Re: Hi, newly diagnosed member and question

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People vary widely in their healing time and in their reactions to gluten. Two factors are age and length of time one has had CD before treatment (diet). Some people, especially older people, will never be "healed", but even for them a GF-diet is worthwhile because it means no further damage is incurred.

I have far more frequent and intense GI problems than I did before I was diagnosed (now, frequent dashes to the bathroom.) My GI says this is due to my not having healed yet. I am, or was, one of those people said to have "silent" celiac. I wonder if this has changed since I went GF, if I have become more sensitive. I only once ate more than a tiny amount of accidental gluten in the two years since diagnosis (barley in Italy last month, due to a language misunderstanding). That one time I quickly became slightly disoriented, spacey, and unable to concentrate, and GI problems turned up 8 hours later.

Harper

In a message dated 10/31/2004 2:36:11 PM Pacific Standard Time, connie@... writes:

I've just been diagnosed and am really grateful! I have seen quite a bit of improvement in the last 6 weeks and yet there are still times when I'm having symptoms - how long might it take to be able tok know if a particular symptom is from some failure of the diet or if it is just a "not yet healed" symptom? I've been very strictly not eating gluten and sticking to very clearly fresh or GF foods. I thought that some of it might be from an accidental ingestion of "modified food starch" but I heard at the Stanford conference that my statisticial chances of the modified food starch in the US being wheat are very low, so now I'm confused. Any thoughts on this?Also, is there anyone on this list who is pursuing the Paleodiet or some form of "pre-wheat agriculture" diet? I'm curious about that and about how so many of the top 10 problem foods are recent (evolutionarily speaking) the introduction to the human diet or at least to the "northern European fogbelt peoples" diet.Thanks!Connie