Dr. Diane Mueller describes a patient whose facial tingling vanished after eliminating gluten, despite normal celiac and allergy tests. The patient had gluten sensitivity, not celiac disease. Mueller explains the differences between these conditions and recommends tracking symptoms with your doctor to catch improvements you might miss.
Hey, everybody. Dr. Diane, your Lyme doc, your chronic illness doc here. We're talking about numbness and tingling this month. Wrapping up this month. I want to talk about a story of a patient of mine who had crazy numbness and tingling. It was one of the major symptoms she came and saw me for. She had many symptoms that actually. Or many root causes that came up that we actually worked on. Many of the things that we talk about over the past month on this YouTube channel she actually was dealing with. So she had Lyme, she had mold, she had a lot of different things. But the face tingling actually went away when we removed gluten. It went away very, very quickly. So quickly that she actually forgot she even had it. And that was the number one thing that she came and saw me for. So the one of the morals of the story here is she had been tested for C. Celiac disease and was totally fine. She had gluten 10 cent. Or she had gluten allergy tests done. She was totally fine. But then she had gluten sensitivity tests done, not fine. And that's one of the differences between a sensitivity and an allergy, right? It's different ways that our immune system responds to food. And we can have an allergy and not a sensitivity or a sensitivity, not an allergy. There's just different response mechanisms of how our body responds to food. So essentially for her, it was a sensitivity. And so this gluten was missed on celiac tests. It was missed on allergy tests because it wasn't either of those things. So that's one of the take home points. The other take home point is the mind continues to do this crazy thing where like after the face tingling went away, when I saw her the next time, and I was like, how are things going? It's like, is anything better? She said, no. She said nothing had changed. So I always like to. And and my staff, the way we work is we like to keep notes of everybody's symptoms, right? And so if people say no, it's okay, well, let's go through the symptom list just to be sure. So I asked her and I said, okay, well, tell me about the numbness and tingling in the face. None. Or it was more tingling. Tell me about the tingling in the face. Is there any change there? And she's like, she looks at me, she's like, Dr. Diane, she's like, I completely forgot I had that. It was the number one symptom she came and saw me for. So the biggest take home point here, this is one of the reasons why it's nice to have people overseeing your care is because one of the biggest things that's important is the brain is oriented to look for what is wrong. It is your survival tool. It is designed to help you survive. Because of that, it can refocus if some symptom goes away. Even if it's a symptom that you've had for decades, it's very common that the brain will quickly refocus to its new symptom. And when that happens, it can very easily then look like, oh, I still have all of these symptoms, right? I still have all of these problems. When in fact, you're on the right track and things are getting better. That's why you want to keep a list. That's why you want to keep checking on the list and going back and saying, do I have the symptoms hit still? Do I have this symptom still? Because usually with numbness and tingling the focus of the month, it's one of many other, other types of symptoms that people tend to have. And so when you're treating the root cause, like let's say you got mold and you have B12 deficiency, these are two things we talked about this month. So if you're treating. When you're treating these root causes, sometimes you'll see that you might have symptoms go away that are not the numbness and tingling. There are other symptoms, but they're improving. And this tells us your nerves are becoming less inflamed. You're on the right track. Keep going. So that's the one way to look at this. That's very, very important. I wanted to make sure to tell the story this month because it's super important, understanding how to work with numbness, how to work with tingling and so forth and so on. Okay, everybody, always remember to check out my next free masterclass that's coming up. That'll be in the show notes for you. It is free right now. I can't. I have no idea what I'm doing in the future as far as if there will eventually be a fee for that or not. But it is definitely free for you right now. At the time I am making this video. Okay, everybody, see you in the next one.
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