<<Disclaimer: Verify this information before applying it to your situation.>> Many thanks to the many who replied....I seem to get far more knowledge from those of you who actually experience this disease,than doctors who have briefly read about it. The most informative reply was from someone who posted that the CNS does heal,but takes an incredibly long time to do so(many years),and really it depends on how long the damage was occuring before the reason for it was found. Several replies also mentioned fibromyalgia,and the possibility that the damage,may,in fact,be due to some other underlying condition.One lady wrote that MS has been diagnosed,years later,she discovered she was intolerant to gluten,cutting the gluten from her life,all her MS symptoms went. In my case,the ataxia has cleared,except on the odd day,I feel I can`t move,even though I know there has been no accidental gluten ingestion. As they say in the Xfiles `the truth is out there somewhere` Many thanks once again Trish *Support summarization of posts, reply to the SENDER not the CELIAC List*