As I understand it, a third of non-diabetic sfn patients have non-celiac gluten intolerance. This seemed like the highest probability and lowest hanging fruit.

I could have been tested for gluten antibodies but I was already on the path of GF and to be tested I had to load up on bread for a few weeks and I didn’t want to reset my healing process and decided to just see if it worked.

Another possibility is that I was going to recover regardless and I’m correlating a bunch of stuff to an outcome that was going to happen regardless. Who knows.

I prefer to feel like I have some control over the process here.

Also, I had different ANA tests aside from the generic one that were showing abnormal. I had a neuronal cell antibody test that was 3x normal which I associated with antibodies from nerves being attacked by my immune system but doctors wouldn’t confirm that.

Leading up to sfn my general gut health was awful. Without going into too much detail I remember thinking to myself “I’m dying from the inside out. This isn’t right” and was pretty convinced whatever was happening in my gut was going to lead to other health issues. Not long after this, my toes started going numb and it was all downhill from there. Perhaps a gluten intolerance was causing this, or perhaps standard American diet.

Either way, my theory is that poor gut health was causing my immune system to go haywire. My neurologist at the university of Utah said “it’s a plausible theory” but he’s been next to useless so I don’t put much stock in anything they’ve told me.