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    No. With low D you are open to all sorts of infections and autoimmune diseases. Luck of the draw depending on other nutrition and environmental factors.
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    Welcome AnnaNZ, Sounds like you have a good doctor. The fact that you had improvement on GFD indicates that you have either Celiac Disease or Non Celiac Gluten Sensivity. A few weeks on a gluten free diet according to some researchers should not have affected your antigens. People still test positive after months of gluten free. Besides, you...
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    I wear contact lenses (extended wear, bifocal) and tolerate them well since 1973 (daily wear hard lenses back then. I would have to take them out to clean the protein buildup at least every two weeks and replace them every two months. I found that taking them out caused me more irritation than leaving them in. Since starting gluten free in 2014 I no longer...
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    Welcome to the forum GlutenMorgan. If you are following a "healthy" diet using the guidelines developed over the past 50 years that liver, red meat and eggs are bad you will most likely, along with 90% of the people following that advice, are not getting enough choline in your diet. It takes 10 cups daily of cooked brocolli or similar vegetable...
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    Increasing vitamin D may help with B12 and that will help with iron.Eating fermented pickles, not quick pickles made with vinegar will help populate your gut with benefial lactobacillus which will enhance your lactose persistance. Naturally Fermented Pickles [The Complete Guide] The UK was the country that forced an almost worldwide ban on vitamin...
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    All of the above posts have good information, and I'll give you some specific steps from my recovery, in addition, to maybe quicken your healing. An appointment with a Nutritionist familiar with Celiac Disease would be helpful to you. You have malnutrition and that is why the doctors are baffled. Take a thiamine supplement or benfothiame...
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    Hopefully it will be an endoscopy of the small intestine and they take several biopsies specifically looking for celiac disease and not just a gastrosopy (stomach). Many are told to continue eating gluten because their tests just are inconclusive according to the accepted cutoffs. It seems 10 years to finally get a Celiac Disease diagnosis is not uncommon...
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    Budesonide is a corticosteroid that like prednisone. It's advantage is that is doesn't seem to cause Secondary Adrenal Insufficiency. If it helps, take it. As you heal from the Gluten Free Diet and replete your vitamins and minerals and start to store some, your need for the Budesonide will go down. Not remission, but healing. I needed 30 mg and...
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    work on increasing choline. very common response.
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    Hi Ellis Aust. I agree with trents and would double down. An endoscopy with Celiac biopsies may show how much damage in your small intestine. Many have said they are negative for blood tests, yet are positive on biopsy. And vice versa. Vitamin and mineral deficiencies to look for. Liver enzymes - insufficient choline intake. Especially...
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    Quite the journey. I emphasize with you and am sorry for your losses. The key to recovery has to start by fixing your nutritional deficiencies. Since you are on a very restricted diet, and I truly understand your hesitation to change anything you need to fortify your diet. Perhaps a doctor who specializes in malnutrition can help you. But find someone...
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    Are you on other meds, like blood pressure, cholesterol, or diabetes. They can have debilitating effects on us. Talk to your doctor about them.
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    I did not mean to say you don't have MLC but that they are missing the cause: malnutrition due to (at this point )assumed) Celiac Disease caused malabsorption syndrome and food avoidance. What I think is to start GFD and vitamin replenishment to start healing. When you are feeling better, then go back and do the Gluten Challenge to verify. If you improve...
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    This could be a misdiagnosis of Choline Deficiency. primary source is eggs, beef and liver. Diahrrea will cause Potassium depletion. Virtually everyone who is sick has low vitamin D. NHANES study, vitamin C deficiency or depletion existed in 32% of women ages 25–44 in the US. As knitty kitty said, it looks like a gluten challenge would do more h...
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    Good luck. Don't be a stranger.
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    Glutamate: The Master Neurotransmitter and Its Implications in Chronic Stress and Mood Disorders Consumed in controlled quantities, free glutamate (as distinct from glutamate contained in protein) functions as a neurotransmitter and building block of protein. Does “glutamate” in a product mean it contains gluten? No—glutamate or glutamic acid ...
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    If you eat it and doesn't cause you distress, probably OK. It it causes you distress, avoid.
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    I like to think of the vitamins and minerals as the tools our body uses to process the raw materials in proteins and fats. Like a factory, if you are short a tool, the whole assembly line is slowed.
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    This chart of vitamins and minerals may help to see the big picture. Here is the list of what I take. I am finally at the point where I can skip days. If you like spreadsheets you can track and total your daily intake using the National Nutrition Database. FoodData Central I think there are websites that say they do it. I used SR28 for mine. ...
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    Diarrhea is when your stools are loose and watery.There is a strong cultural pressure to blame most symptoms on any thing but gluten found in wheat barley and rye. It is addictive. On a gluten free diet you will not be getting vitamins and minerals that non gluten free foods are fortified with. They are fortified because the western style diet has...
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    I wear my mutifocal contacts 24/7 and take them out to replace on average, every 6 months. -10 diopter. I rotate between store brand plain optical saline, Refresh, Vision Clarity and Baush and Lomb Eye Relief. Antioxidents like vitamin C and Taurine (essential amino acid may help, food sourced vitamin A . Iodine from kelp has helped my eyes, My...
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    Hi Sammy7 One of the effects of Celiac Disease is malabsorption of essential vitamins and minerals. Unfortunately it seems that most doctors are happy with, "You have Celiac Disease. Don't eat gluten. Goodbye". Even on a nutritionally complete gluten free diet, most will still have vitamin D deficiency. It is more of a cultural thing. We are advised...
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    You can use the NIH Fact Sheets for professional to check. for example Google: "fact sheet vitamin D"
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    The blood test for homocysteine can be an indication of B12, Folate, B6 and Choline status because these are the vitamins that re-methylate homocysteine to methionine. High homocysteine is an independant marker of cardiovascular disease and inflammation.
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    Almost every article you read about vitamin D emphasizes the danger of too much. Hypervitamosis D is actually quite rare. It seems to go back to an epidemic of infant deaths in the UK due to a manufacturing error in baby formula. They added a thousand times the safe upper limit of vitamin D. I think probably because they used milligrams instead of micrograms...
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