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  1. mushroom
    Food allergy testing is okay as far as it goes (a long time ago I tested sensitive to corn and mildly to soy and I still am, so nothing has changed there.) But after ceasing gluten consumption you may well show sensitivites (could be rash, itching, digestive issues, other reactions similar to gluten) which may or may not show up on allergy testing (there...
  2. mushroom
    Yeah, I seldom mention the other intolerances, except for perhaps soy.
  3. mushroom
    You might consider that when you are first diagnosed and go gluten free that your immune system is in a heightened state of response and very reaction prone. It is quite likely to react to a huge variety of things that you will eventually be able to tolerate once healing has taken place and the immune system has calmed down. So don't consider that all these...
  4. mushroom
    Many pixels have been used on this question, and as far as I am concerned we are still not much nearer an answer. Sometimes I feel it is all just based on the inadequacy of the testing for celiac, because often the two conditions lead to the same result as far as GI and other gluten issues and other autoimmune diseases. But if the blood tests are negative...
  5. mushroom
    1. I'm afraid I still use McCormicks Taco Seasoning; about the only nightshade I permit myself. You don't need tomato sauce. Since I don't do corn we make a taco-less taco, with meat, refried beans, cheese, lettuce, avocado, sour cream. DH adds the chopped tomato and salsa. 2. I do a lot of pesto pasta--I love it. 3. TOMATO SUBSTITUTE (Red...
  6. mushroom
    And besides, if "regular" people stopped eating wheat and barley they might start eating what we eat, making them even more expensive until the growers of those grains started growing more. Heads we lose, tails we lose
  7. mushroom
    I believe pancreatitis is a totally different condition from what we are talking about here. We are just talking about a gluten-induced enzyme insufficiency, not an inflammation of the pancreas.
  8. mushroom
    Have you considered that you could also have candida overgrowth? Alcohol, sugar, grains, dried fruits (high in sugar) could all feed this nicely? And with candida overgrowth it makes it difficult to digest anything.
  9. mushroom
    Garden!!! ouch, that one hurts. When I fractured my back and my rheumatoid arthritis flared up at the same time I just used to sit and look at my garden with great despair. Weeds, weeds, everywhere, everything going to seed, green beans got old and tough because DH didn't even check to see if they was ready, tomatoes rotted on the vine (well, I was no longer...
  10. mushroom
    Happy wedding day Leesuh, and Em. Fair skies to you both. Yeah, imagine a whole shed full of tools, an appropriate one for every occasion Em, tell your dad to behave hisselph, we don't need any psillies attacked by phlying trees, especially when tools are threatened.
  11. mushroom
    A lot of us take some digestive enzymes for a while to help out our digestive systems because our pancreas is not working as well as it could be. Speaking from my perspective, anecdotal only, it did not seem to have had any negative effect on my pancreas or made it lazy, in fact it seemed glad of the help I no longer take them and believe my pancreas...
  12. mushroom
    Actually, it was my suggestion, and I don't know--can you write???
  13. mushroom
    So sorry to hear about your fracture and surgery. The standard bone density test (DEXA) scan measures the density of the bone in the lumbar spine, and in both hips. Because I had a fracture at T11 (my thoracic spine), they did a scan of my whole spine. The lumber area and the hips are considered to be representataive of the density of the skeleton...
  14. mushroom
    A monkey puzzle?? Welcome back!
  15. mushroom
    I just had this happen with a routine blood draw. The phlebotomist told me I was going to have a bruise, but I think she must have destroyed my vein. The thing kept oozing for a week until it was 8 x 4 inches in size. Then finally it stopped and has now been resorbed (after three weeks) but it looked pretty awful. I won't be going back to her again!
  16. mushroom
    I think you will get a lot of argument here on the concept of gluten intolerance. But I don't think any celiac (at least on this forum) advocates the gluten-free diet as a weight loss measure (the only person I have seen is Elizabeth Hasselback to sell books). That was not the part of the article that we all took exception to. It did have that added benefit...
  17. mushroom
    Your autoimmune system is in a heightened state of response right now, it's trigger-happy. Once you start successfully avoiding your trigger foods and you start healing, this trigger-happiness should recede to a great extent. You just have to be really careful to cut out all your trigger foods and give yourself a chance to recover.
  18. mushroom
    You obviously have a bone to pick with someone but it's not any non-gluten eating person I know--they all bring their own crackers. These folks you are talking about are the same kinds of people who sit down and eat a high-glycemic, sugar-laden meal and then go inject themselves with insulin, and I do know at least one of those.
  19. mushroom
    There may be a small percentage of masochists out there who have adopted it as a "fad", but I do not see that as a problem. And while I am no fan of Elizabeth Hasselback, I personally don't find it particularly sad that I don't KNOW for sure that I have celiac disease, and my insurance companies don't either. It is enough for me that members of my family...
  20. mushroom
    And we all know how informed about gluten the typical medical degree makes one
  21. mushroom
    For me, both gluten and lactose cause diarrhea, gas, bloating. Only difference is the lactose acts a lot quicker!!
  22. mushroom
    Jason, I am not one who eats out a lot, but all the times I have, I have never been glutened, and most of these occasions were not at restaurants that had special gluten free menus. I am always very careful, and I have found the wait staff very considerate (only once did I end up with a salad with croutons on it). Of course, I would not consider myself...
  23. mushroom
    That's the part I didn't like either, that that doctor's official stamp of approval (which half of us have spent a lifetime trying to wring out of our doctors--doctors who, incidentally, believe that celiac is an extremely "rare" disease and which was one of the reasons we didn't know about it either), can suddenly change the status of our gluten avoidance...
  24. mushroom
    Hi, and welcome to the forum. I think that the celiacs who have no other food intolerances/sensitivities are the rare and lucky ones. Most of us because of the damage to our villi cannot handle lactose at the beginning, and for some it is all dairy, i.e., casein also. If we have been diagnosd early we may not have any other food intolerances but the...
  25. mushroom
    Or sitting through the same movie two or three times Been there, done that!
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