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  1. newtonfree
    Had an interesting reaction I thought I'd post about. In an effort to help rebalance my omega ratio, I decided to use some flaxseed cooking oil. What I didn't realize was that A ) my wife had opened it two months ago, and B ) she didn't realize the bottle said "refrigerate after opening." It tasted only slightly bitter, but I've come to understand...
  2. newtonfree
    Agreed. Celiac and non-celiac gluten sensitivity are conditions that cannot be diagnosed and battled alone. The number of consequences to overall health, from vitamin and mineral deficiencies to elevated risk of lymphoma, mean that this needs the involvement of allopathic medicine. Take it from a doctor with newly-diagnosed celiac disease! Also...
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    Huh, I thought I posted a reply but my phone must have glitched or something. Thank you for the reminder of the link between omega acid ratio and inflammation. My whole life, I paid so much careful attention to nutrition due to being vegetarian/vegan, and omegas were a big part of that. But with my elimination diet, I realize I went completely out...
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    @knitty kitty, What you're saying makes a lot of sense. She's also been chronically low in vitamin D - a recent blood draw put her at 52 mmol/L, and she was on 10,000 IU/d for weeks before stepping down to 3,000 prior to the blood draw. Also, after about two weeks of following a GFD with me, she glutened herself yesterday with takeout while at work...
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    It is kind of ridiculous how helpful your posts have been. I'll certainly give the B vitamins a shot for myself - I had, until this recent elimination phase, always paid a ton of attention to balancing my diet and supplementing with whatever I might be missing (like B12), but never considered that I wouldn't have been absorbing B vitamins properly since celiac...
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    An interesting study. It makes me recall the efforts to get women in developing nations to cook with a "Lucky" iron fish to combat iron deficiency. They handed them out for free and shaped them like fish because of positive associations across many cultures between fish, luck, and health. The fish slowly leeches iron into any dish, especially acidic ones...
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    OK, so I'm sorry if I seemed a little hostile in my last reply, I had been reading stuff on lectins & paleo from Dr. Gundry and getting enraged by his quackery, but Dr. Ballantyne makes for a delightful and insightful read. I hadn't mentioned it yet, but both my wife and I are physicians with research backgrounds (just not GI, which is maybe why...
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    Knitty kitty, I respect and appreciate you sharing your experience, but definitely can't start off with any kind of paleo diet. I'm a lifelong vegetarian and cannot imagine the amount of nausea I'd experience trying to get a day's worth of protein from meat. Would have a heck of a time discerning celiac disease symptoms from the anxiety and nausea the...
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    Ah, I see what you're saying now. Starting at the safest possible point for a month to facilitate initial healing, then broaden. I will take that under serious consideration. To be honest, my current diet pretty much resembles what is listed there - I had been on a very narrow elimination diet at the time of diagnosis, as my doctors and nutritionist were...
  10. newtonfree
    Interesting...but isn't that chart based on overall industry trends? I have a specific millet source that is lab tested and certified gluten-free by the Canadian Celiac Association. Same for buckwheat and teff. I wouldn't think that a CCA certified source (gluten-free facility with regular audits and direct product testing) would still be excluded as a suspected...
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    I'll be thrilled if this is gone in months. I will keep my fingers crossed! Thanks for the well wishes and the information. They had told me "months to years for full resolution" but not the specifics about antibody deposition. The fact that I got significantly better after several months of "wheat-free" but not GFD makes me optimistic that it...
  12. newtonfree
    Thanks for the tip regarding oats, Jacki, I've quickly come to suspect that I'm one of those oat-sensitive celiacs, even the gluten-free-free kind. Whenever I eat them, I get my "reflux pain" within minutes, which I now realize must be esophageal inflammation. I never understood why before, but I complained of heartburn even as a little kid, and some...
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    You think you can't imagine how much ai've suffered when you've had up to 70% of your body affected?!? My dear, I think you know exactly how much I've suffered. But thank you for the sentiment nonetheless. It's very validating to hear that everyone has a different "favourite" place to break out. Mine was just, unfortunately, out of sight from doctors...
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    Reaching out to see if anyone here has had a similar presentation with their DH. I'm 36 years old and finally have the answer to why I've suffered severe, sometimes crippling, pain my whole life. I have celiac disease. And more importantly, I have DH, which was the smoking gun that finally led to my diagnosis. Starting just about as early as I...
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