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  1. knitty kitty
    There are three hundred symptoms of Celiac Disease. Everyone has different combinations and severities. I have found that the older I get the worse my reaction is, especially if I have been gluten free for a while. My arthritis is awful when glutened. I, too, have peeling gums when exposed. After my last dental appointment, I developed an ulcer where the...
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    Open Original Shared Link Hope this link helps. Your history sounds similar to mine. I got much worse when I started taking antidepressants. Many medications commonly prescribed are anticholinergic. Things like antidepressants, antihypertensives, sleeping aids, antihyperglycemics,and antihistamines and antacids are anticholinergic. The more a person...
  3. knitty kitty
    Ask your doctor if you could be having an anticholinergic reaction to your antidepressant. Celiac disease messes up the metabolism and the drug doesn't get cleared out of the body properly. The build up has horrible effects. When it happened to me, it started with terrible diarrhea and increasing anxiety. The dose was increased and everything got worse...
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    Bilberry helps me. Very interesting about the nightshades affecting your vision. Bilberry was used by pilots in WWII to help their night vision. I've enjoyed reading your posts. Thank you, sir.
  5. knitty kitty
    I tried Ashwaganda, but I quit taking it when I found out that it has anticholinergic properties, as do a lot of antidepressants. I find Passion Flower much better. I take a B-complex, D3, and flaxseed oil for the omega-3 which helps build the myelin sheath of the nerves.
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    ArrrghMatey, I'm with you. I react to MSG and Sprite and other things, too. I found out the hard way that I react to anticholinergic drugs. There's something about Celiacs not being able to process and metabolize anticholinergic drugs properly. Anticholinergic drugs include anesthesia, antacids, antihistamines, antibiotics, antidiabetic medicines, and many...
  7. knitty kitty
    Could you be experiencing low blood sugar? Your symptoms seem similar to the ones I experience when I get low. I'm diabetic so I have to be aware of the amount of carbs consumed. I get very anxious and have muscle twitches when my blood sugar drops. Try a spoonful of honey when you feel anxious or twitchy. If it is low blood sugar, you should feel better...
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    Open Original Shared Link I found this article very interesting. I have symptoms similar to what you describe. Fifty-one years undiagnosed. Fifty-two years old...still trying to sort it all out.
  9. knitty kitty
    Matsparks, I get the same symptoms. Deterioration of rationale, no logic, no filter. Like a dimmer switch is turning brain function dimmer and dimmer. I'm researching the connection to anticholinergic reactions to medicines. This article is great. Open Original Shared Link
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    Iceland girl, you're absolutely right! Those aren't on the low histamine diet! I think you've found my problem! Thank you! I feel silly now. I've got my Specific Carbohydrate Diet mixed in with the Low Histamine Diet. I'm double checking my low histamine foods lists right now! I loathe gluten brain fog! The Low Histamine Diet is the one that has been helping...
  11. knitty kitty
    I follow a low histamine diet. No particular list, they're all similar. I do a trial if I'm not sure about a certain food. I'm my own guinea pig. Lol
  12. knitty kitty
    Hi, Icelandgirl. You asked about what happens when my cup runs over. If I get more histamine in my cup than my body can cope with, I get allergy symptoms. Everything swells up like a sponge, sinuses, ears, intestines, skin. If my cup runs over because of a high histamine food, I know it will resolve within a few hours or days. But if gluten is the allergen...
  13. knitty kitty
    I understand. My ears will feel full and squishy if I start having a reaction, too. Things bloom here all year round, so it can be trying. But I have found that on the low histamine diet, I don't have as severe a reaction. The analogy of a cup running over when having a reaction is a good one. The lower I can keep the histamine in my cup, when I do...
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    I am finding that the low histamine diet is helping reduce how inflamed and puffy I feel, especially when glutened. I have avoided all cruciferous vegetables (and legumes) for a very long time because they make me feel like I have balloon animals forming in my abdomen. But some cruciferous veggies are allowed on the fodmaps diet. And some of the fruits allowed...
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    Many vitamins and supplements contain rice flour or other easily digested substances that quickly convert to glucose and go directly to the brain and causes a "sugar high".
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    What is the difference between the Fodmaps diet and a low histamine diet? Are they mutually exclusive? Seems what is allowed on one isn't allowed on the other. I'm hungry and my pantry of "safe" foods is shrinking.
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    I had a rash like that. I also have DH, but there was a similar looking rash mixed in. It was pellagra, a niacin deficiency. Celiac disease prevents absorption of nutrients. Pellagra is often associated with alcoholism, so the doctor might not think of it as applying to your child's case. Many doctors cannot recognize nutritional deficiencies in our well...
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    Bad Casper, I understand how you feel. I posted earlier about anticholinergic drugs and nightshade, but I also react to anything dairy. Gluten and dairy have similarly shaped proteins that clog up receptors in the brain. When I have dairy, I become very emotionally upset. It's like Veruca Salt (from Willy Winka and the Chocolate Factory with Gene Wilder...
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    Nightshades. I thought all the fuss about nightshades was a bunch of hooey, until I ate some green potatoes. I had the worst experience in my life. I thought I was going completely mad. Very scary. Curled up in a ball and waited for it to pass. It took days. When I could think again, although still foggy, I reseached nightshades and found they have...
  20. knitty kitty
    Hi. I had very low vitamin D levels, too. I took high doses of D3. Improvement was slow until I added flax seed oil for its Omega 3's. Progress was much better, but I didn't really feel healthier until I also supplemented other fat soluble vitamins, A and E. Just seemed like common sense, if I'm low on one fat soluble vitamin because of malabsorption, I'm...
  21. knitty kitty
    Ask for a "DO" list! Keep a list of all the things you are allowed to have posted on the fridge. My brain needs help to remember things when I get glutened. Having all the options options within view will help you to put different items together in a variety of ways. I have grabbed a seemingly innocent bag of potato chips, too, and lived to regret it...
  22. knitty kitty
    Hi! I've been lurking for a while but was so moved by your posts that I had to say something. You're not alone. I've had a long struggle to diagnosis and am just beginning on the road to recovery. The journey is very difficult but so worthwhile. Keep going! It will get better! I was undiagnosed for fifty years. I've suffered from gluten ataxia while...
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