UnhappyCoeliac

It's processed meat and got gluten in it in Australia. The shop advised me their suppliers said it had gluten

Just found out there was bacon on my pizza hidden under all that cheese, already eaten I normally get no bacon and they normally always do it but tonight new owners where in and low and behold I was given bacon.

I know Bacon isn't the bees knees of gluten but still not ideal. I'd been gluten free maybe 5 months (2 or 3 bad days)

Whats the coping strategy though? I had a feeling last time I got gluntened I excercised...it gave me dirrhea but I felt much better, get the immune cells moving.

I am eating lots of Toberlone since Cadbury changed their labelling Toberlone is our only friend in the gluten free chocolate market. I think maybe some Haighs too but they are hard to find. Liking the change anyway was over Cadbury

Firstly people need to calm down on the judgement and rhetoric, so I didn't answer in a week so what!

My doctor diagnosed a Coeliac at 86 calm down on the you'll be dead by 30 business, genetics overiding factor in everything why do some smokers die at 30 and some at 90 genetics.

 
My next decision would be to make a resolution to plan more.
 
You can freeze cooked rice in Sandwich bags and have cans of black or red beans in the pantry.  If you make gluten-free pasta, it's just as easy to make a whole bag of it as it is to make a small portion, then freeze single portion sizes.  Same with soups or chili or practically anything.  
 
Then you have to ask yourself a day or 2 in advance what you are going to eat the next couple of days, and move stuff from the freezer to the refrigerator.  
 
The staples I always keep are cheese, milk, tomato sauce, salsa, rice cakes,  corn or rice chips, peanut butter, eggs, various canned beans, frozen and canned fish,  romaine lettuce and root vegetables.
 
Even if you don't feel inspired to make something delicious, you can have something in your refrigerator or pantry to eat safely and avoid hunger pains.
 
Good luck, wish you well.

Yes planning is working I've been Gluten-Free for a while now somewhere between 2 and 4 weeks and it's just getting easier.

1) Find a 24 convenience store that sells nuts and bananas or apples.

2) Knock on a neighbor's door and see if they have a piece of fruit you can eat.

3) Don't eat, get up early the next day, and go shopping to fix the ridiculous state of food in the house.

 

Ok, #3 is a little snarky, but also meant a lot seriously.  If there is literally *NOTHING* in your house that doesn't have gluten in it, you have a very poor diet (and poor emergency planning skills)..  (Oooo... Come on people, flame me!  This is totally flame worthy!  I'll stand by it, but it's ripe for the bashing. )  Why do I say this?  Because fruit and vegetables do not contain gluten.  Because dairy (milk, yogurt, cheese, ice cream, etc.) do not contain gluten.  Because beans do not contain gluten.  Because rice does not contain gluten.  Because fats (oils, butters) do not contain gluten.  Because nuts and dried do not contain gluten.  (And many of these items (canned beans, canned vegetables, nuts, rice, canned meats) are useful "emergency" foods to have on hand in the case of a natural disaster.)  If *EVERY* food in your house contains gluten, you simply don't have a healthy variety of nutritious foods around you, which - many studies back this up - almost certainly means your diet as a whole does not have a healthy variety of nutritious foods.

 

I don't actually mean to sound like a "w"itch about this.  And it's not actually personal, though I'm responding to your (OP's) post.  It's a pet peeve of mine that people choose to bring unhealthy foods into their house and choose NOT to bring healthy foods into their house.  It's your responsibility (unless you are under ... let's say 15), to have some choices.  (Of course, there is the obvious exception for, as stated by PP, being homeless, destitute to the point where you have no food, and so on.  But, you have food in your house, and I don't recall you being a pre-teen, so that doesn't apply in this situation.)

 

Personally, in your situation, I would go find a store that was open (even if I had to drive half an hour) and fix the problem.  My health and my body is too important to treat it badly.

I am not definded by Coeliac and reserve the right to disregard it at any point I so choose.

Hasn't anyone seen fight club fridge? This is what the fridge of a bachelor generally looks like.

Hi UC,

 

One study showed there were still abnormalities in some celiac patients guts after 18 months gluten-free.

Thanks for the post will take that with a grain of salt personally I have achieved normal blood levels from 3 months gluten free.

I have noticed that you ask a question and never come back to it. Why?

And I am wondering....if you " hate everyone", why are you asking us questions? Are we not part of " everyone"?

Not sure why I am asking you to answer as you don't respond. Silly me!

I'm back

Had something that had no ingredients of gluten BUT ALSO didn't claim to be gluten free, in the past I have found it OK

but this time it made sick, very strange but I can tell by my bowl movements whether I have been glutended or not

IF YOU have been fairly gluten free how long does it take the body to recover?

Can anyone advise me on the new laws?

It cant be declared but it is gluten free they all declare

And the others say 20mg of gluten is good and it will allow us to have a huge amount of new choice

I AM CONFUSED.

It would have to the ALP that F everything up thats perfectly fine

If you are continueing to get glutened, which is the impression I got from another of your posts, your body is going to be so busy fighting the gluten that it won't be able to fight off other stuff.  I have worked in schools and with the public for years and I used to catch everything that was going around pre gluten free but very rarely get ill now. That may off course not be the case for you.

Do what you can to prevent picking up these 'bugs'. Wash your hands a lot and keep them away from your face as much as you can. Hopefully your body will be better able to fight off communicable illnesses once it has healed from gluten.

As far as getting a flu shot talk to your doctor about any concerns you have and then make a decision on whether or not to get one.

Yeah I am battling never getting Gluten-Free for more than 4 days at the moment so yeah my body is busy battling gluten. I think it's probably wise I get it!

Does that mean us?

When referring to a new super strain of flu. I've always wondered are they talking to me? Sadly I get sick all the time mostly from a train carriage full of people

Should I get the flu vaccine? It's free in Australia.

The fridge is full of goods all with Gluten, but you're starving and you haven't eaten all day.

No shops are open

Discuss your next decision here and your reasoning...

Seems to be my downfall alot. My general decision is given in to hunger pains and pray for a better tomorrow (it never comes)

I heard it in passing the other day, what we currently define as wheat is so far processed from the real thing that's it's caused an outbreak in this condition.

I also cant cook.

I eat ALOT of regular baked beans AND ALOT of kettle chips. What else? EVERYTHING is cross contaminated...there should be a law that if you cant cross contaminate to save money! I like to have gluten free take away but am literally charged an arm and a leg.

AHAHAHAH optifast. The shakes are gluten free turns out the bars are not in other news wtf is wheat doing in a chocolate bar anyway so retarded.

DISCUSS when I am off my diet I eat gluten all the time and it's not so bad unusualy digestive habits is probably it. Now since I've been clean for two months and I've had gluten BAM huge pain in the stomach and diarrhea that interrupted my workou.

SO ANGRY

Does it? I've had problems with my ear for over a year and it all started after a virus!

Also previously had issues with warts. Is it possible your virus based things do not get defeated by a person with Celiac who has a repressed immune system,?

thanks for replies not sure I have the money for specially made medicine and dont think they even do that, if i have to wait 6 months to see an ear doctor i somehow doubt my medicine will be specialy made.

ATM my diet is gluten free and I am popping a stemetil once a week at the end of the day vertigo is utterly crippling and coeliac for the moment I am aymptomatic so i guess in this case It is wise for me to rob peter to pay paul!

Im hoping the trace amounts and so low it does nothing

I have meniere's joy.

The attacks of vertigo can write me off for up to 5 hours and I have migraines afterwards.

Low salt diet does nothing, Serc does nothing.

Stemetil seems to help, lower the tinnitus volume AND stop or prevent dizziness.

Stemetil has gluten and I am Coeliac.

Stemetil comes in a 5mg tablet would it really be that bad if I popped it every so often sometimes twice in tow days sometimes not for months? I have to take stemetil if it works.

Imagine yourself stuck a train station knowing if you stand up your will almost certainly topple over in peak hour :| Yes I definitely have to have stemetil, any thoughts? If rest of diet is strict?

For future reference.

I went gluten free for 2 weeks it did absolutely sweet f--- all I aborted due to waste of time, waste of money, 0 benefits and huge inconvenience.

Hearing is getting worse everyday and got worse while Gluten-Free.

I think I got menires because I had coeliac got a virus and the immune system f'd up and now this menires is permanent one ear's hearing almost permanently gone in one ear in 6 months or so

Unhappy Coeliac,

I'm on gluten right now in preparation to be tested for celiac but during the summer when I started to suspect that my ataxia, vertigo, tinnitus, exhaustion were gluten related, I eliminated it from my diet. For me, it took about a week to two weeks before I began to see an improvement. I was already on a low sodium diet as it was recommended by an ENT so that probably helped too.

There was some speculation months ago that I might have meneire's but while I had three of the four symptoms of classcal meneires, I did not have the hearing loss. Do you have hearing loss in addition to your tinnitus, vertigo and ear pressure?

yes sadly I have hearing loss in the classical kind of meniere's way, worse at the lower frequencies. I've had a brain scan and there is apparently nothing wrong so the ENT said probably it's neurological. Low salt diet is quite extreme in my eyes, basically confines me to veggies which make me gag for potentially the next 2/3's of my life. No alcohol no nothing I am still a young man will ruin my life and make me even more miserable!

I have had a cold maybe thats making the tinnitus worse hopefully it is because being strictly gluten free has no had an affect so far. It's been completely underwhelming really I thought I would also be sleeping less being Gluten-Free but no, I should just go back to eating pizzas!

can people give me a rough timeframe here been going a week no difference so far, at what point does Gluten-Free = less vertigo and tinnitus?

Although it seems I have Meneires which sucks I still cling to hope I just have to remain gluten-free.

Men get more IMO especially young men. Whether you have a disease or not sitting around the pub with vodka and lime while your 10 peers drink beer is unmanly and undignified and the focus of much gentle ribbing.

lot of long replies here but so far I have it down to.

Meniere is related to Coeliac

Going gluten free is unlikely to help your ears but having to go Gluten Free means you are more likely to have or develop Menieres.

I been gluten-free for a week and the tinnitus hissing is as loud as ever. Starting to think they are not related, low sodium might be the key

I can resist almost anything except...pizza. We have gluten-free pizza here, but occasionally friends order regular pizza and I am weak. What do you expect from a man. We are not all that bright.

I love my taco bell as well but there is wheat in their meat.

My usual issue is that I wait too long to eat dinner and get into a low-blood sugar mode and get weak.

Hmm. maybe gluten-free pizza tonight.

repping men struggling with boring and yucky diets because of Celiac. Ive eaten pizza for tea for at least 60% of the time for the last two years (I would starve all day before indulging)

Just recently gone Gluten-Free and yeh it sucks its boring its freakn disgusting like ugh.

Veggies make me gag like I am eating my own excrement, I have to swallow them with water it just ugh

This is exactly why I tell no one I have Coeliac and tell them I just like fresh food and gym. Whether you like it or not Coeliac = black-mark against you in anything in life, from jobs to relationships dat dere celiac is a big red stop sign.

Putting up with other peoples ignorance sucks, keep it to yourself works best for me you can always excuse yourself at lunches or get something Gluten-Free without being noticeable and fanatical.

UM fad diets which encourage GLUTEN FREE as a CHOICE are the main propagators of it celiac being seen as a joke or a dietary fad, not a necessity and it annoys me to no end!

Some people believe it or not believe going gree and the grapefruit diet is the same thing

You generally find the ignorance in the low IQ'S as well so set aside 30 minutes to explain it to them in prep school language if you go down that path.

I come in here to vent as well!

3 days Gluten-Free and have a virus and diarrhea hoping it will pass. It sucks it just plain sucks bad enough you cant eat anything good in the world but the 'good' food makes you feel like shyte too.

I'm 4 days in going gluten free after not doing it for a year. Had diarrhea for two days and now I wake up with a shocking virus, I felt better on gluten