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Wheatwacked

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  1. They are looking for gastrointestinal bleeding. If you are taking supplements with iron it could be that. Salad is your friend. If you Google it there are 200 symptoms, aside from Celiac Disease that are caused by a gluten diet. I counted 18 in myself. Since Celiac Disease is a disease of malabsorption once you start noticing symptoms it is only the beginning...
  2. My dairy intolerance was getting worse until I started eating fermented pickles and sauerkraut and olives instead of vinegar based. The science: salt fermenting promotes lactobacillus that supplements your body's production of lactase.
  3. Here is a list I compiled for myself. I hope it can help you. Vitamin RDA Upper Limit RDA Male/Female Celiac High Risk A (Preformed) 3000 mcg RAE 900/700 mcg RAE no A...
  4. Good luck with your doctor appointment. Be sure to discuss vitamin deficiency with him. For winter blues I am on 10,000 iu D3. 5 mg a day of Lithium Orotate eases my anxiety and for upset stomach I prefer Alka-Selzer. It neutralizes the acid temporarily (you need hydrochloric acid to digest food) and the aspirin is a mild analgesic/anti inflammatory and to...
  5. It is folic acid, not folate that is the problem. Since folic acid was first synthesized in the 1980s there has been reduced neural tube birth defects but there also has been an increase in prostate cancer and I think I read somewhere also endometriosis. I avoid multivitamins because they almost all have folic acid, vitamin E and beta-carotene vitamin A....
  6. This is the office, Petach Tikva, Israel; the Chief Physician’s Office, that diagnosed my son in 1976.
  7. Gluten is also addictive so there are withdrawal symptoms at first. It messes with your head and body.
  8. Lisinopril for high blood pressure gave me a dry cough that kept waking me every two hours and eventually caused an inguinal hernia. Amlodipine also for HBP caused my contact lenses to dry out and I needed to constantly use saline eye drops to maintain my vision. Once off them my vision improved and the cough is gone. In 1976 my son at six months...
  9. Absolutely, establishing a gluten free diet is first and foremost. It is essential. Celiac Disease is a disease of malabsorption, which I understand to mean that by the time it is diagnosed the person is already deficient in the nutrients the body needs to repair the damage. That's why the list of comorbid symptoms is so vast. The immune system is overworked...
  10. This is an excellent article. To Amanda: According to NIH, there are many essential vitamins/minerals that Celiacs don't absorb. Try a nutritarian diet.
  11. D3 and Lithium helped my anxiety, iodine improved my upper body muscle tone, choline clearing lipids, iron with fatigue, folic acid (ubiquitous in processed food) is not processed in our body like folate and is linked to increase of prostate cancer and other diseases. DHEA improved my general well being. Chromium; control studies show it lowers A1C. Potassium...
  12. C I did not realize the cough connection until after my doctor fired me and since even the lisinopril and amlodipine together did not affect my BP I realized that meds were not the solution. So I started Dr. Fuhrman's 6 week plan and after only 3 weeks my BP dropped. I cheat a lot because I am anorexic and have no patience for food, and I know my...
  13. As an infant back in 1976, it took my son 6 months on Nutramigen Infant Formula. As an old man it's taken me 6 years. Of course it took me 40 years to recognize that gluten was the problem, then 5 years to recognize that stopping the poison (gluten) was only the first step. It takes time to heal the damage already done, but to do that you need sufficient...
  14. Sorry I mis-copied that, I thought it was strange. It was Jenna1028 that made the original statement.
  15. https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/history-of-celiac-disease "Doctors had known about celiac for years. But there was no consensus on its cause, or how to treat it. It acquired its name in 100 A.D., when Greek* physician Aretaeus of Cappadocia was stumped by an ailment with symptoms of weakness, malnutrition, and diarrhea, which he dubbed koiliakos...
  16. My doctor put me on Lisinopril to control high blood pressure. In less than a month I got a tickly cough in the back of my throat that nothing would help. The cough woke me from sleep every two hours and caused an inguinal hernia and sleep deprivation. Alka-Selzer works well for me for indigestion. Cold-Eze stops colds dead in their tracts. It's the antiviral...
  17. If it does not come in a box it is likely gluten free. The Gluten in todays' commercial wheat, Red Dwarf variants (80% of the world market), is very addictive. There are 200 other symptoms connected to eating gluten in addition to the malnutrition caused by villi atrophy. Cream of Rice is soothing to the tummy and one serving has 70% of the minimum daily...
  18. There is a scene in the movie Joan of Arc (I think) that depicts the Pope suffering a gout attack. Accurate. It is called a rich man's disease because was believed caused by rich, fatty foods. I adjusted my diet using Dr Fuhrman's as a guide. I was not GFD. I had 20 dog years good experience with Prednisone so given how well it worked with my dogs and the...
  19. It was after taking prednisone for the gout in my big toe in 2012 that I noticed the prednisone took away all my other debilitating fibromyalgia pain, but not the foot neuralgia. At the time there were three treatments available for gout, each took 10 days of medication. Two cost $200 dollars each and the prednisone was only twenty dollars for the 10 days...
  20. Choline, Iodine, K, Lithium, DHEA, Lutein, Magnesium, Potassium, Zinc, and Preformed Vitamin A may also be deficient by nature of your disease. These and any other nutrient deficiencies may cause, but will certainly exasperate, other symptoms. Most of them cannot really be measured, and are therefore ignored. Folic Acid may be related to endometriosis and...
  21. Thinking about this overnight I was reminded of the bad vaudeville joke; Doctor, whenever I raise my arm up it hurts. The doctor answered: Don't raise your arm. Perhaps you should talk to the doctor about delaying the gluten challenge until your ankle swelling has had a chance to improve. You have identified a direct cause and effect. Not eating gluten...
  22. I read somewhere that Celiac is a blessing in disguise because it makes you aware of subclinical dietary issues. choline (eggs), iodine (milk,nori), D, potassium (bananas), magnesium, lithium, selenium, lutein, preformed vitamin A, and zinc are some of the nutrients that had a significant positive impact on my health. Compare your dietary intake to...
  23. I suppose we should have listened when the scientists told us the world is flat. And how is it you know that you are not the religious nut. Science told us that eggs are bad for us (since retracted); fat makes us fat (also retracted); folic acid is the same as Folate, possibly kicking off an increase in prostate cancer. Science tells us there...
  24. Other than the tension of watching a Cat 5 standing still 100 miles away, ripping apart the Bahamas, before finally moving northward, I was unaffected. Memories of Hurricane Mathew. Now a depression looking to cross us. Thanks for your concern.
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