lapentola
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I am an artist and mother of two. I'm happily married and live in indianapolis, IN.
I joined this forum in the hope that I can really get to the bottom of the health problems that have plagued me for as long as I can remember. I really hope going gluten free is the answer because I don't want to be sickly anymore. On the other hand, I am really going to miss eating at Long John Silvers...mom's cloverleaf rolls...and so much more
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ARCHIVED Rotten Teeth!
lapentola replied to weluvgators's topic in Parents, Friends and Loved Ones of Celiacs
I am so sorry to hear that you and your daughter are having to go through this. I have had the same problems throughout my life. Every dentist I had ever been to had assumed that I had never touched a toothbrush in my life and/or that my diet consisted mainly or entirely of candy! It kinda makes you feel like you are doing something wrong even though you... -
ARCHIVED Discussing Enterolab Lab Results With Doctor
lapentola posted a topic in Parents, Friends and Loved Ones of Celiacs
I am preparing to discuss my daughter's enterolab results with her pediatrician, and I'm stressing out a little bit because of the validity issues surrounding enterolab's method of testing. We don't currently have insurance which is why I decided to have enterolab testing done in the first place. (Actually I was okay with putting her on a gluten free diet... -
ARCHIVED Symptoms Changing
lapentola posted a topic in Post Diagnosis, Recovery & Treatment of Celiac Disease
I was wondering if anyone could explain to me why my symptoms are so different now than they were before I went gluten free. I think that I may have has celiac disease since I was a baby, but I never had really "typical" stand out symptoms. (I was very thin with joint pain and some other various symptoms that I now know are related to nutritional deficiency... -
ARCHIVED Do I Call Myself A Celiac?
lapentola replied to GlutenFree4Life's topic in Post Diagnosis, Recovery & Treatment of Celiac Disease
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ARCHIVED Do I Call Myself A Celiac?
lapentola replied to GlutenFree4Life's topic in Post Diagnosis, Recovery & Treatment of Celiac Disease
My problem is that I'm teetering on the edge of my desire to know that I am not going mad, and my desire to not become uninsurable. I fear that with the diagnoses of celiac my related conditions like osteopenia would not be covered by insurance because it would be a pre-exsisting condition. It is very scary, so I don't dare go to a doctor! I know it sounds... -
I live down wind of a wonder bread factory and I was wondering if that would be bad for my health. We regularly smell baking bread and about once a week they clean their ovens by burning off everything inside. (It smells like toast!!) It smells wonderful, but I have heard that gluten can make it's way through the air. We are 1/4-1/2 of a mile away from...
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ARCHIVED Do I Call Myself A Celiac?
lapentola replied to GlutenFree4Life's topic in Post Diagnosis, Recovery & Treatment of Celiac Disease
I wonder if I can call myself a celiac too. I'm afraid to join a support group without a diagnoses, but my husband does not want me to be tested before we get insurance. Does anyone know if I was tested through entrolab and then tried to get insurance if the insurance company would be able to find out that I have this pre-existing condition? Would it matter...