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  1. Calicoe
    Again, this is sort of a hit-and-run post, but I have to agree with Rachel, Carla and digmom above - something is not right. There are definitely more environmental pollutant, but I think there are things going on with our food that have not yet made it into our public information system yet. Maybe I am paranoid, or maybe I am just a seasoned cynic, but...
  2. Calicoe
    Your sons should have asked the question: "what does a bad doctor look like?" For me, the mainstream medical profession has been the biggest obstacle to my health so far. Thank the universe I was able to figure it out on my own. But, when I return (to a doctor under health insurance), instead of making their jobs easier by asking for narrowing down...
  3. Calicoe
    Hi Linda, and welcome. I'm sorry to hear about your troubles. I hope everything works out for you. I have never been officially diagnosed with a laporoscopy, so maybe I just have really severe periods. But, I have all the symptoms, and I learned very early to change my diet so that I could be functional without debilitating pain. I figured out my diet...
  4. Calicoe
    Thanks for the cool trivia cruelshoes. I'm fond of trivia myself, but I think I found the source of my recent problem, and it is celiac disease related. You were all on target as well and I very much appreciate your input, but I didn't describe my latest symptom clearly enough as a spasm. It is somewhat confounding, because I've had the episodes described...
  5. Calicoe
    This discussion is very pertinent for me, because I have been having similar thoughts. My apologies for not yet reading through the entire thread. I have only gotten as far as Rachel's post above. Since I have been ill I have been doing a lot of research online. When I have a chance, I will post a couple of links. One of the more interesting links was...
  6. Calicoe
    Yes, I've had endometriosis for most of my adult life. In fact, it is one of the major factors besides my GI distress that led me to research celiac disease, because my symptoms were even more severe during my monthlies. I had horrible, shrill migraines for days which were getting worse, and such bad brain fog that I could get lost in my own house. I figured...
  7. Calicoe
    I found out: Open Original Shared Link $369 Gluten sensitivity stool test, tissue transglutaminase stool test (test for the autoimmune reaction caused by gluten sensitivity), intestinal malabsorption test, gluten sensitivity gene test, and for a limited time, free milk sensitivity stool test (Best Test Panel for Gluten Sensitivity). The combination...
  8. Calicoe
    Does anyone know how much the gluten panel would cost at Enterolab, and if it is still worth it for me to test if I have been gluten-free for a month (more or less not counting mistakes, like yesterday).
  9. Calicoe
    1) How did the symptoms of gluten intolerance affect your day-to-day life? I had severe GI distress with excruciatingly painful bowel movements, horrible bloating and gas that made me feel diseased and always with the threat of public embarrassment, painful joints and sacrum, migraine headaches that would last for days, bad menstrual symptoms and brain fog...
  10. Calicoe
    I think it is more like the old proverb: "when the student is ready, the teacher will appear". People learn and retain what they think is important and relevant to them at the time, within the scope of their environments. I think as Celiac Disease and other gluten intolerances start to gain prominence through proper diagnosis and greater demand, more people...
  11. Calicoe
    Yeah, that sounds pretty scary but possible, especially if you have been gluten-free for a long time. I just glutened myself today with a tiny speck of chinese black bean sauce in my stir fry that I momentarily forgot to check, and I felt significant symptoms today compared to the amount consumed (usual dullness and spaciness, slight background headache...
  12. Calicoe
    Yeah, those are funny. As if it is a choice. A couple of weeks before I figured out my wheat allergy, there was a family visiting our house who had a little girl with a wheat allergy. At the time, I still thought my own was all dairy related. So I guess my roommate felt comfortable to make a snide comment about the little girl's intolerance to wheat....
  13. Calicoe
    Yes, thanks Parla. You are exactly right. I grew up in a household that ate a lot of processed foods, and didn't see meals prepared from scratch. I think most people think about foods in groups rather than as separate ingredients (e.g. bread, pasta, vegetables, meat, fats, etc.). For me, it was enough to just avoid white flour until I needed to avoid...
  14. Calicoe
    Precisely. Thanks for the excellent explanation Tarnalberry. I was about to launch into this next, but you beat me to it. And, I always feel like I need to brush up on probability, lol! Yes, this is the second point I was going to make. I may have been stupid about wheat, but that was an ignorance that was easily and readily corrected as soon...
  15. Calicoe
    I agree that there should be more nutritional education integrated into classes such as health and science at every grade level, especially now with the growing health problems of obesity, diabetes and largely undiagnosed issues like celiac disease. However, I think as a country we have only just begun to label our food accurately, and more could be done...
  16. Calicoe
    Yeah, I do get what you say about culture, and in fact that was my one of my first points. However, there is a lot of ignorance in our culture about many things, including the many different positions of status and experience within that culture. Food is the beginning. Oh dear. I was trying to combine two different statistics that I saw and should...
  17. Calicoe
    OK, thanks very much for the feedback everyone. I have had it happening more frequently and more violently than in the past, so I thought it was related to my other symptoms and a form of sleep apnea. But, I have also been anxious and maybe this is another manifestation of it. Thanks for your help.
  18. Calicoe
    I have searched the forum and I haven't been able to find the same symptoms. This has been happening to me more frequently lately, but has happened occasionally in the past as well. Just as you are falling off, or sometimes out of deep sleep, I experience a violent, one-second jerking moment of my whole body that wakes me up suddenly, as if I have just...
  19. Calicoe
    Thanks Happygirl. I will give them a call and find out.
  20. Calicoe
    Hi: I have been searching the forum but have not come across groups in th DC Metropolitan area accessible by Metro. If you are interested, please reply and perhaps we can start a new group. If there is one already meeting, I would love to attend as long as I can reach it by Metro (to Maryland or Virginia, as well). The support would do me good. Thanks...
  21. Calicoe
    Yep. I'm starting to sense this one more and more, especially from one of my housemates.
  22. Calicoe
    Thanks Irish daveyboy. I am still new at all of this, and still mourning (and somewhat still in denial) about the loss of Guinness. I literally don't have the guts to try it again, though. Can you recommend any good gluten-free stouts or pils? *If you have tried any, of course. I am making a somewhat educated guess that Ireland is probably further...
  23. Calicoe
    So true. And if I didn't have to change my whole life around because of a dire health issue, I would still be eating out most of the time or eating prepared food (albeit from the food co-op). I certainly wouldn't be reading every label or walking around with my own condiments or paying more for food.
  24. Calicoe
    OK, I'll give you an example of my stupid, "duh and ah-ha" moment combined: I was feeling miserable, but chalked it up to my previously diagnosed dairy allergy. I somehow worked up a rationalization (through extensive research) that I could be allergic to only whey and not casein, which meant I could tolerate cheese better (which I do). I have a housemate...
  25. Calicoe
    Well, I have to admit I was one of those ignorant people about the wheat and white flour connection, until just a few weeks ago when I made the connection to my wheat allergy. In fact, understanding the connection helped me to realize that I was suffering from more than a dairy allergy! I am an educated woman, that was somewhat health conscious before...
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