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Almost as pointless as being a soldier in early 1940's France.

Honestly, I wish that there was one simpler test to get diagnosed with Celiac disease.

Actually, in that regard, I just read a post like a week or two ago on here. Holdup I'll dig it up from somewhere. Oh yeah here it is: https://lemmy.world/post/31165431 (19 days ago, had to browse back my comments couldn't find with search for some reason, weird.)

The link that's in the post https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-06-10/new-coeliac-disease-blood-test-gluten-free-diet/105393366

In short:

Australian researchers say a simple blood test could "revolutionise" the diagnosis of a common autoimmune disease.

A study has found the test is highly accurate in diagnosing coeliac disease, without patients having to eat gluten beforehand. What's next?

Research is expanding across diverse populations, and there is hope the new test will be available within two years.

Fucking brilliant.

The current blood tests, the doctors here don't even know about how they work. One put me in a blood test, but when I was off-gluten. I asked her do I need to be on gluten for the test to work, she said "no". Then after the test messaged me "oh yeah as you suspected you need to be on gluten", but didn't write her mistake down anywhere, so now I have just a negative on file for the blood test, despite me telling the doctors it was a false negative because it couldn't possibly have worked since I was avoiding gluten when tested. Now the current doctor said "a week on gluten is more than sufficient" but when I googled it all sources say 6-12 weeks. Even Finnish ones. So I don't know how they can so confidently be wrong. These cunts are younger than me and getting paid vast amounts of money for being that fucking stupid. It annoys me to no end.

Yeah there are tests but they're kinda inaccurate. The best is a biopsy from your small intestine. I had that done to me once... but, I doubt the veracity of the results. Because you're supposed to not eat before going to have your stomach and bowels scoped, obviously. Worst medical procedure ever, btw, they put a sort of gag with a hole in your mouth you can bite down on but they can still get through with the endoscope, and then you either swallow or vomit. Either or, because if you don't, you're breathing and your larynx is blocking your oesophagus, so you either swallow or vomit. And since you're being poked in your throat with a long-ass endoscope covered in non-flavoured medical lube, it's gonna be the latter. So it's like 10-15 minutes of gagging straight for them to get to your small intestine and then take a biopsy. Oh right, I was trying to explain why I don't trust the results; I was in the army when I had this procedure, and like all armies, there's fuckups, and whilst I got the instructions on when to go to the doctor, I hadn't had the instructions to not eat, so I had a stomach and bowels full of porridge when they took the biopsy.

So it might be it caused a false negative and the doctor's just assumed afterwards. But it could also be I have non-celiac gluten sensitivity, which isn't the same as celiacs and doesn't show up as the same kind of damage on the villi of the small intestine.

But yeah, now having my personal experiences, and reading the studies which pop up when you google "gluten psychosis", I'm pretty convinced it affecting people is very much real.

A game is forcing me to cross-dress to gain access to an all-female area, inhabited by tall beautiful mommies? "Ohnooo"

It was the Gerudo icehouse quest! It's amazing to me how close to history I am sort of. When my grandma was little, they didn't have fridges, and they used to pile snow and ice and compact it and then cover it with sawdust, behind the sauna where the sun wouldn't be shining. She said it usually lasted till around June. Perhaps even later can't remember and can't ask anymore. RIP.

How have you been able to deal with this?

To make a long story short I think mine was caused by some sort of very small food insensitivity, which led to a constant aching in the guts, an inflamed bowel and cognitive issues. All that led to bad sleep and then the doctors just diagnose it as a mental disorder because whatever the condition, it's only subclinical, meaning while there are symptoms, there aren't enough symptoms for any sort of proper diagnosis.

But yeah Tldr I tried an exclusion diet, basically only rice, potatoes, fish and chicken. And no soysauce. Can use sauces but look at the ingredients. Mayos are pretty simple not many ingredients. At one point I avoided all wheat derivatives (and that means glucose syrup as well, which is in everything and in Europe is made from wheat, like all delimeats have it and all candy and pretty much everything), all dairy and dairy derivatives, all allium containing plants and derivatives (onions and garlic etc).

Felt a massively difference in weeks, continued improving for months even when I started adding things back. I'm pretty sure it's a gluten insensitivity, and rn, I'm doing the best medical thing I've ever had to endure, (and I've had to endure a lot of weird procedures); gluten challenge. As in I have to eat gluten every day for weeks. I'm on like week 3 and while I'm pissing from my ass basically, these burgers are just so much better than gluten free ones.

But yeah anyway, you're probably thinking "my emotional problems can't be just because of a food insensitivity", but they totally can be (I'm not saying it is, but that it is an actually documented medical possibility):

A 31-year-old Caucasian woman with a history of severe gluten sensitivity, Hashimoto's disease, mosaic turner's syndrome, and presumed schizo-affective disorder, bipolar type with multiple inpatient psychiatric involuntary admissions presented to the ED on petition for aggressive behavior by law enforcement. The patient had a week-long break-down at her parents' home, where she also resides. She reportedly broke several objects and threatened to slit her mother's throat. On the physical exam, she was malodorous, disheveled, and had long extremely matted hair. Psychiatric evaluation was notable for rambling speech, dysphoric mood, agitation, and irritability. Thought content was disorganized and consisted of grandiose and paranoid persecutory delusions. She was emergently given Haldol for worsening agitation, as she became physically threatening.

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC10593161/

And the thing is, people can be sensitive to gluten and not know it. Sounds like such Karen bullshit, but it's true. They tested the families of celiacs and non-celiac gluten sensitivity, and while some people reported no symptoms to begin with, they did report improvement on a gluten-free diet. Meaning they basically had symptoms, but had had them all their lives and weren't aware they were symptoms.

A few years ago I would've laughed at people preaching about gluten free, I thought it's just a healthfad. I do not believe in that anymore. A huge percentage of subclinical celiacs are undiagnosed.

If one is alphabetising things, which cones first "A" or "AA"?

Finland

I did not expect this.

Also in the archipelago, which I live close to. Usually there sorts of stories are from Australia.

To be fair, it would be easier if English had kept the English terms for anatomy.

Feel free to have a look-see at what that could look like. Taxonomy isn't "taxonomy" anymore, it's "setlore." Find that easier to understand?

https://anglish.fandom.com/wiki/Lifelore ("Lifelore" is biology)

It's an "Anglish" wiki, based on Poul Andersson's "Uncleftish Beholding", a text that's trying to see what English would look like if it didn't have latin borrowings as much, just the teutonic words.

Here's some atomic theory ie "uncleftish beholding".

The firststuffs have their being as motes called unclefts. These are mighty small: one seedweight of waterstuff holds a tale of them like unto two followed by twenty-two naughts. Most unclefts link together to make what are called bulkbits. Thus, the waterstuff bulkbit bestands of two waterstuff unclefts, the sourstuff bulkbit of two sourstuff unclefts, and so on. (Some kinds, such as sunstuff, keep alone; others, such as iron, cling together in chills when in the fast standing; and there are yet more yokeways.) When unlike unclefts link in a bulkbit, they make bindings. Thus, water is a binding of two waterstuff unclefts with one sourstuff uncleft, while a bulkbit of one of the forestuffs making up flesh may have a thousand or more unclefts of these two firststuffs together with coalstuff and chokestuff.

https://anglish.fandom.com/wiki/Uncleftish_Beholding

Very much along the lines I was thinking of, yeah.

I think it's gonna be functionally the same, but it's gonna take a different form, is my point.

I don't think that's really the style in the US, but I agree with the sentiment

they aren’t concerned since they’re citizens

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_They_Came

"Blitzkrieg" is literally "lightning war", and just refers to the style of offense the Germans used against other European countries in WWII, which was largely responsible for their early military success.

Armies at that time relied on stationary positions and slow logistics, horse-drawn carriages for a large portion. The Germans just blitzed into France, through the Maginot line.

Which makes me wonder whether the current idea of MAD holding off war isn't as deluded as relying on the Maginot line. I sure hope it isn't.

Anyway this is more just fascism in general. A fast rise in authoritarianism. Not "war" in the classical sense, although it certainly is basically war.

I know you deleted the reply, but I could still see it on Sync in my notifications.

I know tins have plastic liners, but like, normal forks and knives don't taste metallic. Something something interaction with the metal. I think coins wouldn't smell metallic if you wash them properly and then don't touch them with bare skin.

Coins don't inherently smell; the "metallic" odor associated with them is actually a result of a chemical reaction between skin oils and the metal, particularly iron, when touched. This reaction breaks down skin lipids, producing volatile organic compounds like 1-octen-3-one, which is what our noses detect

But I'm sure that's not what's happening when you're having a radioactive dye injected. It's a different metallic sensation.

And yes, my taste buds are in my mouth. The radioactive dye is injected into my circulatory system, which also circulates the blood in my mouth, which has my tastebuds.

I think some comedian has a bit sort of related? Holup I'll look for it,

Can't find it. I was thinking maybe Jim Jefferies, or John Mulaney, then maybe Ali Siddiq or Theo Von. Nah. Just can't recall. Anyway a standup comedian is impressed by some really crusty junkie comments on the quality of the drugs they inject, because they can taste the fillers through.

The point being it's surprising how you can taste things in your blood.

I mean he says that, but surely he doesn't mean me..?

That is a sharp fucking rise for three months.

Thus suffers from the same problem "Adolescence" did; the writing and role is believable enough and the actor looks like they could be as despicable.... but then you somehow don't believe the actor to be that big of a cunt.

Joffrey doesn't suffer from that, Jack Gleeson is such a brilliant actor I never doubted he could be such a massive cunt. But I know he isn't. But he made me believe it.

Like Eddie and the kid in Adolescence both have too much humanity showing through.

Now that you mention, yeah, he does.

Well both would obviously suffer from the fact that any reasonable person could expect someone to accidentally drink milk from the fridge. That being the reason to adulterate the milk to begin with.

Depends on how the law if formulated.

For instance technically having psychedelics wouldn't be illegal in Finland. VERY technically. Insofar that all drug crimes are defined as something being used, or being meant to be used, as an intoxicant.

So like legally there'd theoretically be wiggle-room, since one might just have milk with psychedelics in it, without ever having any intention of consuming it, or offering any to anyone else. But it's not your problem if someone goes and eats stuff not intended for consumption.

Obviously it would never fly, but like... technically.

Look here, we took this water, put it through the cows, now it's better!