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    Joss, I suffer the calf and toe cramps! So painful! I have only learned I have celiac disease the 15th of Nov. 2007. My stomach is huge and I have very thin arms and legs. I just wanted to say I understand your frustration. My family and friends seem to think its going to be easy to simply avoid bread and flour products. They have no idea! By the way I am 66 years old.

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    I live with my sister and she always leaves crumbs around. Somehow they get everywhere and she thinks I am paranoid by insisting that even one crumb can cause trouble. Yesterday she made me some relish from beets I prepared earlier. She made a big fuss about not using malt vinegar in them. I told her red vinegar would be fine because the beets were red...
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    She has had a lot of change in her life. It is hard having been an only child and now having 3 other kids to deal with. This was not her decision and she needs help. Instead she feels she is being punished for being grumpy. I would be too if I was her. You will get further by givng her love and understanding than by making her write assignnments on gluten...
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    Oh great thats anther symptom I have. I was diagnosed with spondylitis and acording to the site linked they are all much of a muchness. And yet my idiot doctor does not believe me.
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    Thank you all so much for your great replies. I am checking out that email address and Nyxie I actually have some smoked paprika on my spice rack. I completely forgot about that. It's just that I am vegan and I love sweet potatoes with barbeque sauce drizzled over them instead of butter as I am casein free too. I ate some fries yesterday that must have...
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    My main symptoms are asthma, excema, chronic low feritin levels, atrial fibrillation, osteoporosis, Graves Disease, migraines, depression and tiredness. I also had gas and bloating coupled with constipation. I have been on a gluten free diet new fo 6 weeks and I feel much better. I did eat some gluten at 2 weeks and I came out in a generalised itchy rash...
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    That's a great idea as it really is only a tomato based sauce with brown sugar in it. But I like the smoky flavour and living in Australia, I can't buy liquid smoke here at all. I will try to experiment as I love sauces. Some tomato sauces are ok though. I keep searching the gluten free items in the stores hoping to find a bbQ sauce, to no avail. Maybe I...
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    I agree I need to have an emergency stash of food on hand. This bout of hunger took me by surprise, because I never used to get hungry. Now I have been REALLY gluten free since October this year and things are changing fast. I think I am actually starting to digest food properly for the first time. I am starting to get hungry so this must be good? I live...
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    Today I did the silliest thing. I missed eating lunch because a friend was here and we got talking for quite some time. I was so hungry I wanted food immediately. I didn't have anything at all that I could eat straight away and my sister left a loaf od great freshly baked bread out on the kitchen counter. I thought that eating anything was better than felling...
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    Mouth I have reduced my asthma meds by three quarters now that I am gluten free. My inhaled steroids have dropped from 1600 IUs a day to 400 IUs a day. Next move is down to just 200, whoo hoo! Also my poops have gone from the sticky clayish stuff to normal looking ones. Now they even SMELL like poops.
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    Hi All! About the avatars, if you like them just right click on them and "save picture" in your photos then you can change them whenever the fancy takes you. Jessica's grandmother, yes I was thinking that juvenile diabeties is a far more serious disease than type 2. Give her a big cuddle from me please. I am a lifelong asthmatic and I control this...
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    Sometimes this happens when kids don't chew their food enough. However I suppose it could also be a malnutrition problem too. Corn kernals alwys seem to just pass through as do linseeds if they are not ground. Since going gluten free I have noticed a change in my poop too. I hope someone who actually knows anput this subject answers your post.
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    Your GI man must have gone to school with my idiot doctor because he told me that if I am truly gluten intolerant, there are always detectable traces of gluten anitbodies. I tokld him he was an idiot, nicely of course.
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    I have been gluten free for about four months now. However I did a gluten challenge for tests, but cut that short when I was told it would take four months to build up the antibodies in my blood stream. I have been able to reduce my asthma meds by three quarters. However after ingesting the gluten, my ears became blocked almost immediately and I had a weeklong...
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    I get atrial fibrillation which is caused by food intolerances. Not sure if its gluten but I definitely react to certain addiitves.
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    I did get glutened and I am really, really itchy.
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    What a couple of hunks! Congratulations on the birth of your beautiful son. Joss
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    Given that we have to have an official DX I visited my doctor and told him my blood test came back positive several years earlier and that I had chronically low iron as tested by them, osteoporosis, thyroid disease, migraines, asthma and all I needed was for him to sign my membership form. Guess what? He refused and wanted to test me again. I told him as...
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    I like Moores bread too. It's quite expensive though at nearly $6 per loaf. Joss
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    Have a great weekend Miss Wing Bat. Joss
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    Kassandra you should be fine. It will be Summer in NZ and there will be a lot of seasonal fruit and vegetables. I think they get similar product in New Zealand as we do in Australia. There is a great celiac group there, so I would google that and get in touch with a representive from there. I am gluten and dairy free and vegan to boot and I get by very well...
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    Wowzer tell him if he continues to do this he has to buy his own computer. They are pretty cheap these days and he probably needs his own anyway.
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    Barb you made it sound that it was all our fault and we were making it even more difficult than it needs to be. I think you need to realise that this is a normal part of a grieving process, so don't worry and don't apologise. Just be thankful that there IS a place where you can scream and most people, but not me, will not mention it. The only reason I mentioned...
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    I have been reading this thread and found it interesting. Unfortunately my youngest daughter, now in her 30s has bipolar disorder. Looking back she was a difficult child, but not intensely angry. She was more clingy and threw small tantrums rather than rages. She was diagnosed at 23 and sometimes she takes her meds and sometimes she doesn't. Non-compliance...
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    ARCHIVED Stomach Pain

    Joss replied to newceliac's topic in Coping with Celiac Disease

    The first thing I noticed is that I can now breath through my nose ( I am asthmatic) and no longer have to breath through my mouth. When I wake up in the morning I don't have a dry throat and no longer need to drink during the night. The other thing is that my ears unblocked. Well that is until I did a gluten challenge and they blocked up again. Now...
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