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  1. HouseKat
    I've had symptoms for 23 years, and started asking doctors about Celiac 15 years ago. They always dismissed it out of hand, and then one of them told me that I couldn't have it because if I did I'd "be wasting away, not gaining weight". After my second close relative was diagnosed and I found out that it was hereditary - a doctor had told me that it was...
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    Every time I see the Keopectate ad with the guy who has diarrhea I think, "Dude, you need to get tested for Celiac." Kate
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    Pam, I also wear acrylic nails - for 13 years now - and I have been having more trouble with lifting since I went gluten-free about seven weeks ago. In fact, it doesn't even take a few days for them to lift, I find myself applying nail glue to free edges almost as soon as I'm done applying the acrylic. When I first started wearing nails, we had...
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    My top book recommendation would be Celiac Disease: A Hidden Epidemic by Dr. Peter Green. I bought a rice cooker that can also be used as a steamer and a crock pot, this has made cooking so much easier. It's the best investment I've made so far. Once a week I make a whole pot full of rice, store it in the fridge in ziploc bags, and microwave a cup or...
  5. HouseKat
    Since I went gluten-free on September 2nd, I've dropped one pant size. My weight has only dropped a few pounds, but I think that is because I'm gaining muscle mass as I lose the fat. (Muscle weighs more than fat, so you can actually put on pounds as your body gets slimmer.) I really need to start working out to accelerate the process.
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    I eat out quite a bit. I go to a Japanese restaurant for sushi, and I take along my own gluten-free soy sauce. I get chili, baked potatoes, and salads from Wendy's. We have a great Mexican restaurant that uses 100% corn chips, and I ask them to substitute corn tortillas for any dishes usually made with flour tortillas. Once or twice a month a vegetarian...
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    I was reading this article about nursing moms and babies with food allergies/intolerances, and this part really jumped out at me: It sounds like Maidenberg is an undiagnosed celiac...
  8. HouseKat
    I've been gluten-free for just over a month and am having normal BMs for the first time in many years. Each time I have a solid BM it is very uncomfortable, and afterwards I feel weak and drained. When I'm at home, I actually go lie down for a bit to recover. When I'm at work, it takes everything in me to walk back to my office from the restroom, and I...
  9. HouseKat
    About six weeks ago, my husband took me to the ER because I was bleeding profusely whenever I had a BM. The ER doc confirmed the presence of blood in my stool, and sent me over to see a GI doc who had done a colonoscopy on me a couple weeks before. He told me that I had a large hemorrhoid that was bleeding and sent me home. He was very dismissive of the...
  10. HouseKat
    I've only been gluten free for a month now, but twice I've had nightmares about having accidentally glutened myself. In the first, I had put crackers in my soup, in the second, I ate a piece of cake at a party. Kate
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    I forgot to include my background: 1/4 Irish and 3/4 German on my mother's side - the side with two other Celiacs - and English and Native American (Cherokee) on my father's side. I also suffer from polycystic ovary disease and vitiligo. Kate
  12. HouseKat
    I think my Celiac was triggered when I was in eighth grade. I had a horrible teacher for two classes back to back that made my life miserable. Around this same time, my two closest friends started hanging out with some bad kids, and they all got in trouble for breaking into a house and stealing stuff. I remember being sent home and/or staying home every...
  13. HouseKat
    In my experience, yes. I noticed years ago that my GI symptoms were worse during my periods. I've been gluten free for a month now, and was doing very well until my cycle started a few days ago. I'm experiencing the big D even though I have not had any gluten. (I also have Polycistic Ovary Disease, so my hormones are a bit more intense and out-of-whack...
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    About ten years ago, a doctor commented on my short pinkies and said that there was some correlation between short pinkies and some genetic disorders. He didn't go into any detail though.
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    My husband has been really understanding about the diet issues - he's been Type One diabetic since age 15. However, he keeps buying cheap nasty toilet paper, and then getting all hurt and pouty when I buy good stuff and refuse to use his. He just doesn't understand. He has at max one BM a day, I have a dozen or more, and cheap TP makes me sore!
  16. HouseKat
    I'm so glad that you mentioned this! My body temperature has ran low for years, and the doctors never though anything of it. I hadn't seen this symptom listed anywhere. Kate
  17. HouseKat
    Same here. Lomotil is the only thing that I've found that will make a difference, and that doesn't even always work. HouseKat
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    Yes. Once I was on my way from my office to a classroom to make a presentation in another part of the school, and it happened while I was walking down the hall. I had to find a bathroom, clean myself up, throw away my underwear, and then go explain to the teacher that I was feeling ill and wouldn't be able to talk to her class that day. I went back to...
  19. HouseKat
    I'm on my sixth day of the diet and I feel better than I have in months. Here's my story: I started having terrible diarrhea in middle school, around age 12. I was sent home sick from school nearly every day for months on end. Our pediatrician was useless (he was revered by my mom's family because he saved my preemie uncle's life 30 years earlier, so...
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