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Thank you! I was about to ask about that! I would hate to think I was letting in any gluten surprises.

Yeah, it's really funny that I never realized I wasn't much of a bread eater. I'm pleased with the Whole Foods Bakehouse brand bread and yet I only buy it about once a year and then I find I don't make it through the loaf. Now, Amy's frozen gluten free dinners I would be lost without. I work 12 hour shifts and despite my best intentions I frequently...

How new are you? My first week off gluten was sheer hell and the month or two after, only a bit better. It felt to me the way I imagine coming off of heroin might feel. As a matter of fact, I looked up heroin addiction and getting off of heroin and the only symptom I wasn't having was high blood pressure. Well, I thought that was the only one I wasn't having...

It's incredibly hard for me to believe that any disease of the digestive system is not in some way connected to the foods we eat, whether by exacerbation or causation. That isn't rocket science, it's just plain common sense. I'm a nurse, though, and I've found that common sense in doctors is a rare commodity. Unless this doctor has a lot of other redeeming...

I was never diagnosed with fibromyalgia but I was way on the way to the diagnosis, along with Reynaud's (no, I don't smoke) and borderline hypothyroid. I had chronic joint pain and bought Ibuprofen in the 500 pill size from Costco (and they didn't last that long!). I felt lousy for so long I just thought that was aging (I decided this at age 29). Then, when...

I eat huge amounts of soy, not so much by choice but because two other family members can't have milk, one being lactose intolerant, the other requiring a gluten fee/casein free diet. I recently heard that eating too much soy can be a problem but not what the threshold is. I tend to rely on Amy's when I'm working 12 hour shifts and that's all soy and we go...

Wow, I never thought about that, but my periods have been heavier. Not massively heavier, just more what I would consider normal, though still on the light side. Cramps are much worse but they've always been bad and I'm suspecting perimenopause or fibroids rather than anything having to do with the Celiac. Though, interestingly, for me, Celiac was very much...

I've been gluten free for about five years now. I've had the occasional accident and I have realitively rapid and severe symptoms ranging from bloating to severe joint pain to extreme fatigue and flu like symptoms within about 3 hours of ingestion. I'm quite careful and haven't had a gluten accident in quite a while. The longterm benefits to my overall health...