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  1. FMcGee
    I think there's a big difference between living in a mixed household and being taunted. I'm the only person in my family and group of friends with celiac disease. I don't actually know anyone else who has it (love you guys, but I haven't met you!), so I'm never around people who are also eating gluten-free, and no one ever taunts me. I agree with Tim-N-VA...
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    Oh jeez. Your brother sounds like a pill. I'm going to think about this further, but I would say this: telling him to stop impolitely probably isn't the way to start. Counteracting rudeness with rudeness is rarely helpful in the long term. Have you told your dad, calmly, that when your brother taunts you like this, it makes you feel ____? If I were you, I...
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    ARCHIVED Osteoperosis

    FMcGee replied to jekster's topic in Related Issues & Disorders

    Yeesh. You should probably take a calcium supplement that also has vitamin D (like Caltrate, which is gluten-free) because the vitamin D helps your body absorb the calcium. Also, weight-bearing exercise helps build bone density. You can eat calcium-rich foods like dairy (if you can have it) and broccoli. When I was 18 I had a bone density scan and my results...
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    I agree. Counseling can be extremely helpful. I've been through it, too, to help resolve some issues from childhood/early adulthood trauma, and it has helped me keep perspective. I think with things like anxiety, depression, and PTSD, there is never, or rarely, just one solution. I'm thinking of going to counseling again for a few rounds to help me manage...
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    Hi! I was having pretty bad anxiety and depression for a long time, and a month into the gluten-free diet, I feel a lot better. I still have my moments (but I still have my moments of accidental glutening!), but on the whole, I don't have that "I'll never be cheerful again" feeling, and I can handle minor crises/stress with a much more level head. I'm just...
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    ARCHIVED Surprise!

    FMcGee replied to LadyBugLuv's topic in Related Issues & Disorders

    Congratulations!!! This is the advice I have compiled from my mother, who is a neonatologist (I hope you don't have to deal with one of her ilk, of course!) and from my best friend, who is an AMAZING mother: * My mother's first words of advice to any new mom are DO NOT DO A BIRTH PLAN! (She wanted me to put it in all caps!) She says that is essentially...
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    Is there another doctor you can go see? This guy sounds like a bad egg, but not all doctors are. And, I hear you - I think a lot of us wish the only thing wrong with us was X. I'm glad you're feeling somewhat better!
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    Mellowyellow took the words right out of my mouth - I cannot message or email you. I'm new to this forum too, just starting my gluten-free diet too, also very into exercise and fitness and healthy eating/living, we're both female about the same age, and I saw on one of your posts you always had bad migraines and other issues I constantly have. We are very much in the same boat so I thought it

  9. FMcGee
    I live in Gainesville, FL, and while we have one of the country's biggest universities, we're not the most... varied... city I've ever lived in. BUT! It's very easy to do gluten-free here! Mainstream grocery stores stock huge amounts of gluten-free food (see my loving homage to Publix in another post), the town's local pizza place, Satchel's, has gluten-free...
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    Have you tried asking your grocery manager to order things for you? It's worth a shot, and any grocer worth his salt will try to work with you.
  11. FMcGee
    Hello and welcome! It certainly could be celiac disease - your symptoms sound like mine - and if the bloodwork comes back negative, I'd suggest re-testing or getting the genetic test, just in case. My mom got a false negative on the blood work. The endoscopy question will get you a lot of different answers. It's the "gold standard" diagnosis but itself also...
  12. FMcGee
    That looks delicious! I am definitely going to try it. Thanks for the recipe!
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    I second the recommendation to get tested. Do you think your problem is gluten (which isn't in rice or potatoes) or fiber, or something else? There could be other things going on besides celiac disease so whether you have that or not, you want to find a good doctor to keep tabs on this.
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    I think writing in to her website is a great idea! I'm in. She's a pretty outspoken lady, so I'd think she could be outspoken on this, too!
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    Thanks for understanding the spirit in which I made my comment! I think we're all on the same page here.
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    Yeah, I hear you. I completely adore Ellen, so I'm hoping she'll speak up about celiac disease and present the facts accurately, but misinformation is bad. I know that "all publicity is good publicity" and all that, but when it comes to health issues, I don't think that's actually true. People buy into way too many myths about their health anyway (diet pills...
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    Right, it's field contamination that's the issue, not the processing. I just saw my dietician on Wednesday, and she told me she has many celiac patients (where are these Gainesville people, and why aren't they on the board?!) who eat oats with no problem. They buy the expensive uncontaminated oats. Apparently the problem for a lot of people is that their...
  18. FMcGee
    I take a sublingual B-12 (a tablet that dissolves under the tongue) in addition to my multivitamin, which also has it. B vitamins are water-soluble so you can't really overdose on them like you can on A, D, E, and K. I really recommend it. I felt a lot better within a few days of starting the B-12. My sister-in-law gets B-12 shots once a month, and that helps...
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    Brazil's great for celiacs! It might be better than here.
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    I don't get her claim about the gluten-free diet being good for weight loss at all. Avoiding processed foods is good for weight loss, gluten or not. But it seems like if you want to subsist entirely on gluten-free processed junk food, the world is your oyster.
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    Right! I did know that, I just spaced on her saying she had a soy problem. My bad entirely. Sorry!
  22. FMcGee
    Actually, if you e-mail me, I can send you tons of recipes. I was just flipping through this folder I've been using to collect gluten-free recipes, and there is a lot there. If you do that, make sure you let me know again what you can and can't eat (or don't like). Some of my recipes use honey but you could just substitute white sugar or maple syrup or agave...
  23. FMcGee
    I hear you. Almost everything I eat hurts as well. I just posted a recipe in the "In a Food Rut" thread on the baking and cooking forum for my new favorite thing: tapioca with coconut milk. It's like the only thing I can eat right now that doesn't hurt, so I'm making it in huge batches and eating it a few bites at a time (because that seems like all I can...
  24. FMcGee
    For the spaghetti squash, you can also cut it in half and microwave it for about 15 minutes. I'm actually having that for dinner! I don't eat red meat, so I'm going to cook some other veggies and toss it all together to make primavera. I'm going to put tomato sauce on it but one certainly wouldn't have to. I have a snack I'm hooked on right now: coconut...
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    I second the idea to get the celiac blood panel done. It can answer a lot of questions. As to Splenda, I went through a phase where I was using it a lot and I think it was making me feel weird (in particular, I had a sore throat), but when I stopped using it, I soon felt better. Your gut can't actually digest chlorine, which is why they add that compound...
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