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    I will not even eat at Chick-fil-A due to their donation of money to causes that discriminate against gay people. I don't care if they are the only gluten free option in ten miles. I could not eat their food and respect myself for supporting a company that is so against the basic civil rights of any number of my friends and family members.
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    Have you considered joining a raw food club or meetup? The food is typically grain free, though you will still have to take your chances with food prepared in someone else's kitchen.
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    Yay! Someone is trying it! I never get tired of it because there are so many different ways to serve it up. Your breakfast sounds fab; when my stomach is more settled again, I'll try that.
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    I stopped being hypo when I was on Atkins. Maybe you are still eating too much carby food. Fat and protein will keep your blood sugar stable.
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    Thanks, I will look into that, I am going to try to get a doctor's appointment tomorrow. Yesterday I started having a new symptom - twinges in my rectum (I know, tmi), in addition to twinges I'd already been having all over my abdomin, ow. It's like my whole GI tract is rebelling. Every time I eat anything, it sets off more gurgling and weirdness and...
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    First of all... I *will* be going to my doctor this week. This was some of the issue that caused me to go back on gluten free in the last month. It seems to not bother me as long as I stay away from "mystery food", but then if I eat anything "questionable" (which for the moment seems to be anything that I didn't prepare myself) I feel this way for a few...
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    Yes, I have this too. It feels like there's an alien baby inside of me, moving about.
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    Apparently got glutened the other day - I am still getting used to what I can and can't eat and both times that I've eaten out (one time at a Mexican place; one time, the other day, at a yogurt place - I had some labeled gluten free frozen yogurt, but with fruit toppings, and it's possible there may have been CC). At this point, I am staying away from anything...
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    I am on a limited income, too. Are you able to at all prepare your own food? What helps is that I've fundamentally changed the very way I approach food and this may mean that there are a lot of "conventional" foods that I do not eat (sandwiches are out of the question most of the time, for example) and that I have experimented a lot and "made up" a...
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    I don't to my knowledge have any issue with dairy and yet I eat coconut milk ice cream because it is SOOOOO good!!!!! ZOMG I especially love Larry & Luna's Coconut Bliss.
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    Does anyone else experience this? Feeling like I am full of gas through my entire GI tract, but it's not passing. Gurgling, including gurgling in my throat. I keep feeling like I have trapped burps in my chest, but I can't belch. Heartburn. This is a symptom that was nearly constant before I went gluten free this month, and I don't know if it's...
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    I hear you. i am very much a foodie and much of my social life revolved around eating out, as I don't have the resources to entertain and I'm too far for anyone to drive. Most of my friends live 40 miles away, so we have to meet midway which means - meeting at restaurants. The good news is that it's easier if you DO like to cook, than if you don't. It...
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    My nutrition teacher was quite knowledgeable about celiac and she said that people could test negative for several years before testing positive. And this is even while eating gluten. She also said that many people who were "gluten intolerant" but negative for celiac, eventually were positive for celiac via one of the tests.
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    I always felt awful when I cheated on Atkins, but chalked it up to the carbs. I just thought I was becoming diabetic like the rest of my dad's side of the family. I never ate bread on Atkins, low carb or otherwise - the low carb stuff tasted so awful that I wasn't tempted. I was close to a paleo style low carber (average meal was a salad with meat on it...
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    It took me a long time on gluten to start noticing reactions. I first started having frank celiac type of symptoms after coming off of Atkins. Thats when I had DH. BEFORE I'd been on Atkins, I just felt vaguely "bleh" all the time. Then - after being back on gluten for a few years, after my negative test - it took me a few years to start feeling sick...
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    That exact thing happened to me. My doctor actually told me to go gluten free... BEFORE MY TEST. Going gluten free before your test may cause you to have a negative test. I had what appeared to be a classic case of DH but they didn't biopsy it. In fact, ever since I've gotten my thyroid diagnosis, any time I have a health issue then it gets ignored if it...
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    I have nearly all of those symptoms. I get manic when my thyroid is too high, but am not dx'd bipolar. A lot of those sound like my Graves disease symptoms. I am not on the record as having celiac (doctor really bungled my testing when I had the chance to be diagnosed years ago), but being gluten free has cut out the symptoms you describe that aren't better...
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    I use Nishiki short grained rice, from 99 Ranch. I've also used a kind of black rice from there. No problems with it, but don't quote me on that because I don't know what the actual documentation on these products is.
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    Greetings - I was diagnosed 4 years ago with Graves' Disease. Unfortunately, my doctors more or less started stonewalling me about anything else I might have, since I got the diagnosis. I had a DH-like rash that cleared up on gluten free diet, but they wouldn't investigate any further after I tested negative for celiac. Now I'm on county insurance...
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    My lazy phase lasted about 4 years, after my doctor said "you tested negative for celiac, but you should still be gluten free" and didn't follow up with any additional testing. I had something suspiciously similar to DH, but it never came back. My severe celiac-like symptoms (it appeared classic celiac; GI issues, rash, the whole thing) were attributed to...
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    How many of us read about the gluten free girl and her love story with her chef, and now the bar is set impossibly high for our mates? They try their best, but they are not the Chef, who to be honest is really, really a dreamboat and a sweetheart, he made his whole restaurant gluten free for her. And on some level, I think we all want the Chef. I...
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    My symptoms are dominantly neuro. I experience a headachey dull feeling and feel "dumb" and confused. It happens pretty quickly... sets in within half an hour of eating.
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    Sometimes when you have to micromanage the things that your mate does, like oversee their food and pack their paper towels and toothbrush and stuff, you start to feel like you're on a trip with a small child and not an equal. I understand where she's coming from. Solving the problem for him won't make it feel better and will likely make anxiety worse...
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    If acidity is the problem, try cold brewing your coffee. Open Original Shared Link It's such a good cup that you may never want standard coffee again. I stopped needing to sweeten the coffee and it even tastes good without cream.
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    I'm with nursenation, my trick is to just not even try to replace gluteny foods. I used to be on Atkins and just eat close to paleo (except for white rice). Things like soups, I make large pots of then freeze in Tupperware containers. Think... green salad topped with meat of some kind (leftover chicken or canned tuna will work in a pinch) and a homemade...
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