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    Hi Sandra Yes, it really does sound like you have an intolerance to at least wheat, if not gluten entirely. Either way, it's probably best for you to cut out gluten completely for at least 6 months (as suggested) and see if you start doing better. It takes a lot of patience. You won't be 100% overnight. Even if you don't have the damage caused by Celiac...
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    I usually (but not always) have things in the fridge in about an hour. I like to let it cool off first, and usually have it eaten up within 3 days. If it's longer, it usually gets a good frying, or gets chucked. I hate wasting food... But yeah, it could be more that something got to me in the meantime. Because while it's usually the leftovers that bother...
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    Hi All So, this is kind of a random question, but I'm trying to figure out a reason why the exact same meal I cooked and ate and felt fine after eating one day, would floor me the day after when eating it again (leftovers). I usually make extra for dinner and take leftovers for work. Sometimes I have enough for two more meals. I usually microwave them...
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    Hi Mindwarp, I've also never been officially diagnosed for Celiac (blood-test negative, went on the gluten-free diet rather than wait for a biopsy). However, I've got pretty firm evidence that I do have the disease and not just an intolerance, and I can live without an official diagnosis because I don't even want to think of what a Gluten challenge would...
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    Hi Andrew sorry your post was neglected for so long. I don't come in here very often. But I live in Toronto, and have Celiac, and have survived the bumpy road for 3 years so far. Not sure about a larger support group here in Tdot. Allegedly there's a chapter of the Canadian Celiac Association, but I don't know much about their activities. If you...
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    Welcome to the forum, Panda. I think you've probably caught your Celiac in very early stages, so that's really lucky! I had very low iron in my late teens, and looking back it was probably the first sign of the disease popping up. Probably if you hadn't been diagnosed and kept on eating gluten, you eventually would have gotten other symptoms. That said...
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    Hi Jasmine Welcome to the forum! Hope we can all be of help. From the sounds of it, you should definitely not be handling wheat flour, or preparing any gluteny foods for other people. If your son or other family members want something you can't eat, ask them to make it themselves (which is a great chance to teach your son to cook and bake!) If they...
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    Hi all So I took a peek at the summary of this research in the newsletter this morning, on a study showing several Celiac disease patients with significant brain abnormalities, especially with people who have issues with headaches, dizziness, and other neurological issues: https://www.celiac.com/articles/23041/1/Brain-Abnormalities-in-Patients-with-Celiac...
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    Yep, i has a surprisingly high (for a tiny lightweight like me) tolerance before I went gluten-free. I could never drink too much beer cause I got so bloaty (now we know why), but I loved it. After a few months gluten-free, total lightweight! If our intestines are damaged, we don't absorb alcohol just like we don't absorb nutrients. Your daughter is probably...
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    "Also, when I looked online at my favorite coconut ice cream it said it contained gluten even though nowhere on the package did it mention that it contained gluten." Sorry to barge in here, but Bexxa, can you tell me what kind of Coconut ice cream this is. I'm dairy/soy free, so I was elated to find Coconut Bliss. Finally! Ice cream! It's supposedly free...
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    So, I've started a food diary. Right now it's pen and paper, cause that's just how I function, but eventually I might need to sift through all this info. I am recording: - all ingredients I can think of, aside from writing down all ingredients in processed foods. - how I'm feeling after eating - relative times of eating and when symptoms start. ...
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    Pegleg84 replied to klin03's topic in Coping with Celiac Disease

    Klin, are you still drinking/eating dairy? Sometimes it's a good idea to cut it out while you heal. That might help with the stabbiness, or at least let you know that it's indeed gluten getting to you and not something else. Just a suggestion (that I didn't follow when I started. I clung to dairy as long as possible. Now I'm casein intolerant) Peg
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    Pegleg84 replied to klin03's topic in Coping with Celiac Disease

    Yes, as the others have said, eating gluten "just to see" is definitely not worth it. You're still healing, still figuring out what you should be eating. As you manage to cut all possible gluten out and heal up, then trust me, you'll know when you've accidentally gotten glutened. For me, I know it was gluten when I few hours later my stomach starts doing...
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    Thanks guys I'll be sure to ask about getting an endoscopy done as well. Get all the pain over at once. (part of the reason why i've never been officially diagnosed was not wanting to suffer any longer to wait and get a biopsy done. Also, having things down my throat/up my arse not exactly on my to-do list...)
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    Hello all so, I finally saw my GP today to get a referral to a gastroenterologist. I've been gluten free for 3.5 years, and still haven't seen a GI! I've been having a lot of stomach pain and (likely) non-gluten related symptoms lately, so want to see if something else is wrong, or if I need to cut more out of my diet. (I have told my Dr flat-out that...
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    I worked in a pizza place for 8 months before I went gluten free. Of course, I ate tons of pizza and pasta during that time, so I always joke that the restaurant caused my Celiac. That said, yeah, it's definitely possible that you came into contact with flour without eating anything. If it was a small pizza joint and not a larger restaurant, more likely...
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    Damn, I never thought of the frying... Now that I can't eat cheese, nachos are (sniff!) off the menu for me. But I often take a risk and as long as they don't deliberately have gluten on/in anything, I'll go for it rather than starving (usually resulting in a fun time that night...) Eating out it hard, but we have to do it and risk looking like picky complainers...
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    First of all, Welcome to the forum. Hope you can find the answers and support you need. How long have you been gluten free? A lot of us, after doing quite well for a while, will have other problems pop up out of nowhere, like PricklyPear said, either because the reaction to gluten was masking them, or our bodies just decide they don't like that food anymore...
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    Hey all, so, over the past week or so my life has been Eat, feel like crap, repeat. It's possible a couple of those instances were due to slight cc glutenings, but today I had to stay home from work cause my stomach was so screwy (and i'm achy and lightheaded and all the other fun things that come with a reaction). I know it's not gluten this time, because...
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    Hey, I get that too. It's a tingling all over my face, worse on my left side. My vision also tends to get a bit blurry. I've wondered about the silent migraine thing myself. I've never had anything I'd call a migraine, but my father had a problem with them, and the symptoms are similar to a silent one. However, since it seems to happen along with stomach...
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    Pegleg84 replied to Ranne10's topic in Coping with Celiac Disease

    That's wonderful! I guess I'm "lucky" because so many people in my family are gluten free that when I go home, my grandmother makes a gluten-free version of many of her great dishes and they're just as delicious. If my sister and I are both home, that's 3 celiacs in one house. There seems to be another member of my family being diagnosed or deciding to eat...
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    Hey all So, after having a violent reaction to a bowl of quinoa the other day, I got to thinking it might be time to take some drastic measures and actually figure out what other food intolerances I might have. Right now I'm gluten free (as much as humanly possible. I do get cc'd while eating out on occasion), dairy/casein free (I'm pretty sure its casein...
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    Wow! I'm kind of jealous! Not enough to suddenly change my bc medication though. I wonder if anyone else on other brands are noticing the same thing? I went back on the pill several months ago (for actual contraceptive reasons) but can't say it affected anything other than my skin. Consider yourselves lucky and keep at it.
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    Hi All So, since I keep having new problem foods popping up every other day (exaggerating, but it's getting frustrating), I think it's time I looked into some further allergy/intolerance testing. I haven't been tested for anything since two negative blood tests for Celiac (technically, I self-diagnosed and went on the gluten-free diet cause I didn't...
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    Personally, I think the cross-reactivity theory is on to something, in that proteins like casein and soy are similar to gluten, so Celiacs are more likely to have trouble with them. I don't think they cause the same damage as gluten, though, but the jury's still out on that one. All these theories aside, if it bothers you, cut it out. Trying an elimination...
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