A drug to treat a drug to treat a drug . . .

Stacy shared her story of wheat- and grain-free success after experiencing the all-too-common disaster called modern healthcare. “I had been having gastrointestinal problems off and on for quite a while (a year or so). I would have days where I could barely function. Since I am a middle-aged woman, I kept thinking it was a combination of hormonal issues and ‘something I ate’–turns out it was! On June 22nd, everything came to a head and I was absolutely miserable. Long story short, the EGD showed I had gastritis and my scans and colonoscopy confirmed I had ileitis. The gastroenterologist put me on Nexium and Entocort. “Not too long after that, a friend of mine suggested I read the Wheat Belly book. I started really cleaning up my diet. Then at a follow-up appointment, the gastroenterologist put me on Pentasa–only took it for a week and started having so much trouble breathing that I had to start using an inhaler (which I have only had to do 1 other time in my life when I had a bad case of bronchitis). A couple days after I stopped it, I was still feeling so bad I ended up in the emergency room due to the dyspnea [shortness of breath] and muscle twitching. I decided ‘This is it!’ I stopped the Entocort also because by this time I had cleaned up my diet so much that I was doing really well, so decided to take my chances on being off the meds. “I kept taking the Nexium for about a week after I stopped the other meds, but st...
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