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Thanks, Kandee, you've made me feel much better. I've sort of subconsciously cut back on the wheat over the past few years anyway and any over indulgence always makes me suffer, so it's not such a great hardship. Sadly, I have a love-hate relationship with the stuff - it makes me sick, but I adore it with a passion and could willingly forsake all other foods in favour of it. I don't know why, it's not the tastiest or most exciting of foods (hmmm, suspect this craving/addiction is a tell-tale sign of a problem with wheat!)

Yeah, often my symptoms are more like an allergic reaction, although they build slowly over time and the more wheat I eat the worse it gets. I don't seem to react to it immediately. The pimples could be hives, they start off sore and itchy, but then develop little white heads just like acne pimples. I get really sore itchy eyes, styes, catarrh, tiredness, headaches, generally itchy skin and so on.

Like you, I'm a bit Irish, bit Scottish, mostly English and a bit French. I like to think of myself as a bit German too, as my dad lived there for 12 years (before he met my mum), could speak German and used to tell me about his 'adventures' when I was little, I also studied German and visited a couple of times!

I wonder, given my ancestry on this little island if i've inherited the fishing/potato-farming genes rather than any grain agricultural ones! Perhaps my ancestors were celiac but I've inherited a dilute version of that gene - hence intolerance, or maybe I have the potential to develop celiac eventually if I overdo the wheat for long enough? I don't suppose it matters, I'm just better of without it.

I'm lucky I don't have a severe allergy though, like yours, that's NO fun! I have enough allergies thank you, don't want any more.

Thanks for the support, you're all wonderful.
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