{"id":983,"date":"2010-06-01T22:01:42","date_gmt":"2010-06-02T02:01:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/?p=983"},"modified":"2011-02-26T08:24:27","modified_gmt":"2011-02-26T13:24:27","slug":"cause-effect","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/2010\/06\/01\/cause-effect\/","title":{"rendered":"Cause & Effect"},"content":{"rendered":"

As I said<\/a> a few days ago, after a two-year experiment with SSRIs, I gave up on them and began seeking alternate remedies for my long-lived depression.\u00a0 On top of that, I was getting really sick of being tired all the time<\/em><\/a> and wanted to treat that problem too. I didn’t think I had Chronic Fatigue, but I definitely had chronic fatigue, and it really had my knickers in a twist. Every afternoon, from about 3:00 to 6:00, I could barely pick my head up.<\/p>\n

My mom had wondered aloud a while back if I might have Celiac disease. Her evidence was compelling:\u00a0 First, I’m a lactard, and lactose intolerance and gluten intolerance often go together. Second, last year, my iron was deficient, and there was no real reason it should be. I eat a lot of iron-rich foods, and (boys, close your eyes and ears and go “lalalalalala!”) I don’t have particularly heavy periods (OK, guys, it’s over). And last, ethnically-speaking, I come from a long line of potato-eaters, and my mom wasn’t sure if our ilk had the guts to process wheat.<\/p>\n

A little on-line research revealed to me that Celiac-sufferers frequently have digestive issues, but occasionally, the only symptoms are fatigue and\/or depression. Hmmmmm. I sat and I thunk.<\/p>\n

That’s when I went to see an osteopath. I wanted to get his take on things. He had his nurse draw eleventy billion vials of blood from my minute veins<\/a>, asked me to pee in a cup, and told me I should try a gluten-free diet to see if I felt better. I told him I’d just as soon jab my eyes out. I mean, everything that’s delicious in the world has wheat in it. I would wait to see what the blood work said.<\/p>\n

Alas, I was positive he was going to tell me I had Celiac, and the next day, I resigned myself to my baguette-less fate. I started transitioning into my horrible new life by avoiding wheat.<\/p>\n

And guess what. Remember that crushing fatigue? Gone. I mean, like that<\/em> (snaps fingers).<\/p>\n

The next day, meh, probably a fluke, I’d just have a little<\/em> wheat…3:00 rolled around and clunk<\/em>, couldn’t move. Since then, every day I’ve eaten wheat, I’ve crashed; every day I haven’t, I haven’t.<\/p>\n

On my next visit, my doc pronounced the following:<\/p>\n

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  1. I was low on B12 and would need to get a shot every week for six weeks. Boo<\/a>.<\/li>\n
  2. My D was also in need of topping up, so I should take 5,000 IUs of that a day.<\/li>\n
  3. Thyroid function was borderline low. He prescribed a thyroid med and told me to start with a daily half-tablet.<\/li>\n
  4. I didn’t have Celiac disease.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    Wha?!<\/p>\n

    More research! Ah, there’s such a thing as NCGS. That’s non-Celiac gluten sensitive.<\/p>\n

    There you have it, folks. I’m a lactard and<\/em> a glutard. Could I be more ‘tarded?<\/p>\n

    P.S. I haven’t been able to be consistent enough to see if it’s the Magic Bullet<\/a> that’s going to knock out my depression.\u00a0 Keep yer fingers crossed!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    As I said a few days ago, after a two-year experiment with SSRIs, I gave up on them and began seeking alternate remedies for my long-lived depression.\u00a0 On top of that, I was getting really sick of being tired all the time and wanted to treat that problem too. I didn’t think I had Chronic … Continue reading Cause & Effect<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,14,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-983","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fambly","category-gluten-freek","category-random"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/983","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=983"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/983\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2083,"href":"https:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/983\/revisions\/2083"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=983"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=983"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=983"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}