| Mark, that is wonderful (regarding the insurance--not the dx!). I'd never heard of insurance companies doing that. I did read on a Celiac board (once, out of curiosity--I'm not celiac) about the procedures one takes in the USA for tax write-offs for buying more expensive food due to food sensitivites/allergies. Wonder if there's anything like that in Israel.
Now that you're gluten-free, have you noticed any improvements yet? I read that it can take months before the damage is healed, and that each "glutening" pushes that back more.
I read about work being done on medications or substances to remove or alter the gluten protein or protect the intestinal track from gluten. It's sort of like the idea of "a cure for Type 1 diabetes" ... it's something that's out there, but will probably never bear any fruit. And if it does, hopefully it will help.
If it's any consolation, as an experiment one time, I tried going gluten-free as part of a project to see what doing a major diet change would be like (empathy training, perhaps?). During this time of 3 "short" weeks, I had the most stable glycemic levels of my entire life. I also learned a lot about reading food labels and calling companies and obtaining gluten-free lists!
If going gluten-free wasn't so darn expensive and require so much thought (who would have known that many brands of soy sauce aren't safe?!), I'd think that gave me better glycemic control than even a low-carb diet.
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