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Re:Can Celiac Disease Affect the Brain? by drpre on Sunday October 12, 2014 @04:54PM (#8446565)
My girlfriend has Celiac's disease, and she was diagnosed about 3 months after we started dating. Before her diagnosis I often wondered if she had some sort of mental illness because she would always describe having out-of-body experiences where she subjectively witnessed herself doing things in third person.

After she was diagnosed and went gluten free, there was an acute "rebound" phase where she had very painful rashes like the article mentions. But she also had a lot more energy and no longer slept 12 hours a day. The symptoms that made me worry about mental illness completely went away within a few weeks of her going gluten free.

This is all anecdotal but it seems very plausible that gluten can cause brain lesions in those with Celiac's.

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Re:Can Celiac Disease Affect the Brain? by sitharus on Sunday October 12, 2014 @05:13PM (#8446622)
As a fellow coeliac I have also had those experiences, no idea what caused them but they went away with the gluten free diet.

After being gluten free for 10 years now it's so easy to tell when I've eaten something that contains gluten.

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Re:Can Celiac Disease Affect the Brain? by msutherl on Sunday October 12, 2014 @06:34PM (#8446821)
A daughter of a friend's family friend was diagnosed with schizophrenia. She was sent to stay with a sister in the country, where she went on a gluten free diet. The schizophrenia miraculously went away.
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