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    Hi Y'all! I'm in Northern Ky right now. We used to live in SE KY, down along the KY/TN border, back several years ago. I saw the mention of panic attacks, plus SE kY. Back in my 20's down in the mountains down there I began to have panic attacks so bad I couldn't hold down a job. I eventually found a psychologist at the local Comp Care (do they still...
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    It's frustrating, for sure! Just in case you decide to give in and go to the Italian restaurant...there are Italian Restuarants in our area that will cook your own pasta for you (you have to bring the bag of pasta, specify that it needs to be cooked in a clean pot, and make sure they can deal with the sauce...ours will do dairy-free, gluten-free sauce. ...
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    That's funny! Now we'll all have to listen to the radio and try to figure out what the product was!!!
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    Spelt, kamut (the wheat you can eat--it says on the label!), sprouted wheat, sourdoughed wheat, and a flatbread made only with organic oats have all made me sick.
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    I bake with sorghum flour, and usually just use all sorghum, or a mixture of that plus rice flour. I gave up on yeast breads a long time ago. I try to center most of our meals on quick rising things, like muffins (I've had good luck with sorghum flour muffins, but quickbreads, made in breadpans, don't want to rise as well or won't hold up that well--so...
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    I know it's very expensive. I think I have a little experience in dealing with this kind of situation here because of my background, although we had only one child to feed at home (now grown up), but we also fed her boyfriend and sometimes other friends, just about every day. We were not gluten free at that time, but we were vegan, which can also be terribly...
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    The last time I checked, I couldn't find any reason on the label not to eat Rice Dream VAnilla "ice cream". It's been a couple of months ago, but when we've eaten it several times recently it didn't seem to bother me any. I would still carefully check the label against the celiac safe/forbidden lists, because ingredients are always changing. I found...
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    I agree with the others. It sounds pretty barbaric to purposely make yourself sick for a confirming diagnosis. Sometimes I wish I would've gone to doctors over this, rather than having totally treated myself, just so I could say "I've been diagnosed..." when people don't believe the importance of my dietary paranoia. "I think I'm celiac" just doesn't sound...
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    That's pretty amazing! We are off to Tennessee in mid-October for DH's family gathering (not quite reunion). We'll be in that same vicinity. Thanks for the info!
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    I think I'll just gradually start replacing them! Cast iron cookware is pretty cheap if you buy it in the camping department of stores, rather than in the regular cookware department.
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    I;ve seen this idea mentioned here more than once, but I'm afraid I need specific directions. I have lots of cast iron and dont' want to have to get rid of it all. I mostly made gluteny foods in glass baking dishes, but I know I had wheat pasta in the cast iron pans at times, and I made cornbread with wheat flour in a cast iron skillet. You put them...
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    I buy wheat-free soy sauce from the health food store. I still check the label, to make sure there's nothing else in the ingredients that would have gluten. I bought some Thai Kitchen gluten-free microwaveable meal one time and felt bad later, but I don't remember what the name of the meal was, and I was pretty newly gluten-free at the time, so I can...
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    I'm wondering if people do need a LOT more guidance on this. As I said before (I think I said it, anyway), I tried this once during the year 2001 and finally gave up, seeing no improvement. Discovering this message board was what gave the the information I needed to stick with it longer, and to know better how to avoid gluten while I'm de-glutening. ...
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    I'm probably the tallest woman among baby boomer or older members, at 5' 4". The generations after ours are all taller, but only by a couple of inches.
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    I really believe that if a person chose to be vegan it would be healthy enough if they also avoided dumping loads of gluten in their diets at the same time. This way maybe their intestines would stay healthy enough to absorb whatever vitamins and minerals they needed. Although it seems that gluten doesn't harm everybody, most vegans I know of eat huge amounts...
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    My thinking is going along those same lines right now. I really wonder if that's why it's so hard, because if it takes this long for any gluten to get out of your body, then even if you visibly stop intending to ingest gluten, besides the long wait for it to get out of your body, the unintended glutenings here and there, and the healing process, which takes...
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    It can seem like a lonely world if you are vegetarian or vegan and find out you have gluten problems. Most vegetarians seem to have denial issues in even allowing that gluten could cause so much harm, and in the possibility that most vegetarian dietary habits in the U.S. could be setting some people up for a nightmare. I've been vegan for 10 years (except...
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    I actually feel that beginning the vegan diet was what really set me off having symptoms. Vegans just say you have an initial intestinal reaction when first starting vegan, or you "detox," etc., so I ignored the symptoms for a long time until they became more pronounced, more bothersome, steadier and steadier until they were there everyday, all teh time...
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    One reason I don't like doctors is that tthey are hung up on lab tests and other high-tech testing results, no matter what a person sees in his or her own life experience. I agree with what so many others here have said, "You don't need a doctor's permission..." There is no doubt in my mind that my health has vastly improved now, 8 months' gluten free...
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    Sorry if this is gross, but for the past two or three days I am having what I think must be normal "poop". Like, really solid, fat poop. I think it must be normal! But I am amazed that I don't recognize this! Sorry, but I just HAD to tell somebody!!!!
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    Hello Kathy Ann! It is my feeling that when someone needs to be on a special diet to be well, it's time for a family meeting. If everyone can agree to put forth some personal effort in the "sacrifice," all will be happier in the long run, in my view. In my own experience, we have a grown child who has chosen to go gluten free because if a lifetime...
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    I just realized my above posts seems rather cold and insensitive. Sorry about that. I'm pretty new here, myself, and a little wary about advising others. But whatever route you go, if you find out or attempt to find out if gluten is the problem, it doesn't really seem like such an awful thing. I say this because I am so GLAD to be done with these sypmtoms...
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    I had all of the above except for the dizziness...plus, I really had something i called constarrhea...as it seems i had both C and D every day, hard to explain, but it was very uncomfortable. I felt like I had some weapon about to blow out my a@@ all the time. I read about celiac too, thought it was worth a try for myself, and then got totallly off the...
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    I don't know if what I went through would be anything similar or not, and since i never went to any doctors, I can't tell you what it was. But I stopped gluten beginning February of this year, and soon after, I can't recall exactly how long now because I got sick of looking at those daily notes I was keeping and threw them out a few weeks ago when it became...
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