Temporal-Lobe Epilepsy and Celiac Disease: A GAPS Case

This case comes from a letter Dr. Campbell-McBride reports receiving from a 40-year-old woman she identifies as Mrs. H., who implemented the GAPS diet outside her clinic.^[1] The account follows Mrs. H.’s temporal-lobe epilepsy and digestive symptoms as she went on GAPS, stopped it, and returned to it.

Mrs. H.’s Background

Mrs. H.’s letter reports years of irritable bowel symptoms and a celiac diagnosis. It also describes lifelong temporal-lobe epilepsy with mental absence, an unusual feeling, blackouts and distorted perceptions, followed more recently by muscle twitching, head turning and unusual facial expressions. The short letter does not establish the timing of each diagnosis.^[1]

What Mrs. H. Reported Happening on GAPS

Mrs. H. says most of her symptoms disappeared after she started GAPS. A little over a year later, she stopped the diet and resumed rice and refined sugar; twitching returned. She says the symptoms disappeared again when she returned to GAPS.^[1]

The return of twitching is the specific recurrence she describes after rice and refined sugar were resumed. The letter does not give a seizure diary, follow-up tests or a separate confirmed outcome for every earlier symptom. Keep the reported change without filling in the missing details.

What This Case Does Not Describe

The source does not state whether Mrs. H. was taking anticonvulsant medication, and it describes no taper, discontinuation, or medication change. The case tracks her reported symptoms alongside diet adherence.

What This Case Illustrates About GAPS

Dr. Campbell-McBride includes this account alongside M.’s case as another example of symptoms tracking with gut healing and diet adherence.^[2]

What to Take From an On-and-Off Account

A sequence is more useful when the changes stay specific: what was removed, what returned and what the person noticed. In this letter, GAPS was followed for a little over a year before the return to rice and refined sugar. That duration is part of Mrs. H.’s story, not a coming-off timetable for another reader.

For the separate digestive diagnosis, read the celiac-disease guide. The child case has a medication history; this letter does not. The two should not be combined into one recovery account.

Frequently Asked Questions

What Happened When Mrs. H. Stopped GAPS?

She reported that muscle twitching returned after she stopped GAPS and resumed rice and refined sugar, then went away again after she returned to GAPS.^[1]

Your Next Step

Use the GAPS epilepsy overview for the wider discussion. Continue with A Child’s Epilepsy Case: What the GAPS Book Reports, or Gut Health, Nutrients and Seizures: The GAPS Explanation, for the next question you want to understand.

My Care Team Log is listed in the WFLI Shop. A notebook can keep your dated observations and questions together.

References

1. Campbell-McBride N. Gut and Psychology Syndrome, expanded text represented by the second German edition (2015), “Epilepsie” (“Epilepsy”). English paraphrases checked against that text; no English page numbers are implied.
2. Campbell-McBride N. Gut and Psychology Syndrome, expanded text represented by the second German edition (2015), “Epilepsie” (“Epilepsy”). English paraphrases checked against that text; no English page numbers are implied.