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Pamela's Cookies Are Gf But..........

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mela14
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I recently decided to give Pamela's gluten-free cookies a try. As you know I am just learning to be gluten-free but have been having other intolerances that have been getting in the way. Rice is ver y hard for to to digest but after working with my nutritionist she said to try a tiny bit at a time. If i have a full portion of it I get really bloated and feel sick.....even one slice of toast will do it. anway, the cookie that I decided to try is Pamela's shortbread cookie....boy is it yummy! the first time I had it i ate 2 because they were so good and got so bloated and sick. I thought it was the butter in there so I didn't have them for a week. Last night I had one cookie because I thought my tummy was better but an hour after I had it my gut blew up and I felt sick again. I was sick through the night with gut problems and that toxic feeling. All my muscles started hurting, I had the shakes and then got a migraine. Wo...what could it be. It felt like a glutne poisoning or even soy. Soy probably makes me feel worse then gluten!

so this morning I had my hubby read the ingredients.....no soyor gluten but then at the bottom...it said made in a soy peanut, dairy, egg facility. He's convinced that is what did me in! Could I be THAT sensitive? I know that eating soy in and of itself absolutley detroys me and it takes days to recover...but this is crazy! I have been trying so hard to eat a little more and put on some weight...also I feel that i need more nutrition as I have been suffering with neuropathy and probably need more variety. The things that I react to are : eggs, dairy, nuts, peanuts, soy and gluten.....and I am now avoiding all grains....and going easy on potatoes. The toxic feeling I got last night is another setback and is so upsetting. I have my nephews communion tomorrow and want to be able to feel better to go! Has anyone else reacted in this way? I just don't know what ot do anymore? :angry::(:huh:

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Sorry to hear you are not well! I'm not, either!

I do OK with Pamela's cookies; I've never had a reaction. I eat them almost every day as my main form of dessert.

Maybe you are extremely sensitive to the soy; that definitely could be.

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mela14
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Sorry to hear you are not well! I'm not, either

did you accidentally get glutenized? what are you feeling?

I am still not feeling well from the cookies. I am CERTAIN it was the soy. I have been making mysef crazy trying to figure it out. Thinking back to the times I intentionally had soy and how badly I reacted and to the times there was probably soy in the mix without me knowing. I think I have more of a reaction to soy than to gluten and it lasts longer! By day 2 or 3 it usually irritaties the heck out of my bladder..........well today is day 3 and I am still having muslce pain, racing heart, fatigue, vertigo.............and BLADDER PAIN! I hope that I can pull myself together to go to my nephews communion. I am bringing my own food tonight to the catering hall!

I hope you are feeling better soon. Watch what you eat! <_<

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pixiegirl
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I don't do well on Pamela's cookies either, I have bloating problems.... I'm not sure what it is in them..... but it doesn't agree with me so I just avoid them. The shortbread cookies were good too, however if I remember correctly the calorie content of them was outragous!

I have Celiac and we recently found out my mom does too and I'm sort of thinking my daughter is... however she has a life threatening allergy to peanuts and tree nuts and I've noticed that many gluten-free products are made in places with peanuts, most of the breads, cereals, power bars... everything has nuts or is made in a place with nuts... She is only 13 and hesitates to go gluten-free (she does eat mostly gluten-free at home because of me) there is so little prepared food she can eat. And she's a kid, she wants some prepared food. Oh well... my rant for today.

Susan

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I've had problems with Pamela's cookies in the past. Not huge, and eventually stopped eating them. I think part of it is the fat content in any cookie. As a new celiac, I found fat was extremely difficult to digest. As time's gone on (now 1 1/2 yrs), fat doesn't do me in like it used to. I'm also taking a digestive enzyme which helps tremendously. And I got a box of Pamela's last month, and ate some, and didn't really feel sick. So that's an improvement :) But back in the preGF days I could eat a 1/2 batch of homemade cookies and "feel" fine, lol. So your old habits of eating may need to change for a while.

Susan, why don't you get your dd tested?????????????????????????? ?????????? ??????????????????????????????????????????

Can you tell I'm worried? It's soooo simple, and you and she could spare her years of agony and long term damage. I know it seems like she's "given up" so much, being allergic to nuts and all, but it is so worthwhile to go gluten-free if you need to, as I'm sure you know.....

Merika

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Right now I'm not testing her because she is mostly gluten-free at home and she has flatly told me that she is not going gluten-free right now... period. She has very few symptoms so there is no motivation for her to do so. I know people are going to say I should "make" her, she is only 13 I have the ability to "make" her but quite frankly I don't have that ability, she chooses her own food at lunch and at friends houses, t the movies, at the mall, and she says she eating what she wants to right now. At 13 its hard to explain to her how important it is.... because she has no symptoms. She says to me, you waited to go gluten-free until you were older and I will too.

I may ask her doctor to run some tests but I just don't feel at this point she will adhere to a gluten-free diet. It would be interesting to see if she came up Celiac because neither my mom or I did, our blood tests were all negative. I went gluten-free after my blood test and for the first time in 13 years I don't have the runs or digestive problems. I followed it up with testing from EntroLab which was positive and I have the DQ8 genes for Celiac.

My mom was the same way, blood tests all negative but after I had my DNA tested she went on a gluten-free diet and all of her life long digestive problems are magically gone.

Susan

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