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2 yes ago ,my Dr told me I had high liver enzymes and asked me if I had a drinking problem. I do not think 1 beer a day is cause for alarm. Then the hypo thyroid DX came. I always got sick on certain foods but thought nothing of it and then last years up until 2 months ago became very ill.And I read that you can have no symptoms for years and then all of the sudden....bam!

This is very true.  My Dr. told me that sometimes you may have it since birth, but it takes some kind of change in your body to trigger it.  In my case I believe it was my knee surgeries, some people report another kind of health problem which triggers it.

This continues to be very helpful. I'm definitely feeling physically odd, but I know it's because I've been very nervous and eating weird; for instance, I had way too much Ben & Jerry's New York Super Fudge Chunk ice cream last night after Googling it. ("It's gluten free so the calories don't count, right?")

 

pricklypear1971, definitely, avoiding food served in airports is good for humans in general. How'd you know I'm in McCarran all the time? Oh right, we business travelers are *always* in McCarran. You-all can think of me a little bit like George Clooney in "Up in the Air," except shorter, not nearly as handsome, and ... okay, not like George Clooney in any way.

 

One of my go-to lunches at work is a salad from the deli across the street, where I see them pick the individual ingredients out of metal cups and mix them in a big bowl with metal instruments. I can switch to red wine vinegar & oil for dressing. That should be OK, right?

 

Also, tgk112, why would the Thai restaurant need to have a special gluten-free menu, for instance? I didn't think there was any gluten in most Thai curries, at least the recipes I've seen. Tell me what I'm missing.

Please o please watch the carbs and calories in gluten-free food.  I was someone who had no clue that I had celiac until I was diagnosed after   a routine colonoscopy.  Then lo and behold, I found out that celiac can cause migraines (which I suffered from), osteoporosis,( which I have,) and anemia (which I've always been.)  I went into a huge depression going to grocery store and stuffing the cart with everything gluten free thinking it had to be good for me - wrong!  20 lbs later I find out that the additives put in gluten free foods to make them tasty are high calorie high carb.  

 

Many restaurants these days are getting the hint that they need to address our needs.  Red Lobster, Olive Garden, etc etc all have menus to give you that list gluten free offerings, so it's getting better for us.

 

I used Medifast gluten free meals to get the weight off, and another thing that helped was trying to follow the Paleo diets that are out there, basic food items & tasty !

 

Good luck to you, you'll need to read lables constantly to try to keep from getting glutened.  If you read this forum you will see that many manufacturers are gluten free then something changes and they're not anymore.

I know what you mean, I got careless and instead of picking up the Udis gluten free bread I grabbed a loaf of Rudis (not gluten-free) bread.  I ate about half the loaf when I realized what I had done,  I was out of town at the time and it took just a little while for the drowsy, stumbling symptoms.  Then a migraine that started the morning I was supposed to take a 4 hour flight, although I take Imitrex, it takes a while to kick in, and one of the things I cannot do with my headaches is sit or lay down, not possible on a plane.  Poor fellow I was wedged in with on the plane, I probably looked like I was gonna die - I felt like it!

 

Why can't stores make up gluten free sections instead of mixing organic and gluten free together.  And lord only knows why Rudis and Udis have to look so much alike.

I too found that the Paleo diet was easy to follow.  Being diagnosed 2 yrs ago with Celiac was a shocker to me because I had no stomach "disruptions" like other people.  But osteoporosis, migraines, anemia was a way of life for me till I finally found the right gastroenterologist .

 

Now anemia and migraines have gone almost completely.  And the "doofies" as I like to call them - dizziness, stumbling, and tiredness have all disappeared.  Wish I had known before I was falling about 4 times a week, sprains and a broken hand resulted.

 

In regard to the nutrionists I had the same experience - I felt the whole time I was teaching them.  I think the only way a nutritionist for celiacs should qualify is to actually have the disease themselves.

Just an FYI.  I saw an article that says a company by the name of BioLineRX, is doing clinical trials of an oral drug, BL-7010, that is said to mask gluten so that a person's immune system does not recognize it and does not react to it.  You may want to check into that.