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Yep, it's official -- non-celiac gluten-sensitivity causes worse GI symptoms and worse non-GI symptoms than celiac disease, according to a study done in Norway. The range of symptoms reported as a result of a gluten challenge were similar between the two groups, but the reported severity of symptoms was greater among the NCGS group.
I reckon this means that the GI docs who have been claiming all this time that it's all in our heads, need to have their own heads examined.
Notice that the title of the article is rather misleading (as is often the case for research projects that were designed to prove a preconceived notion, but failed to do so). Somatization is irrelevant in this study, since there was no difference in the somatization levels between celiacs and NCGS subjects.
Tex
It is suspected that some of the hardest material known to science can be found in the skulls of GI specialists who insist that diet has nothing to do with the treatment of microscopic colitis.
So, if I read this abstract correctly, they were trying to prove that non-celiac gluten sensitivity was all in our heads, and they ended up proving exactly the opposite? Well, it's about time! I need a copy of this study (not just the abstract) - I'd love to have it to take to my doctors (it's not likely they'd be reading the Scandinavian Journal of Gastroenterology!).
Wayne, do you know how I can go about getting it? I wonder if the CU library would have a copy of that journal.
On another note - to tell you the truth, after all we've been through, I can't even imagine volunteering for a study that involved a gluten challenge! These folks must have something wrong with their heads after all! :)
Haha! It's my guess it will be a long time before the studies catch up with what we already know. I'm grateful to live in an era of internet sharing. I can't imagine what it must have been like for someone with Colitis, living in a rural area, alone and isolated with this disease. I would love to read a memoir of someone who had such an experience, wouldn't you?
CoryGut
Age 71
Diagnosed with Lymphocytic Colitis Sept. 2010
On and off Entocort(Currently Off)
You can purchase the full document at the link below, but unfortunately they're apparently mighty proud of it ($86 bucks for 24 hour access, and if it's set up like most such sites, the customer is only allowed to access it from a single computer).
I'm not sure whether it would be available in English, but probably it would be.
Tex
It is suspected that some of the hardest material known to science can be found in the skulls of GI specialists who insist that diet has nothing to do with the treatment of microscopic colitis.
I have an appt with my GI doctor tomorrow afternoon. I printed out this article and will give it to him. He's pretty open-minded but really busy. Hopefully, he will read it. He's going to laugh when I show him the paleo diet. I'm hoping that by persistently and patiently explaining my symptoms and how I am managing them, he will get a clue.
Two friends who had been sick recently are both suffering with D and stomach pains weeks after stopping the antibiotics and both see the same GI doc that I see. Another woman I know well who took antibiotics last year got the unrelenting D, was diagnosed with polymyalgia rheumatica, lost the vision in one eye because of temporal arteritis. Very, very scary. I wonder how many of us with either MC and/or celiac have PMR. My mother had it (and MC) and my brother has it although he doesn't have MC.
Thanks for the article.
Sheila W
To get something you never had, you have to do something you never did.
A person who never made a mistake never tried something new. Einstein
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