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I've also been told all the drinks are ok except the frapps with chips. I seem to be fine after having their drinks, but I also always wonder about cross contamination issues. I haven't been doing the diet for all that long, so I might not be as sensitive to traces of gluten. Personally, I feel fine about supporting Starbucks because of their use of recycled...

The Starbucks double shots that come in the can are made by Pepsi, who says they are gluten free. The caramel coloring comes from corn. I haven't had one lately, but I drink the bottled frappucinos all the time. I would die if I had to give up my Starbucks! BTW has anyone had problems with any Starbucks drinks made in the stores? Wondering if there's anything...

Hmm.. not sure. They say they'll deliver to my zip and I'm in kind of a rural area. If I decide to give it a try I'll let you know how it is. It might be fun to order a meal every now and then...

Someone sent me this to look at: Open Original Shared Link On the first page it says: Every meal and snack has been lab-tested and approved to contain less than 20 gluten parts per million. What is that about? Is that a legit thing? I'm new, but I was thinking things are either gluten free or they're not. I don't know if I would ever have...

Hmm.. deep fried mac and cheese looks exactly like something I would want to eat And that leads me to why I'm thankful to be a celiac... No matter how much I want to put junk like that in my body, it's not an option... I don't think I would want to go to dinner with people who would be ordering Fridays new appetizers though. That would be rough...

I'm from Ithaca, specifically. Anyone close to there? I contacted the support group that was listed for Ithaca/ Cornell but I was sad to learn there's no active members anymore. It would be nice to know other gluten free people around here! Plus, being newly diagnosed, I'm scared to go to the restaurants around here. I was hoping someone would tell...

Sue, I think you should give the gluten free diet a try. It's more conclusive than any of the tests. I put myself on the diet recently and I feel so much better. My doctors wouldn't even consider celiac as an option, and I ended up calling prometheus and ordering the blood tests myself. Even with immense improvement on the diet my doctors still won't admit...

I'm part of the mono club too! I'm pretty sure that's what triggered it. That and I'm sure the stress of having to go to work and school while being sick with mono didn't help... My mom and aunt both had pregnancy as their trigger. For my mom, it was the birth of my brother, so she can't blame me! Hehe

Wow, I can't believe there are people out there who would do something like that! You're not overreacting at all; what they did was downright rude. I'm sorry that you have to put up with people like that. I'd say it's also pretty irresponsible of someone to purposely spread germs in an area where little kids come in to play. Whether or not you decide to talk...

I was glad to read this. I've been dealing with this the last few years. I felt so miserable and yet I actually looked fairly healthy and I had all normal bloodowork. People started treating me like I was"lazy" which I'm not, or as if I was just out looking for attention. I went from being an A student to just barely passing my classes and just struggling...

Thanks for sharing your experiences! Hopefully it will all work out. I've just been worrying about it lately because I know I'm very non confrontational. Plus it's just been irking me that when I tell friends what I have they either say something about how it's so great I have nothing serious, that I just have a little allergy or else something along the...

Anyone have some advice on how to tactfully inform roommates and college friends about having celiac? When I left college last year I was undiagnosed, and I'm sure my friends have plenty of memories of me chugging beer and insisting that we order late night pizzas. I just figured out that I was gluten intolerant this summer and am feeling much better on the...

Hi I'm new here, so please let others correct me if I'm wrong, but I read a couple scientific papers about gluten withdrawal. I guess that if you have a leaky gut and gluten is in your blood, cutting it out of your diet can cause the same symptoms someone gets when quitting drugs like heroine. Something about how in celiacs the gluten protein is not cleaved...

You guys have answered my question; I'm not going to worry about the diagnosis. For some reason I was thinking it would be a plus to have it on my medical record, but that's a good point about insurance. I'm going to have to get my own starting next year and other than the celiac I've been really healthy all my life which will be a help for that. I'd say...