Celiac Disease Related Disorders

Dermatitis herpetiformis (a rash on the skin) is present in some people with
celiac disease. Other autoimmune disorders that people with CD are at
greater risk to develop include Addison’ s disease, autoimmune chronic
active hepatitis, Alopecia Areata, Graves’ disease, insulin-dependent
diabetes mellitus (type 1), myasthenia gravis, scleroderma, Sjogren’s
syndrome, systemic lupus erythematosus, and thyroid disease. This is not a
complete list. Thyroid diseases and diabetes are the two most commonly
associated diseases.

Dermatitis Herpetiformis Related Disorders

Thyroid disease is most commonly associated with DH. Other autoimmune
disorders that people with CD are at greater risk to develop include
Addison’ s disease, autoimmune chronic active hepatitis, Alopecia Areata,
Graves’ disease, insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus (type 1), myasthenia
gravis, scleroderma, Sjogren’s syndrome, systemic lupus erythematosus, and
thyroid disease. This is not a complete list. Thyroid diseases and diabetes
are the two most commonly associated diseases. It is not uncommon to have
other skin conditions as well.

After you get corprus disease and the wizard Divayth Fyr permanently
cures your bad symptoms, you still retain the good effect of never
being able to get corprus again (because you’ve still got it).

But does having (symptomless) corprus also have the effect of never
being able to get common disease or blight disease again? Should I
sell all my potions of Cure Common Disease and Cure Blight Disease?

Yup, your disease resistance have been increased to 100%, which means you’ll
also be immune to vampire bites (which is implemented as a disease), unless
you lower your resistance intentionally with potions.

That’s not entirely true. If you have the Bloodmoon expansion your
character will contract lycanthropy – no way to avoid it if you’re
playing the story line quests. It’s curable with a cure common disease
potion.

On top of that, even though my PC was the Nevararine and had 100%
immunity to all diseases, she still contracted a disease called Ataxia
from the plague bears. I suppose that the immunity to common diseases
only applies to diseases that are common on Vvardenfell.

I have a very important question for you people in charge of Wisconsin’s
wildlife:

My question is simply how did Chronic Wasting Disease get from deer that were
infected with it when they were imported into Wisconsin and kept in fences pens
to the general deer population of Wisconsin that was outside of those fenced
pens?

It Chronic Wasting Disease was being transmitted from the caged deer to the
general population by mosquitos or biting flies, it surely would have been
transmitted to humans and cattle by now, as I lived in Colorado prior to
Wisconsin, and they have had it for a rather long time now. It would be
spreading rather like West Nile is if mosquitos or biting flies transmitted it.

One of my seven brothers loves to hurt deer and his deer are always full of
ticks. About the only means of those deer in caged pens could have transmitted
Chronic Wasting Disease that I can think of is by ticks that bit them
transmitting it. Because of Lyme Disease, humans fear and avoid ticks,
therefore they are not being infected with Chronic Wasting Disease. And
because cattle are in open areas where there are not many ticks, they are not
being infected, either.

If what I am saying is true, ticks can transmit Chronic Wasting Disease to
humans, cattle, mink, sheep, and most likely all kinds of other species that we
do not yet even know about.

Why is this information so greatly all important to YOU?

Well, if ticks are transmitting Chronic Wasting Disease, it means even if you
kill all of the deer off inside of Wisconsin and replace them with healthy
deer, the odds are the healthy deer will simply become infected again!

Why would that be true?

THINK for a minute about this all! Humans, cattle, sheep, mink, deer, … ,
are already known to get infected with that Mad Animal Disease, i.e., Mad Cow
Disease, Chronic Wasting Disease, therefore the odds are greatly in favor that
many other species can also become infected, too, like raccoons, squirrels,
etc. IF Chronic Wasting Disease moved from deer inside of a penned in area,
via ticks to deer outside of that penned in area, then any species those ticks
bit might get infected, also.

Have you been checking the infected areas in Wisconsin for dead animals in
general and testing any and all dead animals for that Chronic Wasting Disease
which I prefer to simply call Mad Animal Disease? Well, if you have not, you
really need to begin doing that IMMEDIATELY! Mad Animal Disease very well
might have already spread to all kinds of other species in Wisconsin.

You really need to be issuing FREE hunting license to all hunters inside of
Wisconsin this year to sharply reduce the number of deer, PLUS offering to test
and incinerate for FREE the deer that hunters kill if they care to not keep
them.

Out west in Colorado, etc., where they have had Chronic Wasting Disease the
climate if much drier and they do not have as many ticks as we have in
Wisconsin. If Mad Animal Disease is being transmitted by ticks, in Wisconsin
we will have a hell of a lot larger problem then out west, simply because we
have far more ticks here.

You MUST sharply reduce the numbers of deer this year, in order to make sure
that Mad Animal Disease does not spread to Wisconsin’s dairy cows, to people,
etc., from the infected deer.

Until someone PROVES exactly how that Chronic Wasting Disease was transmitted
from those deer that were penned up in a fences in area to deer outside that
pen, please simply assume the very worst case scenario! Why? Oh, because
Wisconsin runs the ticks of it devastating our state like it devastating
England!

Now, let’s ALL try to solve this one riddle, PLEASE! Exactly how did Chronic
Wasting Disease move from the deer that were in those fenced in pens to the
wild deer outside of those fenced in pens? Deer to deer contact most likely
did not transmit it. Biting flies and mosquitos most likely did not transmit
it, because if they were transmitting it, odds are humans and cattle would have
gotten it in Colorado, etc., where the deer have been infected for years now.
Cattle are usually in the open and not in the habitat that deer love, thickly
wooded areas where there are lots of ticks. Humans in the USA avoid ticks,
because of Lyme Disease, so they would not be getting it if ticks were
transmitting it.

Well, check out TICKS, please, as it should be ticks that are transmitting Mad
Animal Disease! And always look for dead animals of any and all species that
ticks bite, because lots of those species might already be infected with it,
too!

I have just been diagnosed as having Graves disease – very severe. My
doctor is pushing heavily for radioactive iodine destruction of thyroid
cells.

Sorry to hear about your diagnosis. The response you have received from the
medics for your Graves’ condition are typical, especially if you are in the
United States or in the United Kingdom. Less often, a thyroidectomy is
suggested. ATDs are a third alternative – there are other posters here who
will discuss the topic. PTU or Tapazole are ATDs if you wish to check out
the anti-thyroid drugs.

There is no reason you cannot use anti-thyroid drugs for a lengthy time
— I used them successfully for over 2 years and was then persuaded to
take RAI — I have had nothing but problems since —- also you must
not have RAI while you are seriously hyperthyroid as this can be
dangerous as your thyroid releases all its stored hormone when the
radiation hits. Most doctors would recommend that you stabilize the
hormone levels first with ATD’s —-

Also, RAI has been known to aggravate thyroid eye disease in Graves
patients so this is something to explore before you make a decision.

On the whole, I would have wished that I had stayed on ATD’s as I felt
much better than since RAI when I have been unable to get my replacement
levels straightened out. In Europe patients are kept on ATD’s for years
— they must simply be carefully watched for rare but serious
side-effects — not a problem if you are carefully monitored.

I have heard that eventually nearly 100% of all patients who are

treated in this way turn hypothyroid.

This is probably accurate. RAI treatment is inaccurate and usually results
in a person being rendered hypothyroid. I cannot recall a poster here
receiving RAI and remaining euthyroid for a protracted length of time.

This seems like replacing one

illness for another. I don’t know if I want to go this route and would
rather try anti-thyroid drugs first.

IMHO this would be an excellent idea, and other posters will probably agree
with this point of view. There is *always* the possibility that you might
be the lucky one who goes into remission, and therefore have several more
years of ‘normal’ thyroid activity. The possibility of remission is removed
if a person takes RAI; RAI usually renders a person hypothyroid. (There
are cases where a person has two or even three treatments of RAI, but I
believe this is rare).

However, he told me some stuff about

that if I did that and then decided to try the radioative treatment in the
future, it wouldnt work as well.

I have never read anything here or elsewhere about this. Ask this doc for a
paper/study which discusses this point of view. If there is a study please
let us know.

Has anyone noticed that when commercial animals contract any notifiable
disease (FMD, TB, CSF) they are slaughtered even though at least in the case
of FMD and TB these are treatable diseases.

However, when a wild, protected species gets a disease (fatal) and passes it
on to a human who dies (rabies – bats) there is a distinct lack of interest
on the part of Government.

I might have something to do with commercial animals being for human
consumption, as well as being kept in large numbers, in relatively small
confines so that disease is likely to affect all of the animals. Wild
animals don’t spread disease as fast as farmed animals, I think. If someone
gets bit by a rabid dog, it’s very unlikely that other dogs in the area are
rabid, but that there may be a skunk or something that the dog tried to kill
and got bit by.

However, if the disease is treatable, it kinda doesn’t make sense to destroy
all of them either. Maybe just to eliminate the possibility of an animal
getting through that hasn’t been cured?

ust got home from my 11th (WOOO HOO 1 to go!) treatment. My iron studies came
back showing iron deficiency anemia. A normal iron saturation is 20-55, mine
was 7. I really flunked that test! But my ferritin is normal. The nephrologist
ordered iron tabs 3 times a day. So being me, I came home and it looked it up.
I found this at irondisorders.org

“Anemia of Chronic Disease (ACD) is a condition of impaired iron utilization
where functional iron (hemoglobin) is low but tissue iron (such as in storage)
is normal or high. ACD is seen in a wide range of chronic malignant,
autoimmune, leukemic, inflammatory, and infectious disease conditions.

In rheumatoid arthritis there is frequently co-existence of ACD and iron
deficiency anemia resulting from gastrointestinal bleeding due to drug therapy.
ACD, also known as hypoferremia of inflammatory disease and anemia of
inflammation, is often diagnosed as mild iron deficiency anemia.

Supplementation with iron for those with ACD can be harmful and even result in
death.”

So now I am a bit scared to take that iron. I won’t take it until I speak with
my RD tomorrow. I was wondering if any of you have ACD and how you treat it, if
at all.

I am so allergic to the stuff taken either oral, injection or by transfusion that I can fully
understand your concerns re this…. It can be very dangerous, anaphylaxis
has occured with me, and also collapsing withing seconds of having a few
drops from a transfusion.. Every vein and capilary showed up as bright
purple as soon as the transfusion started going through., the swelling took
days to go down. I now have red cell pack transfusions when the anaemia is
so bad to try and build me up a bit….Be very careful please, for me. Best
wishes Connie

If you go to my Weinberg sig and type in ‘iron withholding mechanism’ you
should come up with the information you are looking for. Anemia of chronic
disease and the iron withholding mechanism are one and the same.

I also remember a discussion of ACD in another group, and an RD who
posted there said ACD really only responds to getting the disease in
control. As in getting inflammation under control, I believe he meant.
Also, to monitor the situation closely, and start with the recommended
dosage even if anemia is severe, as iron can be toxic to the gut
lining.

Well, I bet that makes you feel better, NOT, LOL, like it did when I
went to the opthamologist. Of course, by the time I got to the
appointment time, I was not flaring and my eyes were not bothering me.
He saw no problems at that time (yay!)except that I needed some mild
eyeglasses prescriptions for both reading and distance. Got my new
geek glasses, that I love, for driving and another pair for reading.
But he said since my eyes bother me when my RA is worse, it’s possible
that it is affecting the collagen in my eyes, and the solution would be
to get the RA not to flare. All I could think of was DOH! Like that
wouldn’t be the goal in any case for a person with RA. Course I
stopped short of saying “Gee,Thanks, Homer!” since I liked the guy, and
may need to go back to him when my eyes *are* acting up again.

I have NO idea what this translates to in English. I know this. My
first introduction to lyme disease and deer ticks was when my 90 pound
1/2 chow 1/2 shepherd came home and laid in the floor on light carpet
in ’92. As the minutes passed what I thought was mulch, dirt or even
ants was actually deer ticks moving – gazillions of them. Having no
clue what they were, I scooped a bunch up in an envelope, taped the
envelope shut and off I went to the vet. I learned that day what deer
ticks were and lyme disease (still thinking it was only a disease for
dogs). They dipped her, treated her immediately and gave her a vaccine
(the old one made in the 80’s and produced by a mfg in Georgia – not
the newer one from the mid 90’s). She was 4 years old then and is 12
now. Each year she has received the booster vaccine from the same
company in Georgia and in spite of having pulled more than 1,000 ticks
off of her in a 6 year period, she has never been ill or shown any
signs or symptoms of lyme. Not having educated myself that this is a
people’s disease as well – of course I have it. I’mm glad she got the
vaccine and although I don’t understand the differences in the old /
new vaccines I do know her vet has been insistent that she only receive
the same type from the same mfg in Georgia. This year he was not able
to get the booster shots from this same company and suggested that I
not vaccine her with the newer vaccine for Lyme. She is 12 now and is
more a couch potato than yard dog so I agreed. I think someone should
take a good look at what was it in the old vaccine that protected my
pet after more than 1000 attached ticks – of all types and this doesn’t
count the first time she was covered with deer ticks.

It means there is some immune dysregulation
with exposure to OSP A. It hasn’t been fully
caharacterized in humans, but they want to sell
it anyway. The people I know who have had adverse
events ALL had previously had Lyme disease.

I believe rOSP A throws the body into an immune
funk and the Bb come out again.
The symptoms there post LD vaccinated patients
have are identical to LD.

Could someone advise as to what the symptoms, treatments etc are for Rocky
Mountain Fever disease ?

I am not a veterinary professional but have done a lot of research on tick
borne diseases. Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever is a ricsettia, transmitted most
commonly transmitted by the American Dog Tick. There are two stages, sub
clinical where the dog shows no outward signs of infection but will have a
positive titre( not always) or acute. In the acute stage signs include
lethargy, loss of appetite, joint swelling. swollen lymph nodes and pain.
Symptoms vary. Most dogs will have neurological signs such as seizures or
depression. Doxycycline and Tetracycline are used to treat Rocky Mountain
Spotted Fever.

Your vet can tell you about dosage. Hope this helps!

According to Lawrence Stevens, J.D. “All diagnosis and treatment in psychiatry,
especially biological psychiatry, presupposes the existence of something called
mental illness, also known as mental disease or mental disorder.” I’ve brought
this up before, what exactly is meant by mental disease, illness, or disorder?
In a semantic sense disease means simply disease, the opposite of ease. But by
disease we don’t mean anything that causes a lack of ease, since this definition
would mean losing one’s job or a war or economic recession or an argument with
one’s spouse qualifies as “disease”. But clearly this is not what is meant by
“disease.”

disease, illness, or disorder means that the body
is not functioning in its normal, expected, or optimum way.
Sources of illness include trauma (injury), infections (bacteria
and viruses), growth of abnormal tissues (tumours), poisoning,
abnormal body chemistry usually from birth (e.g. cystic fibrosis),
and attacks by the immune system on friendly tissue.

There are diseases of the brain which produce gross changes in
function e.g. epileptic fits, or gross changes in tissue e.g.
tumours and scarring from injuries.

The diseases referred to as “mental illnesses” are really illnesses
of behaviour: a person find, to their distress, that quite ordinary
pressures make them fall into weeping sadness, for example. They are
diseases of brain function. Indeed, we can look at an MRI scan of
a living brain, and see that it is operating in rather different
ways between a schizophrenic and a normal subject.

It is simply no longer true that there is “no detectable physical
sign associated with diseases of behaviour”.

Another thing to watch out for when evaluating a study is whether what
is studied is the actual disease or condition one wishes to treat, or
whether one is studying a “surrogate end point” that has been determined
(by someone, some how, somewhere scientifically or not) be a “risk factor”
for this disease or condition.

If one is only looking at “surrogate end points” as most of these quickie
drug company studies do, one has to establish the validity of the findings
that have determined the legitimacy of the studied “risk factor.” and its
actual confirmed connection to the condition or disease that one has
concerns over. Some surrogate endpoints are far better than others. Many
are just medical hocus pocus.

The most obvious one clouding most of the “osteoporosis” research is
that only changes in “bone density” are studied, and not the incidence of
the actual condition of debilitating osteoporosis itself. And so far there
are no legitimate studies showing that “bone density” by itself is a
legitimate surrogate endpoint to be studied or tampered with in an atempt to
treat or prevent this disease.

. This is why the FDA before getting pressured by W/A Premarin makers
found the 7 studies the drug company presented as “proof” of Premarin’s
efficacy to be without merit and unsupportive of the drug companies claims.
There is no clear line of proof on any of this, yet the drugs are now sold
to millions of women who have now been “taught” to fear it as silent robber
of the twilight years.

Only after W/A’s appeal to other agencies for review of the FDA denial,
did a “consensus” form that accepted the drug’s minor impact on bone density
was “proof” sufficient to encourage women to take this drug for life. This
was a very dark day in the FDA. (One of many)

There was a similar occurance with the former FDA recommendation that HRT
be used to treat and/orprevent heart disease. No proof. It was not until a
consumers organization exposed this lack of proof based upon highly flawed
well-woman studies that this heart disease recommendation was scrapped by
the FDA.

Which in turn led W/A to scramble for another flimsy connection to
encourage the use of their drugs for life, since they had now been
discredited on the heart disease claim, which has been relfected in the
current FDA drug warning label for hormone drugs.

This was the birth of the now current “osteoporosis” frenzy and public
“education”program that has people believing they know something about this
disease and its prevention, that in fact still baffles the specialists. Such
is the power of the drug companies to set the health care agenda based
purely on profit motives and almost no reasonable science.

So always be sure to read if the study concludes that XYZ drug or
treatment only tested “risk” factors, or the actual disease in question.
Usually these risk-factor studies will conclude with that by now infamous
line………”further study is needed.”