[buddyhu]

The sometimes unkind speculation, and always unhelpful innuendo about the "reality" of someone else's health problems is much more overblown, IMO.

Unless someone posting here is in a position to diagnose or to treat a health problem that is claimed to be gluten related, it is really NONE OF OUR BUSINESS!!!

And the history of medicine has proved time and again that something is "all in the patient's head" until a new specialty dawns, and new specialists develop a diagnosis (and, if they are lucky, they eventually discover an effective treatment), as well as demonstrating that treatments that are not understood are labeled "placebos" until they are proven effective (acupuncture for pain is a fine example).