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  1. Centa

    ARCHIVED My Rant

    Centa replied to Acersma's topic in Coping with Celiac Disease

    Good post, Jody. I definitely think along the same way you do. It's for us to take back our life, and to take the daily actions that we need for our own health. And since we're the ones who have the disease, it's up to us to teach others about it, and do the speaking up and if need be acting up to do things like getting labels changed or getting from...
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    Hi, loco ladi You and I are going to have to talk gardening from time to time. All best, and thank you for the tip on the 1/4" chicken wire. Irises are pretty sturdy aren't they? Will they re-colonize?
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    ARCHIVED Diagnosed Myself

    Centa replied to Nanjkay's topic in Doctors

    About probiotics, I have a question for those who have gotten into exploring about lactobacillus: I found out that I was celiac in kind of a rolling process, in which a Western doctor refused to follow up for a couple years when I presented symptoms to him; an alternative medicine practitioner (Chinese medicine) told me what I was reporting had to do...
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    Hi, Barbara. I see that you're in Wyoming. Part of your worry is that people are referring to test results, but not talking to you about what's in them. There's a law in the U.S. now, as far as I know, that says that patients can get copies of all their test results. I regularly get copies of my blood tests for my annual, my bone densities, and any...
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    ARCHIVED Stupid Doctor

    Centa replied to ~alex~'s topic in Doctors

    The decision to have kids belongs to you and your husband; you're the ones who will care for the child and raise her, not the doctor. I think this doctor is way, way, way out of line. For one thing, there are a couple kinds of genetic testing that you and your husband could do that will give you more information about the probability of having a child...
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    That's interesting, Chaty. So glad you found relief from hypoglycemia. I took magnesium malate for quite awhile for muscle spasms. It did seem to help, but the best help was taking gluten out of my diet...the spasms, which had been a pretty big item in my life, have nearly disappeared. Here are a few lines quoted from Shari Lieberman's The Real Vitamin...
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    I remember seeing these...your mom was a resourceful lady, ISG...
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    Agreed. But I don't use my dishcloth to clean up the counters and stove...that's sponge territory for me...and crumb territory. Can't be too safe. Another thing that can be done is to run the potscrubber through the dishwasher and toss frequently...it's a collector, too. And while we're on the subject of gluten but also perhaps other things lurking...
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    Welcome to the site, au natural Asian markets do have rice flour. They also sell considerably more inexpensive garbanzo flour than what you're buying in health food stores. Look for the name "gram flour" It's also called "besan flour." Asian markets are a great place for buying lentils and other legumes, too. Oh, and bags of rice, and if you're...
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    One thing that can be done with a pot, if it's not something like cast-iron without a coating, is to put it on the stove filled with soapy water, and boil it for awhile, pour off the soapy water, fill with fresh water, boil it again, pour it off, and repeat (more fresh water, more boiling). That should address what's into the surface of the pot, some. ...
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    Loco ladi, So glad to read your post. How often do you turn it? And do you tend it during the very cold weather, or just let it be? Where would I find that 1/4" chicken wire, only in a farm store, or would I find it in some home improvement place, too, do you think? I could sure use some to sift soil....I bought a 50 year old house whose...
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    Hi, Ridgewalker You may be doing this already, but consider a few days of writing down exactly what Ezra eats and drinks, and when he poops and throws up. Your doctor definitely needs to know as much detail as you can give her. It's an unpleasant topic, but celiac poop also has some frequent characteristics, so I'd suggest telling the doctor about...
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    I'm familiar with the details of the list of food additives to watch that is linked to this site, but I've been trying to skip maltodextrin, dextrin anything and caramel coloring anyway Does anyone else have a bloating response when they eat these? Anyone else with a thought on this?
  14. Centa
    In addition to what jenngolightly suggested, check out university websites for things like "continuing education", "professional development" or "distance education" as free-standing units in the university Contact university departments in your subject area/s to see if they're doing "distance education" which is often the term used for online courses...
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    Any new thread titled "Grrrrrrrrrrrrr" on the forum page, I'm going to check. Violetblue, if they listed ingredients on their website and then did that switch, I say fire away and say exactly what you think. And you can sign for me, too. What a hassle.
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    Thanks for that last post, Canadian Karen. What's the link to the discussion of wheat that you posted? If there's more to the article, I'd like to read it. Yes, it seems that eating unengineered food is getting to be impossible, and I agree that there's a combination of disregard, lack of information and (the news article you posted suggests) selling...
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    I researched an insurance policy for a friend of mine who had no health insurance and a very long standing congenital health problem, and that's the definition that was used. The policy we were looking at specified that "pre-existing" meant that the medical condition had been formally diagnosed by a doctor. In that policy, there was a waiting period of...
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    Thanks, Ezme Without hearing directly from the producer of the corn flour, I was going to say probably everything's OK. But I was unsure about contamination at the point of making tortillas commercially I couldn't remember ever seeing any wheat tortillas come out of those automatic tortilla-making machines, but I wasn't sure. I looked up the process...
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    Absolutely I've never grown snow peas...where do you get the seeds?
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    Hi, Connie, Yoplait and Mountain High... For anyone already putting in time in the kitchen for something else, yogurt is easy to make as you prepare other things. Takes a few minutes, and then it sits on the counter (I wrap mine up in old towels and put it in a big stockpot with a lid...no special yogurt machine is needed). Somewhere in the memory...
  21. Centa
    You've inspired me to get out there and get going.... It's a great time to plant fall lettuce where I live...
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    I second what Ridgewalker suggests. That's best. And another problem of straw is that it is baled in the field, which means that you get weeds along with the straw, and you'll get a crop of imported weeds in your garden the next season. If your own yard isn't is weedy, you also can till in some yard leaves this fall, the same leaves that you'd want...
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    Here's an article on the rOpen Original Shared Link and the iffyness of the diagnostic criteria used to examine quite small children, that will contribute to the discussion in this thread. [Oh, rats. I just doublechecked the post. Boston.com wants people to register. Well, you can if you like get it from the net with the title "Backlash on bipolar...
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    OK, I'm in trouble....I really haven't done much off the shelf buying of prepared gluten free products...that Ener-G rice bread at $6-7 a pop was so expensive and so bleah dry sour...I wasn't willing to risk that much money on that much disappointment... But oh boy, fat city here I come. what with all the praise of Pamela's cookies, I was in a health...
  25. Centa
    I had this hot flash-perimenopause/menopause-celiac intersection in my life, too, just like ravenwoodglass. For me the thing that improved my hot flashes and night sweats was sleep (good nighttime rest)...but that ties right back to celiac. Exercise definitely helps me sleep deeper, but the real key to permanent change was gluten. I got through the...
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