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  1. ravenwoodglass
    This is the ingredients from their website, It contains gluten. Open Original Shared Link No Fat Ingredients: Tomato puree, vegetable juice, white distilled vinegar, spices, seasonings. Contains soy, wheat gluten and fish. If you are newly diagnosed it would be a good idea to limit alcohol for a bit until you are well healed as alcohol in any...
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    For me the effects are much worse with heavy accidental injestion than before I went gluten free. My intestines never bled before I went gluten free but now if I accidentally get a good dose of it I bleed for days. I am very careful with my diet for that reason. Is something tempting you to 'cheat'? If so please post what you are craving in either the coping...
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    I would go ahead and ask for the other celiac tests. Do keep in mind that false negatives are not uncommon so after you are done with all testing you choose to do give the diet a good strict try for a few months to see if it helps. It is quite possible to have GI symptoms that come and go. Mine did for years before they were an everyday occurance.
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    You mention eating dairy free yogurt. Is it soy based? This may not apply to you but soy makes my hair fall out just as much as gluten does. Are you taking any supplements? Sometimes we need to take them for quite a while until our guts are able to absorb nutrients again. Have your doctors checked your thyroid levels, all of them not just TSH? I don't...
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    Each person many be a bit different depending on the dosage. I was on a toxic level so I had them done weekly for the first couple months than bi-weekly after that. BUT as I said my dosage was literally at a toxic level and your dosage is quite likely much lower. I think for most the monthly levels would be the norm as long as your liver panels etc were good...
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    I would have been very tempted to take the kitty in as an indoor cat and see if any ads were put in the paper or flyers around the neighborhood. The poor little thing I hope someone did just that and she is living comfortable and warm in a loving home.
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    Was it definately a Hormel product or was it a Costco version of it?
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    Yea, as a humane society person said to me a little while ago 'there is a reason they are called housecats'. He had been sent to check on a kitty that had been mauled by a couple of unleashed dogs and then got hit by a car trying to get away. Poor thing was in rough shape. On a good note there were 4 people other than myself that stopped to help this kitty...
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    Could it not also be possible that it took 5 years gluten free to resolve the damage that celiac had done to your thyroid? We know that celiac can also impact the liver and some of us do have elevated liver panels at the time of diagnosis that then go down after we have healed. I am not saying that celiac is the only cause of these issues I am just saying...
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    If you shop the outside aisles of the store for mostly whole unprocessed foods that makes it easier at first. Unless you have a Wegmans close by, (they put a circle G on their gluten-free stuff) you will have to read most labels unfortunately. Kraft and Unilever will label clearly, there are others also but those are the companies that most come to my...
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    None of the tests are really conclusive unfortunately. Did your doctor do a total IGA? There are quite a few of us who are IGA deficient which will make the IGA testing consistantly negative even if we are celiac.
  12. ravenwoodglass
    For me the trembling was a constant for a few years before diagnosis. One idiot doctor even thought I was an alcoholic because of it. I wasn't.
  13. ravenwoodglass
    Allergy testing will not pick up celiac or gluten intolerance. It is a different type of reaction. Glad to hear you have a Wegmans close by as they do make shopping so much easier, at least for me. One caution if you are looking at a product that comes in two sizes and one has the gluten-free label and the other doesn't there is a reason for that. Buy the...
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    I don't know how much I would trust those cookies.
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    I also have never had a migraine since I went gluten free. As to what your freind stated, well personally I don't buy it. If you do question it though stay gluten free for a few more weeks and then do a gluten challenge for a week or two with the 'organic' wheat products. I would be willing to bet the migraines come back.
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    I think Pacific makes a rice milk that would be safe. If you have a Wegmans near you theirs is also safe.
  17. ravenwoodglass
    I can just imagine what happens when you try to dust. Thanks for giving me the best laughs I have had in days.
  18. ravenwoodglass
    What were they all watching so intently out that window? Great pictures.
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    Please go with the supplements instead. Much safer than tanning and won't have your skin looking like leather by the time your 45.
  20. ravenwoodglass
    Many of us are also intolerant of dairy. The reason is because the same area in the intestines that forms the enzyme that helps us digest lactose is the area that is damaged by celiac. Often after we are healed we can add dairy back in. I avoided dairy for many, many years but within 6 months or so gluten free I was able to eat ice cream with no pain. If...
  21. ravenwoodglass
    Labs are the greatest. We had one named LD that was positively huge. When my manx Lexi had the one litter we let her have I came in the house one day to find him standing with a 2 or 3 week old kitten in his mouth. I was sure it was dead as it's little head was hanging out one side and just the tips of his little feet out the other. It turned out Lexi appointed...
  22. ravenwoodglass
    Celiac can be triggered at any point in someones life. It isn't something that is always present from early childhood. The ribbon stools could be from inflammation, I get that when I have eaten soy or been glutened. It can come and go. For me the loud tummy was directly related to gluten as was the constant gas. Either your GI or a GP can order a celic panel...
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    Where do you start, well right here. Go to the home page where they have lists of allowed and not allowed foods. Ask all questions you need to here and someone is sure to have an answer that will be helpful. False negatives in children are even more common than for adults so it is really worth a shot to give the diet a good strict try for a couple of months...
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    Yes it does sound like you could be one of us. Have they ever done a celiac panel and when they did the endo did they do biopsies to look for celiac? Keep in mind that false negatives are common with both tests. If you are done with all the testing you can go ahead and start a strict trial of the diet. Your in a good place to learn all you need to about how...
  25. ravenwoodglass
    If she is done with all testing you can go ahead and start a trial of the diet. Hopefully the doctor took at least 6 biopsies but be aware that there can be false negatives with them. The biopsies do need to be examined microscopically before the results can be given. Her response to the diet may give you the most conclusive answers before you get the testing...
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