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Looks like there are no solid answers. Each person has different experiences. I went gluten-free a short time (I don't remember exact dates but they were close together) before I started taking Melatonin and didn't have any dreams before the Melatonin so I guess, for me, it's the Melatonin. It's interesting how differently it seems to affect (Celiac...

Why get rid of the Melatonin? I've read nothing but good things about it. In regard to your theory that the "new dreaming" has something to do with sleeping more soundly, I'm not sure I get that. You dream during REM sleep which occurs every 4 hours. So if you sleep 6 hours you should have a shot at dreaming. I've never been a long sleeper but I get...

I've been taking Melatonin for a while now. (A few months.) Drugs don't usually work well on me (I have a high-tolerance to everything) so when I take them I take three 3mg tablets. That usually works really, really well for me. I agree with the above poster who says it doesn't make you feel wrecked the next day. When I take otc sleep drugs they mess me...

I'm glad to have found this issue coming up here. I'm brand new to being gluten-free and am suddenly dreaming like crazy. I always thought it was funny that I didn't. As a kid I dreamed but then hit my teens and they just stopped. I've probably had 2 I remembered in the past 20 years. Then I went gluten-free and suddenly I'm a dreaming machine. I...

Wow! You're all incredibly generous with your ideas and suggestions. Thanks! Fortunately I live in the Los Angeles area where Health Food stores are pretty common so it's not as difficult as it must be for those living elsewhere in the country. What it all comes down to is FRUSTRATION at having to actually make some effort. (You take it for granted...

Brown Rice. Thanks for the advice and rec, Jnkmnky but I'm not sure I'm ready for "ordering food" yet. I'm brand new to the diet (less than a week) and not yet ready to order stuff on-line that I've been buying in a store my whole life. (Yeah, I know, that's my problem, not yours!) At this point I'm looking for easy to find stuff in the stores...

Can anyone rec a store bought brand of gluten-free bread that isn't stone heavy? I bought my first loaf today of FOOD FOR LIFE WHEAT AND GLUTEN FREE BREAD at While Foods and while it's fantastic to make a guilt-free sandwich, the stuff's a little far from tasty. Do they make a gluten-free bread that's lighter and more "traditional"? I'm fortunate...

Thanks, Richard. I'm not looking for Dapsone to be a "free wheat card" I'm just curious about it's effects in regard to healing/stopping outbreaks due to accidentally exposures. Thanks!

Thanks, Merika! Your post cleared up a lot of the questions/frustrations I've been having while reading posts here. Thank-you!

Thanks for the answers! I'm telling you, this is kind of a mixed blessing. It's fantastic in that I finally know what's wrong with me but upsetting when I read these boards and see that there's no "One way" to deal with it. When you break a leg- You get a cast. When you get diagnosed with celiac disease, you get so many different reactions from different...

That is AWESOME to hear! I've had severe outbreaks since I was a small child (my mother actually has an entry in my babybook detailing, "the really bad rash you have all over!") and if there's a drug to help (along with the diet) it seems like a godsend. Hopefully my dermatologist is into it. I hope he will be since he was the one who diagnosed the HD...

I'm brand new to these boards and love them dearly but find myself tearing my hair out because so many different answers from different people make answers hard to find. I understand I should speak with my doctor and not get medical advice from a chatboard! But my question isn't about medical advice. It's about soybeans. On some posts it says to stay...

Thanks so much. Will appreciate hearing from you Dapsoners too!

I was on Erythromycin for a few years when another dermatologist originally thought it was a skin allergy and that worked pretty well. But I began cutting back to only one pill a day instead of 4 and the benefits aren't working any more. So maybe the Dapsone isn't needed. Erythromycin is pretty inexpensive. (I'll ask my doc for his recomendation, of...

Okay, first off let me say what a miracle it is to find this site and these boards! I've been a sufferer of DH ever since I was a child and it was always a sorrowful problem that's only now been "discovered" in my adulthood. But at least now I know. I've been reading a lot of stuff here about Dapsone. Obviously there's not one answer for everyone...