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Old 07-08-2012, 10:59 AM
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You can always order vitamins, etc. online.

You can also do "Click and Pull" at Sam's Club - for our bulk items, that makes it so much easier for our family. I just order what we need online, the staff pulls everything (even refrigerated/frozen items, which they keep in the cooler until you come to pick it up), and all you (or family member) have to do is go get the cart that it is on.

They ring you up (or you can pay for it ahead of time online), and they will even take it out to your car and load it for you.

I still have to send family out for some grocery items, but it sure is nice to be able to make their job a little easier with the bigger stuff.

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As to the Vitamin D thing - many people with MG also have either Celiac Disease or Gluten Sensitivity. If you continue to eat gluten-containing products, your intestinal lining becomes inflamed and/or porous, and it is not able to absorb all of the nutrients in the food that you eat. Once they eliminate gluten COMPLETELY from their diet, they oftentimes find that their Vitamin D levels get back to normal (this also helps keep them from developing Osteoporosis).

Our youngest was diagnosed with CD 4 years ago, and I found out later that not only do I have CD, but I was diagnosed with a Wheat Allergy when I was a kid (no GI issues, so never thought anything about it....).

We've been on a GF routine since her diagnosis, and it has made a world of difference - I'm 51 and just had a bone density scan done; I have better bones than most 30-year-olds! I also noticed that my muscles became "stronger" without any exercise - this was before the MG diagnosis, though. They're still strong (no noticeable atrophy), but the receptors are still shot. (I don't know if it makes a difference in energy levels for someone who goes GF after an MG diagnosis)

Oh, well.....
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