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  1. chasbari
    I wouldn't exactly call it a blessing in disguise. I have always been involved in some way, shape or form with working out and fitness. As I got more ill over the years I couldn't tolerate exercise anymore and my rheumatoid arthritis made just moving next to impossible. Finally dx'd for celiac in February and have gone on a paleo diet. I wasn't really aware...
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    I was diagnosed with pretty severe rheumatoid arthritis before I was ever diagnosed with celiac. What you describe sounds like the classic gelling up of the joints I experience when in a RA flare. Once diagnosed for celiac and treating the proper way with very strict control of a gluten-free, grains free, soy free diet as outlined in the paleo diet (similar...
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    I brush, floss, gargle..obsess and get called a liar by hygienists all the time. My wife barely touches a toothbrush and they tell me I should be more like her. I lost my baby teeth in pieces and parts, have had countless root canals and yet no dentist had a clue as to celiac being a possible cause. Now that I am gluten-free the three teeth I was expecting...
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    I was linking this to my leaky gut in the early stages of my diagnosis and recovery as it would increase radically after meals. I was also very thirsty before I went gluten free but would not have to go much even when drinking large amounts of water if it was before a meal. As soon as I would eat though I would go into overtime with trips to the bathroom...
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    I have found that the first three months of gluten-free were the absolute worst as to hunger, weight loss and leaky gut. I think it was largely due to the fact that for the first time in a long time my body was able to begin the healing process and I had to be careful not to overdo anything. After losing 35 pounds I didn't necessarily have to lose things...
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    I not only experienced the moods but also went through a period of extreme hunger as there was little I could tolerate at first. I just had a realization the other day that I am far less starved all the time now and, unless I really overdo things like I did yesterday, my appetite has really regulated to near normal. It gets better. Especially if you really...
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    I was initially diagnosed with RA 5 years before the celiac diagnosis. Since going paleo to manage my celiac my RA is slowly but surely lessening. I have had to stay away from all alternate grains and dairy in the early stages due to leaky gut issues but have been adjusting to the diet and am healing. My rheumatologist refuses to believe that I even have...
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    It's very easy to believe that this is a side benefit. In spite of the short term difficulties of adapting to the diet and the weight loss I have been experiencing, the positive effects on the little stuff (or not so little stuff as in your case!) far outweigh any short term adaptation hassles. Glad to hear about it!
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    I found, initially, that I couldn't tolerate any "safe" grains like corn and rice. Soy was a big source of my mistaking it for cross contamination. Dairy is on the forbidden list for now as well. I am now getting to the point where I can tolerate exercise although I have to watch overdoing it as I have a proverbially small "gas tank".. at least for now. Much...
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    chasbari replied to magpie's topic in Coping with Celiac Disease

    I was chronically dry and was having problems with dysphonia. I am a voice teacher so this was a real problem. I couldn't drink enough water. Turns out my leaky gut was really causing much of the trouble. Now that I am gluten-free and paleo as well I only drink a few little sips of water to take my supplements of D, Calcium, Magnesium and Zinc. Otherwise...
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    Yep, what they all have said. Especially about how difficult it is, initially, to maintain any weight while the gut is healing. Low calorie, high nutritional density foods are great for getting better but not for keeping the weight on. I lost so much body fat in the first few months and it was compounded by the fact that I was now able to actually do things...
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    I can only agree with you and add... Viva brussel sprouts.. (You might need to keep him away from them....) if you get my drift. I, too, hope my family doesn't read this!
  13. chasbari
    Detoxing as in major withdrawal from glutens and temptation to eat it anyway and starving all the time? yep!
  14. chasbari
    Major rheumatoid arthritis. I was first diagnosed with that before being diagnosed with celiac. My RA titers were very high and I was experiencing much joint pain and gelling of the feet, hands, shoulders, knees, and more depending on how bad the flare was at that particular moment. Major mobility problems that kept getting worse. Very discouraging as I have...
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    Negative blood test, very positive biopsy and rheumatoid arthritis so bad it was immobilizing me. The gluten-free diet in paleo form has set me free in a very short amount of time. I am still losing weight for the time being but I have not felt better in decades. The thought of doing something to modify my immune system for the "convenience" of being able...
  16. chasbari
    Inquiring minds want to know.. what amino acid? Yes, lots of canker sores growing up and dry eyes and chapped lips still. CS
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    Are you sure your pain meds are gluten free?
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    Very disappointed in the box of meat we got from them as they all have additives. Good value if none of those things bother you but it was the pork chops that gave me my first official glutening. The pre made meals have been great for my elderly parents though and they are good value-wise.
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    I can relate to so much of your story and for years was willing to succumb to the doctors' judgement that I was, indeed, crazy. I figured they must be right and, after all, I can get pretty creative... Still, it was a major step to stand up for myself regardless of others' opinions. I now know definitively that I have celiac and discovered what a real glutening...
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    I know that within a short amount of time after going gluten-free I began to experience difficulties with soy, corn and dairy that I had never had a problem with. I had my first real glutening Monday and can say that it is far more painful than anything I had experienced prior to going gluten-free and I was a steadfast gluten eater for most of my 48 years...
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    I live in a non gluten free home with five gluten eaters and myself. My wife bakes and cooks all the time. We have a small kitchen and are careful about shared spaces. I just had my first issue with glutening since going gluten-free in November of 2008 yesterday and it came from my carelessly forgetting about what I had read on a label some months ago. There...
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    An unfortunate addendum to my original post. This morning I find myself wiped out from my first definitive accidental glutening since beginning gluten-free in November. I had some episodes that I thought were CC or something that ended up either being leaky gut reactions to corn, soy or too much physical work too close to eating. Once I went on paleo I have...
  23. chasbari
    I can only speculate but here's my thinking. Before you were diagnosed and went on the diet you were probably at a level of coping that allowed you to get through the day. Obviously something led you to go about getting diagnosed. Once on the diet you probably started noticing more energy or some sort of change. I know the most difficult thing for me now...
  24. chasbari
    I can share much of your story as I could barely make it through teaching a half hour lesson at a time back in November. Against all advice I went off glutens. I really felt I had no choice. I was dying and could barely move or function any more. I was willing to live with the consequences should I not have been able to get a proper diagnosis. I understand...
  25. chasbari
    Lots of instant potato mixes have wheat flour in them as well. Go figure.. CS
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