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  1. spunky
    I use sorghum flour straight all the time for muffins and little round breads. For the muffins I just use 2 cups straight sorghum flour we order in buckets from Twin Valley Mills I add 1/4 cup ground flax and/or 1/4 cup tapioca starch (adding either or both according to my mood) I add 2 tsps. baking powder and 1/2 tsp. salt for the little breads ...
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    From what I've read, after the first gluten free year, the risk of all of those things drops dramatically. After that, the longer you are gluten free, the less risk of any of those complications. The only one that stays elevated is intestinal lymphoma, but that risk is still very low (from what I've read not that much higher than in the general population...
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    A person who has been gluten free for over 10 years recently told me that with him, it gradually got to be that accidental glutenings became less and less severe and are now just mild reactions. THat's a hopeful thing. For me, I've been gluten free for just over two years, and the last time glutened accidentally entered my world I was in really awful...
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    I think during that first year or so gluten free, all kinds of strange things can happen while healing takes place. You can treat the symptoms with something that doesn't bother you, such as some good probiotic and/or ground flax seeds or something similar that doesn't upset your system. Also, during at least the first year, you might want to keep notes...
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    I love reading Dogtor J's website! There's so much research and thinking about health/diet, etc. on there! He's kinda funny too.
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    Congratulations! I was just thinking the other day how much better I am feeling these days... physically really better than I remember for a long time, now at 2 years and 1 month gluten free... how much more enthusiasm and motivation and hope and stuff I feel, as well as how quiet and smooth, painfree, my gut is. I don't get on this board that much...
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    A couple of years ago it seems I remember somebody on this board said you could take a power sander (I think he meant the kind that goes onto a drill???) and get the cooking surface completely sanded back down to bare metal, then clean thoroughly and begin the seasoning process all over again with some type of heavy fat, by baking that onto it in a slow oven...
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    Does your creamer have casein (or even carrageenan or soemthing)? It's possible it could bother you. You could try the coffee without the creamer. See if that works. Some people can't handle coffee...but if you love the coffee, might wanna see if it's something in the creamer first. When you're new at gluten free, your gut may react strangely to stuff...
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    Thank you so much! We adopted a new 2-3 yr. old dog two years ago, just as I was newly gluten free. He came to us with colitis that the vet couldn't diganosis...so, chronic. Nothing worked to treat it. Since gluten was on my mind a lot at the time, I eventually found and tried putting him onto Purina in a green bag that says at the bottom, "Complete...
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    Was it farmed salmon, or wild salmon? I would think wild would be the safest bet. But if wild salmon bothers you...maybe it's just that you and salmon don't get along. Farmed salmon could be fed high gluten grains... may or may not affect some individuals. I woulldn't eat farmed... I buy only the wild fish.
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    My thoughts...after having been gluten free now for 2 years. Besides suspecting the Frito-Lay products, I would check into how the organic chickens are fed. According to John Symes (a.k.a. "Dogtor J"), a vet in Alabama who has celiac and studies the effects of gluten on both people and animals, has said that many "organic" chickens are fed with a very...
  12. spunky
    Oat bran flatbread made me sick for several weeks one time. I'd be careful with anything from oats, at least until you know if you can tolerate them.
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    ARCHIVED I Want To Cry

    spunky replied to Lux's topic in Coping with Celiac Disease

    When I get gluten these days, I'm screwed up for a whole month...although the worst part is the first week. After that, I have lots of hit and miss days for a few more weeks...seems during that time is when foods that didn't ever bother me before turn to pure hell inside my wild intestines.
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    I've been wondering the same thing! I was feeling really great at about 7 months gluten free, finally...then, seven months after that, the soy started...I had already been dairy free before that time. THen other things started, one by one... now I'm at almost 2 years gluten free, and it seems my body is in some turbulent sensitivity to everything stage...
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    That sounds good in coffee...I never thought of trying. Thanks for the idea. I, too, would be interested in knowing exactly how to make yogurt from coconut milk, if anyone here knows that.
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    Have you read up on the Specific Carbohydrate Diet? It sounds promising for these types of inflammatory bowel diseases. Google it and see if it looks helpful. Also, I've heard of people feeling better taking a product called Digestive Advantage for Crohn's and Colitis...a so-called "functional" food (consisting of a sporgenes-like probiotic...i.e., survives...
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    You've got my curiosity up... ...can you give us a little book review? Maybe this is something I would like to read!
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    When I first stopped gluten, it was in Feb...in a grimy, cloudy part of the country. People started complimenting my "tan" about two ro three months after I went gluten free. That scared me...I was a weird color. I don't go to doctors, self-diagnosed for gluten, and was afraid something was going haywire somewhere in my body. I took milk thistle for...
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    ARCHIVED Fiber?

    spunky replied to sarad1's topic in Related Issues & Disorders

    Sorry...I must be wrong about the name of the product. I looked at lots of them and the one that said wheat dextrin/gluten free was some stuff you sprinkle in your food as you cook it, for added fiber. I thought that sounded easier than glopping some icky junk down in a glass, but went home and looked it up on the net (sorry for the name confusion...maybe...
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    I sometimes feel the gluten thing was a big PAYBACK for me. I'm so sorry I was preachy to people about veganism. Now, most of the people in my life have no idea what I eat or don't eat...I'm embarrassed to tell them what happened to me, and I'm pretty sure they just think that now that I won't touch anything, I must have some psychological eating disorder...
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    Possibly other intolerances, maybe?
  22. spunky
    Well Hello... I'm afraid I am totally fed up! I have always hated doctors anyway. My story and my frustration and anger in a nutshell: Over ten years ago, I decided doctors had always done me far more harm than good, so I decided to take health matters into my own hands. I began reading about health and diet, as an attempt to empower myself and...
  23. spunky
    How long have you been gluten free? I'm only self-diagnosed, because I cannot stand and distrust doctors too much to mess around with them, so I don't have any official x-rays, mris, or expert opinions about what my guts look like. But during my healing time gluten free, I had frequent pains as you describe. Now I'm almost two years gluten free,...
  24. spunky
    I now make lasagna by buying the round rice wrapper noodles...the kind you get for making spring rolls. They are normally either 100% rice flour, or sometimes tapioca flour (but you have to read the labels, because I've noticed more and more of those types of things seem to be coming up with wheat flour!!!!). I get mine at international or Asian markets...
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    ARCHIVED Fiber?

    spunky replied to sarad1's topic in Related Issues & Disorders

    I noticed too, that gluten free makes for low dietary fiber intake. I eat tons of fruits and veggies, but still, there seems to be no substitute in fruits and veggies for the types of fiber in cereal grains. I can't eat flax, I've tried and tried, and when I add it to things I bake or sprinkle it on stuff, in a day or two, I start having sypmtoms similar...
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