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  1. CGally81
    Hmm... GI is pretty controversial. Potatoes make me feel satisfied, as does popcorn, and both are high GI! So there's something wrong there. However, foods that aren't too processed. I'll look into Larabars. They're confirmed both gluten-free and milk-free, right? They appear to have some healthy flavors.
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    Do gluten-free, casein-free granola bars exist? Do they make a good breakfast or addition to lunch? (chicken breasts are a big part of my lunch) Since my family uses the same bowls and plates I do, I'm afraid to put anything inside a bowl. I eat rice literally out of the container, though I've had it from a bowl and not gotten sick. Do you have anything...
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    Well, now that I dropped my previous brand of peanut butter due to it containing hydrogenated oils, and am getting nasty headaches and light-headedness from my new brand (possibly by different ingredients, and palm oil might be the one doing it), I am seeing how depressingly small the list of foods I eat is. (EDIT: It's probably the fish oil, of which I...
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    It probably isn't evaporated cane juice, because that's also in the brand of gluten-free casein-free chocolate chip cookies I sometimes treat myself to, and those don't hurt me at all. Must be some other ingredient, or maybe the peanuts are actually more natural or potent, and I am somehow developing an intolerance to peanuts? I HOPE NOT! My diet is limited...
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    Palm juice originates from coconut? Hmm. Maybe I should try a peanut butter brand that has peanuts as its only ingredient. First I'll wait for the headaches and light-headedness to go away, and be gone for a while. Then reintroduce fish oil (which shouldn't be causing the problem), then after a while, try another brand of peanut butter that's totally natural...
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    It might have been the evaporated cane juice. I looked up [evaporated sugar cane headache] on Google and found this: "So what are the options - artificial sweeteners? Well, the problem there is that certain artificial sweeteners may be even worse for your health than white sugar. Some people attribute negative side effects such as headaches, poor concentration...
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    I'm wondering if it's a specific ingredient in this brand of peanut butter. Smart Balance Peanut Butter contains: - peanuts, evaporated cane juice, natural oil blend (palm fruit and flaxseed oils), salt and molasses. My previous brand, Skippy Creamy Peanut Butter contains: - Roasted Peanuts, Sugar, Hydrogenated Vegetable Oils and Salt. While hyrdogenated...
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    My head is kind of warm too. I'm somewhat tired. I don't know if I have a fever, but if so, what could be causing THAT? Constant exposure to whatever was causing my nasty headaches? (In those headaches, I seriously felt like I wasn't getting air to the brain or however you describe it. It's hard to describe, but maybe light-headed really is the best way to...
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    Do you get headaches from other brands of peanut butter? Is this particular brand worse than others?
  10. CGally81
    Really? From that particular brand of peanut butter? Wow. They seemed to show up in this nasty form (I'd had occasional light-headedness and/or headaches before, but not nearly this bad or frequent) after I switched peanut butter brands. What other foods gave you headaches? And you get no such headaches from Whole Foods 365? Since I started the fish...
  11. CGally81
    You too? Same kind of headaches? Including light-headedness, and difficulty focusing sometimes? (It's hard to describe) I looked at my food chart for this year (yup, I keep one big file on my desktop for the whole year), and noticed I started this brand of peanut butter on 7/22. I started the fish oil on 7/14. I might stop both, then reintroduce fish oil...
  12. CGally81
    The fish oil is in liquid form, and it's by Carlson's. I don't think gluten or milk would be in it. Is that confirmed to be the case? As for calories and nutrients, I think so. I take the Pioneer Chewable Vitamins this site sells, and they're supposed to have a lot of nutrients to deal with the lack of nutrients caused by celiac. I don't think I have problems...
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    Just when I thought I was out of the woods, headaches began to show up in the past month or so and get worse. I realized that my peanut butter had hyrdogenated oil in it, which is terrible for you (it's trans fat, yet companies can legally say "0g trans fat" even if there's a lot in there), so I replaced it with a new brand that doesn't have it. But every...
  14. CGally81
    I've had overt celiac symptoms since February 2009. Discovered I had it at the end of July 2009. Tried to go gluten-free August 2009 (but didn't know all foods that had gluten), went totally gluten-free October 2009, and totally casein-free January 2010. Anyway, I haven't had any celiac symptoms for months now. There were some mistakes, like when I had...
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    The headaches I had in the past few days reduced after using the bathroom A LOT. I noticed sometimes I get big headaches and increased hunger shortly before I have to use the bathroom in a big way, and they reduce afterwards. So that might have been part of the problem there. But I'll see if they truly go away or not.
  16. CGally81
    After having "silent" symptoms in 2008 (such as fructose malabsorption that came out of nowhere), and very nasty "overt" symptoms starting in early 2009 (severe brain fog with temporary short-term memory loss, liquid D, depression, low blood sugar reactions, headaches), I did some reading on the internet and diagnosed myself with gluten intolerance/celiac...
  17. CGally81
    Colgate and Crest both say their toothpastes are gluten-free, but what about casein-free? I can't have casein as well. If I can't find out for certain, I'll just order Tom's of Maine's toothpaste online instead.
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    Flour is made from wheat, certainly, but I noticed foods with bleached wheat flour didn't seem to affect me in quite the immediate way as foods with regular wheat. Not sure why. At least, it didn't seem that way at the time, but I stopped eating it anyway. Same with malt powder (which did cause me to have a low blood sugar reaction within 1-2 hours after...
  19. CGally81
    "KC Masterpiece Marinade Steakhouse" is what it appears to be. One of the ingredients is modified food starch. That may or may not contain gluten. I have a celiac coworker who said he got sick off eating popcorn that contained modified corn starch. I'll have to find out. On their site, they say they label all food allergens (including wheat and milk...
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    My mom isn't too happy when I ask her questions that are essentially accusatory. Not to mention that if I didn't get sick but it has flour (which again, is subtle), she might think I'm full of it. Though she has said a few days ago that she apologizes for her past skepticism and is glad to see that I'm noticeably doing better in some ways than even before...
  21. CGally81
    I've been recovering from my celiac VERY well. I no longer am hungry all the time, and in fact can easily afford to eat less than 2500 calories every day (sometimes even less than 2000 calories!). I sometimes get random headaches where I feel kinda knocked back, which is hard to describe, but I get them less and less often. They would occur after eating ANY...
  22. CGally81
    Seemingly every news article on celiac mentions only gluten, and not casein. It's like people don't know celiacs often can't have casein, but at least they're starting to report more details on how celiac can affect people and on what grains (not just wheat) contain gluten. I have a coworker who had asymptomatic celiac, and didn't have any way of knowing...
  23. CGally81
    I'd been consuming casein until I realized it was causing problems in early January. And I continued to eat a food that had "malt powder" when I first went gluten-free, not knowing that malt powder contains gluten. So I too wasn't being perfect in my dietary changes. If I do consume gluten now, I know very quickly. Anyway, you'd have symptoms your whole...
  24. CGally81
    Yeah. I had a hard time believing it myself, as things would seem to get better, then worse. Then I had to remove casein from my diet since it was causing the same symptoms as gluten, though milder. (They were gradually getting worse) That caused a spike in hunger and withdrawal. I am still holding out for the possibility that things may somehow get worse...
  25. CGally81
    Well, it's been over 6 and a half months since I first diagnosed myself with celiac, by going gluten-free and watching the horrible symptoms (brain fog, liquid d, blood sugar drops, and others) go away. Before being promptly hit with extreme, constant hunger. And weeks later, gluten withdrawal symptoms. And "recovery" symptoms (the withdrawal symptoms were...
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