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<<Disclaimer: Verify this information before applying it to your situation.>>
In my case I came back from Thailand in 1966 with infectious hepatitis. In
1971 I was diagnosed with T-1 diabetes and discharged from the Air Force. I
stayed on a "Whole Wheat" diet while employed at CNSYD in Charleston I broke
out with a rash under my tool belt that after a year of prescribed ointments
I was finally sent to a dermatologist who diagnosed me with DH and told that
I would have to take Dapsone for the rest of my life this was in 1992. In
1996 I kept having to take more dapsone, I got anemic, I lost weight, I got
fired from a guard job, after I retired from the shipyard , for having two
insulin reactions at work. That turned out to be illegal as he refused to
accommodate me and I settled out of count in 1998. In 1996 about the time I
got fired I saw an article in Diabetes Forecast about CD and autoimmune
diseases. *Wheat's Your Problem* by Jean Guest. The article may have
saved my life, I took it with me to a gastroenterologist and was diagnosed
with CD. I was his first patient, and as the article pointed over 5% of all
T-1 diabetics have CD. It took me almost 4 years on a strict g/f diet to
quit breaking out completely. I no longer take dapsone and get along great
now and gained all the weight back. No one in my family has diabetes or CD.
Last year I was diagnosed with psoriasis. It is a mild case and attributed
to a weaken immune system.
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