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Hello Awol Cast Iron Stomach - love it, your 'name' describes my former self. Thank you so much for sharing this, you have encouraged me no end because the last couple of days (probably since I decided chocolate and pizza were back on the menu) have been pretty rough. Just now I've had a little bit of bread and some Manuka honey, and just as I found... -
Hiya Whitepaw Back from a week in the North of England. It was an annual holiday and I can tell you, just having less stress made a huge difference. Most days I've been on 75mg of Zantac. Half the time I might have needed a Gaviscon tab once a day, or some slippery elm (a teaspoon) in the evening, but that was just when I was eating too late or eating...
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If I'm at home I take the liquid - they sell both forms here in the UK. That said, chewables are handy - I put them in my handbag for any attacks that happen when I am away from the house! One normally settles things. I hear you about the inconsistency of symptoms - I have this too. I'm beginning to wonder why that is. Sometimes I think it is down...
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I think I could have become slightly intolerant of dairy again (I was around DX and have since recovered but it was slow). But I'm not quite sure because the side effects of Gaviscon can involve diarrhea. Even slippery elm affects my stool (sorry). It is hard to understand what is going on when the side effects mimic celiac symptoms! One thing I found...
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Thank you so much for all your help. Do keep me posted on your GI appointment next week. I've been reading about stomach ulcers (just in case I've got one) and chamomile tea seems to keep coming up. One website recommended four cups of chamomile a day which I'm going to attempt. https://draxe.com/ulcer-symptoms-diet-natural-remedies/ I've...
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Whitepaw, I also meant to say that my friend who has been having extreme gastritis issues since the winter (now it seems to be getting better after tapering off Lanzaprazole and introducing more natural remedies) told me that she used to feel acid in her stomach first thing, too. But now finally she is feeling better. It is good to know that there...
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With omeprazole I never felt entirely good really - some time every day I felt off, but I think it might have been the bloating. Perhaps I never gave it long enough. Yet that nauseous feeling and diarrhea carried on for a few days after I stopped taking it. Now on day four of Ranitidine/Zantac. I did feel nauseous mid-morning but had to go on a few...
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Re: food diary. That is a really good way of keeping a food diary - I always thought it was a question of just scribbling everything down. But categorising things into what one can always tolerate, sometimes tolerate, never tolerate is such a good way of making things seem clearer. Re: medicine. It is weird because normally if one takes, say...
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Hi Whitepaw I think maybe you are asking C-rats this question but in case you meant me too, I get acid at random times of the day - but usually towards the end; diarrhea with the Omeprazole (prisolec); constipation with RAnitidine; burping when I drink hot drinks (for some reason it brings it up!) and a feeling of bloating under my left rib - but this...
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C-rats - thank you. Did you pursue Prilosec for many weeks before things settled? I felt slightly off when I was taking Omeprazole but I was only on the full dose for three weeks, then started to taper it. Perhaps I should have tried it for longer?
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Hello Whitepaw - and commiserations. That is so interesting about Gluten Dude, I've read a lot of stuff on his website when I'm going through bad stuff and have always been encouraged. That thing about a dietary indiscretion rings true to me. My perfect storm involved aspirin, iron pills, stress, a possible glutening and a stomach virus - but before...
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Thanks so much Jmg! That's really helpful! Especially for speaking to a member of your family who is a pharmacist, that is going the extra mile. Many thanks to them, too. I have to say I have a GP in my family but I try very hard not to ask him questions as he'd have to retire from general practice in order to keep up! Thankfully for him he is...
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Hi Jmg - and anyone who is familiary with ranitidine (Zantac) Firstly, Jmg, I hope you don't mind my quoting your old post from last month to get your attention, but I wanted to speak to a fellow Brit as I'd value some advice from someone who knows how the NHS works. (I love the NHS by the way, not having a go at it, but unlike the States we often have...
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I agree, I think it needs to leave the building!
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I hope that I am wrong but once there was an event in town where someone who had prepared the fruit cocktail was ill ... any so was anyone else who drank it. That said fruit can have this effect on people who don't eat it normally this way - once I heard two ladies complaining that they wished they hadn't eating fruit salad for breakfast the day they went...
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Hello Whitepaw It's so sweet of you to ask - thank you. I have been away on a childrens' church camp and I have to say, been eating lots of gluten-free stodge from packets and very few health foods - but despite that all seems to be well. I weaned myself off the ompremazole having gone down to 10mg, taking it alternate days, then once every two...
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Pin prick bleeding under the skin
cristiana replied to Felix Nuts Tomcat's topic in Related Issues & Disorders
I've had this - I first noticed it when I was quite poorly before I was diagnosed, although my blood tests were all pretty normal apart from protein levels which were slightly elevated and reverted to normal levels once I followed a gluten free diet, and low iron and B12. I noticed it around my torso and also my upper thighs and seemed, like yours, to be... -
Hi Whitepaw Your question about what was I eating before I fell ill is a good one. I had given a party the previous month and there was a lot of cake left over and what is more, it was all gluten free because I had made it! So I was eating maybe a couple of slices a day... I was taking soluable aspirin when I shouldn't take it, really. I was also...
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Thanks so much, friends! JMG, I'll try to get hold of that licorice, almost everything I read gives it glowing reviews. I miss Bertie Bassets licorice (it contains wheat) so it will be nice to have some licorice again. Thanks Whitepaw for those ideas, I must admit I'm getting rather fed up with my low fat menu but it seems the best way to keep the...
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Thanks so much, Whitepaw. I'm very interested to see what you are eating as my diet is becoming rather dull! I'm just beginning to try tapering the omeprazole as it really disagrees with me and I've been taking it for three weeks so far. So today I haven't taken any but intend to take some tomorrow and the next day (doing maybe do two days of ompremazole...
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That's interesting, thanks. I will look into both - and I believe our forefathers' habit of boiling up bones was good for the joints, too. I wonder if you could tell me, did you lose much weight through all of this? I have lost about 4-5 pounds since this began, and I don't really like losing weight when I'm not trying to. Mind you - some days...
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UK Cuts Gluten-Free Food Prescriptions
cristiana replied to Scott Adams's topic in Publications & Publicity
I agree JMG, in fact I've never bothered with the prescription because I hoped by not having it I'd be saving the NHS some money. I imagine this will put a burden on some people though. I can't say I've found a gluten free bread I really like yet in the UK, though, although there was a loaf at a wedding the other day that was as near to the real thing... -
Thanks so much, Whitepaw. We can get Schar products in the UK and they are really good - they make the nearest thing to a Twix that I have found, although I think I have had a rather negative run in with chocolate in the last 24 hours (still not healed enough to eat it, obviously) so won't buy one of their 'Twixe's' for a while. But I agree, shortbread...
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Whitepaw - thank you for this very instructive post. I have highlighted part of your post for anyone else who is looking for tips as I too have found these tips do help. Having read most of what Dr Google has to say on the subject this is advice that comes up a lot again and again. Tight clothing is definitely something to avoid, and I cannot believe how...
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Actually, posture is an interesting thought. This whole thing probably did kick off because of my aspirin (and iron) but over the last few months I have been doing far too much leaning over my computer. The days I get out and get loads of exercise really helps. You may have something there! Thank you.
