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Twenty-One Diseases Commonly Confused with Celiac Disease
Wheatwacked commented on Jefferson Adams's article in Related Diseases and Disorders
Absolutely, establishing a gluten free diet is first and foremost. It is essential. Celiac Disease is a disease of malabsorption, which I understand to mean that by the time it is diagnosed the person is already deficient in the nutrients the body needs to repair the damage. That's why the list of comorbid symptoms is so vast. The immune system is overworked... -
Twenty-One Diseases Commonly Confused with Celiac Disease
Wheatwacked commented on Jefferson Adams's article in Related Diseases and Disorders
This is an excellent article. To Amanda: According to NIH, there are many essential vitamins/minerals that Celiacs don't absorb. Try a nutritarian diet. -
D3 and Lithium helped my anxiety, iodine improved my upper body muscle tone, choline clearing lipids, iron with fatigue, folic acid (ubiquitous in processed food) is not processed in our body like folate and is linked to increase of prostate cancer and other diseases. DHEA improved my general well being. Chromium; control studies show it lowers A1C. Potassium...
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C I did not realize the cough connection until after my doctor fired me and since even the lisinopril and amlodipine together did not affect my BP I realized that meds were not the solution. So I started Dr. Fuhrman's 6 week plan and after only 3 weeks my BP dropped. I cheat a lot because I am anorexic and have no patience for food, and I know my...
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As an infant back in 1976, it took my son 6 months on Nutramigen Infant Formula. As an old man it's taken me 6 years. Of course it took me 40 years to recognize that gluten was the problem, then 5 years to recognize that stopping the poison (gluten) was only the first step. It takes time to heal the damage already done, but to do that you need sufficient...
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Sorry I mis-copied that, I thought it was strange. It was Jenna1028 that made the original statement.
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https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/history-of-celiac-disease "Doctors had known about celiac for years. But there was no consensus on its cause, or how to treat it. It acquired its name in 100 A.D., when Greek* physician Aretaeus of Cappadocia was stumped by an ailment with symptoms of weakness, malnutrition, and diarrhea, which he dubbed koiliakos...
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My doctor put me on Lisinopril to control high blood pressure. In less than a month I got a tickly cough in the back of my throat that nothing would help. The cough woke me from sleep every two hours and caused an inguinal hernia and sleep deprivation. Alka-Selzer works well for me for indigestion. Cold-Eze stops colds dead in their tracts. It's the antiviral...
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Bunch of questions about celiac disease
Wheatwacked replied to Pam P's topic in Introduce Yourself / Share Stuff
If it does not come in a box it is likely gluten free. The Gluten in todays' commercial wheat, Red Dwarf variants (80% of the world market), is very addictive. There are 200 other symptoms connected to eating gluten in addition to the malnutrition caused by villi atrophy. Cream of Rice is soothing to the tummy and one serving has 70% of the minimum daily... -
There is a scene in the movie Joan of Arc (I think) that depicts the Pope suffering a gout attack. Accurate. It is called a rich man's disease because was believed caused by rich, fatty foods. I adjusted my diet using Dr Fuhrman's as a guide. I was not GFD. I had 20 dog years good experience with Prednisone so given how well it worked with my dogs and the...
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It was after taking prednisone for the gout in my big toe in 2012 that I noticed the prednisone took away all my other debilitating fibromyalgia pain, but not the foot neuralgia. At the time there were three treatments available for gout, each took 10 days of medication. Two cost $200 dollars each and the prednisone was only twenty dollars for the 10 days...
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Choline, Iodine, K, Lithium, DHEA, Lutein, Magnesium, Potassium, Zinc, and Preformed Vitamin A may also be deficient by nature of your disease. These and any other nutrient deficiencies may cause, but will certainly exasperate, other symptoms. Most of them cannot really be measured, and are therefore ignored. Folic Acid may be related to endometriosis and...
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Thinking about this overnight I was reminded of the bad vaudeville joke; Doctor, whenever I raise my arm up it hurts. The doctor answered: Don't raise your arm. Perhaps you should talk to the doctor about delaying the gluten challenge until your ankle swelling has had a chance to improve. You have identified a direct cause and effect. Not eating gluten...
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I read somewhere that Celiac is a blessing in disguise because it makes you aware of subclinical dietary issues. choline (eggs), iodine (milk,nori), D, potassium (bananas), magnesium, lithium, selenium, lutein, preformed vitamin A, and zinc are some of the nutrients that had a significant positive impact on my health. Compare your dietary intake to...
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Open Letter to the many GI sufferers Part 2 still suffering Look Beyond these symptom’s to the Parent Disease Pellagra with these many unruly children like IBS, GERD, UC, etc. up to and including NCGS and Celiac Disease (in Time I believe) Part 2
Wheatwacked commented on Posterboy's blog entry in Posterboy's Blog
I suppose we should have listened when the scientists told us the world is flat. And how is it you know that you are not the religious nut. Science told us that eggs are bad for us (since retracted); fat makes us fat (also retracted); folic acid is the same as Folate, possibly kicking off an increase in prostate cancer. Science tells us there... -
Open Letter to the many GI sufferers Part 2 still suffering Look Beyond these symptom’s to the Parent Disease Pellagra with these many unruly children like IBS, GERD, UC, etc. up to and including NCGS and Celiac Disease (in Time I believe) Part 2
Wheatwacked commented on Posterboy's blog entry in Posterboy's Blog
Other than the tension of watching a Cat 5 standing still 100 miles away, ripping apart the Bahamas, before finally moving northward, I was unaffected. Memories of Hurricane Mathew. Now a depression looking to cross us. Thanks for your concern. -
Open Letter to the many GI sufferers Part 2 still suffering Look Beyond these symptom’s to the Parent Disease Pellagra with these many unruly children like IBS, GERD, UC, etc. up to and including NCGS and Celiac Disease (in Time I believe) Part 2
Wheatwacked commented on Posterboy's blog entry in Posterboy's Blog
Posterboy, thanks for those references. I am currently preoccupied with the approaching hurricane here on the east coast of Florida so I may not read it for a few days. While the quote is that alcohol doubles the rate of Celiac diagnosis, intending to put the blame for increasing diagnosis of Celiac on alcohol, I am inclined to believe that it... -
Open Letter to the many GI sufferers Part 2 still suffering Look Beyond these symptom’s to the Parent Disease Pellagra with these many unruly children like IBS, GERD, UC, etc. up to and including NCGS and Celiac Disease (in Time I believe) Part 2
Wheatwacked commented on Posterboy's blog entry in Posterboy's Blog
It seems only in the wheat eating cultures that you have stories of the town drunk. -
Open Letter to the many GI sufferers Part 2 still suffering Look Beyond these symptom’s to the Parent Disease Pellagra with these many unruly children like IBS, GERD, UC, etc. up to and including NCGS and Celiac Disease (in Time I believe) Part 2
Wheatwacked commented on Posterboy's blog entry in Posterboy's Blog
I am familiar with it. Oddly enough, before I became an alcoholic in the mid eighties, I was a male orderly in 1972 at the Oakland Hospital (California) acute alcohol rehab ward. Vitamin shots were a regular part of the recovery protocol we used. Oakland was also one of the first hospitals to have AA meetings in the hospital as part of the... -
The Ten Risk Factors Most Associated with Celiac Disease
Wheatwacked commented on Jefferson Adams's article in Celiac Disease Basics
I find it thought provoking that eating gluten (code name wheat) is last on the list possible risk factors for Celiac Disease. This highlights the failure of the government effort to make us believe that fat is the culprit for obesity by pointing out that fat free milk and vitamin D drops are causal to Celiac Disease. What is the risk when drinking ... -
Open Letter to the many GI sufferers Part 2 still suffering Look Beyond these symptom’s to the Parent Disease Pellagra with these many unruly children like IBS, GERD, UC, etc. up to and including NCGS and Celiac Disease (in Time I believe) Part 2
Wheatwacked commented on Posterboy's blog entry in Posterboy's Blog
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Open Letter to the many GI sufferers Part 2 still suffering Look Beyond these symptom’s to the Parent Disease Pellagra with these many unruly children like IBS, GERD, UC, etc. up to and including NCGS and Celiac Disease (in Time I believe) Part 2
Wheatwacked commented on Posterboy's blog entry in Posterboy's Blog
It is my belief, based on my experience, that Alcohol Addiction is caused by eating Wheat. The professionals see an alcoholic with Pellagra and jump to the 'obvious conclusion' that alcohol addiction is the cause of the malnutrition; and alcoholism is incurable anyway so don't bother to look further? So, Primary Pellagra... -
Open Letter to the many GI sufferers Part 2 still suffering Look Beyond these symptom’s to the Parent Disease Pellagra with these many unruly children like IBS, GERD, UC, etc. up to and including NCGS and Celiac Disease (in Time I believe) Part 2
Wheatwacked commented on Posterboy's blog entry in Posterboy's Blog
In my experience, there seems to be two levels of Celiac Disease: Acute and Chronic. Chronic is when you have symptoms that are annoying; for example my whole life, until I went GFD at 63, I was a mouth breather. It is something there is no medical cure for, and no medical explanation for, but plenty of "treatments". Acute is when the symptoms... -
Open Letter to the many GI sufferers Part 2 still suffering Look Beyond these symptom’s to the Parent Disease Pellagra with these many unruly children like IBS, GERD, UC, etc. up to and including NCGS and Celiac Disease (in Time I believe) Part 2
Wheatwacked commented on Posterboy's blog entry in Posterboy's Blog
I, personally, have had a whole list of things that are not associated with celiac disease that magically disappeared or showed dramatic improvement when I stopped eating wheat and continues to improve as I improve my nutritional intake. Celiac Disease is a disease of malabsorption, so it makes sense that someone with Celiac could present with... -
Open Letter to the many GI sufferers Part 2 still suffering Look Beyond these symptom’s to the Parent Disease Pellagra with these many unruly children like IBS, GERD, UC, etc. up to and including NCGS and Celiac Disease (in Time I believe) Part 2
Wheatwacked commented on Posterboy's blog entry in Posterboy's Blog
"Treating your Vitamin deficiency lets you treat your co-morbidities." Posterboy, this is such a huge statement that we all should take to heart. Thanks. I would give odds that if she had been tested for it, Karen Carpenter, the singer who died of malnutrition blamed on her anorexia, supposedly a psychiatric disease, was a had Celiac. For that matter...
