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  1. sneezydiva
    Shari Lieberman's book "The Gluten Connection" actually explains this very well. She very effectively presents evidence that when man first started growing wheat, their health suffered. Then the industrial revolution brought about more abundant wheat, and man's health suffered, and then the boom of prepackaged foods starting in the 1930s, Wheat with more...
  2. sneezydiva
    In general, the skin prick tests are better and more accurate than RAST. RAST is supposedly not as sensitive as skin tests for IgE allergies. I believe this to be true with my allergy testing experiences. I have had better success with allergy shots for pollen allergies based on skin tests than I have from the RAST test. Many pollens that showed up in...
  3. sneezydiva
    Here is a link to the article I read. Basically, it tells about some of the different straines, and what researchers are discovering they do. I have taken so many courses of antibiotics, my gut was in bad shape. Acidophilis helped a lot, but I'm doing much better since I started taking supplements with more strains and rotating them. DanActiv seems especially...
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    Can you post the ingredients?
  5. sneezydiva
    I also had a great experience this past weekend at a Melting Pot in Virginia. We called ahead, and they told my husband it was no problem. The server assigned to us had dealt with a previous customer with a wheat allergy and was experienced with what to do. She brought me some corn tortilla chips that they usually only serve with the mexican cheese fondue...
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    Ravenwoodglass is correct gluten intolerance/celiac is not an allergy, and will not show up on the skin test or an allergy blood test. However, food allergies can and do show up on skin tests if they are IgE related immediate allergic reactions. Small children's food allergies almost always show up in skin testing because of their less developed immune...
  7. sneezydiva
    It could be gallbladder related.
  8. sneezydiva
    It definitely could be die-off. How long have you been taking them? You're taking good products. Personally, for me, GSE wasn't enough. What helped me was adding Caprilyc acid and oil of oregano. They all work slightly differently so, there is less a chance of the candida becoming resistant. I also like to rotate probiotics. I read an article in...
  9. sneezydiva
    I looked up the ingredients online. Nothing is jumping out to me as a gluten ingredient, but I am very new to this. Maybe some one else can weigh in. Act Restoring Mouthwash Anticavity Cool Splash Mint Active Ingredients: Sodium Fluoride (0.05%) (0.02% w/v Fluoride Ion) (Anticavity) Inactive Ingredients: Water, Alcohol (11%), Sorbitol, Poloxamer...
  10. sneezydiva
    If you are okay with corn, tortilla chips. I hardly miss the bread, when I dip them in fondue. I also love granny smith apples, broccolli and cauliflower with cheese fondue.
  11. sneezydiva
    Oh yes. I didn't have any digestive symptoms until about 6 months ago, but I've been ill for over a decade.
  12. sneezydiva
    Not to veer off-topic, but I just bought some swanson chicken broth, (boxed, not canned) and read the label, and I thought it was gluten free. Am I mistaken? It's Swanson Natural Goodness (low sodium) boxed broth: Ingredients: chicken stock, salt, flavoring, dextrose, autolyzed yeast extract, celery juice concentrate, onion juice concentrate. ...
  13. sneezydiva
    I agree, not to say your symptoms aren't real. My DH is still eating whole grain Thomas's English muffins, and I can't stand the smell now. The body is an amazing thing, and it doesn't want you to eat things that hurt you. So now your intelectual brain knows what the problem is, your instinctal, subconscious brain is also making sure you never want to...
  14. sneezydiva
    Are you eating a lot of fat? When I started eating gluten free, I followed South Beach diet, phase 2, which is an essentially high protein diet, and while not high in unhealthy fats, contained a lot more fat than I normally ate. And when I ate a fatty meal, the fat would "go right through me" so to speak. When the celiac disease destroys your villi, your...
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    The skin test is a very accurate test for immediate IgE allergic reactions. Food allergies can show up on skin testing, my wheat allergy did, quite dramatically, I might add. Also, most anaphylatic reactions to foods will show up on skin tests. For environmental allergies, like pollen, skin testing is the most accurate way to be tested. Even if your reaction...
  16. sneezydiva
    My pain mimicked classic ulcer symptoms. It was smack in the middle of my stomach, under my diaphragm. It was this sharp, stabbing pain at first, and then would fade into a duller pain. A few times it radiated to my back. It hurt most when my stomach was empty and felt better when I ate. Everyone thought it was a ulcer, but Nexium didn't touch it, and...
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    Did you get an actual doctor's diagnosis? If you were "lucky" enough to have a diagnosis, perhaps your doctor calling your mother and explaining the situation may be enough to change her tune. People take things better from "authority" I'm so sorry. I know how it is dealing with skeptical relatives. I keep in mind what my first allergist told my...
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    sneezydiva replied to Leanna's topic in Coping with Celiac Disease

    Yes! I swear that my sporadic gray hairs have come and gone, and come back again in the last 7 years. Looking back, I think my experimentation with South Beach diet caused my remissions of gray. When it happend, I swear I would pluck hairs that were dark at the root and tip, yet white in the middle. Proof that they went gray and wnet back. Now I...
  19. sneezydiva
    I agree. Those are classic allergy symptoms. Though I have a diagnosed wheat allergy, and didn't have those classic symptoms. It can all be pretty confusing.
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    Well, for me and my sister our fingers never turn blue, they're cold and white forever it seems, then finally get warm and red and tingly. When it happens to my toes, sometimes I'll see the blue, sometimes not. My sister gets it much more often than I do, and it seems to happen year round for her. Mine is more pronounced in cold weather. But in winters...
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    This is going to be difficult to set up at home. The ones they do in the doctor's office are actually double blind, meaning even the doctor doesn't know which pill contains the allergen and which doesn't, to prevent biases on his part also. I believe you have to avoid the food for at least a month before you can challenge it. I think any wheat based...
  22. sneezydiva
    Also, has anyone tried your daughter on a H-2 blocker like Zantac, rather than a PPI like prevacid? If a true food allergy is involved, an antihistamine and/or a H-2 (histamine type 2) blocker would help her more than a PPI because it would reduce the histamine response that is happening. Besides giving us a stuffy nose, histamine (specifically histamine...
  23. sneezydiva
    The allergist was extremely remiss in not testing for food allergies. WTH did he think the GI wanted him to do when he referred you to him? You weren't there because your poor baby is sneezing her head off! The sad truth about allergists/immunologists is that a lot of them consider themselves asthma specialists, and if you don't have asthma, they don't...
  24. sneezydiva
    I'm pretty much self-diagnosed with gluten sensitivity. My celiac blood panel was negative. I did a lot of reading here and also read a few books. However, even after I decided all this, I pushed for food allergy testing. I wanted to check for other food allergy/intolerances, and though I know allergy and celaic are different things, I was hoping wheat...
  25. sneezydiva
    I started the diet a few months ago, but just last week, I got a positive result on a wheat allergy test. I was okay at the doctor, but when I got home, I cried. It hit me like a brick that I really have to give it up now. That it is no longer a choice. I think seeing a gluten filled food you like, but can't have does the same thing, especially if it...
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