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  1. mushroom
    Hi Michelle, and welcome. No, a colonoscopy cannot diagnose celiac disease. Even an upper endoscopy cannot diagnose it unless they are specifically looking for it and treat the biopsy samples with special staining. Many of your symptoms are synonymous with those of celiac disease and it is possible you could be in the early stages. Your first step is...
  2. mushroom
    Welcome to the forum. Your description of your symptomatology would seem to plant you firmly amongst us - I think you have found your second home Thyroid problems definijtely go hand in hand with celiac a lot of the time. So does small stature since you obviously had problems as a child. Anemia, GI problems, nervous system issues (your 'stumbling...
  3. mushroom
    Perhaps a spring rooster???
  4. mushroom
    You could give her cream of wheat cereal (no crumbs) made in a stainless steel pot or in a bowl in the microwave if there is an instant kind.
  5. mushroom
    Testing youngsters, especially those two and under is always difficult. Dr. Rodney Ford, here in New Zealand, swears by the DGP (deamidated gliadin peptide) as the most reliable test in younger children and I would recommend that you ask that test be run on your children. It is very celiac specific. Since it is a newer test, many of the doctors are...
  6. mushroom
    Takala is right. I have craved protein and fats ever since I went gluten free. I sometimes (like today) just have a bacon and two eggs lunch. Sometimes I will eat a whole avocado with bacon in a BLA samdwocj (can't have the "T" ) These are the nutrients we have not been absorbing. I generally let my body tell me what it needs (Now whether or not it...
  7. mushroom
    Some labs use ranges for the tests such as: negative x > ( meaning less than x), weakly positive or equivocal x - y; and positive < y (or greater than y). So x might = 5, and y might = 10. Anything between 5 and 10 would then be no-man's land, or weakly positive, or equivocal, such as your son's 7. My personal feeling is that there is no such...
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    Just to make things even more confusing, you can't buy a yam in New Zealand. Everything remotely looking like a yam or a sweet potato is called a kumara - whether yellow, white, orange or purple, (otherwise known as the Maori potato ) No rutabagas either (swedes), no zucchini (courgettes), no eggplant (aubergines), ask for an artichoke and you get a Jerusalem...
  9. mushroom
    It was my understanding from your initial post that his blood tests were positive - perhaps I misunderstood. I believe you said he had been gluten free "since the results". At any rate, I am glad he is doing better. I personally do not recommend soy milk for any gluten intolerants as so many of us have problems with soy as well as gluten. There are many...
  10. mushroom
    Welcome to the board, and welcome to the long-time-sufferers club. Your tale is unfortunately too similar to those of too many here. When a patient walks through the doctor's door with symptoms of what we now know to be celiac disease, that is so seldom the first, second or even third, fourth or fifth thing that pops into his/her head. The most common...
  11. mushroom
    The gluten free setting on your breadmaker is for gluten free yeast breads, because they go through only one rise instead of the two for regular yeast breads. Sweet breads normally use only baking powder/soda and so don't go through a rise phase.
  12. mushroom
    Sounds a bit like my "taco-less" tacos Maybe "roll-less" egg rolls
  13. mushroom
    Well, according to this link posted by GFinDC, the villi never completely recover from the attack of the antibodies in gluten susceptible individuals, so whomsoever knowingly ingests gluten and knowingly risks creating more antibodies would be knowingly increasing the risk of further damage to the villi from which s/he may never recover. I don't think I...
  14. mushroom
    I just went to lunch today with an undiagnosed gluten/dairy/other things intolerant for her birthday. She ordered something with phyllo, she had ice cream and I was amazed. She always makes such a fuss about the dairy, especiallly. She said she was willing to pay the price because it was her birthday. Now I am not sure how severe her symptoms are (GI...
  15. mushroom
    It will be in the last place you look, Jess By the way, I want to apologize for that inappropriate 'crack' I made about tornadoes , most abjectly. Pretty scary things, and I hope all psillies are psafe. They seem to come just like earthquakes, out of nowhere -- yours from above, ours from below
  16. mushroom
    Congratulations on taking charge of your life through diet Long may you be healthy!!
  17. mushroom
    Maybe it went looking for the other half so it could be whole again I have two half cabbages in my refrigerator - they seem to like to be reunited
  18. mushroom
    Don't worry, Jess, it will find you
  19. mushroom
    I got this far and thought WTF??? and then read the rest of the sentence
  20. mushroom
    That happened to me! I had never gone out of my way to eat soy, but didn't check for it in things like salad dressings, etc. After gluten free when my body no longer had to fight that fight it turned its attention to soy with a vengeance, and I developed this huge bright red rash which tooke me quite a while to figure out. Turns out that a lot of gluten...
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    mushroom replied to Finally-45's topic in Gluten-Free Restaurants

    If it weren't too expensive, Peter, I would send you some gluten-containing bacon by special delivery from New Zealand. I know it would be inedible by the time it got there, but it would be inedible for you anyway because of the gluten that would be in it. We have to check every package. Don't know if they do it in Oz too?? I have to pray that the Tooth...
  22. mushroom
    Okay, so now we know the culprit. You maybe deserved the tornados???
  23. mushroom
    All right, I want to know which one of you northern psilly peeps stole our southern summer Here we are, into our second day of autumn already and I have barely got out of my sweats for more than a couple of days. And the good folks of Oz are sending us a "storm bomb" for tomorrow with winds and rain, which is all I got on my mini-vacation to Wellington...
  24. mushroom
    Hmmm! May not be very tasty although the cheese might help. I imagine you could come up with some pretty creative menus if you let auto-correct write them
  25. mushroom
    It is a puzzlement. I am assuming you have tried total elimination of all dairy to be sure that you are not casein intolerant?? Other than that, it is possible that some other foods are bothering you. I know I could never decide if it was corn or wheat that was my problem because the symptoms are the same whichever I consume. I am also intolerant of many...
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