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Dear Leona,
        I'm sorry to hear that you are still having trouble 40 years
after your diagnosis with celiac disease. It's hard for
me to offer advice because I don't know what you have tried. Is there
something else besides celiac that is causing you trouble? In addition to
the naturopathic doctor, are you also under the care of a medical doctor?
If it is just celiac disease, are you perhaps accidently getting gluten
into your system without knowing it?

        Here's what I did that was so sucessful:
        I put myself under the care of a very special
MD who had a wholistic approach to wellness and wasn't afraid to
experiment with alternative therapies. Under his guidance I started a
gluten free diet, stopped eating foods that were harming me, like sugar,
caffeine and alcohol, underwent extensive testing for many allergies and
then started taking shots for everything I tested allergic to, began
mega-vitamin therapy, saw a psychologist to help me deal with the
emotional side of these changes, began meditating daily, and getting
regular exercise. I took all these steps very seriously, and am still
doing them 20 years later. I attribute my success to a combination of all
these things, plus a fanatic committment to the gluten free diet.
        I hope you too can conquer this disease.

Sherill Roberts
McMinnville, Oregon

On Wed, 21 May 1997, Leona Reid wrote:

>       I have been suffering from celiac disease for the past 40 years and,
> nothing seems to help.  I have seen a naturalpathic doctor, and although
> it has helped some, but it hasen't alleviated the problem.  After 20
> years how did you conquer this disease?