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    ARCHIVED What To Do

    wclemens replied to Mark C's topic in Coping with Celiac Disease

    Dear Mark, I felt so bad reading how horrible you have felt these past 17 years, and I want to say that you MUST be closer now to a diagnosis than you were then. It is often hard to remember any good times when you are going through bad times, wait, didn't you say you have a wife? Concentrate on the day you met her. Did you know you loved her immediately...
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    Hi Jules, I am so impressed by your positive attitude! I felt better just reading your posts, and knowing that with all the illnesses you have going on, you just keeping getting up and putting one foot in front of the other, following your dreams, even if you have to switch paths to do it. I imagine we have all had some pretty good crying fests, I...
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    Hi Julie, I haven't eaten chocolate for quite awhile, and I really don't ever crave it, because I just kind of eliminated it from my diet and my life. I focus solely on the foods I CAN eat, and see the others as poison, and chocolate is definitely a poison for me. I am so fortunate, because, you see, Asthma is one of my best friends. I have had it...
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    Julie, You sound like such a kindhearted person! I hope that you find it easier and easier to deal with what other people say as time goes by. I have Celiac, and work in a bakery. I just stopped my second job, which was in an ice cream parlor, and I'm intolerant of any milk or dairy products. People always laugh when I tell them I never eat anything...
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    ARCHIVED What To Do

    wclemens replied to Mark C's topic in Coping with Celiac Disease

    Mark, I hope I can help. For the past 2 years I got really diligent about eliminating gluten, milk, dairy, egg whites, and yeast, the foods which are poison for me. I cut out almost all canned or processed foods, and read labels before touching anything which might cause a problem. I feel great! I turned 60 Oct. 8th and feel better than ever before...
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    Hi, Thank you for providing such a good laugh as I read your reply! I can just picture the occasion of shock therapy for the whole family. It brings back so many memories of eating out during the past 30 years or so, or even of just eating at the homes of relatives and friends. Thank God the whole ordeal becomes so much easier once we put eating...
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    paradise2004, Hi. Glad you're here. In 1977 I learned that my sister, brother, and I were the only ones on my mother's side of the family to not have Polycystic Kidney Disease, an hereditary, terminal kidney disease. I watched my mother, grandmother, two aunts, and two cousins die of the disease. Imagine how ecstatic my sister, brother, and I were to...
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    Hi, I'm so happy that you have finally learned what was causing your problems. Thank God! Now you can move toward good health, and find out what living is really about. I've been gluten free for many years, along with milk, dairy, egg whites, and yeast free as well. I feel great! There are so many foods we can eat. All the natural, mostly unprocessed...
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    Hi Magdalena, I'm so glad you are feeling so much better. I've had Celiac symptoms since the age of 8, and that has been many, many years. I finally realized that doctors didn't seem to know what was going on with me, and started elimination diets of various kinds, concluding that all grains, milk, dairy, egg whites, and yeast were poison for me ...
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    Hi, I am 60 years old and have dealt with symptoms of Celiac since the age of 8, though I didn't know then that what I had was Celiac. I am intolerant of all grains, milk & dairy products (casein and whey included), egg whites, and yeast. My symptoms present as Asthma, and I have been in the hospital so many times, but not anymore! I am now on...
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    Hi amfcsq, I have been on the Carbohydrate Addict's Diet for the past 7 years, and I feel wonderful. I have never had any kinds of problems since going on it, especially kidney problems, which I know about, because my mother's family has an incurable kidney disease called Polycystic Kidney Disease. My sister, brother, and I are the only ones in the...
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    Hi LeslieW, Welcome to the board! I am five feet tall and have fought the weight problem most of my life. I am intolerant of all grains, milk, dairy, egg whites, and yeast, so I must never touch any of those if I want to breathe (mine comes out as asthma). Seven years ago I discovered a book called, "The Carbohydrate Addict's Diet," by Drs...
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    Hi, Oh my gosh, reading your comments reminds me of just how many times over the past 30 years or so I have had to defend myself in terms of food. Of course I didn't know that Celiac was the reason I was always sick, at first, so those around me just thought I was some kind of eccentric freak who liked trying new and different foods (I would try almost...
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    Hi, Well, it is October 26th already, and as I sit here tonight reading through the messages, I am gratefully reminded of all the times in the past 3 years when I have turned to this website for inspiration, encouragement, and information. I want to say thank you to each and every one of you for taking the time to offer your support. I had such...
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    Hi, Here it is the middle of October already, and I just now got to see your messages! They mean so much to me--thank you. At the same time I was going through the divorce, my grandson's mom decided that he should enter daycare (he was almost one year) and abruptly put him in five days a week. That was traumatic to say the least, but then later she...
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    Hi, I just read your post, and wanted to encourage you to stick with the gluten free diet to the letter, because when you do you end up feeling SO GOOD! I have had celiac since the age of 8, and only after a lot of suffering did I learn which foods to avoid and which to eat. During those years I never knew anyone else who had the same health problems...
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    Hi, Happy Birthday to you! I hope you plan on staying on this planet for awhile, because it is always wonderful to learn that one more person has learned that they are Celiac, and to know that they will join forces with those of us who are working so hard to teach our family and friends what being gluten free is all about. We are like an army, really...
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    Hi, It is interesting to see what everybody is eating these days. Thanks for sharing with us. I have had Celiac since the age of 8 and I am about to celebrate my 60th birthday in a few weeks. Only since eliminating almost all processed foods have I felt really great. For years I ate only meats, fruits, and vegetables, and that worked well, until...
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    Hi, It is interesting to see what everybody is eating these days. Thanks for sharing with us. I have had Celiac since the age of 8 and I am about to celebrate my 60th birthday in a few weeks. Only since eliminating almost all processed foods have I felt really great. For years I ate only meats, fruits, and vegetables, and that worked well, until...
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    Hi everyone, I've been off the board for the past few months, going through a divorce and all the changes that such a drastic decision involve. Wow! I am so happy to be a part of this group, and I feel blessed to be in such great company! Thanks to you all for being there. Welda
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    Heather, I know what you mean when you say that it is so hard to work with Celiac. When we are first healing there are so many things to think about, and taking care of a child takes up most of one's time. I've had Celiac for 51 years now, not knowing most of that time what was causing my problems. The information about getting public assistance is...
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    Hi, I especially like the sodas I drink, and wonder if perhaps drinking certain sodas is something that each person has to test out themselves, just to see how they react? I have learned that I can drink Diet Rite Raspberry soda, Diet Caffeine Free Dr. Pepper, A&W Diet Root Beer, and Canfield's Diet Chocolate Soda (which is really a blessing because...
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    Dear Shirley, I hope this finds you feeling better. I agree with you about voting. I sent my ballot off by absentee vote about 10 days ago. Yes, Dakota is taking a few steps now. All the testing has been done by Enterolab, and my sister learned this week that she does have Celiac. Thanks for the reply, and I will picture you in good health! Welda
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    I began having symptoms of Celiac at age 8, after living through an intolerably stressfull situation. Mine presented as Asthma, and it took years before I could learn all the foods to which I was allergic, and all the foods which would trigger the disease. Now I'm 59, have a 10 month old grandson who was recently diagnosed Celiac, and my sister was also...
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    Shamilton, Judging from the way my 10 month old Celiac grandson reacts to even a few grains of wheat, it is very important to eliminate all sources of gluten. He becomes irritable and fussy, has diarrhea, cannot sleep, has stomach cramps, and is a completely different baby after accidentally getting gluten into his system. It takes at least 3 days...
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