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Does anyone know if the drug PAXLOVID is gluten free or where I could locate this information? I don't want to make my COVID symptoms worse with gluten intake!

Hey everyone, My doctor recently prescribed me methylprednisolone and sulfasalazine but the pharmacy flagged the medications as potentially containing gluten (I now love Wegman’s Pharmacy). Has anyone one here taken either of these with success? I'm looking for brand names that don't have gluten. Thanks

Good morning. I am new to this forum and am so glad to have found it. My mom (81) has moved in with me. She is a celiac, which we are doing well getting in a groove with that. My question is this, do any of you have a horrific cough? She has had every text under the sun completed with the final result being “allergy cough”. I’m leaning more towards anxiety. She coughs all day (I mean she really coughs to the point of loosing her breath) and all night...and has for years. Last night, when I climbed into bed with her, she stopped and didn’t cough for the rest of the night. Other little things I’ve started to pay more attention to makes me lean in this direction. Are any of you on a anxiety medication? If so, which one? Thank you!!

does anyone know if trintellix (it is brand name produced by Takeda) is gluten free? I can't really find anything on the their website that leads me to believe it isn't but I have been burned in the past! Here is the ingredient list: Each TRINTELLIX tablet contains 6.355 mg, 12.71 mg or 25.42 mg of vortioxetine HBr equivalent to 5 mg, 10 mg, or 20 mg of vortioxetine, respectively. The inactive ingredients in TRINTELLIX tablets include mannitol, microcrystalline cellulose, hydroxypropyl cellulose, sodium starch glycolate, magnesium stearate and film coating which consists of hypromellose, titanium dioxide, polyethylene glycol 400, and iron oxide yellow (10 mg).

Hi everyone! I was recently prescribed venlafaxine HCL ER (the generic of Effexor) produced by Zydus Pharmaceuticals. I know the brand name drug is gluten free but the water is always murky when dealing with generics. Can anyone find gluten information on their website or know of a number I can call to confirm? I tried reaching out via email and have not heard back.

I started taking Fioricet today for migraines and one of the ingredients is Pregelatinzed Starch. Does not say where it comes from. When I looked this up on gluten free sites, they list the other Fioricet with Codeine, but do not say anything about the one with caffeine. Does anyone know if it has wheat in it?

Hello everyone! My mom recommended this site and I already feel comforted and not insane anymore reading what you guys have said about your experiences... so let me introduce you to my hell. So I was diagnosed with a gluten allergy in 7th grade and completely ignored it... not even knowing what gluten was. For example, one year my friends got me a huge box with 48 packs of pop tarts inside and I ate every single one in about a month. Let's just say I'm a pig. I always took pride in myself for being able to eat like a monster and still be skinny and an amazing athlete. I was an excellent swimmer and always went to States and Nationals with my school team, mind you while not being on year round teams at all. I think it was 2 years ago, yes, April 22, 2016, the doctor told my mom and I and that I have Crohn's disease and that I need to go on drugs immediately. Of course I was in denial for the next 6 months and still am to some degree and kept eating gluten in sadness, fear and denial. I went on Imuran for about 3 1/2 months but of course, the lovely teen that I am I didn't take many of the pills. My mom and I "doctor shopped" a lot because she has always been into the natural route and I love and trust her fully so I listened to her. I had a colonoscopy done and didn't eat much of anything. I remember there was a period of maybe a month where all I could keep in was white rice with butter. It felt like candy I'm not kidding. Anyways, we bounced around from 4 different doctors till we finally found an integrative medicine doctor who was willing to help and was certain he could heal me. I was finally ready to accept Crohn's and do what I could to heal myself naturally. I'd seen too many documentaries on our current food (What the Health and Supersize Me for example) and read too much online about the effects of long term high class drugs--the biologics like Humira etc. and was scared that my little body would't be able to handle it so why not try the natural route. So my current doctor did blood work and collected stool--as most do, and it came back that I was severely allergic to 60 out of the main 61 types of gluten or whatever the number is...I was a rare case for him and very severe. I also presented allergies to rice, eggs, most meats--I can eat cooked chicken and pork , allergic to most vegetables and most fruits, and seafood--I can have raw and cooked salmon, cooked sea bass, trout and raw tuna. So now I am left with not many options and a million supplements to take. So I have some questions for anyone willing to help me... 1) Does anyone else have severe food allergies like me and can you make any suggestions for recipes? I take SeaCure--a fish protein supplement in between meals but I need some protein to eat! I love to eat and have already lost yet another pound because I am just not getting enough nutrients even though they are gluten free and safe foods. 2) How long till my hair will get thick and beautiful again?? I read that Imran affects hair and makes you lose it and thin it out...how long will it take to heal that?? 3) My skin, especially my hands crack really badly and the lines are white with rawness and dryness. Help me! I use Palmer's Coconut Oil Formula which is gluten-free and because I can have coconuts. Anyone have any other good recommendations for gluten-free lotions? My hands are painful! 4) Has anyone been so severe like me where you haven't been pregnant but have hemorrhoids on the outside of your butt?? Super weird and uncomfortable...Have they ever gone back in? Also, what should I do to relieve the burning sensation they give me? Or that area in general? 5) I am only 19 but long to have a family one day and lots of children. If I healed myself by the time I was let's say 26, do you think I could have kids?? 6) Speaking of kids, I haven't had my period in over two years. When should I expect that to come back? 7) Does anyone else crack their hands, neck, fingers, back, knees, or toes? I do and I'm wondering if that could be related to joint/skeletal discomfort.. 8) When will my irritability go away? I used to be the happiest person on earth and never cursed but now it seems like it's all I do. I hate feeling this way!! 9) Do you have any recommendations like meal prepping or anything to help me? I am in college and have no time to do anything already...Have any fast and easy meals to make that will last the weekdays? 10) I have talked your ears off so I am so thankful if any of you read this far. I appreciate any advice and am so thankful for this website!! I attached my the list of foods that I can and cannot eat if any of you can make recipe suggestions off of the green and yellow foods. Yellows can be tried once a week or every few days if I can tolerate them. Otherwise they go on the red list--which are no-no foods. Thank you so much!! List of Food.docx

I got cross contaminated some time ago & the rash came back pretty badly. I've attached a photo taken on June 11th of my back. It was also in my scalp, around my neck, on my front, shoulders, inner wrists and more. Tonight I am not itching at all! I haven't itched all day long!!!! I can't take Dapsone because I'm allergic to sulfa drugs & Dapsone is a sulfa drug. Obviously that means I also can't take any of the other sulfa drugs that are used to treat dh after Dapsone is not an option. After those comes tetracycline. I really needed some relief! I began researching the dosage & particulars on tetracycline for dh. Extensive & exhaustive research did not pan out. The best I could find was treating Bullous phemphigoid. That said something like 500mg of tetracycline 4 times per day and about an equal amount of niacinimide. I really didn't want to take that much medication and in such strong doses. So my doctor (my PC doc) & I began experimenting. We tried Doxycycline 100mg twice a day. It seemed to be helping some but it just wasn't enough. Then we upped it to 200mg Doxycycline twice per day. It has taken about 5 days of that & I sit here not itching all day for the first time in a long, long time! This may not work for everyone. I did want to post it though as it is, at present, working for me. I am not thrilled at taking it but I have toughed this rash out before for years with no meds and I just couldn't do it again.

Medication….. What a dreaded word, surrounded by stigmas and scapegoats. I have been on over 35 prescription medications since I was 13. I am now 19, almost 20, and the list seems to just keep growing. Between My eczema, DH, allergies, and now my un-responsive celiac, I have been a mess of a teenager; but seemed to have grown quickly into an adult. A lot parents are quick to take their children to the doctor, pop pills in their mouth, rub creams on their asses, and expect a result; but that is not how it works. Both my mother and I learned the hard way that standing up agents your doctor is the best way to get the results you want. Now I’m not saying to march into your doctor’s office cussing and making a seen (though I have done that once….. or twice), but to ask the question you want to know. Too many people walk out of their doctor’s office not understanding a world that was said. Not understanding what they are taking or the side effects, and unable to do any research themselves on the effects this might have. So where is my rant taking this conversation? Well, sometimes it’s ok to tell your doctor no; maybe suggest your own solution. Numerous times I have walked into my doctor’s office with a better solution than the doctor had. It’s hard to imagine sometimes, but some doctors think they know EVERYTHING about you, about your body, and how to heal you. You know your body better than anyone else. Fight for that right. I had a very bad reaction to prednisone about 3 years ago, and my doctor at the time told me that I was lying because he had never heard of these side effects. He said that it must have been cause by something else. Really? Yes, because peeing my paints in my seat, at school is totally something a teenager goes through. It must be “just a phase”. The bull s$#& that patients have to go through when they don’t have the right doctor is just plain painful. As a patient, don’t expect your doctor to know and do everything they can to help you. Do your research! I could never emphasize that enough. Don’t become the stigma of medication, the “pill popper” that solves all of their problems through every single medication they are prescribed. Become your own person, and do not let your medication define who you are.