Nancym

The skinny celiac is more and more a thing of the past. Doctors get their knowledge from school they attended 20-30 years ago and don't seem to get updated. You're not an anomaly!

I used to have something similar happen. What I think it was I wasn't truly awake but I felt like I was. I'd be lying in bed and a shimmering, huge, translucent spider would be spinning it's way down on a bit of silk about to land on me. It was SO extremely realistic that there was no way I thought I was dreaming. I'd hop out of bed and pull off all my...

At this point, without any real regulations on what gluten-free means, you need to do due diligence. I think Trader Joe's has done pretty well with the comments on the back of products stating whether or not there might be issues with products on the same equipment. What that means to you, as a consumer, you'll have to figure out for yourself. Right now...

Anything that looks like rice crispies in a stool might be a parasite, eggs would be my guess. You'd better go see your doctor about that. Fat in a stool is probably going to be invisible to the naked eye because your body heat would melt it.

Glad you're feeling better! I've followed this story with interest and learned lots of new stuff.

I remember hearing Randy Pausch explain that pancreatic cancer can irritate (or affect) the gallbladder and cause digestion problems, like floating stools, but not everyone gets that symptom. If I had pancreatic cancer in my family, I'd be severely limiting my consumption of sugars and starchy carbohydrates (that get turned into sugar once digested)....

I used to have lots of muscle spasms in my neck and shoulders and they went away when I went gluten-free and CF. Lately I had a week where I went back on dairy and the cramping came back, so for me it was caused by dairy. For cramps you can try supplementing potassium, magnesium and calcium (sodium if you're really low but most folks aren't).

Give the paleo diet a try. It is a very healthy diet and certainly can't hurt. It does seem to help lots of people with autoimmune diseases.

Somehow the human race managed to do just fine without wheat until a few thousand years ago.

The accounting and recordkeeping would be a nightmare, hopefully you have a lot of time available to set up a good accounting system and way to keep track of all your receipts. Just go to irs.gov and look for the rules, special forms and all. Oh, and it probably only is available if you spend more than 7.5% of your AGI on it, like other medical expenses...

I'm just curious where you get this notion from? Do you think gluten intolerance only affects (or doesn't) the villi in your intestines? I had severe IBS, neurological symptoms and several autoimmune diseases from my gluten intolerance. I'm sure it caused leaky gut which spawned all these autoimmune diseases and my memory/neurological problems. How does...

Not everyone has horrible symptoms when they're glutened. I intentionally glutened myself and my worst symptom was feeling depressed and lethargic for about a week. But hell, I'd take that over feeling brain fogged, crampy gut, and the other symptoms I had any time! I agree though, in my case it wasn't just gluten, it was gluten and dairy. I had to...

Just a heads up, especially to you youngsters , really bad sciatica can be one of the first signs of ankylosing spondylitis. Its a nasty disease that makes your spine stiff and unbendable (in some) or just very painful in joints and tendons. So if you're constantly suffering from this, get in to see a rheumatologist as you can. There are treatments that...

I think what you need to realize is that gluten intolerance leads to some very bad things down the road: Obesity or malnutrition, cancer, autoimmune diseases, T1 diabetes, autoimmune arthritis, possibly brain damage in some people, skin diseases... that's not counting all the stuff that just causes you not to feel your best everyday. So regardless of...

Someone posted something about someone... (what a sentence!) on the original brain talk message forum, who had wonderful success treating their MS with diet. When it comes back online check here for it: http://brain.hastypastry.net/forums/forumdisplay.php?f=141