hef_au
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Female
8 posts since February 13th, 2006
New User
Female
8 posts since February 13th, 2006
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Basically gluten-free but I am eating very lightly currently. Things like gluten-free cereal, yoghurt, plain chicken and low-gi rice, crackers, pears, grapes, peaches. My stomach seems ultrasensitive right now so i've cut right back until it settles.
Autoimmune disease is the bargain disease - buy one, get one or two or three.. Free :d what can you do? I also have pernicious anaemia but i'm hoping that will resolve with the coeliac diet (along with other deficiencies).
You're thinking of cushings. Addisons is under/nil production of cortisol, hence steroids are used to replace what the bo... more
Perhaps I need to review my steroid doseage, although i'm loathe to increase it specifically because of the side effects you allude to. I need to get this seesawing bsl under control though.
I had low adrenal function. I had an acth stim test which showed a reasonable baseline with poor stimulation. That baseline continued to drop so I was comm... more
Well, I guess they learnt from that one...As did i....This happens all the time when they do gtts at blood collection centres. I won't get it done now outside of path lab in a hospital because I always get the hypo. Reaction. To be fair though, these people are only trained in blood drawing.
..For that very informative post. Lots of food for thought there (no pun intended). Obviously, still coming to grips with the coeliac bit. I haven't eaten any of the foods you mentioned except a perhaps once weekly serve of corn and rice pasta but that doesn't seem to cause the problem.
Go figure! I'll have to run this all past my endocrinolog... more
I had a severe hypo after a glucose tolerance test and was given a chocolate bar (and no other followup food) to boost my sugars. All well and good. After a while, I felt better and left for home. However, I then crashed again, with a more severe hypo, to the extent that medical assistance was required. The second experience was worse than the ... more
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