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  1. Teacher1958
    I was not treated for my anemia. I put the pieces together after I went gluten free and started reading about gluten and anemia. The other day I was working out and was just amazed at how much more endurance I have now. I used to get short of breath very easily, but I was on the exercise bicycle for 25 minutes and did fine.
  2. Teacher1958
    I've had a gluten problem for 42 years, but not one doctor in all that time checked for it. I had to figure it out myself when my symptoms started getting worse and worse. I even told my doctor how short of breath I was and asked if I should have a stress test, but she just kind of blew me off. Is your daughter short of breath? That's a key symptom of...
  3. Teacher1958
    I'm fairly new at this, too, and have been glutened twice since April. One thing you have to be really careful of is items that say 'gluten free' or 'no gluten products added.' Even with these two things written on the packaging, somewhere else on the packaging it can sometimes say, 'processed in a facility with wheat, rye, oats, or whatever.' There are...
  4. Teacher1958
    My son's going to Pratt, and two other kids from his HS graduating class are going to NYU. He's getting really excited but a little nervous, too.
  5. Teacher1958
    No, my only instructions were not to take any asprin or ibuprofen (these were the only two medications that applied in my case) within a week of the test. The day before the test and the day of the test, I could only have popsicles (no red or purple), juice with no pulp, coffee, clear pop, jello, and some type of broth. I'm a vegetarian, so I didn't eat...
  6. Teacher1958
    It's a fantastic piece, and I am particularly excited because our 18-year-old son is leaving for college in NYC in August, so we will be going there a lot. Although I am adjusting well to the new diet, the one thing that was really bothering me was the fact that we spend so much time vacationing in NYC and we love to eat out, and I just felt like all that...
  7. Teacher1958
    Truthfully, I feel as if I have to be a detective sometimes. I was on a low cholesterol diet for awhile (cholesterol dropped to normal on gluten free diet), and that was a piece of cake (oops) to follow compared to this. I've been glutened twice since April, and both times I really had to wrack my brain to figure out the source of the problem. We eat out...
  8. Teacher1958
    I had the symptoms of gluten intolerance while I breastfed, and my son was a very chubby, healthy baby who breastfed until he was 25 months old. He had a rough start in the NICU (fed breastmilk through a naso-gastric tube), but thrived after that. I really don't think it's anything you did. In fact, your little girl has probably gotten a nice collection...
  9. Teacher1958
    I hadn't had a buzz in probably 10-15 years, but this past school year was so awful that I decided that I was definitely going to have a beer on the last day of school when I got home. Of course, being on the gluten free diet, I had to plan ahead, so I went to the Whole Foods Market and bought a six-pack of Bard's Tale Beer-Dragon's Gold (it even has a cool...
  10. Teacher1958
    The question I asked myself was this- "If these people weren't family, would I be friends with them?" That question pretty much answered itself. A family should support its members, not cause them emotional pain. Too many people endure untold agony because they feel that they have to spend time with their families. Always remember that it's a choice...
  11. Teacher1958
    I always say that you choose your friends, but you can't choose your relatives, unfortunately. I know you don't want to stop seeing your brothers, but I have pretty much disowned many of my relatives. They had no tact and would tease anyone about anything. I can't even imagine the ridiculous things they would say about the gluten free diet. I consider...
  12. Teacher1958
    I'm right there with you. I was told I wouldn't remember anything about the procedure. Yea, right. I forgot everything except for the 12-inch sword that was attached to the camera. OMG- I thought I was being disemboweled!! I think they had to pull me off the ceiling!
  13. Teacher1958
    I just had to be awake enough to go home. I had two gluten free bagels in my purse, which I nearly inhaled when I woke up. I didn't have a choice with the prep. I just followed the instructions, but the instructions from the doctor and the instructions on the box weren't quite the same, so I kind of combined them. That stuff is so nasty going down, especially...
  14. Teacher1958
    The prep is worse than the procedure!!!! I felt like someone had dumped wet cement in my stomach, then all of a sudden the cement dropped down, and all h-ll broke loose!
  15. Teacher1958
    When I eat the Soy Delicious chocolate or neopolitan, I sometimes have to pinch myself to see if I am in heaven or not....sigh... I've never had a problem with Soy Delicious. Also, if you have a Rita's chain near you, the mango sorbet is to die for. The staff where I live is so helpful. They told me I should go out and buy some gluten free cones so...
  16. Teacher1958
    Kudos to you! As a teacher, I have so much respect for teachers who work in the inner city. I've talked to a number of people like yourself, and I know that I truly do not have the patience nor the objectivity- and at the same time, compassion- to do what you do. I know you've heard this a million times, but you must be a very special person!
  17. Teacher1958
    Thanks for all of your encouragement and support. Drinking that hideous stuff and all that went with it was actually worse than the procedure itself. I am afraid of IV's, so I asked in advance if I could have a shot to numb the area before the IV was inserted. That was a good idea, because the anesthesiologist had a to manipulate the IV needle for an extended...
  18. Teacher1958
    I have a degree in education and spent seven years doing a job for which I was overqualified (the job did not require a degree). I trained mentally challenged people to do various piece rate jobs. Many of my co-workers were extremely unprofessional, and the work environment was very different from that of the school where I'd previously worked. It was...
  19. Teacher1958
    My symptoms- 1. severe abdominal cramping with loose stools that occur repeatedly over a period of hours. 2. constipation 3. mouth sores 4. vitiligo (same thing Michael Jackson has with the skin fading, but not as noticable in my fair complexion) 5. spaceyness 6. worsening of ADD symptoms 7. fibromyalgia symptoms (depression, joint pain, fatigue...
  20. Teacher1958
    Has your doctor said anything about putting you on Tamoxifen? My breast specialist put me on Tamoxifen as a preventative three years ago because I had a lot of risk factors- mom had breast cancer at an early age, I started my period young, I had my first (and only) child after age 30, and some other thing I can't remember. Recently, the specialist suggested...
  21. Teacher1958
    My prayers go out to you. My mom had breast cancer when she was 43. The tumor was removed and never recurred. She lived into her seventies and died from something completely unrelated to cancer.
  22. Teacher1958
    Hi, I've been on the diet for almost four months. It does take awhile for your digestive tract to get accustomed to the changes. I noticed a little bit of what you're talking about at first. I would go a day or day-and-a-half without a BM, which I considered constipation, but for manypeople probably isn't constipation. (We're just used to going a lot...
  23. Teacher1958
    Argh! Good morning. The second dose of gunk was far more powerful than the first and much harder to keep down. Isn't there some way they can make it more palatable??? If we could mix it with a Slushy or something, that would be a huge help. I have a box of Glutino chocolate sandwich cookies, which I will eat once I wake up. I leave in a little over...
  24. Teacher1958
    First, as another message recommended, make an appointment immediately to have this checked, then check and re-check the labels on absolutely everything you're eating, even those foods you have always assumed were gluten free. You could even put the list on here in case someone has some ideas as to what the problem might be. There has to be an explanation...
  25. Teacher1958
    It is encouraging to know that you are alive, because I am so hungry I am afraid I might go insane. I just put "starving to death" on this mental list I have called, "Ways I Don't Want To Die." Seriously, that would have to be horrendous. Then, you have people who fast as a form of protest. Count me out on that one, too. I have never gone this long without...
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