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Here is what I received so far. Lots of people have bouts of it. Many  
have spent lots of $$ trying to figure it out with many finding no  
definite answers. I will summarize again if I get more replies!!!  
Thanks to everyone so far....

I had strong itching....I stopped using Iodized salt and that seem to  
resolve the itch.

The first thing I think about when someone is having symptoms is the
possibility of hidden gluten. Has she checked all the usual and unusual
places gluten can hide? Is her home GF? Could there be other food
intolerances? Nutritional deficiencies?

A few years after going GF, I started having that.  It turned out to  
be my gallbladder.

Yes, I get itches and pin prick like feelings, plus muscle jumps.   
I've ben GF for over five years and my "innerds" were pronounced  
"healed.  Not cured, but the irritation and damage from gluten was  
healed over.  Now I really know the GF diet works and I'll be on it  
forever.  That\'s OK.
    I've asked my GI doctor, an allergist, a dermatologist and a  
neurologist about the itching and muscle movement.  No one has any  
idea at all of the cause.  I eat no sugars, alcohol, or high fat  
foods.  They all were triggers for the itching.  The rich foods are  
hard to avoid.  I'm fine with the GF restrictions, and the itching got  
too terrible from the sugars.  The rich food causes little problems  
I'm willing to put up with on a little eaten basis.

I had skin pricks/zaps, needles and pins, vibrations and lightening  
bolts in
my legs and feet from peripheral neuropathy. These symptoms did slowly
resolve on a GF diet. I am also taking methylcobalamin and other B  
vitamins
to support my nerves.

My best guess is:
For random itchiness: (well not so random for me: groan itchiness) is  
often associated with some level of yeast infection (which for me  
interacts with my celiac disease and low-dose accidental exposure to  
gluten).

Skin pricks: somewhat (for me) associated with the kinks in my spine,  
and specifically associated with having a pinched nerve in my neck and  
leading to the numbness of my left-hand finger and skin pricks in that  
location (there is maybe some elusive connection with celiac disease  
here, because of the rheumatoid arthritis in my neck and lower back).  
My chiropractor is helping me with all of these spinal problems. (I've  
been told that celiac disease will attack any system weakness and  
therefore the 3 kinks in my spine).

Pins and needles: I have a problem with blood hyper-coagubility and  
high cholesteral, and have to stay on blood thinners and cholesteral  
drugs.... Its been a challenge to get the right dose of 'blood  
thinner', for one thing, certain foods affect blood thickness (making  
it a challenge to get the right drug dosage). When my blood is too  
thin, I get pins and needles in my legs, and some swelling; when my  
blood is too thick, I get shallow breathing. Apparently blood  
thickness problems are mostly genetic and often associated with  
autoimmune disease too; again another unclear (to me) possible  
connection to my celiac disease.

While researching the possibility of vit. B deficiency (in myself) I  
came across those very symptoms as being characteristic of vit B  
deficiency, which is common in celiacs and older folks.

I definitely get this, but it only started AFTER going GF.  It happens  
now after getting glutened.  In fact, I ignored the itching for  
probably 2 years thinking it was just due to winter dryness or  
something.  It was definitely 2 years of low-level gluten  
contamination.  My husband and kids get the shooting zaps and  
pinpricks after getting glutened.  Very strange, but I suspect it has  
to do with B vitamin depletion or malabsorption after gluten ingestion  
and damage it causes.

Yes, but no idea why.

She probably should be taking a B12 & she could have DH.
  here is a great forum http://www.glutenfreeandbeyond.org/forum/

Now if gluten flours touch my skin, it is almost caustic, intense  
itching with skin practically vanishing, raw red, no relief from  
antihistamines
All part of the wonder of CD.
Consider shampoos, conditioners, creams even sunscreen can contain  
wheat or gluten. They all bother me so I choose GF alternatives  
readily available.


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