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To: Augustus Gloop who wrote (2157)	10/5/2002 2:31:10 PM
From: E	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 7689

I hope it turns out to be helpful. Let me mention something I thought of when I read your post. Years ago, a study established that stomach ulcers were caused by a bacterium, helicobacter pylori. I read about this study, which was pretty conclusive, and told a friend of mine about it, because she was suffering terribly with an ulcer and taking a lot of meds and eating a restricted diet. She talked to her internist, who said he was "skeptical" that bacteria were the cause, and declined to give her the recommended course of antibiotics. I suggested she go to another internist and keep trying internists until she got one familiar with the newest findings. She trusted her doctor, and declined. She was on awful meds, and suffering, for several years more before it finally got through her conservative doctor's thick skull that it was helicobacter pylori and he should prescribe the antibiotic. Which cured her in one course! No more ulcer, no more meds, she can eat whatever she wants to. A lot of doctors seem to hate new findings! Or at least to be very reluctant to change their old ways. (A doctor friend of mine said that new findings often have to wait for the next generation of doctors in order to be taken seriously.) So if I were in your position, I'd do a couple of things. One would be to try a few weeks w/o any wheat/gluten (a total drag, I know) and see what happens; the second would be to insist on having "The test for anti-gliadin antibodies [which] is known as AGA." Just my thoughts. I do hope it's the answer to your problem.