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    It amazes me how we "the patient" so often has to be the "educator" to the docs we see! Along with the gluten problem, I was bitten by a tick many years ago (15) and had text book reactions and to this day, I see doctors for referals on other problems who look me in the face and tell me it's impossible for me to have ever had Lymes dx. I had a doc tell...
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    ARCHIVED Weight Loss

    ponita replied to BamBam's topic in Coping with Celiac Disease

    I was really surprised when I saw weight loss because thought I was eating pretty good. I lost 25 pounds in the last 12 weeks and I do need to lose more but like richard mentioned before me, I just stopped the gluten items and ate meat potatoes, veggies and fruit. I found the adjustment really easy and feel soooo much better. I think now my weight will...
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    Good luck, I'll be thinking of you! Melissa
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    Tiffany, Isn't it amazing that things can not be clear cut! Should you ... shouldn't you? What types of sym. did you have prior to your challenge? How quickly do your sym. return if you have anything on your list of foods to avoid? Good luck! Melissa
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    I am not a person to sit around and have pitty parties. I look at problems head on and deal with the new challenges. I've been gluten-free for 10 weeks and although this has been a lifestyle change, I'm adjusting well. I am given a dose of enthusiasm every day with I move and my joints don't hurt, when my mental fog feels lifted and when I see my energy...
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    Muffinex - thank you for your story. We each have to stay on top of our own health conditions and not assume the doctors have all the answers. My mother died in March of this year. She was 74 and dx with kidney failure 3 years ago. The sad thing is that she had been under the care of a cardiologist for 10 years and he did little to control her Blood...
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    I truly think there is a real connection between fibromyalgia and gluten. In fact, my internist is KC treats chronic fatigue, ms and fibromyalia and he is fasinated with the gluten connection. Many of his patients have seen improvement in syptoms by being gluten-free. When I saw him last week he said some pts. see improvements in days to weeks (and occasionally...
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    I'm a newbe too and it wasn't that difficult for me either to make the changes. I too wondered if I was doing something wrong but since I felt better and better with each day I figured I was on the right track. I started looking at all the foods out there that I could eat and not what I couldn't. I really wanted to expand my cooking skills with basic...
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    Jen, That's great you saw results of being gluten-free so quick, doesn't it motivate you to know that your diet changes are paying off? I saw big changes within 4 days (no abdominal pain and a little more energy) then by my 7th day I woke up the with vertiually no joint pain and a LOT more energy. I'm in my 10th week of gluten-free and I can't remember...
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    My excersise program lately has been doing a little Tai Chi, has everyone tired that? I am overweight (65 lbs) and have been looking for ways for years to feel better not know that I've had gluten problems for what we know think is at least 10 years. Some of the tai chi tapes that are designed for beginners was too taxing for me, then I found a saturday...
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    I was dx is celiac disease in june and have been gluten-free for 10 weeks now. I have had outbreaks of DH for 10 years off and on. For 10 years the docs knew it wasn't chickenpox, it wasn't shingles and it wasn't poison ivy but no one know what it was until I was dx with celiac disease. In the past these outbreaks would flare up 2 x a year. My search...
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