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    Hi, You should eliminate both corn and nightshades at the same time. And while you are at it you may as well eliminate soy and dairy. Nightshades are tomato, potato, peppers, and eggplant. If you are doing an eljmination diet it is better to start with a small number of foods and add foods rather than trying piecemeal remove one food at a time and guess...
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    Hi, Fast pulse is a symptom of hyperthyroid. It can be dangerous and should not be ignored by your doctor. People with celiac are prone to other autoimmune disease. Hashimoto's thyroiditis is an autoimmune disease that attacks the thyroid. Hash's can cause hyperthyroid and hypothyroid symptoms at different times. Graves disease can cause hyperthyroid...
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    Hi Jinxy, It seems there just isn't a foolproof 100% sure test for celiac disease yet. The tests are very reliable when they are positive, but when they are negative that doesn't mean you don't have it. Since people often don't "pass" the tests, or rather they don't get a reliable indication from them, it is always a good idea to try the gluten-free...
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    Hi, Jestgar posted this article reference a few days ago. It describes new research showing there is a condition that is not celiac but has celiac like in symptoms. The doctors are starting to catch up with us a little. You could look into Enterolabs testing also, but it is not considered diagnostic. If your symptoms from waiting gluten are bad...
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    Hi, Yes, there are other people on the board who are "silent celiacs". I am not sure how they deal with it, except to just be careful. Not an easy answer I guess. Maybe some of them will jump in to discuss. If you search on "silent celiac" you may find other threads about it.
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    Hi, Welcome to the site! You were smart to go get tested again. Celiac doesn't go away, it is a lifelong thing once it starts. The immune system learns to kill gluten just like it kills germs, and the gut takes the damage along with the gluten since that's where the battle is fought. Antibodies are normally much higher in the gut, where they are...
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    Yep, another one of us gets diagnosed! Yay!. There are many, many more that are undiagnosed, and don't know why they are sick and getting sicker every day. The estimate is 90% or more of celiacs are undiagnosed in the USA. Many doctors don't think to test people for it. Here are some getting started threads that may help. I only put in a few of the...
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    Oh, so that's why they put those signature lines a the bottom, now I get it! Guess the better not make him any eggs then. Ah well, maybe he will grow to like ftuit after he gets a little older. I like to put cans of sliced peaches in the refrig and eat them on hot days. It's sorta, kinda like ice cream. Well, If he does want a simple home made...
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    Sounds like it could be lactose intolerance. You can get lactaid pills to see if they help. Make sure the don't have gluten in them though.
  10. GFinDC
    I am thinking Dani may be on to something. You can try some probiotics and digestive enzymes with your meals. mya help some. Digestive upset is pretty common when starting out on the gluten-free diet. I did eat less after goign gluten-free than before. I just wasn't as hungry as often as I used to be. But if you are getting a full feeling after a few...
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    Sounds good Vincent, he should be fine. They might be able to provide fresh fruit for him, and boiled eggs. Shoot, most canned fruit is fine for that matter, or frozen too. I imagine he will have a blast!
  12. GFinDC
    Documented fact, this is what London needs, more red balls: Open Original Shared Link Hang in there Loey, I imagine we have all fallen on our faces more times than we care to admit. Shoot, I fell off a bridge one time. Didn't get hurt luckily since it was dark. Luv the ducky video! Wincent, mullets get no respect for some reason. They...
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    Hi Will, You will need to change your diet for sure if you are going to be gluten-free. Eating anything from a restaraunt is always risky and is not something a new celiac should do for a while. It is much better to stick with whole foods that you cook yourself at home. Why take a chance when you are just getting started? Your body needs to be completely...
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    Before I knew I had celiac I had lactose intolerance and thought that was the problem. So I avoided dairy for the most part hoping that would fix the symptoms. I bought lactaid pills and anti-histamines every week. Lots of aspirin too. I figured my reactions to bread were because of the dairy content. Duh. I got scratch testing for my hayfever...
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    Ha ha, believe me, you don't want the symptoms, they are not all that much fun! Mild celiac is like mild preganancy. You are either pregnant or you aren't, same with celiac. What your doc might have meant is you have moderate damage at this point to your intestinal villi. They rate the damage to the intestinal villi on the Marsh scale. Visible damage...
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    Hi, Your doctor should test all you vitamins / mineral levels to see if they are normal. You may not be healed enough to absorb them completely at 12 months. You also should look very carefully at what you are eating and make sure there is no hidden gluten in the foods. Things you drink like coffee an tea need to be checked and also vitamin pills and...
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    ha Ha, good one Shauna! I haven't seen that one before. Thanks for sharing!
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    Thanks Jestgar, It's nice to see there is some research being one on wheat sensitivity without celiac disease. NCGI is what I usually call those symptoms. Leave ti the researcher s to invent a different term though.
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    Hi, The research on non-celiac wheat intolerance is pretty sketchy at present. They are starting to learn about it but there is a long way to go. So we don't really know what kind of affects it can have on the body. Inflammation is not a good thing for the body though and usually accompanies food reactions. Getting tested for celiac would be a smart...
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    Here are some threads discussing allergy testing. It is not so great a process. That it works at all is something to be grateful for I guess. But the stories from posters on this forum indicate that allergy tests and reactions can be greatly affected by eating gluten. Seasonal Allergies Better?!?!? gluten-free Helping with this perhaps? 96-Food...
  21. GFinDC
    Our guts can become sensitive to many different foods, not just gluten. So you need to think about that possibility at some point. Generally though, you should improve if you are eating a clean, whole foods diet for 3 to 6 months. How your body responds to celiac disease may be different from mine or other peoples. It took me 4.5 years to get to felling...
  22. GFinDC
    Yep, could be any of the three. I got hit once by Vitamin water so I don't drink it anymore. Not sure why though, not really thinking ti was gluten but something else in it. I am not interested enough in drinking vitamin water to try and figure it out. I just got one a on a hot day to cool off. But never again.
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    Hi Kitty, You sure sound like a celiac to me. Your doc is off in la-la land if you ask me. To refuse to test you with the symptoms you have is ridiculous. Some doctors don't believe that people who are overweight can have celiac disease, maybe your is one of them. That's wrong thinking and totally incorrect. Celiac may actually cause some people...
  24. GFinDC
    Hi Ed, Yes, it can get better. The general opinion seems to be that nuerolgical symptoms improve more slowly though, perhaps somewhere in the range of 18 months to get better. You get kind of a double whammy on the nerves with celiac disease. First the antibodies can attack the brain in some cases and cause damage. And 2nd the damage to the gut can...
  25. GFinDC
    I don't think most allergy testing is super reliable really. I had pretty bad hayfever allergies for years but they cleared up after going gluten-free. I believe when our immune systems are reacting to something it is not totally a local event. I believe gut reactions can cause other immune reactions like IgE reactions to flare up. There are threads on...
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