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    If I poison myself, I go through several symptoms including attention/difficulty with concentration (quiet), short term memory problems and iritability up to and fly-off-the-handle rage.
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    ARCHIVED Can My Gi Dr. Be Wrong?

    kvogt replied to EddieJP125's topic in Doctors

    I doubt your lab made an error, but it is remotely possible. If you are concerned, repeat the blood work. If your gut doesn't play up too much, you may be working on some other autoimmunde disease in your future, like lupus, rheumatoid arthritis, asthema, or something else equally difficult. Look at your parents, grandparents and their cousins and see...
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    ARCHIVED Nutritionalists

    kvogt replied to a topic in Doctors

    I wouldn't see any nutritionist who wasn't an active member of a celiac support group. I would ask if s/he goes to meetings, meets with celiac patients regularly, etc.
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    ARCHIVED Health Insurance

    kvogt replied to calico jo's topic in Doctors

    If asked whether I have celiac sprue, or not, I would say NO. After 18 months on the gluten-free diet, my gut is healed and I no longer have the disease.
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    Before going gluten-free, I put everyone under the table. Now I'm a cheap date. The doctor has also had to reduce my thyroid medication, presumably because I am now absorbing it, where before gluten-free, most of it was going unabsorbed. You gut probably works better now. And you should always eat when you drink. Without nutrition, your body takes what...
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    As I recall, the report said 100 parts per million. That's the equivalent of 3.5 ounces per 2,202.6 pounds of food consumed. Given that is 2-4 years of food for a person, I don't think it's that big.
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    For my roux for cajun cooking, like ettouffee, I use soybean flour with butter and some olive oil. Smells like cooking peanut butter, but it gives you th desired flavor. You need to simmer a little longer or it can be gritty. For german potato salad dressing, I make my roux using simple white rice flour. At little tapioca makes a roux sticky.
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    ARCHIVED Need Advice

    kvogt replied to chrisepp3's topic in Coping with Celiac Disease

    I've found that dried apricots can be very moving. Try five a day.
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    Beer!
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    Blood tests for celiac disease tend to give a lot a false negatives. That's FALSE NEGATIVES. That is, they miss often. People have negative blood tests and still have celiac disease. The reason is that most of the antibodies are voided in stool. You have to have signficant villi damage before it will get in the blood. I opted out of the biopsy. Ask...
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    Wonderful! Enjoy! Just beware that you can get fat on that stuff if you enjoy too much. That's what happened to me.
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    ARCHIVED Fragile

    kvogt replied to a topic in Coping with Celiac Disease

    After an accidental poisoning, I sometimes get really iritable like snapping at people or prone to rage at what are otherwise small annoyances. Gluten can seriously effect my nervous system.
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    www.clanthompson.com has/had the only one I've ever seen.
  14. kvogt
    For breakfast options... look for puffed millet, about $1/bag at Wilds Oats, also puffed (brown) rice. I also cook and eat polenta like warm cereal. Also consider cooking whole millet and buckwheat groats. Also brown rice, which in my humble opinion, cooks up significantly different than white rice. I've been also looking for sorghum to try that.
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    For many months, "gluten awareness" was constantly in the forefront of my mind, bordering on obsession. Now, its in the background. When I see gluten foods, I just ignore them, like they were something I don't like to eat. It gets better everyday. You have to grieve the loss and move on to succeed.
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    YankeeFan, I dine out often too and understand the problem. If you like oriental you can enjoy any Chinese dish with the white sauce. I take my own gluten-free soy sauce. The problems are any brown sauces, hoisin, black bean, etc. which contain commercial soy sauce (Kikomann). Thai food is generally OK, since Thai soy sauces don't contain wheat. Ask...
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    I've put on about 40 pounds. I thnk part of it comes from eating everyting on the table for 44 years, then getting normal gut function. I must have a stomach the size of a basketball. I probably don't need half or less of what I'm accustomed to eating, but I struggle to eat less to feel satisfied. I'm now trying to eat much less, more often. Sort of...
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    This also sounds like lichen planus. Are the white patches tender? Does toothpaste and spicy foods make your mouth burn?
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    ARCHIVED Communion

    kvogt replied to Newbie's topic in Coping with Celiac Disease

    I wanted to reply to a previous response... In the Catholic faith, communion, the body and blood of Christ are not merely symbols, but are sacrements. We believe the bread and wine are transsubstantiated, that is changed into the body and blood of Christ during the consecration. The reason the host must be made of wheat is a matter of church tradition ...
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    ARCHIVED Do You Recommend Biopsy?

    kvogt replied to lauradawn's topic in Doctors

    The official diagnostic path for celiac disease is 1) positive blood work, 2) positive biopsy, 3) improvement on a gluten free diet. I opted out of the biopsy because my doctor couldn't tell me anything he would do differently with the information. If you go gluten-free for some months and then ingest gluten, you will KNOW quite quickly that you are gluten...
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    Newbie, Please permit me to rephrase your question for perspective: "If I accidentally ate something toxic, would it be OK to eat my favorite foods containg more of that toxin for the rest of the day?" I think of gluten like rat poison and ingest as little as humanly possible. I assume that the next gluten reaction I have will be the one to kick off lupus...
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    VAGuy, I had a milder case of what you described. It sounds like you have what is called "frayed nails" and it is a symptom of malnourishment. As your gut heals, the problem will improve gradually. I highly recommend you take vitamin supplements. I also recommend you eat a lot of greens, which give you good doses of easily absorbable calcium -- more so...
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    My celiac disease surfaced after my first routine colonoscopy. Talk about business development...
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    I reacted to wheat as a child with vomiting and diareah. Doctor told my mother I would grow out of it, which I did. She tried it again later and I was able to tolerate it. I was fine until my mid twenties when I got oral lichen planus. Dentist said some get it... nothing to be done... try a different tooth paste. I was fine until about age 30 when I...
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    Your hubby might consider eliminating yeast for his IBS.
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