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A friend emailed this to me. For awhile, she thought she had celiac, but tested negative. I think she has it despite the tests. she is eating gluten now....and is sick. Before that, docs said she had IBS. She has been ill for as long as I have known her, and I seem to recall that she improved when she was GF. But I have stopped nagging. Anyone know of any research on being deficient in digestive enzymes? She is also lactose intolerant....but eats yogurt.   Thanks, Lin


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> I can eat the Greek yogurt on an empty stomach first thing in the AM, if I eat nothing else for several hours.  It's so strange that I have trouble mixing foods.  Someday maybe there will be a sensible answer for me.  I can tell within 2-3 hours after a meal what's happening because once the food enters my upper small intestine, it's either fine or I feel extreme bloating and it's not digesting.  So I've concluded that it is digestive enzyme related.  Also, it I'm not digesting my GI stays unsettled for that entire day until the food passes out.  The good news is that I am able to eat very small portions of lots of foods, as long as I eat very slowly and keep the portions to a few mouthfuls.  Doesn't that sound like insufficient digestive enzymes to you?  I wish there was a test that could tell me if I had any missing enzymes or deficient enzymes in my small bowel.  If you hear of anyplace doing this research, I'd love to know about it.
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