Noobette

Thank you @Megamaniac - I don't hear about chest tightness as a symptom of being glutened, so it's good to hear of someone else. My current symptoms aren't bad, just annoying. It's hard to tell if it's anxiety tightening my chest, or something else. But since it's only been happening since I ate that damn tortilla, my guess is it's gluten-related. My doctor...

About 10 days ago I think I ate most of a wheat tortilla (the restaurant stuck to their story that it was a corn tortilla like I had ordered, but I don't believe them - I'm pretty sure it was wheat). Nothing happened in the first couple of days, then I developed intermittent chest tightness, which was one of my primary symptoms before my diagnosis, the others...

A book came out last year about HS and treating it as an autoimmune disease. I think people have had great luck using diet to help control HS, as outlined in the book. I haven't read this book myself since I don't have HS. http://www.amazon.com/Hidden-Plague-Overcoming-Hidradenitis-Suppurativa/dp/1939563011/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1413120...