guppymom

My husband and I are very different in many many ways...we have butted heads over so many issues so often, some major and some minor. I used to expend soooo much energy and work my brain and whole life into a frenzy over these things that out of survival I had to learn to let go. I can't force him to do or to be anything, as i know you know, and I give my...

I have found that steak or ribs or roast make me feel quite ill, same with my daughter. Not sure why, so i find the posts re: those interesting. I do get sick everytime i have rootbeer, regardless of the brand. maybe the caramel color? I usually know within 1/2 hour if I'm in trouble, sometimes within minutes. Then all I do is hunker down and pray for it...

wow too wierd. Yesterday I was fighting vertigo all day. I hadn't eaten much because i hadn't felt hungry at all, but I was falling over and trying to correct myself when I felt like falling over but wasn't actually moving at all. It was very strange and I came onto the board today to ask this very question... so no answers from me, but I 2nd the question...

Wow, are we all having a time? I was asked to make dinner for an elderly, ill couple tonight, so I whipped a frozen veggie lasagne into the oven...one that we used to love, even though it made us sick. sigh. So it's cooking and it's all smelling so wonderful and I take it to their home, and THEY AREN'T HOME! They ditched me. So home it came and husband is...

I do understand that my myriad of symptoms did seem a bit unreal. I didn't blame my doctor for harboring some suspicion that I was hypochondriac. But I sat there and told him that, right up front when I saw the eyes roll, and told him that I honestly was ill and didn't know why. I had already been eliminating groups of foods/additives from my diet in an effort...

So, it seems to me that maybe there can be a way to encourage our physician's(those that are still speaking to theirs)to consider celiac disease as more of a front-line answer rather than a last resort. My own doc did say to me, "oh, so this is something you read about somewhere and now you think you have it?"...but my daughter'd ped was wonderful. He always...

I was really worried about my youngest daughter(6) because her appetite is decreased and it didn't seem right to me...but she's is finally gaining weight! She is little, only 40 lbs, so we've always been of the mindset to keep quality foods going in to help her. The thing is, DUH, I think, is that now the food she's eating is actually doing something other...

We ran the gamut with doctors for my daughter...but she didn't fit the "profile" so celiac disease was not considered. we talked about crohn's and ulcers and all the rest but then her doc just pulled it out of the hat and we love him forever. I've had these symptoms since i was little(i'm 39 now and was diagnosed with an ulcer at 8)and everything but celiac...

Good point about the floss/toothepast/mouth rinse. It is all supposed to be "safe" if it's manufactured in the USA, but I checked with the company anyway...not bashing any labelling issues here! Just paranoid and trying to get all those poisons away from me. It seems like alot of us were diagnosed last fall...I know that for the most part i'm now finally...

This board helps me stay sane. I'm sorry if I've ever come across as bashing doctors, it certainly wasn't about that. Unfortunately it is true that there are alot of doctors who still think celiac disease is only thin people, scandinavian people, short people...they are learning and that is great. I haven't read anyone forcing or trying to intimidate...

My daughter was diagnosed by blood test. She had barium scans and all of that, but not an endo, he didn't feel it was necessary since she was positive on the serum test. The latest newsletter article actually mentioned that in that doctor's findings the blood test usually only comes back positive AFTER major damage has been being done in the intestines. ...

I found out that dairy and soy are total issues for me. I kind of knew about the dairy, but the soy was a new one for me. I can't handle any butter, no puddings, even the safe ones, no peanut butter either, although peanuts are okay. I totally agree with keeping a food diary. There were alot of "safe" foods listed by the doctor that diagnosed us, but we found...

"I let them know that Celiacs who keep ingesting gluten have a 40% or more higher chance of getting cancer in the bowel, and that Celiacs that cheat by eating one meal with gluten once a year increase their death rate 6 times! One meal a year eating pizza is not worth increasing your death rate 6 times. Once that sinks in, people are usually more understanding...

I just want to caution you about viewing endoscopy as the definitive means of diagnosing celiac disease. The latest newsletter contains a very detailed and informative article concerning this very matter. It blows holes in pretty much all of current traditional medicine's thinking as far as what will accurately diagnosis celiac disease. I have had, for...

A few nights ago my husband made one of those comments, those "i can't believe that just a little bit like that would hurt" comments. And after I had bragged about how good he's been. Must have had his radar one. Anyway,he said that it was never bad like that before, how come all of a sudden, and i reminded him about how much pain i had been in constantly...