Chirley - I think we're all abnormal around here!
Thanks for posting about FODMAPs. I think my husband was talking about that just the other day, except he wasn't making a lot of sense. I will look into it more.
BTW, copper deficiency is mentioned in this article from Blood:
http://bloodjournal.hematologylibrar...b8e8572c#aff-1
Also, I have read that the celiac tests aren't necessarily all that accurate. I refused the test due to having to go back to eating gluten again - no way. I was not willing to make myself sicker than I already am in order to test positive for celiac.
I got some gluten by accident on Aug 30th and it's taken 4 - 5 weeks for my counts to improve. This fits with my observations in April when I binged on pizza for a week, and had a huge drop that took about a month to recover from. In Sept I had a large drop in HGB, then an average one, now a less than average one. I had just over 10 weeks this summer with less than average drops as well, after going strictly gluten free on May 25. The only supplement I take is B12
Deb