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>I went on a wheat free diet for 3 weeks and felt a cloud was lifted from my
>head - after the 2nd week I could even drink milk again.  Then I found your
>list and learned about Celiac and started to eat wheat again for 3 weeks
>(extremely miserable, headache, dizzy, bloating) waiting to see a GI.  I
>live in a very rural area of upper michigan so I had to drive 400 miles to
>see a gastro.  He did a biopsy the next day (no blood tests) and said it was
>not consistant with celiac.  He said he would not advise a wheat-free diet
>as it has too many restrictions.  The allergist also gave the same answer.


Who are you going to believe your body or your doctor?

While you might not have CD -- most people don't --  an allergy can be very
serious. It seems to me that if your symptoms dramatically cleared up with a
wheat free (not to be confused with gluten free) diet, and your doctor
dismissed the result, you might consider dismissing your doctor.

Your call of course, but all I can say is that if I knew then (15 years ago)
what I know now, I would have made far different choices in my life.
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Cliff Kotchka
Riverside, Illinois

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