A couple of questions

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Well, it's a long story, and I've spelled it out a time or two in posts in the past, but basically, I did a lot of research, and a lot of record-keeping on everything I ate, and how I felt, for a couple of years.

After I had removed most of my intolerances from my diet, (it took a year and a half by myself), then I came across Sally's old website, where all of the founding members here were describing symptoms exactly like mine. It was an incredible relief to discover so many people with the same symptoms as me, and with their help, I then finished refining my diet, and eventually, it resolved all my symptoms, though I was not getting sick very often by the time that I found them. At the time, I thought that I was just a celiac with complications. LOL.

After I realized that I might have MC, I thought back to the time when I had my colonoscopy - I was fully alert and kept an eye on the monitor screen, and could see the light pink "splotches" in my colon, which Dr. Fine describes on his website as barely visible areas of inflammation due to MC. (My GI even pointed to some of them and dismissed them as old sites of infection). Also, my CT scans of my colon showed thickened walls in parts of it, consistant with CC.

In view of all the evidence, and the fact that the MI diet resolved all my symptoms, I have to conclude that I probably had/have MC, though it's true that I have never had an official diagnosis, and never will have, since I would have to do a gluten challenge for a long enough period to do significant damage to my colon, so that biopsy samples would show the markers of MC. I never want to be that sick, again.

Wayne