AKcollegestudent

Oh good. I seriously thought that I was losing my mind. Thanks for affirming my sanity!

I follow a number of food communities, and one had an interesting recipe for stuffed zucchini; it was naturally gluten-free and I decided to check comments to see what others thought. Someone else noted that it was gluten-free and that she was looking forward to the millet and chickpea combination. The original poster informed them that no, it wasn...

I'm on a 5 meal plan, and to be honest? The only reason they let me drop down that far is because I badgered them to death. This experience has definitely taught me that you can't accept "but really, we have x, y, and z--isn't that good enough?" when dining services cannot actually promise that they're taking all precautions to avoid CC.

Go in and talk to the doctor on campus again. Lay out exactly what is happening, how it's affecting you--because if your situation is anything like mine, you feel like hell with no way to fix it; yay for CC and mislabeling--and the fact that your doctor's orders from home need to be followed. Try to call a meeting with both him, the nurse prac, your college...

I'd noticed it with the bread aisle, actually--some genius thinks that anyone who uses peanut butter or the frozen food case clearly wants bread. But I'm around pizza so rarely that I notice the issue more. I vote that whichever mouth-breathing architect decided to make the bread aisle an important feature of the design, and not tucked in a corner, gets...

Last night, I was out with friends and ended up hanging out with someone I didn't know. (Well, okay. Someone who I've apparently been introduced to probably seven times, given that he greeted me by name. Oops.) We'd been with people who know that offering me pizza is going to be met with a polite, "No thanks," but by the time we actually reached the campus...

About the time you mentioned broomball, I definitely started wondering if you were on my campus. The complaints sound similar to what I was dealing with three months ago. I don't know about you, but we don't have a disability office. To get anything done, I've had to go to the dean's, the head of dining services, the "chefs" in the dining hall, the health...

Which small town? And honestly? I've done the 12 to 15 hour trip to and from Anchorage every four months for the past 3 years. It sucks balls, but realistically, it's might be really good to stop in Anchorage overnight. If you're heading the way I think you might be...honestly? That highway is treacherous. The past couple years, the fatality rates are so...

Miaryan, my response got very long, so I'm PMing you.

Clif bars aren't actually gluten-free. They are wheat-free but not gluten-free.

First off, topamax isn't the only migraine/headache preventative on the market. And it doesn't work for everyone. For me? It made them drastically worse, with the brain fog you're describing and the exhaustion. Because of the brain fog, my doc was worried about the possibility of seizures; I find it ironic that a side effect of a seizure drug is that it can...

It may not be the coconut milk. Yes, it's possible that the intolerance symptoms are exactly the same. But it's also possible that that batch of Bob's Red Mill is CC'd already. I know I've reacted terribly to most of their products at one point or another; I keep one or two types of Bob's only if it's the only product available.

This is the migraine elimination diet I did last year, and I will be doing it again this summer. (It's suspected we missed some the last time.) Open Original Shared Link I need both meds and cutting out food triggers to get mine to a manageable level (2 or three a week, as opposed to daily and unrelenting), but the elimination diet helped immensely. ...

I can't say anything about the gluten status of Smarties, but I do want to point something out: Smarties in the US and Smarties in Canada are vastly different things. I hate Smarties in the US, though when I was a kid, family would bring back Canadian Smarties for me.

First off, I'm certain others have noted this, but are you positive that you don't have other intolerances? Secondly, I share a kitchen with no fewer than 25 gluten eaters (and possibly more like 40 or 50). I haven't been glutened because of my kitchen in months. And the trick is really, really simple: find some place--some place that is not your kitchen...