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    Seriously, I've experienced migraines and those strange dreams. The only things that made them better was supplementing with these B vitamins, especially Thiamine, and magnesium. No amount of meditation or relaxation techniques worked until I fixed the underlying subclinical vitamin deficiencies that occur in Celiac Disease. If we don't absorb sufficient...
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    @Leann horne, Flax contain Lectins. Flax are seeds from flax plants. Tapioca is made from cassava, also high in Lectins. Cassava and tapioca also contain thiaminase, an enzyme that destroys Thiamine Vitamin B1 making it unusable to the body. Are you boosting your intestines' ability to absorb essential nutrients? Supplementing the essential...
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    Hi, @Gilly M, When I started supplementing after being deficient, there were definitely some strangeness going on as my body started working properly with an increased amount of vitamins available. No, not a paradoxical reaction. Simply the body starting to work properly. How long after taking the thiamine and b complex did symptoms start? Which...
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    Hello, @NoGlutensToday, I believe those new ingredients are gluten free. I can't use petroleum based products like that lotion and petroleum jelly. My skin feels like it has a coating on it and can't breathe. And my pores clog up. This makes my dermatitis herpetiformis more aggravated. I use Tallow Balm by Vintage Traditions. (Not an...
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    How's it going, @Gilly M?
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    @ShortsGirl, My heart goes out to you. My family was in denial, too. Celiac Disease is genetic, and, unless you're adopted, at least one of your parents has the celiac disease genes, too. Gastrointestinal celiac disease symptoms are often ignored, brushed aside, or blamed on stress. But there are other health problems connected to celiac disease...
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    @ffordbush, Try cutting out dairy and see if your antibodies go down. Some people react to dairy as though it were gluten because casein (the protein in dairy) resembles gluten (the protein in wbr). Mucosal reactivity to cow's milk protein in coeliac disease https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1810502/
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    @Gilly M, I knew someone who would have oxalate dumping in stools, UTIs, then ended up in hospital for painful kidney stones. It's a serious medical condition that following a low oxalate diet can help. However, some diets that are medically necessary for some people become health fads. Some health fad diets give a bad name to legitimate medically...
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    @HWB, Long term infection with H. Pylori causes chronic constipation!!! Long term H. Pylori infection can cause cancer and all sorts of gastrointestinal problems. Boost your vitamin intake, especially Vitamin D and the B vitamins, and... Take the antibiotics to eradicate H. Pylori! References: Successful Helicobacter pylori...
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    @ffordbush, Are you consuming dairy? Has your dairy intake changed before or after having Covid?
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    @Gilly M, What does your doctor say about the dumping? What does your doctor recommend doing about the dumping? Do you have kidney stones? High oxalates in urine? Deficiencies in Thiamine B1, Pyridoxine B6 and Riboflavin B2 are connected to oxalate formation. References: The association of dietary intake of riboflavin and thiamine...
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    @Gilly M, I take Magnesium Lysinate Glycinate. (Doctor's Best High Absorption Magnesium no more than 300 mg a day). Yes, alcohol and emotional stress are things that will deplete Thiamine suddenly and quickly. Your symptoms, anxiety, insomnia, panic attacks, are the same things I experienced when I was thiamine deficient. It gets worse...
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    @James47, I found the Autoimmune Protocol Diet, a type of Paleo Diet, extremely helpful in getting inflammation reduced and healing started. It was designed by a doctor who is Celiac, Dr. Sarah Ballantyne. (Her book, The Paleo Approach, is very helpful. Not an advertisement, simply what helped me.) The AIP diet cuts out all processed foods, grains...
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    Welcome to the forum! Are either of you supplementing with B Complex vitamins and minerals like magnesium? We have to buy our own vitamins when we go gluten free because we are no longer consuming the vitamins put into gluten containing products. Gluten free processed foods are not required to have vitamins added to them. Thiamine Vitamin...
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    Below are links to studies showing that vitamins in the B Complex help relieve anxiety and depression. References: Dietary intake of B vitamins and their association with depression, anxiety, and stress symptoms: A cross-sectional, population-based survey https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33848753/ The Role of Vitamins and Minerals in...
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    @Gilly M, The B Complex should not keep you up at night if you take it in the morning. The methylated forms are forms that the body uses. If we take forms of B vitamins that are not methylated, our bodies still have to change them to the methylated forms in order to use them. You can change to unmethylated forms if you wish, just don't take Folic...
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    @Gilly M, Apologies for not being able to answer sooner. I hope you are feeling better. Are you keeping a food/mood/poo'd journal? It can help link what is eaten and drunk with the outcome (sandy stools). I do hope you are taking the whole B Complex by now. B Complex is water soluble. Any you don't absorb will be easily excreted...
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    @Janine Barta, Welcome to the forum! Dental anesthesia can precipitate a deficiency in Cobalamine B12. Nitrogen compounds in anesthesia bind irrevocably with Cobalamine making it useless. Symptoms of B12 deficiency can appear several weeks after the dental procedure. Have you been checked for nutritional deficiencies since your Celiac...
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    @Gilly M, I think that B Complex is a great choice. The symptoms you've described are very familiar (I've experienced them, too) and are in line with Thiamine and B vitamin deficiency symptoms. In Thiamine deficiency, the body cannot regulate temperature well, hence the shivering. The frequent trips to the bathroom day or night can be...
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    @Gilly M, Take the B Complex and Vitamin D every day for two weeks. The eight B vitamins are essential to life. We need all eight every day. You need to take the B Complex. The methylated forms are "ready to use" forms of the B vitamins. Taking an additional sublingual B12 supplement should take care of any over-methylation potential...
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    Yes, nightshades include tomatoes, potatoes, eggplant and peppers. All contain Lectins. Nightshades also contain glycoalkaloids which promote zonulin production in the gut. Zonulin promotes "leaky gut syndrome" allowing particles of incompletely digested food to pass into our blood stream causing inflammation in joints, muscles, nerves, and organs...
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    @Leann horne, Plants contain Lectins. Lectins are proteins that bind carbohydrates together. Lectins are concentrated in the seeds of plants. Gluten is a lectin in wheat. Zein is the lectin in corn (maize). There are lectins in rice, and other edible grains and seeds. Legumes (beans) and pulses contain lectins. Nuts are high in lectins. There...
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    @Itchyperson, I've had the same problem with outbreaks in that area. Dermatitis Herpetiformis is pressure sensitive. Any place where there's pressure on the skin can cause a dermatitis herpetiformis sore to occur. I've had dermatitis herpetiformis blister on my fingers where I hold my pen and my knitting needles. I've developed dermatitis herpetiformis...
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    @Leann horne, Welcome to the forum. I agree with @Wheatwacked. Your fainting after rice sounds like a deficiency in Thiamine. Thiamine is needed to turn carbohydrates into energy for our bodies. A sudden influx of simple carbohydrates like rice can cause a big demand for Thiamine. If we don't have sufficient Thiamine, the body starts...
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    @Zoe246, Looks like you had a low tTg IgG. Your tTg IgA result is low because your total IgA result is low. If you're not producing sufficient IgA in general (total IgA), then the doctors cannot/should not use low tTg IgA to make a diagnosis. Total IgA and tTg IgA production can be affected by anemia and deficiency in Thiamine Vitamin...
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