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Normally I would follow the usual route and send a reply to the poster and wait
for a summary, but I think this case is different. I hope this will be posted,
so I'll keep it short.

Suzanne is exactly right and this is timely because this reminder needs to go
out every now and then. I was diagnosed in October 2001 and since then I've
seen people asking about symptoms that could be major signs of heart trouble,
stroke, ALS, various forms of cancer and so on. I'm no medical genius myself
and am never sure when I have diarrhea if it's celiac, food poisoning, a bug, a
medication, or even something as serious as colon cancer. It's so very hard to
know, and if you don't have insurance or a decent doctor, that makes it even
tougher. But if bad stuff keeps going on, check it out.

best to all
richard

>
> I hope my story helps some folks here on this list.  If I can just
> drive home my point one more time.  You may have a very bad disease,
> and eating gluten MAY decrease the symptoms of that disease, such
> that you end up (as I did) blaming the problems on gluten.  Not on
> the underlying problem.  Just be cautious about this approach to self
> diagnosis.

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