A fruitless search for digestive experts

symptoms and conditions
Updated 1/6/13: As with the fatigue issue, vitamin D seem to help this a lot, but only when I started following this neurologist's recommended doses for repletion. In September 2008 I started a journey that serves as a good example of the limits of the American health care system, where you can go through three months, 15 doctor visits, $7,000 in medical tests, three prescriptions and five over-the-counter medications trying to treat your abdominal pain, and after you lose ten pounds due to said pain, you are asked by the "specialists" if you have an eating disorder. To make a long and unladylike story short, starting in the fall of 2008 I would inflate like a beach ball whenever I ate a full-sized meal, and my innards would feel like…
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Repairing the unspeakably lousy digestion of the celiac

symptoms and conditions
Updated August 2022. Life before glutenlessness For years, in order to survive a job interview or a conference or a plane trip, I'd have to stop eating 36 hours beforehand. Any food I ate back then would either roar through the alimentary canal too quickly, or would display a profound reticence about making its exit, whereupon anything entering the works subsequent to that was greeted by what felt like a riot in a peat bog. Events that increased my stress level more than everyday routine would then tip things into the Miserably Uncomfortable and Distracted end of the dial. No matter where I was or what time it was, I would've preferred to be lying in a scalding hot bath, which was the only thing besides not eating that made…
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