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    I saw that on Meetup.com there was a food intolerances group for the OC. I think it was shutting down thought because no one was in it. If you guys are interested someone should head over to Meetup and take it over. I know that woman running it was looking to hand it off.
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    I know how you feel. I found out in college and on a tight budget. People will tell you up and down that it's cheap to eat gluten free but that's bologna. I still had a low level illness nearly constantly until I finally got a whole new set of utensils and pans and things. So for me at least, using a completely different and seperate set of tools was a necessity...
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    Afraid not. To be sure taking care of all considerations before you leave her there will be the most important thing. It's hard to get anything done once the parents leave. Good luck and good for you, working things out ahead of time.
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    In Ethiopia everything is made from their native grain, teff, so you can have everything at meals made of local food. The food, for that matter, is quite good, too! And so long as the meat is well cooked and you're consuming the traditionals (sans pork) you really don't have to worry much about disease either. At least not so much as elsewhere in Africa.
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    While you're on the topic... I'm going to be heading back to Glenview (near Northbrook and Northfield) in a few months to live there for a while. Are there any support groups out there?
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    I've really been wondering this too. I'll read a label that contains questionable ingredients but doesn't have the Contains: Wheat label near the bottom. I know that Barley and Oats and Rye don't have to be labelled so that's another cause for concern. But if the ingredient is wheat-specific and the container doesn't warn of wheat does that make it safe?...
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    I don't have a ton of experience with the condition. My experience is in changing locals and diets often. If you switched to the Paleo diet and started to have D right away, there's a high probability that it's due to an increased consumption of fruit/nuts/veg. Switching from a high-carb diet to a mostly-protein diet will due that to a lot of people. If you...
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    I've been gluten free for only a few months, and I think there is something else in my diet that needs eliminating, but I'm fairly sure I'm not consuming it on a regular basis accidentally. However I am still experiencing some of the worst brain fog of my life and I'm unable to correlate it to anything directly, which is problematic. The bigger problem is...
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    ARCHIVED Dishes

    Sinenox replied to Sinenox's topic in Coping with Celiac Disease

    Thank you all so much for taking the time to respond. It means a lot to me. I've been avoiding the inevitable I think - sometime this week I'll go out and get new dishes and new pans that are all recognizably mine, and then I'll wash them all myself as well and be sure nothing is set atop them. It seems that a food journal is impossible to avoid as well....
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    ARCHIVED Dishes

    Sinenox posted a topic in Coping with Celiac Disease

    I'm a poor college student living with friends in an apartment and trying to share a kitchen. I remember reading on here a time ago that it's necessary to use a dishwasher if you have one and you're sharing dishes. Does anyone know what the reasoning for this is? I ask because recently my room mates have decided that it's easier just to hand wash dishes and...
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    So I'm a Senior in college, working on graduating, social life, academics, gluten free diet, etc. You know, the ush. But starting at the beginning of this year I began to grit and gnash my teeth in my sleep. As it got worse my dentist gave me a little device to wear but it still happens even when I'm awake to some smaller degree. Probably stress-related,...
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    If anyone had any question about whether gluten would affect them in the long term, I'd ask them to follow this tragic story in another part of the forum: Open Original Shared Link It's quite sad and all too real. It takes a barely competent doctor to explain that the effects aren't always obvious but are always potentially life threatening. I hope...
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    I went out to sushi last night and got some rolls that contained a couple kinds of meat (none fried at my request) some avacado and cucumber and carrots with seseme sauce, wasabe and ginger (no soy sauce). They were very happy to accomodate me and claimed to check all of the other ingredients. I took it to go, ate a huge amount of rolls (for me) and then...
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    Oh, one more thing: I frequently offer to go pick up the keg. That supplies me with a car so that I can get to the store and grab the gluten-free beer while I'm there, or whichever hard gluten-free liquor is on for the night. That's the nice thing about red cups, too. No one really knows what you're drinking or how drunk you are. You can also refill gluten...
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    Heya, also 22 and in college, just recently diagnosed here. I wish I could be helpful on the food side. I ended up using an off campus kitchen for all my meals since the refectory wouldn't help me. It helps to talk to the chefs on campus first hand. Frequently they'll try to accomodate. I know that some companies, such as Bon Appetite, are better than...
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    I'm with EMC. Recently when I go out to eat and request a gluten free meal the waiter immediately asks "Why?", and not because they haven't heard of celiac before. It seems to me that in ye old days no one would have questioned you, but I think these days servers really want to know whether it's "an allergy" or a fad diet. More and more I've been having experiences...
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    This gives me hope.
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    ARCHIVED Chevys?

    Sinenox replied to amber-rose's topic in Gluten-Free Restaurants

    I also regularly get shrimp fajitas there with corn tortillas and I've had no problem. I don't trust the sweet corn cake, which is sad, and it sounds as though there is a possibility for cross contamination, but as I've said I've never been glutened there.
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    ARCHIVED Dyslexia?

    Sinenox replied to Sinenox's topic in Coping with Celiac Disease

    What you describe with the numbers is exactly what was happening to me. Occasionally a number would drop out but not usually. I only bring it up because I've asked a number of local Celiacs and some mentioned that they get the same problems occasionally. I'm certainly not maligning dyslexic people. As I mentioned a few of them are my relatives.
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    Sorry about the link. Here it is again: Open Original Shared Link It's mostly tongue-in-cheek but it's good to think on. It has a nice chart of motives for having children and reasons that these motives ought to be questioned. I agree that people who would like children and are well prepared for them should have them, or seriously consider adopting...
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    Since this thread is curiously devoid of people against having children, I just wanted to offer myself up as a (albeit small) target. I'm 22 and I'd practically rather die than have children. I think there are a lot of reasons to consider not having children. That said, I think that for some people, having children is a good idea at some point in their lives...
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    ARCHIVED Dyslexia?

    Sinenox posted a topic in Coping with Celiac Disease

    In the last year before I went on a gluten-free diet things got pretty bad. My head got so fuzzy that I couldn't concentrate, even if I wanted to and was trying. My cramping got worse. But stranger still, I began to get some kind of dyslexia. It wouldn't matter how many times a person confirmed with me that the room number I was looking for was 241, whether...
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    Hey, I'm a Senior in college and I was diagnosed last year. I was abroad, doing research in rural Ethiopia with nothing to eat but stale bread and pasta. When I simply ceased to function everyone could tell something was seriously wrong but no one was sure what. I thought I had everything from intestinal parasites to mental illness, what with my seeming inability...
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    I have read that gluten intolerance, unlike allergies and celiac, is different in the sense that it's a nervous system reaction as opposed to triggering the immune system, and that it doesn't do lasting damage. So while the symptoms may be similar, the actual damage and potential for serious complications or autoimmune response simply isn't there. Does anyone...
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    I believe that there is a Chevy's Fresh Mex restaurant near Orange County (I saw two driving from Redlands to there and back recently). I love Chevy's. I order the fajitas with corn tortillas and I have never had a problem. Besides which, the fajitas are pretty darn good, at least at the one I go to. Happy holidays! I hope you find somewhere nice.
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