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Dear Listmates,
This summary is long overdue! Sorry, but the demands of school do
take their toll... At any rate, the 50 or so responses ran the gamut from
allergy/asthma responses to possible heart problems. Some said it is a
definite gluten response and others said esophageal spasms.
Judging from the responses it seems pain and tightness in the chest
are very common. As for me, I tend to believe that it was aspiration of
fluids AND esophageal spasm. I remember at the time that my esophagus was
hurting and I could feel that it was spasming.
BTW, to the one member who worried that the attending phys.
overlooked my heart... not to worry! When I said "pain in chest and
shortness of breath" they took me in first and plugged me into a machine to
monitor my heart etc. (under much protest from me I might add). My heart
was just fine, but thank you very much for your concern! :)
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Now as to the awful diet...
Being a busy student who is also teaching, I find I most often just
don't have time to deal with the demands of this diet. Yet, knowing that
the above problems can happen to me with a slip-up, well... suddenly the
diet becomes a blessing. Who has time for the symptoms when we can avoid
them by diet compliance?
I DO GET FRUSTRATED! Oh don't get me wrong on that! When I can't
simply stop anywhere I please to eat, or I have to get too creative in the
kitchen to find a palatable quick meal (emphasis on quick)..... HECK, we
all do. But then I think about days like the above, and the misery I went
through, and I get over it. You will forgive me, but sometimes I think :
A little gluten misery is as good as a pound of cure.
Lynda Swink
P.S. My little quip above is NOT a recommendation - only an observation.
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