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    I was in Canada over the holiday (I'm from Kitchener originally) and ended up in a car full of starving folks who decided to go through Tim's for lunch. My work around: ordering a "sandwich" minus the bread, and the sauces--and I asked for the cheese, etc. to still be individually wrapped, etc. so I could at least limit CC. I didn't realise the turkey wasn...
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    Celiac Sufferer... my heart goes out to you... thanks for sharing with me your hard-earned knowledge about celiac disease. I'm symptomatic after CC but usually not to a debilitating degree (i.e., don't usually have to take time off work or anything.) It's more frustrating when I know I'm in control of what I eat (ha ha) and still end up making mistakes...
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    Right--unless you purposely glutened people occasionally in a lab environment and then marked the effects over a period of years. Which no one would get IRB approval for anyway--hence relying on subjects' self reports, food diaries, etc. as a proxy for lab glutenings. Like for the two above studies you linked, what does it mean to be "gluten-free" exactly...
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    Despite my care, I've glutened myself for the second time this week--not even sure on what at this point. I think just CC, either in my house or the pre-made/packaged foods (which are gluten-free--ha ha--but "made in facilities that...") So tonight I'm sitting for a dinner I had no interest in eating at Outback's, waiting for my latest symptoms to pass...
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    (My apologies if I've posted this in the wrong spot--I'm looking for specific travel advice but also just general coping advice as well.) I'm from Ontario originally, but live in Minnesota now (and was diagnosed here). I haven't been home since the new diet--Christmas was to be my family's first exposure to my gluten free life in all its fraught complexity...
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    Shopping for everyone else today and found a Cookie Monster mini lunch box (for $4!) to store my cookies/crackers in while I travel. Who said this can't be fun (occasionally)? Another disease could have me toting around an oxygen tank instead of rice crackers.
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    I've had two major glutenings in my four months on the diet--my mistake afterwards was eating whatever I wanted/had on hand while I was getting over the gluten. I think this may have prolonged things. The second time I stuck to whole foods, grits, water, peppermint tea, etc., stayed away from packaged/prepared stuff and felt much better. I've heard from other...
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    So it's been about four months gluten-free for me. I was sick-ish before, but not bad really. Went gluten-free & had this surge of energy at first, it was fabulous. Then it kind of tapered off, and the long slog of detox began. I got rid of all the forbidden foods but didn't give much thought to CC. About a month into the new diet, life (finally!) seemed...
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    Just got back from a quick weekend in Las Vegas (which went much better, dining-wise, than my trip the week before to San Antonio) and I thought I'd post my finds: 1) The Burger Bar in Mandalay Bay Hotel/Casino (Mandalay Bay's located next to the Luxor). I don't even eat red meat but this turned out to be a great gluten-free experience. The staff was very...
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    I too, according to the almighty Dexxa scan, have osteopenia (I'm 29 too). I confessed to my dr. last week that I was having a hard time remembering to take calcium/D 4x/day (4 smaller doses to aid absorption). He said I was *way* better off doubling up doses than missing doses altogether. Just don't take it with iron supplements because these compete with...
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    StarTribune.com Open Original Shared Link Last update: October 04, 2006 – 5:14 PM Going gluten-free* More people are learning that they have celiac disease, an illness tied directly to food. And not just any food: It's "the staff of life" -- or the flour it's made with -- that makes them sick. Al Sicherman, Star Tribune The doctor had good n...
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    I found sex much improved post diagnosis when I wasn't always afraid of embarrassing GI "side effects" (and sound effects, )
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    I was told by my doctor (affiliated with the Mayo Clinic, no less) that taking supplements the first few months isn't actually all that helpful since your gut hasn't healed yet so you're not really absorbing them anyway. Our bodies don't process most of what we take in pill/concentrated form anyway. There was a study done a couple of years ago, I think at...
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    Haven't been around here for a while but couldn't resist reading this whole thread. I've been gluten-free for almost 2 months and never thought I really had the "brain fog" everyone talks about (I'm in a Ph.D. program--my brains are my livelihood). Until, that is, I went out for Mexican buffet (!!!) a week ago with a well-meaning friend who suggested the...
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    May I just say I'm amazed by the brilliance of the posts in this thread?! Nuanced arguments backed by fascinating, careful research... amazing. I hope the gluten-free diet makes me so smart I used to think I knew a thing or two about amino acids, etc. but dare not post a word on that stuff here after reading the previous posts. Instead I'll offer some...
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    I'm very newly gluten-free myself, and have only eaten out a few times yet (and survived the Minnesota State Fair!) But I'm already finding with friends and restaurant staff alike, that calling it a kind of wheat/grain "allergy" simply isn't doing the trick. People listen a lot more carefully and seem to take it more seriously when I say it's a disease, or...
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    I was given a list of vendors with gluten-free foods compiled by the local celiac group but I've misplaced it. I'm attending the fair on Thursday and will try to find and post the list before then (if someone who knows more than us posts it first!) As I remember, the list was rather scanty--they said a lot of vendors didn't get back to them in time for the...
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    I had read about how much improved (and much safer) the whole endoscopy procedure is now and how easy it is compared to in the bad old days. So it wasn't until I was hooked up to all the monitors a few weeks ago that I began to think maybe there was more to the procedure than I had planned... Took a good couple of days to recover from the meds (and I had...
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    I'm very recently diagnosed as celiac and know nothing about GERD--but I too bought a rice cooker as my "get well" gift to myself. And as a long-time vegetarian now finding myself having to eat a lot of fish and chicken (my only protein right now besides nuts) I can sympathize with the hating meat-with-no-ketchup thing. (I can eat ketchup, but sadly it doesn...
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    Thanks, all... for the reality checks and the encouragement and the food recommendations. This board, and the gluten-free community in general, have been really great--I've been lurking for weeks reading other posts while I nibble my celery and peanut butter. I'm in St. Paul and tried to hook up with the local groups but the one never returned my messages...
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    So... it's been three weeks gluten-free, complete with detailed food diary, etc., etc. I've even cut out diary and soy, which, for this mostly-veg sporty type, is even *more* difficult than giving up the gluten. Before the biopsy, I followed what I think is a fairly typical arc: I binged on everything I couldn't eat for a couple of weeks, got really sick...
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