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  1. Takala
    1. yes. it went away once I was gluten free for awhile. Took longer for the night blindness to go away. Am absolutely fascinated that I can see things at night now, sometimes I go outside and just look at stuff. Have no idea if it's related. You can also get glare reflective lenses to wear for driving, this is a big help. I still don't like freeway driving...
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    You're evolving, Jason. You walk thru a world full of people slinging sauces and are so far successfully dodging most of them. You have a tough list of foods to be avoided compared to most of us, and you're coping successfully. I ate this really amazing restaurant meal last week successfully, this place has a gluten-free menu and the waitstaff is caring...
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    You are just out of whack, that's all. And glutened. If it's not in the house you can't eat it. Stock up on what you can eat and get rid of the rest of it. If you are not already, you will need to be taking a gluten free multivitamin, B complex, calcium w/ D, and magnesium supplements. Try eating higher protein, lower carbohydrate and higher...
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    I make quick gluten free "bun in a bowls" in the microwave, using various ramekins and cereal bowls and quick bread recipes. For a hot dog "bun," I make a large one then cut it in half into two half moon shapes, then stand it on its flat cut end and slice into the top lengthwise. This thread has the recipe: amended to add, I use baking soda...
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    Oh, no, NorthernElf, what a bummer ! So far I've been good with the ones in Northern CA (keeping fingers crossed). The last time they had switched to the rice/corn noodle from a straight rice noodle, and it was a spiral rotini type of pasta instead of the flat rice spaghetti/linguini type, so they could keep track of it- I immediately was poking it...
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    Flip that sucker and nuke it under the broiler sans the parchment paper - watch carefully & don't set off the smoke alarm. This is what my spouse does with the tortillas we make pizzas out of - we like thin crust. The restaurants I've eaten some crispy gluten free pizza at, will take and serve the thing on a serving pan with lots of little raised bumps...
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    Hi, didn't catch this thread earlier. I'm another one who ended up with the "bright spots" or brain lesions, complete with the neuro from hell
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    Yes, it is possible that you are becoming more sensitive, to the point of full blown intolerance, over time. Unless you have been eating a full gluten type of diet for months, chances are your medical blood tests won't show a reaction and the biopsy may not, either, then you are still feeling very sick while eating gluten, but officially "not" gluten...
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    Most people have skills that they use to do something well. It is merely transferring some of those skill sets over to another activity. Unless your friends are using dedicated gluten free cake pans, rubber spatulas, and mixers, and working on a clean surface with clean potholders, don't let them bake you a "gluten free" item at their house, because...
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    If you continue to eat/take gluten foods or supplements, under the excuse of "was told to by this expert" you will continue to have problems. There are numerous write ups on the web over the years, describing problems people have had taking the supposedly gluten free "Benefiber" - which is made of wheat dextrin, and obviously not processed enough to be...
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    If you start practicing now, you should be able to get the gluten free cake and frosting edible by the time the birthday rolls around. ; ) You know what these negative biopsies remind me of ? You're driving down the freeway and manage to miss all the orange cones, temporary lane markers and cement dividers, so in spite of the fact that you are driving...
  13. Takala
    I read your previous post. You really do have something going on there. Did you have anyone test you for lyme disease ? Are you taking birth control pills or lots of over the counter anti inflammatory meds, such as naprosen or ibuprofen (aleve or advil) ? The artificial progesterone and those otc meds in large amounts can cause physical depression...
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    You are doing internal damage if you felt miserable eating gluten.... it's not normal to have pain as a result of eating food. You merely haven't got a "formal" diagnosis, so what- do you really want to keep eating gluten and end up with a list of problems like this ? ataxia and loss of balance neurological problems such as numbness and loss of feeling...
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    One of the symptoms of being glutened is fuzzy thinking, whereby you start thinking that if you eat even more of it, it won't bother you anymore. This is an auto immune disease, and because I went so many decades un diagnosed, plus I'm aging, I don't expect to feel "normal" per se, but there is no way I would be tempted to re introduce gluten, because...
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    Flying = tubular tin germ breeding encapsulation overseen by Security Theatre of the Absurd. DC is vastly overrated as a tourist destination anyway, especially in the summer, when most of the inhabitants (lobbyists and consultants....) are trying to get out of DC because of the unbearable humidity. Plus the airlines can be total ********s about keeping...
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    Letting other people feed your celiac child glutencrap is never acceptable. It is your responsibility to safeguard her wellbeing and if MIL does not get it, that's too bad for her. She can invite other company, feed a diabetic secret sugar telling them it's Splenda, or somebody with peanut allergies some Skippy, and make herself a martyr over some other...
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    LMAO "Gluten free is enough to scare anybody off I don't think anybody even opened it" with the cooler !
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    The easiest thing to do is to make extra at dinner, and pack it for lunch the next day in some sort of container with a re usable ice gel pack. You can also make up a big batch of plain rice on weekends, another batch of something like beans or a casserole (for example, a lot of Indian-style chicken in yogurt curried sauces can be made gluten free, or rice...
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    No, you don't have to have a heavy- duty stand mixer, it depends on what sort of gluten free bread you are making and how you do it. I make microwave breads in cups/ramekins/bowels, small skillet breads, flatbreads, pancakes, mini loaves and smaller (8" x 4") loaves of bread all the time and have never brought out Godzilla Boom- Vroom, aka the Stand Mixer...
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    Some people cannot handle the restrictions of the diet, go ahead and cross contaminate themselves on a daily basis, then indulge in fuzzy thinking and denial. Right after they say something like "have no reactions whatsoever" they will then be telling you all about their intractable, persistent mystery symptom that is a direct result of ......celiac auto...
  22. Takala
    Hang in there and stick to the gluten free diet as closely as possible. Celiac/gluten intolerance goes along with cystic ovaries, fibroids, endometriosis, etc. It also, imo, causes cystitis because mine cleared up completely after I went gluten free. The explanation would be that with properly absorbing minerals, the kidneys filters are no longer tasked...
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    Jungle and come dance with me- Yes! In my opinion, if you have to get stuck with an auto immune disease anyway, this one is the most tolerable as most of us can relieve many of the symptoms by just eating a bit differently and removing one grain species. Compared to being treated with medications that have serious side effects, becoming completely...
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    Just what we do not need. Another male business writer (who probably doesn't cook) who is only six months into a gluten free diet and quoting foreign studies which support his point of view that gluten free food isn't supposedly as good as all the junk food he was scarfing down before. And as if the British gluten-free food manufacturers/ suppliers don't...
  25. Takala
    Stick to the non processed foods around the perimeter of the grocery store aisles as much as possible. Make a list of written list of what you normally eat during the day. Example- breakfast: cereal and milk lunch: sandwich dinner: spaghetti And then work on converting it to gluten free alternatives by asking for examples here...
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