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ARCHIVED Tricks To Get Me To Take My Vitamins?
Sandi replied to a topic in Coping with Celiac Disease
mine sit near my keyboard and when i have my computer time, I always have water with me and I mostly take it then sandi -
ARCHIVED Ordered Tests From Endolab
Sandi replied to Sandi's topic in Celiac Disease Pre-Diagnosis, Testing & Symptoms
yes half a cup and no liquid well mine is done I have to get it off tomorrow i am assuming they want it frozen lol its still gross but i really dont smell anything but then i wraped it in several bags lol s -
I have decided to do a blog, never did one before and I am not sure I will keep up with it, but I will try. I doubt anyone will want to read it, but thats ok too I need to be able to think allowed right now and so this is it lol I was dx about 3-4 years ago. I had to find waht was wrong with me and make the Dr. do the tests to support my DX. Before that...
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i have always had the opp. effect never runs. I have been gluten free for about 5 days and dairy and casin free at least 3 of those days It seems everything is making me nauses and runs anything else i should be doing? I just did the endolab but i will mail it tomorrow but its a 3 week wait for that I also think i am starting meopause -- would that...
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if I cheated, it wasn't intentionaly But I haven't eaten alot, almost scared to but at least one meal if not 2 for the last 2 days I had 2 rice cakes, and about a inch of hebrew national salami and a plain hamburger but now i am having the runs, where before Dx it was the opp. What am i doing Wrong? I had some fruit too I have been trying to take...
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ARCHIVED Ordered Tests From Endolab
Sandi replied to Sandi's topic in Celiac Disease Pre-Diagnosis, Testing & Symptoms
yea I dont blame you there they would have been in for a surprise did it really take 3 weeks to get results? sandi -
ARCHIVED Ordered Tests From Endolab
Sandi replied to Sandi's topic in Celiac Disease Pre-Diagnosis, Testing & Symptoms
ok they have to pick it up I cant just drop it off at a ups store? sandi -
ARCHIVED Ordered Tests From Endolab
Sandi replied to Sandi's topic in Celiac Disease Pre-Diagnosis, Testing & Symptoms
they, they , they called you really and you had to tell then can I be not home just the thought of putting it in my freezer makes me upset how long does it have to be in the freezer is there a reason for the freezer bit??? Do it the day before I mail it?? oh gross why isnt that stated somewhere lol sandi -
ARCHIVED Ordered Tests From Endolab
Sandi posted a topic in Celiac Disease Pre-Diagnosis, Testing & Symptoms
) Gluten Sensitivity Stool and Gene Panel Complete *Best test/best value * Itemized Costs and Insurance Codes: Anticasein IgA (CPT 83520) $ 0 Quantitative fecal fat (CPT 82710) $ 70 PCR Amplification (CPT 83898) $ 30 DNA Isolation (CPT 83890) $ 30 DNA Separation (CPT 83894) $ 30 Probe Identification (CPT 83896) $ 30 Molecular Identification... -
ARCHIVED What Do You Have To Have In Your House
Sandi replied to Sandi's topic in Coping with Celiac Disease
yes BJ's is like Costos Yes I see i will haveto be shopping more at the regular stores sandi -
Its day 4 I think of being almost gluten free!~ If I had gluten, It was when I didnt know it. Its day 3 of dairy and casin free! Its hard and I have to put more thought inbuying the food and preparing it, something I am not used to. Fast and easy was my name, I dont like cooking and in the summer even worse. I still have pain in my bones and thumb and...
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ARCHIVED What Do You Have To Have In Your House
Sandi replied to Sandi's topic in Coping with Celiac Disease
Thank you, thank you thank you all I am so not a martha stewart, and I lack imagtation I went today and walked slowly around the store, and looked and read. I don't usually shop at a regular store but BJ's and they dont have much choice I was surprised at how many gluten free stuff there is now. A lot I knew to look closer at becasue of your lists, again... -
ARCHIVED What Do You Have To Have In Your House
Sandi replied to Sandi's topic in Coping with Celiac Disease
HI Thank you all for the great replies I wrote it all down and will take it with me. Some things will have to wait, like the toaster, I wont be making bread any time soon, Money is really short right now. I did once try enr gy brand pasta and it was slimey are they all like that? We have a few health food stores but they are small and dont seem to... -
HI I am trying to make it easier to stick to this diet I want to go shopping tomorrow and would like to ask what everyone has to have in their house as staples and all I will need some food to be fast and easy to make I am allergic to many fruits, some nuts and I am not sure about dairy and casin so I am staying away from them right now The 2 days...
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ok I order these tests A) Gluten Sensitivity Stool and Gene Panel Complete *Best test/best value * Itemized Costs and Insurance Codes: Anticasein IgA (CPT 83520) $ 0 Quantitative fecal fat (CPT 82710) $ 70 PCR Amplification (CPT 83898) $ 30 DNA Isolation (CPT 83890) $ 30 DNA Separation (CPT 83894) $ 30 Probe Identification (CPT 83896)...
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Thank you everyone for answering my post. I am getting so I am afraid to eat. Then today I weighted my self and I weight 330, I don't feel I weight that much, I eat to deal with my emotions and Its been getting worse sense my husband died and my youngest now is causing problems and that is stressful but in the end I know that's no excuse. So I want to stick...
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is brown rice glutin free? from a chinese take out? sandi
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I have been celiac for 4 years I never stuck to the diet, I know I am and was wrong. I have a very stressful life and food is my comfort (I am trying very hard to change that thinking now) Any way in the past I was able to cheat occ and stick to the diet and all Now I am finding I cant cheat at all When I cheat I am in total body pain, it hurts to sit...
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ARCHIVED Wearing Medical Alert Bracelet?
Sandi replied to mytummyhurts's topic in Gluten-Free Restaurants
I wear one, I have that I am on blood thinners too on it and when I ordered it I asked if it was important enough to put, they said yes. Not sure I would do one just for celiac but I did add it. I used to be EMT, and they are trained to look for the tags and all. -
HI After 5 years of going to DR to DR, I dx myself with celiac or Gluten sensitivity. My symptoms fit it so well. Abdominal cramping/bloating. Abdominal distention to the point of being painful. Constipation, Edema, Energy loss, Fatigue. Flatus, Mouth sores or cracks in the corners, Muscle cramping (Especially in the hands and legs) I have terrible leg...
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HI I explained my problem to my pastor and gave him the web site for the gluten free wafers at St. Patrick store someone posted. He was going to a religious store and said he would try there first. He brought home something and it wasnt labeled gluten free and said it was made with wheat and water. SO I called up and I asked if that was in fact the box...
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ARCHIVED Enterolab
Sandi replied to concernedlady's topic in Celiac Disease Pre-Diagnosis, Testing & Symptoms
HI My name is Sandi And I am 46 and have been in pain and all for 6 years I have been going to the Drs. but they say its my weight, yes I am over weight (275) but I am not eating like I look like I would be eating. I have such pain in my lower intestines and the gas that doesn't want to come out but run the laps around my intestines so that IM in pain...