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  1. mushroom
    Did he have permission?? Four inches!!!! On a whim??? Wow, you sure don't mess around with your "whims", young lady. Must post pics. Is this your New Joisey haircut? OMG, I've been to places like that. (Not to Spokane though - didn't know it was onna those) Poor Rayshelle! Yep, I reckon they will do okay ...
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    Yes, I seem to be one of those who keeps discovering new things I react to. With me, it all seems to be based around foods that are high in lectins, and I get the same response from them all, not your typical gluten response, although it does cause extreme bloating, which in turn sets off what someone I have talked to about it calls a "cytokine storm". This...
  3. mushroom
    I can't help with the cosmetics, but I have yet to find a Solgar product that had gluten in it. Not to say that they don't exist... Try googling the product or emailing the company, but chances are there is no gluten.
  4. mushroom
    This must be incredibly frustrating for you. I can just imagine! The only real alarm bells start ringing at the three kitchens part. Work you have no control over, your girlfriend presumably cooperates to the best of her ability, and your own, I presume you do not let any gluten in there. So I would start looking at the work kitchen first. What do you...
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    Oh Connie, I am just so sorry for your loss of George, your soulmate. Yes you will always remember in your life what a very special person he was. You are lucky to have such a great doctor who is able to look at the whole person (and also one who knows your history). He is kind and wise, and he is giving you good advice. When you breezed into the forum...
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    Your older son definitely has celiac disease and should be on a gluten free diet; your younger son is probably is the process of developing it, and his ADHD could well be in response to the consumption of gluten. If they were my children I would have them both eat gluten free. I am not a believer in waiting for lots of damage to diagnose celiac disease, because...
  7. mushroom
    What a simply ghastly and unforgivable experience. You must certainly pursue this because a full refund is in order. I am so sorry you had to suffer through this.
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    Put me firmly in the organic, grass-fed beef camp. Eating regular beef gives me the same symptoms as eating the lectin-containing foods like nightshades, corn, soy, legumes, so I can only make the assumption that the cows are not properly digesting the grains, have leaky guts, and that the lectins are getting into the beef. Now I know this assumption will...
  9. mushroom
    Well, the lactose intolerance, if it is reasonably recent (i.e., not lifetime) is a sign that your villi in the small intestine have been damaged because the enzyme that digests lactose is produced at the tips of the villi which are the parts that are damaged first. I was lactose intolerant for years before I recognized I was gluten intolerant. And no, I...
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    Chirpy, sometimes people use the terms gluten intolerance and celiac disease interchangeably. While celiac is a disease caused by gluten intolelrance, there are very specific tests and requirements in order to be diagnosed specifically with celiac disease. These include a positive blood test, and visual damage to the small intestine, sometimes to the naked...
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    Thanks, RiceGuy. I will look for the ivory teff when I get stateside. Forget ever trying to find it here . I guess I will have to be more like you and play the experimental chemist to get a pie crust A little bit of this and a little bit of that. I have never been a pie crust maker in previous incarnations, so I don't have a good knowledge base to start...
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    Well, you got it half right . It does mean that you have tested negative for celiac disease. It says nothing, however, about gluten intolerance, which is most probably what you have. There is really no test for gluten intolerance except trying the diet and seeing if it works for you. The only hint of a test for gluten intolerance is one of exclusion, not...
  13. mushroom
    Unfortunately, as we both seem to have found out, shedding blood for a company does not earn any brownie points It's like, yeah, but did you shed any yesterday??
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    The next thing you do is start the gluten free diet in earnest, no cheating, no slip-ups, no cross-contamination. Read every label, check all your personal care products, get rid of wooden and plastic spoons and scratched nonstick pans, buy a new toaster and colander. You don't even have to tell your GI because he will probably tell you if you are not a celiac...
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    Yeah, it is a bit of a shock to realize that "calories in, calories out" doesn't always hold true. Not to worry. Give your body time to adjust to the proper regime and you should be right. As soon as everything gets back in balance thing will normalize. This does include having your physician measure your nutrient levels for deficiencies in things like...
  16. mushroom
    I found Dr. D'Adamo's book to not be particularly relevant for me because I can't eat a lot of the foods he said I should be eating. And I can eat red meat just fine (so long as it is not regular American beef - it must be grass-fed organic). Yes, I am a Type A+. Edit: sorry, I just noticed I posted much the same previously
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    Yes, unfortunately it includes peas as well. I use buckwheat quite a bit but it is high in lectins too (like the legumes), so I don't want to overdo it, and although I have teff (dark, not ivory) I've only used it once. I put it in some pancake batter and it seemed to suck up liquid like crazy - it was like putting sand in (and I only put in about 1/4 cup...
  18. mushroom
    If you absolutely HAD to, RiceGuy (like being intolerant of legumes) what would you substitute for bean flours (of any description)??
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    Hi, and welcome to the forum. I agree with your therapist that you should be tested for celiac disease; your symptoms are very suggestive of at least gluten intolerance, or maybe full blown celiac disease. The symptoms of each condition are the same - the difference is that with celiac disease there are measureable antibodies to gluten in the blood abd...
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    ARCHIVED Vitamin D

    mushroom replied to detritus's topic in Coping with Celiac Disease

    I don't believe 1700-1800 is a day is enough to start with. That's a good maintenance dose though. The way my rheumatologist described it to me, if your gas tank is empty, you don't put in just one gallon - that will barely get you to the next gas station. You need to fill up your tank first, and then keep it topped up, otherwise you are always running...
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    He even cleaned up all the crumbs
  22. mushroom
    I have a picture of myself cutting my 21st birthday cake - made by my mom - last time anyone ever made me a cake. Come to think of it, no one buys me flowers, gives me chocolates or valentines, now what does that say about what a non-special person I am??? Well, my Probus club does give me a mini floral bouquet for my birfday, come to think of it
  23. mushroom
    Or know where to look Can't say as how I ever came across one, but I have come across coyotes at Anderson Dam, and bobcats and bears at Incline Village. Not to say that I am going to go hunting any of them I prefer someone else to catch my game for me - that's what men (except Sarah Palin) are for
  24. mushroom
    Quitting gluten is not like turning off a light switch. It is like turning off the lamp, but the lamp is still plugged into the wall and electricity is still flowing to the lamp. You are the lamp. The light is turned off but it will take a while for the current to abate through the rest of the lamp. A lot of the symptoms you describe persisted with me for...
  25. mushroom
    Stool testing can show parasites, bacterial infections, candidiasis; it can also show intolerance to soy, dairy; it can show whether your pancreas is producing enough lipase to digest the fat you're ingesting. It is a good test to have done.
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