Sara Ann Denson

Yes, thanks. He is getting follow up care with a functional medicine doctor who has agreed to act as his primary. He seems to be getting past many of the stomach issues and has only missed 2 days of school this year compared to missing 4 weeks typically. Since he was doing so much better physically, I felt alarmed at this reaction which seemed to be emotional...

You are correct. I am just trying to figure out what kind of reaction he's having. We haven't had any life threatening moments but his soy and gluten issues have caused some pretty severe reactions and he lives in fear of accidentally getting soy. I definitely know that the years before my older son and I were diagnosed felt really stressful and painful....

He did mention that the experience of getting the violent shakes made him realize that he had bottled up a lot of emotion when he went off gluten. He also has severe reactions to soy so between the two he lives with a lot of fear of accidentally getting soy or gluten. Sometimes when we accidentally get soy, the reaction is pretty severe and has created problems...

No offense was meant. I have an eighteen year old son who had a autonomic nervous reaction verses a reaction from actual contact to food. I wanted advice on whether this would get worse or whether I needed intervention. I didn't realize accidentally using the wrong technical medical term would be an insult to all veterans. If I had a medical degree and was...

Thanks so much for letting me know this is something other people are going through. It helps to know it's not unknown for Celiacs to have an autonomic nervous reaction to visual stimuli. Did this calm down for you after awhile? Did it get worse? Did you need to work with a therapist or did it work itself out? Thanks so much for your empathy!

I think it's a good idea to have him make them himself. I currently do most of the cooking and baking, but my older son has recently started cooking more for himself at college and has really developed a sense of empowerment. I think you are onto something here. Maybe my younger son needs to feel like he has the ability to produce the things he misses so...

I've recently stayed in the hospital not for myself but as a bedside helper for elderly relatives. I have found there can be drastic differences in what's available and what's understood between two different hospitals in the same city. I think you should do your research ahead of time in all available hospital options. It might help others to let the hospitals...

My sons and I have both been diagnosed with Celiac. My youngest son who is now 18 is the most recent to be diagnosed. For myself and my older son, we both saw a marked decrease in anxiety when we went gluten-free. However, my youngest son was the most chill person ever to emerge from my gene pool. He has never been overly anxious but needed to go gluten...