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  1. Wonka
    You've got yourself a keeper.
  2. Wonka
    I don't beat myself up about it though. Every experience we have, the good and the bad, help form who we are and I'm rather fond of who I am now. I have more empathy. Having to look so deep into who I was helped me to see others as more than the surface that they present. You do need to get away from your mother for your own sanity. But what you are experiencing...
  3. Wonka
    It sounds like you have a wonderful doctor. I'm going to ask my GP to order a the blood test on my kids and if any of them indicate the need for a biopsy I think I'll contact the Vancouver Chapter for a recommendation for a specialist. I don't want them to have deal with this man's insensitivity. I had a similar experience with the Rheumatologist who I...
  4. Wonka
    Another ex-self medicator here too.
  5. Wonka
    I find it frustrating as well. My GI has told me that he doesn't think that I have celiac because the blood test was negative (I have IgA deficiency and it's an IgA test) and my biopsy was negative (I didn't know he had done a biopsy over a year ago until last wednesday - I had been gluten free for 3 years at the time of the biopsy - the endoscopy was for...
  6. Wonka
    It's nice to know that I'm not the only one to experience this kind of insensitivity by doctors.
  7. Wonka
    You've had some good advice here. I had a similar experience. Negative blood test. Reacting to everything. The problem for me was that I wasn't paying enough attention to hidden gluten and was constantly glutening myself. I went for a very bland diet until my gut settled, no gluten (paying attention this time), no dairy. I was still reacting daily until I...
  8. Wonka
    Yesterday I went back to see the gastroenterologist. I had seen him previously for a colonoscopy (my grandmother died of colon cancer at 53) and an endoscopy (to check for damage due to GERD). The first thing he said to me was that he didn't think I had Celiac Disease (apparently he did a biopsy when he did my endoscopy {first time I was told that a biopsy...
  9. Wonka
    TAPIOCA BREAD 1 3/4 cups warm water 2/3 cup instant milk powder 3 large eggs, beaten 1/4 cup melted butter 1 tsp vinegar 1/4 cup sugar 1 1/2 tsp salt 2 1/4 cups brown rice flour 1 1/2 cups tapioca flour (sometimes sold as tapioca starch) 1 Tbsp Xanthan gum (this is important to help the structure of the loaf) 1 Tbsp quick rise yeast In a bowl...
  10. Wonka
    Thanks. I have only recently been back on dairy. Thank goodness, I missed my decaf lattes. With my carageenan sensitivity I couldn't go for the soy latte alternative. Plain herbal tea just isn't the same. LOL It's funny, I'm fine being gluten free (it helps that I love to cook) but hated having to be dairy free. I missed my lattes and butter. I didn...
  11. Wonka
    Another great sounding recipe. I'm OK with dairy but can't tolerate rice,soy or almond milk. What would work best with this recipe, whole milk, 2%, 1%, 1/2 and 1/2, cream?
  12. Wonka
    You're recipes prove that being celiac does not mean having to eat boring. You view food as I do. It's not the enemy (just some of it) and we can all eat well. I am a practicing food snob and I looooove eating food prepared well. I'll be trying your recipe.
  13. Wonka
    I'm the same as you. I experience no hypoglycemia syptoms as long as I balance my food and don't allow myself to get really hungry (I eat frequent small snacks between meals (protein/fat and carb source - usually fruit or veg).
  14. Wonka

    ARCHIVED New To Site

    Wonka replied to 1GreysFan's topic in Coping with Celiac Disease

  15. Wonka
    Good question. I have the diagnosis of fibromyalgia and I'm curious to see if more of those symptoms decrease the longer I am off gluten. The first time, after an elimination diet, that I stopped eating gluten (I was as careful as now and didn't know as much so I'm sure I was only gluten reduced) my fibromyalgia pain and fatigue reduced by 1/2. The thing...
  16. Wonka
    Alot of my socializing does revolve around food. My food. If there is a party (I'm not working now but this is what I used to do) I offer to make a main or a dessert (or sometimes both if I want both). I have an amazing group of friends who go out of their way to accomodate my needs (I know I'm very lucky) but because I love to cook and also love to eat I...
  17. Wonka
    I think that this is an illness that is very hard for those that do not have it, to understand. Most people just don't understand how sick we get when we have even a minute exposure to gluten. It often appears to those without the condition that we are just acting obsessive compulsive. Your father, stepmother, mother in law and others will need time to really...
  18. Wonka
    I'm pretty sure I have seen, somewhere, that there is gluten free blue cheese. If so, what are the brands and can we get them in Canada (Vancouver)? I would like to make a recipe that calls for RT bluecheese to be wrapped around grapes then rolled in toasted nuts but no one I've spoken to, even our biggest cheese store, are aware of which brands are gluten...
  19. Wonka
    You could make a quiche. I use 4 eggs to 1 1/2 cups of cream then vary the cheeses and other ingredients (my last one was proscuitto and cotswold cheese). I usually make a potato crust for my quiche (2 large peeled and grated potatoes, salt them for about 10 minutes then wring out in a clean tea towel, add 1 Tbsp of oil and one beaten egg then press into...
  20. Wonka
    I'll be giving these a try. Thanks for the work you put in to be able to share this with all of us.
  21. Wonka
    I lost 40 lbs going gluten free. I had triplets in 1995 and, of course, gained lots of weight. Lost it through exercise then had so many physical problems (nerve and muscle pain which was diagnosed as fibromyalgia) and was unable to exercise and gained it all back. I had read that people with fibromyalgia have many food sensitivities so I went on an elimination...
  22. Wonka
    September is usually a really nice month here in Vancouver. Still warm but not hot, cooler evenings and very green (we do get frequent bouts of rain as this is a temporate rainforest). You should enjoy yourself. Check out Zin Restaurant and Lounge when you are here (1277 Robson Street - downtown). The chef has a wife with Celiac Disease so the restaurant...
  23. Wonka

    ARCHIVED Soy!?!?!

    Wonka replied to Twila Marie's topic in Coping with Celiac Disease

    I can't have soy milk, rice milk or almond milk. Apparently I am sensitive to carrageenan. Which makes sense to me as I have always felt awful after eating cheap commercial icecream and sour cream. Thankfully the expensive icecream (at least I think I'm thankful lol) works for me and I have found a sourcream without carrageenan.
  24. Wonka
    I feel your pain. I love my KA. Do you know any old gents that love to tinker? Sometimes they are the best at fixing what seems like an unfixable problem.
  25. Wonka
    I can once again have dairy but when I was lactose intolerant I made gluten-free pizza with homemade pizza sauce, roasted garlic, carmelized onions (I make a huge batch in the crock pot and freeze in muffin tin, pop out and store in freezer in a zip loc bag) and sheep feta cheese. I didn't miss the dairy cheese at all. I often used goat chevre when I needed...
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