeper of our wonderful dingos. I should go ahead and register now so that I will be SURE to go, lol.

lol... driving almost anywhere else makes me scream bloody murder at people who can't go over the speed limit, are too chicken to merge at freeway speeds, and let everyone and their brother move over before continuing on. :-) maybe just living in california is it's own "aggresive driving" course. :-P SF, itself, is definitely worse since it's SO dense. definitely avoiding SF (outside of public transportation) is probably a good idea, and doable in that area.

LOL!!! Yep, I think you're on to something with the "aggressive driving" course. I will NOT drive in SF!

Hi Jeny!!! Welcome! Yes, we need a vet in Rachelville to look after our dingos, auxigro detecting geese and completely organic cows! Brush up on farm animals.

Okay all, so I've been waiting years to hear the words "you have a nice bottom"...I finally heard it today. From my mom! Oh well, at least I heard the words, lol.

Okay, back to the histamine thing...perhaps I really should have tried to look up the links before I went grocery shopping, lol...

OMG Rachel, the last list you posted....one thing jumped out at me... LOW BLOOD PRESSURE. I have really low blood pressure. In fact, one of my last visits to Dr. R, the nurse tried twice and couldn't even get a reading...finally on the third try she got one and it was something like 90/52. The top number was a little higher when I had my endoscope last week...it was 107/44...the bottom number was pretty low. When I was in the hospital in January the reading got as low as 88/36. The nurse wouldn't even let me raise my arm and I had to have my feet higher than my head...

I think I really need to commit to testing out the histamine stuff...I can't be around anyone with perfume on.

I bought a book on inflammation today...if any of you recall I saw it last weekend but didn't buy it. It's called "the Inflammation Syndrome", and has got a "complete nutritional program to prevent and reverse heart disease, arthritis, diabetes, allergies, asthma". Now, I'm not expecting all the miracle hype stuff on the cover, but I'm thinking this might go right along with the histamine thing. I'll let you know if it has anything of value in it.

Oh and I'm glad Andrea was found and is okay!

Celia - hope the Dimetapp works!

Hi everyone.

Thanks Donna. The thing is they don't hurt..I did kinda fall off a rock on the beach last summer playing with the kids..? Do they make supporting flip flops I haven't been as active as usual the past year-kinda taking it easy and not pushing myself... One thing I did get out of the habit of those epson soaks. I just took one and do feel much better. I do take noni and fish oil and flax oil. I'm not familar with acid in the hands? Thanks,LL

PF hurts a lot, so you're probably safe there...when I first got it my feet were very stiff especially first thing in the morning...there wasn't a lot of pain then. It sounds like you're doing the good things. I've not heard of the acid in the hands either.

On another note...I tend to get 1 hours massages about every three weeks, and I've never had them tell me anything like what yours told you, lol. I know that some of the therapists where I go do reflexology and years ago had that done...they can tell a whole bunch from your feet...but I agree, they usually tell you in a much more positive way, lol. Oh, and my therapist always recommends lot of water and epsom soaks after massages.

Thanks Vincent-Victor (lol) for explaining a brown-out. I don't ever remember having one in California but yesterday we definitely had one. I was on the computer when it went dead, but my surge protector lights were still on...then I turned on the TV to see what was up and the picture kept getting really small then normal size. Went to the refrigerator and the light was on but very dim. Then in a not so dim momment I decided I'd better turn everything off, lol.

I definitely think the histamine might be at least one of my problems...I do take antihistamine nearly every day (Zyrtec) and maybe that's why it's not really bad for me. But the itching has got to go, lol...chicken or sugar or histamine...something is causing this horrible itching. I haven't looked at the links yet...will have to wait til Monday for that so I have a faster connection. And, if not eating histamine foods will help me sleep better, yay. I am a terrible sleeper. And, just possible reducing the histamine foods might take care of whatever inflammation is making my Ampulla of Vater (easy for me to say) bigger.

I think I will always need Bumble Bar intervention.

bloat gas-bomb

Oh my gawd....nearly spit my iced coffee out on this one. I know you were being serious but that really nearly made me spit my coffee out, lol. Unfortunately I know the feeling. The oats are definitely suspect.

Well I had plantar faciitis about 5 or 6 years ago in both feet. It was very painful. Cortisone shots didn't help at all, but resting them as much as possible and wearing orthotics definitely made a difference. At the time I asked what could have caused the injury and the podiatrist said that just about anything could cause it...jumping, stepping on a rock, etc, etc. In my case I think it was because I had put on about 10 pounds and decided the best way to take it off was to do a lot of jumping exercises after having been really sedentary for a while. If you do have plantar faciitis, it is an inflammation of the tendons, so resting as much as you can, icing it and taking some antiinflamatories if you can might help. You also might want to see a podiatrist if you can. I bought custom orthotics, but they were expensive...supporting the arch is really important.

Argggg, we had a brown out for a couple of hours here so I couldn't get online.

Patti - that is amazing!

Rachel - OMG I have many of those symptoms...

Cry easily (yup although not as bad since gluten/casein free)

Itch/Scratch - OMG majorily...it woke me up out of a sound sleep last night and was FIERCE)

Seasonal allergies - yep

Excessive mucus - yep, also not as bad since gluten/casein free though

Nausea - yep, sometimes just thinking of something will make me feel nauseated although it's selective...I can look at blood and operations and stuff on TV, but can't look at worms

Inner tension - yep

Blank mind - OMG look back over my posts in this thread over the last few days, lol. I frequently just blank out when I'm talking, God don't stop my talking, lol.

Abnormal fears - yep...won't drive to San Francisco to save my life

Light sleep/insomnia - MAJOR BIG TIME ALL MY LIFE SORT OF THING (sorry for shouting, lol)

Large nose and my 2nd toe is slightly larger than my big toe on my right foot--they're about even on my left

Pulse in the head - Oh yes...better now but in October through January it was every night.

Maybe it's worth a test of a week or two. I know I eat a ton of histamine foods...I think you've mentioned quite a few that I eat regularly.

But, I must tell any of you who don't know what our Vincent is doing.....check out Tanya's Meggan's Gaggin isn't getting better thread - - vincent has gone and donated blood for her little girl, whose surgery is upcoming. It's amazing how this board connects people....and what a hero Vincent is!

Wow, that is just a really great thing to do! We have a Rachelville Town Hero!

I suppose this also needs to be added to my already growing sig

Spinached!

Gosh, forgot again what I was going to respond to...in Rachelville can we please have good memories, lol.

Anyway, I'm hoping all who were in pain yesterday are now feeling much better.

I am in denial about Mango leaving....forgive me if I haven't been commenting on that, lol. I've been having Mango sorbet (homemade) every day in honor of you.

Floridian - you simply MUST do something for me....please kiss Anna for everyone who has ever posted on this thread. I figure that must be at least 50 kisses.

Rachel - I'm still waiting for that blow by blow description of each bite of ice cream! Make it slow.

Christina - prayers said.

Picard - CONGRATULATIONS!!!!! How exciting!

Susan - yes it was the Vater of something or other thing that was benign.

Penguin - so sorry you are feeling so badly! Hopefully by now you are sound asleep and when you wake up you'll feel much better.

Thanks to everyone here for sharing in my good news!!!

My mom just had something similar and she said she remembers gagging a little but that is it. I just have such a phobia about gagging, I HATE IT!!! I am just going to tell them how freaked out I am and hope they make me as comfortable as possible.

I think that's a great idea. I told the nurse (on the second scope) who was administering the meds that I tend to get sick on sedation and whatever he did was perfect because I felt pretty darned good afterwards...tired but good, lol. They're usually really good about making you comfortable.

Thank you! I have heard it is called "twilight", but I get so worried I am going to be gagging and know it!

You're welcome! I think that even though I was asleep, or in twilight, they still used a spray to help with the gagging reflex although I didn't ask them that specifically...I do think I heard the nurse say that they would be using a spray...I was already asleep if they did use one, lol.

all I see are those toothless gums all the time

Kind of like the smilie you used!

Donna, so glad your test came out GOOD! i did not know of anyone having a stomach polyp, is there any concern about that? I suppose we with celiac can expect most anything since it is a bit wierd the way we cope with it!!

Thanks evie, how are you feeling? They did remove a stomach polyp on my first scope and it was biopsied, but that did come back benign...don't know what causes them in the stomach, but the doctor wasn't concerned at all about it...course I think he had this mass on his mind when I was talking to him--he didn't even mention the polyp except in passing.

Mine were also not fungal, I tried all the washes and even colloidal silver, with no relief.

YAY!!! What were they testing for, again?

I had a mass at the point where the pancreatic and bile ducts empty into the duodenum. I had a biopsy in April which was reviewed by three different pathologists, one of which said it was benign, one said it was pre-cancer and one said it was probably just inflammation, lol. So this was a follow up to see if taking acid reducing meds would make it clearer.

Oh, and the doctor's office just called and my biopsies were completely benign!!!! So, no more endoscopes for me and no surgery!

Whoever agrees that Julie should be queen of R-Ville say "I". Or just say something else that means "yes". If at least half of the population of R-ville is in agreement then she shall be queen.

ME!!!!

and Donna, was it you that asked? My Tika is on the right, got her when she was 10 weeks old from SPCA, almost 12 years ago...she is a lymphoma survivor, actually went through chemotherapy - they said she'd live 2 years max but she is 12...very strong....maybe Queensland and husky, or Queensland/german shepherd...who knows..my therapy dog Annie is unimaginably beguiling...found her on the highway three years ago, bedraggled, abused, hand-shy....six months later I encountered a woman on the beach in Montery who started screaming WHERE DID YOU GET THAT DOG? OMG I know her!!! turns out she worked at SPCA, Annie had been adopted out four times, kept running away....she ran away weekly from our house, but always came back, jumped out of a moving car three times.... loves us to death and never leaves my side. She is a herding dog, probably Queensland and shepherd..

okay NOW I gotta go!!!

OMG, I adopted Chip from a local vet...her owners had turned her in to be put down. They were elderly and couldn't cope with all her medical problems any more...she was an odd looking little dog, but so cute to me. She had a thyroid problem, damaged liver, epilepsy and an enlarged heart when I adopted her and she developed diabetes while I had her to had to give her daily shots. We never figured out what mix she was. She was small though but her face looked like Tika's.

Congratulations on your last month!!!! That is fantastic.

I've had three endoscopes since April and for each time I can't remember a single thing except getting wheeled into the room and then waking up in the recovery area. I was talking to the nurse for a while before they actually started this last time and told her that I had heard that I would be awake but that I just wouldn't remember it, but she said that I would be awake enough to breathe basically, lol.

what do you mean by sinus issues? sinus infefctions? well i used to get sinus infections constantly and they would last about two weeks go away and then days later i would have another one.

DITTO!! Except mine went all year long. I went gluten free in November and added dairy free in December and haven't had a single sinus infection since then. My nasal passages are also clearer in general, even my ENT was pleasantly surprised. Since I did both dairy and gluten so close together I am not sure which one did the trick or if it was a combo thing, but I'm just happy I am not sick any more. I spent the entire month of October and the first couple of weeks of November with strep throat, sinus infection and ear infection.