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    MommyStina replied to K8ling's topic in Coping with Celiac Disease

    I know for me personally, when stress is in the equation, I seem to react to absolutely everything (not the painful cramping like a reaction, but feeling green aaaaaaallll the time). I think it definately factors in! Someone once told me your stomach is like your second brain: if you are a person that freaks a little when stressed, your stomach is likely...
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    ooops! I realized I only half addressed your questions....cookware can cause CC as can a shared toaster. We switched to a toaster oven and the tray is dedicated gluten-free. New pots and pans(if your current ones are nonstick or really scratched up) would be a great investment if possible.
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    Everyone seems to be a little different, but it sounds like gluten could be the culprit. I also react within an hour of accidentally ingesting something, and the reactions do get progressively worse and stronger each time it happens. The pain, cramping, nausea, and fog hit me pretty hard too, so much so that I now have a prescription for an antinausea/antiemetic...
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    I totally understand! My family is the same way. I was also diagnosed almost three years ago and my family is completely clueless as to how it works. I have a cousin that was misdiagnosed a long time ago and only had to be on the diet for two years. So, my mom keeps telling me that it is only temporary and I will be able to eat all the things I love again...
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    My dear younger sister is getting married this month and for the past six weeks we have been going around about the reception food. My daughter and I both have Celiac and are both members of the wedding party...So my sister tells me that they talked to the caterer about gluten free options and the caterer didn't even know what gluten free was (oh, brother...
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    I don't know if this is too late or not, but one suggestion I do have for you as well. I am also an insomniac and have been for a long time. I try to avoid napping, because that always makes it worse for me. I do find that the days that I get a really good run in I sleep well. Another insomniac friend of mine also swears that the weeks she sleeps are...
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    I don't know if this helps, but maybe from her perspective, I was in a similar situation after our daughter was born. I have some obsessive tendencies, too (germs, cleaning, organization, I can't leave home until EVERYTHING is where it belongs). When our daughter was four months old, I started obsessing about where my children were all the time and who...
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    EXACTLY! It isn't a choice it is a necessity! After reading a few posts here, I had a long, detailed conversation with my SIL about what she was told and how wrong it was and she explained her Dr.s reasoning for the diet and allergy meds (I am convinced he doesn't really have a clue what Celiac is and how it is dealt with) and she set an appt. to get...
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    I am also EXTREMELY sensitive to any amount of gluten! One time, my mom and sister brought a big, green salad that looked perfectly safe to me and I was under the impression that they finally understood what not to do and how to prepare things and was fine with the salad and my own dressing on it until I discovered a random piece of MACARONI in the salad...
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    LOL!!! Wow! That is a GREAT idea! I think that would get the point across! I have to remember that one....
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    I was also diagnosed when we had two very young children at home (15 months and 2 1/2 years). Three months after that, I still was feeling cruddy and having a lot of the same symptoms as your post describes (exhoustion, diarrhea, headaches, etc.) It is exhausting when Mommy doesn't feel well! After those first couple of months, I sought the help of a GI...
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    So, I was diagnosed with Celiac three years ago and have been strictly following the diet and lifestyle changes it entails. With the exception of a few slip ups, things have gone very well. We also within the last year have figured out the my daughter has it as well and have included her in the gluten free way to be. When I was diagnosed, I joined this...
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    Happy birthday and may God bless you today!

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    Here's the short of it: misdiagnosed a couple of times before i noticed the abnormal blood test results, self diagnosed celiac (or at least sensitive to gluten)ended up going to see a specialist at Univ.. of Chicago who has done everything to rule out everything and is down to the endoscopy and biopsy to check for structural abnormalities. so, after being...
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    so here's the update now..... had the 18 month check up a couple of weeks ago and I brought up what we had discovered (no more constipation, better demeanor, more growth and socialization since going gluten free.) Her doctor baisically told me that it may just be a coincidence and that it will probably be like our son's egg intolerance (which he outgrew...
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    I was diagnosed only about six weeks ago, but the doctor who diagnosed me had very little to say about the disease and offered little help or direction. He also did not do any other blood tests to tell whether or not there were other nutritional deficiencies present other than the obvious. I have lost a lot of weight and have very little energy even though...
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    we have two wonderful toddlers (boy 34 months, girl 17 months). They have been as different as night and day since day one, but some things were odd to me that I saw in our daughter and didn't like the answers I was getting from the dr. He is really nice and has always hit the nail on the head developmentally with our son, and in general we really like...
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    I have just been recently "diagnosed" with celiac disease. I say "diagnosed" because it is a little weird how it all came about. I had been experiencing this nagging nausea and smelly, soft stools for months, and one June weekend, I ended up in the emergency room because I got so sick (all I had to eat that day was a whole wheat bagel and two pieces of...
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