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  1. Fiddle-Faddle
    Thanks for the links. I think it's ridiculous to wait for joint pain. Tomorrow I'm gonna send the pervertabug to Igenex, and have it tested for Lyme and Babesia. It's still in the ziploc bag--and still crawlng around. Miamia--nice point about everyone being passionate. I think you hit the nail on the head. Is there a full moon or something...
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    Carla, even the best, warmest, and fuzziest of people can have lousy days. I spoke with the nurse at my doctor's office, who told me not to worry about it unless I get joint pain. (Really!) Next, I spoke with the county health department's entymologist (they have one!), who gave me an address to send it to, though I don't think they'll test it...
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    Um, maybe because you said that it didn't bite me, when I had already said that it did?
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    The first thing that jumps to mind is shingles, which often appears as a painful AND itchy rash around the waist (the pain is caused by inflammation of the nerve pathway under the rash). That tends to come with other, flu-like symptoms, but I suppose it's possible to have a very mild case. Second thing that occurs to me is that if you were wearing a metal...
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    Thanks. I'll call Igenex in the morning and see if they test ticks. Or if they can recommend where to take/send the nasty little scumbuggy. Can you believe, it's been zipped up tight in a zipper bag for a couple of hours, and it's still crawling around in there? Oh, and Carla--when I got bitten, it stung and itched for several minutes, and then...
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    Well, I felt SOMETHING bite me, and hours later when I got home, there was a tick in my bra. Like I said, I have it (the tick, not the bra) in a zipper bag.
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    It looks exactly like the pictures of the deer tick. Is there anything else that looks like a tick but isn't?
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    With apologies, we interrupt this program for the following emergency broadcast: I WAS BITTEN BY WHAT I THINK WAS A TICK TONIGHT. We had an outdoor concert, and it was very buggy, and the d@mn thing crawled under my bra, so I was stuck not being able to do anything about it while I was on stage. I have it in a zipper bag (I resisted the urge...
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    I used to love Aunt Jemima's syrup, but then I read all sorts of horrible things about high fructose corn syrup--apparently, it raises your blood sugar but does not signal your pancreas to produce insulin, and it has an extremely addictive quality (just what what we all need, right). So I switched to real maple syrup, which tasted almost too sweet at first...
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    I agree with Doll. Also want to add that if you are malnourished and dehydrated, you should NOT be drinking coffee. I know, you'll end up with caffeine withdrawal, but caffeine dehydrates you. There is also evidence that it contributes to bipolar disorder, and a diabetic friend of mine told me that her endocrinologist says it messes up blood sugar levels...
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    Wouldn't dentists also have a high exposure to fluoride, and X-rays, too? And maybe other chemicals, too? I'm not trying to minimize the effects mercury. I just wonder if the other stuff they are exposed to might be factors as well.
  12. Fiddle-Faddle
    sneezydiva, I'm just wondering how long you were eating plenty of gluten before the blood test? I have read here that you need to be eating gluten for 3-4 MONTHS before bloodwork.
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    You know, nobody does bloodwork and biopsy on people just because they are overweight. But isn't it conceivable that, like thyroid disease and diabetes (both of which have links to obesity AND celiac), obesity could be a stand-alone symptom of celiac? I understand that we don't want "gluten-free" to become the next fad diet. But for the sake of those...
  14. Fiddle-Faddle
    Hear , hear, little d!!! Well said! (And, girlfriend, you TOTALLY crack me up! ) Just wanted to add one more thing: if it takes an average of 11 years in this country to get an accurate diagnosis of celiac disease (as shown in the 2006 University of Chicago study), what gives any already-diagnosed-sufferer-of-celiac disease the right to tell someone...
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    I haven't seen people with negative biopsy AND negative bloodwork, but I have seen many with positive bloodwork and negative biopsies (including myself), as well as textbook high risk indicators, such as other autoimmune problems often seen together with celiac, such as diabetes, Graves, Hashimoto's, etc, and/or "diagnoses" of other syndromes that are most...
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    An A major 7th chord (A, C,# E, G-natural) would resolve to either a D Major chord (D, F#, A) or d minor (D, F-natural, A). A 7th chord means a triad with the seventh added. A chord based on the 5th note of the scale is called a "dominant chord," and that is the chord that usually resolves to the tonic. A typical progression in both classical and jazz...
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    Also found this (again, thank you, Canadian Karen!): INSURANCE COMPANY ATTN: DISABILITY CLAIMS DEPT. To Whom it May Concern: I am attempting to spearhead a campaign to raise awareness of Celiac Disease and its negative impact not only to hundreds of thousands of undiagnosed celiacs, but the financial impact this insidious disease has on your...
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    Found the letter (thank you, Canadian Karen!!!!): To Whom it may Concern: My name is ______ and I have had celiac disease for many years although not properly diagnosed until __ years ago. Unfortunately, my long road to proper diagnosis is all too familiar. I am part of a group of fellow celiacs who are earnestly trying to change that. I am involved...
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    Great point about the rice industry, although the companies that produce gluten-free stuff specifically marketed towards us are charging 5-6 times what they should, simply because they know most of us are desperate enough to pay for it. We were chatting about this on another thread this week (the Walmart thread)--all those convenient gluten-free brownie...
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    Yikes!!! If you have a doc who gives antibiotics for a VIRUS, I would run the other direction as fast as possible! Antibiotics should not be used unless the doctor knows not only that bacteria is definitely involved, but WHICH bacteria (i.e., they should do a culture). And, just to make us all really confused, our pediatrician told us that many bacterial...
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    There's a nasty virus going around our area, that seems to be targeting kids more than adults (as many viruses do). The symptoms are headache, abdominal pain, and a very strange fever that goes up very quickly (and quite high--103 and up), but comes down by itself (with no Tylenol or Ibuprofen) in about an hour, only to return several hours later. The fever...
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    I totally agree with you! And think--who is TEACHING the med students? It ultimately goes back to big pharm, doesn't it? So--how do we communicate withf Michael Moore?
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    Tom, I think you are absolutely right. This is something I have been complaining about for over a year. Rice flour, potato starch, and tapioca starch are 69 cents a pound at my local Asian grocery. Corn starch is all of 89 cents for a one pound box. Yes, Xanthan gum is expensive--but you only use a teaspoon or two for two cups of gluten-free flour--so...
  24. Fiddle-Faddle
    Welcome! Many of us have been through similar problems with doctors. I'm sorry you have to go through it, too. There are several recent threads on vaccines here--if you do a quick search, you should be able to find out a lot. You can also go to www.nvic.org and find out a lot of things that your doctor won't tell you about immunizations. It is YOUR...
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    Our SuperWalmart didn't have them. I checked the weird food aisle AND the baking aisle, and no luck.
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