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Hi, Good luck to you as you go through these changes in diet. You are so lucky to be finding out young what your problems are--the average time for diagnosis of Celiac Disease used to be 10 years! I am 60 and have had symptoms since age 8. You can have allergy testing done, but I did that and it didn't really help. Food elimination experiments on your...

Hi, I've been gluten free, milk & dairy free, and no egg whites or yeast for MANY years. Amazingly, I am finally okay with it all, especially since recently learning that my toddler grandson, my sister, and my cousin also have Celiac. I am the only one sticking rigidly to this diet, and I am always healthy. Try turning your world upside down to...

Hi, Just want to alert those of you with little ones who need to remain gluten free that milk and dairy allergies sometimes go hand-in-hand with Celiac. My grandson Dakota and I are both intolerant of all grains, as well as all milk and dairy products, and I am allergic to egg whites and yeast as well. Dakota started having problems at 3 weeks of age...

Okay guys, listen to this...I am Dakota's 60 year old grandma, and it was I who sent away for the $378 spectrum of tests which identified that Dakota has gluten intolerance and allergies to milk and dairy. It was I who spent his first 11 months of life as his primary daycare provider, watching like a guard-dog to make sure he stayed on his diet. Then at...

Hi, I know it's hard at first to realize that your whole life is changing, but as a person who apparently started having celiac symptoms at age 8, and now I'm 60, I've had a bit of time to get used to the idea. It seems that more and more people are being diagnosed, and that is good! Hopefully you will never have to experience the years and years of...

Hi, I'm enjoying your posts so much today. Thank you for being so open and forthright! My son has a saying I always have to laugh at: "We will cut off our noses to spite our faces." Yes, it is true. Sometimes I get so frustrated at having to always be creative with food, when everyone else can just go and eat any old food. Then something happens like...

Hi all, I sure enjoyed your replies on this question! It helps me to remember that we are all really in the same boat. An Italian restaurant, eh? I just have to share again how I worked 2 jobs at the same time last year, one at a bakery, and one at an ice cream parlor, though I was intolerant of everything in both places. Going through a divorce at the...

Hi, I haven't heard of the selective carb diet until now, but I've been on The Carbohydrate Addict's Diet for at least 7 years, and maybe it's similar. 23 hours a day I can eat low carb/high protein foods, and one hour each day I can have any high carb food or drink of which I am not intolerant. This is based on the fact that we will not produce an...

Hi Eva, I think casein and whey are both milk derivatives, in other words, made from some part of the milk molecule. I know that Little Bo Peep sat down to eat her curds and whey. Let's home she wasn't a Celiac, but maybe she was and that's why she got fuzzy headed and lost her sheep. I went to the health food store looking for cheese and other products...

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Hi, I am intolerant of casein and whey (I learned the hard way, by eating foods containing these, then suffering with asthma and the inability to breathe). I am also intolerant of all grains, milk & dairy, egg whites, and yeast. I use Imperial margarine for baking, for using on baked potatoes, and for anything that needs butter. I am sensitive...

Hi, I have Celiac and am intolerant of all grains, milk & dairy, egg whites and yeast. I have spent years learning the foods which affect me adversely, and now I never touch any of them, read labels diligently, and always work to remain gluten free. However, even with eliminating all those foods, I often felt drained or overly tired, just as you...

Hi, It is the day after Christmas and I just have to say that I am so happy. My sister provided a baked potato and turkey especially for me at her Chrismas Eve celebration, and my daughter cooked a prime rib roast, which I can eat! We are making progress here--it is the first year that I have had a 100 percent stress-free response to the Christmas parties...

Hi, I am intolerant of all grains, milk & dairy, egg whites. and yeast, and can only eat carbohydrates during a 60 minute period once a day (The Carbohydrate Addict's Diet). If I eat any other way, I get sick. So, I have learned to eat anything I want that is okay for my diet: Breakfast can be a double chili-burger from Carl's Jr. wrapped in lettuce...

Hi, Boy did I feel sorry for myself! I find it hard to believe now that I could have wallowed for so long in self-pity (I've struggled with food intolerances since the age of 8 and I'm 60 now). I've been going through a divorce the past 9 months, and realized 5 months ago that even though I retired after 25 years of teaching, I was going to have to...