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  1. The Fluffy Assassin
    You can try the Mayo Clinic's symptom checker: Open Original Shared Link Their top possibilities, when I put in my best approximation of your symptoms, were gallstones, peptic ulcer and celiac disease.
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    There was a thread about this not too many months ago. I'll be back momentarily with a link. Edit: Maybe not exactly about this, but related: https://www.celiac.com/gluten-free/index.php?showtopic=57584
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    Martin, So glad you had a good time on your trip. Hope you get your wish and can come back again soon! Best regard, John
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    Well, it doesn't sound like your symptoms: Open Original Shared Link but if you had a problem up until age 18 (i.e., when you were most likely still growing) and are having it again now that you're taking magnesium supplements, it would stand to reason that the problems were and are caused by having too little calcium in your system. This is because magnesium...
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    The Mayo Clinic's take: Open Original Shared Link
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    It's not so much the symptoms as the testing. For the former, you see a gastroenterologist and get blood tests (the celiac panel) and a biopsy of the small intestine. The impression one gets around here is that the number of false negatives (you have celiac disease but the tests say you don't) is quite high. For the latter, you see an allergist and get a...
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    Sorry, I just hauled off and wrote what I was thinking, and probably got everything wrong anyway. As I said, I'm not a doctor and may have been talking totally out my behind. Here's the Mayo Clinic on gastric bypass: Open Original Shared Link You're certainly right that they bypass the duodenum, which is indeed the part of the intestine that is biopsied...
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    Edit: She's already responded, so there's no point in changing what I wrote immediately below but I wanted to add for anybody surfing in to the thread that I realized subsequently that my reply, uh, exceeded my competence. Please skip down to my post #8 for a (hopefully) better thought out reply. What celiac disease is, essentially, is the inability of...
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    Hopefully he's feeling better by now and out of the hospital, but here's a little more information. Sorry it isn't very definitive. The Mayo Clinic on causes of ulcerative colitis: Open Original Shared Link and on complications of celiac disease: Open Original Shared Link They don't say anything definitive like celiac causes colitis (or vice versa), but between...
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    My story is in my sig line. Not to go all vaudeville doctor again, but if your worst symptoms came when you were eating a lot of whey protein, you might want to ... stop eating whey protein. In fact, quitting all dairy might be advisable. It's difficult, but not as hard as it first seems. (Be sure to get a Calcium-Magnesium supplement, though.) The burning...
  11. The Fluffy Assassin
    It causes malabsorption issues, including with calcium and magnesium. You might want to get a Cal-Mag supplement, especially if you go off dairy, as many of us do. Celiac disease is also associated with rheumatoid arthritis, so you may want to be checked for that as well. I had back pain, though not really bad, and switched to an air mattress. It wasn...
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    It's actually really easy, but you just have to take a positive attitude. If you think, "Oh my god, the things I have to give up!" well yeah, you're going to have problems. If you think, "Oh boy, this is fun! This is going to be a culinary adventure!" you'll have a good time, fun every day. Really really really, the best approach is giving up gluten...
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    I googled out of curiosity and found this: "Katie Baier, RD, LD. Avera Marshall Regional Medical Center. Marshall Hy-Vee. 900 E. Main Street, Marshall, Minnesota 56258. 507-532-2247. kbaier@hy-vee.com. Katie offers gluten-free shopping tours, as well as personal shopping assistance to customers looking for gluten-free products and recipes." at Open Original...
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    Glad I'm not the only one. It's remarkable the things that ought to be obvious, but aren't, and yet nobody tells you either. Glad we're both figuring it out (eventually, in my case).
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    Thai Kitchen has never been trustworthy. Taste of Thai on the other hand earlier this year added an announcement on every package that all their products are gluten-free. Now they're not the fastest moving items at the supermarket, so you could easily run across some older packages that still have gluten, but Taste of Thai is the far better, more responsible...
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    Well there's gluten intolerance, gluten sensitivity, wheat allergy and celiac disease. The first two, I'm not sure you can be tested for. I think the genetic tests advertised all over the site can tell you something about them, but for a definitive answer you'll have to wait on someone better informed. A wheat allergy, like other food allergies, can be tested...
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    No doubt folks with similar experiences giving up gluten will show up any minute, but I had an odd experience more recently giving up other things. Giving up gluten was no problem for me at all, but last month I gave up dairy and fruits and more recently gave up soy. Suddenly, tomato sauce, which never gave me any trouble at all, started causing very significant...
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    What spices? What brand? McCormick says that their single-ingredient spices are gluten-free, but I'm not sure who else makes this claim. (Not saying that others don't, just that I don't know that they do.)
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    Thanks. My multi-vitamin (Aldi's fake Centrum) has 100% of the RDA for iodine, so it appears that I'm covered there. I've been salting everything for a day and feel a lot better. Most likely, it was the sodium. If you've still got high blood pressure and want to keep your iodine up, you could try eating more cod, milk or potatoes, according to this: Open...
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    I'm thinking of trying to make a sort of paella. It'll be a fairly approximate version, as I really don't like much seafood except for shrimp and anyway don't have proper pans. Whaddayouthink? What would you put in your (or, virtually, my) paella? Online recipes call for what seems like very little rice (cup uncooked) and what seems like a ton of protein...
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    You'd do well to search the Doctors section of this forum with the name of your hometown. There aren't tons of doctors who specialize in celiac disease anywhere in the US because the number of celiacs is thought (probably incorrectly) to be small. I've never been tested at all, so have very little insight into the matter, but would assume that you'd have...
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    Second opinion hell; fire that doctor. You have to be eating gluten for testing to be accurate. Maybe not all day at the pizza buffet type gluten (oh wait-- that was just me) but at least several slices of whole wheat bread a day for at least the six weeks before the test. However, there is no law that says that you have to be tested; both blood tests and...
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    Could be gas, could be constipation; if it's on the right side, it could be appendicitis, but after 2 days you'd presumably know by now. You might want to try the Mayo Clinic's symptom checker: Open Original Shared Link An awful lot of us are casein intolerant; you may want to try giving up dairy at least temporarily. And to answer your last question, yes...
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    At the time I went gluten free, I was highly lactose intolerant. I could take Lactaid and it worked fine, but somehow it just didn't seem worth wasting a pill for a cup worth of milk. (Cheese or ice cream, sure.) So I had the (where's that darn sarcasm smilie) brilliant idea to start eating my cereal (by then, puffed millet) in apple juice. Fixed my nausea...
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    I use Kitchen Basics broth, which features sea salt. My local Trader Joe's is in Charlotte, 90 miles from here, but even here in the sandhills, we have sea salt (probably IN the sandhills, come to think of it.) I also quit my gluten-free tamari, which I'd previously put in everything, in the continuing battle against Asperger's. Think maybe it was just a...
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