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  1. Shannonlass
    My initial blood results were: Tissue Transglutaminase IgA = >300 U/mL Anti Gliadin IgA antibodies = 202.9 U/mL Here's hoping they have gone down significantly!
  2. Shannonlass
    A low point for me was a couple of months prior to diagnosis when my symptoms had just accelerated beyond all belief. My husband and I were in Istanbul. We'd had breakfast (laden with gluten of course) and walked into the city center. On the way in I started to feel really nauseous, which wasn't unusual for me at the time. We got seats outside a Starbucks...
  3. Shannonlass
    I sit at the end of the table at the opposite end to the bread basket. I hope I'm doing enough.
  4. Shannonlass
    Yes they would clean up after themselves if I wasn't here but since I am a guest I feel obliged to help with the chores and the most common chore is washing up. I think getting gloves for washing up is a good idea. Don't know why I hadn't thought of that.
  5. Shannonlass
    I'm staying with my parents until the end of August. The house has crumbs everywhere and I am doing my to stay gluten free. I have my own pots to cook things like gluten free pasta etc and my own small frying pan.I have my own cereal bowl and spoon. I rinse and dry with kitchen roll any cutlery or delph before using it. I cook the dinner with my mother...
  6. Shannonlass
    Well here I am 17 weeks gluten-free and I am still starving all the time and putting on weight steadily every week. I was a normal weight to begin with and now I am in real danger of becoming overweight. I must look into this intestinal candida as a possible reason.
  7. Shannonlass
    Yep, I'm hungry all the time and craving stuff I wouldn't normally bother with. I'm gluten-free since end of February.My consumption of chocolate is much higher than it ever was. My weight is up every week and I didn't need to put any on to begin with. It had better ease up soon or I will become overweight and then obese.
  8. Shannonlass
    Breakfast: Boiled egg and few spoons of left over chicken/chickpea curry Snack: Gluten free Kind bar & tea Lunch: Cherry tomatoes, cucumber, Laughing Cow cheese, low fat natural yogurt, banana, water Snack: Grapes, Curly Wurly bar & tea, mandarin Dinner: Barakat gluten-free pasta with Sacla pesto (muschrooms, onion & bacon lardons) Snack...
  9. Shannonlass
    I work overseas but am heading home to my parents for a couple of months this summer. My own apartment is gluten-free 95% of the time but home is not. Can people please give me some advice and pointers on how I can avoid getting glutened every day for the next 2 months.
  10. Shannonlass
    So I've been gluten-free (or at least I have tried my best to be) for 15 weeks. I have not deliberated cheated in that time. I am still very much finding my way in terms of food items whos ingredients show no ovbvious gluten but could be manufactured using shared lines. I live in the Middle East where labelling is a joke so it is very much back to basics...
  11. Shannonlass
    I am a recently diagnosed celiac so I am still trying to find my way with the diet and recognise when I have possibly been glutened. For me I used to think my most reliable indicator is flatulence and bowel movements but now I am not so sure. I eat gluten-free cereal for breakfast and for lunch I have a fruit salad and plain yogurt. The same thing 5 days...
  12. Shannonlass
    I'm not sure if it has to do with the establishments we eat at but I have never seen this happen. I have watched for it since I was diagnosed though because I had read the negative reaction towards them here. Buffets are a way of life here. They are a huge social outlet. The buffet stations here are fairly large. There is a space between each dish. Each...
  13. Shannonlass
    As far as I know, neither my parents nor any of my 5 siblings (aged 21-28) have gone for testing. I am pretty sure it comes from my dad's side of the family. He doesn't have any bowel issues. His mother has always struggled with her stomach (She's 93 so I wouldn't be suggesting she get tested!!!) My great-grandmother was the same and from talking to my nan...
  14. Shannonlass
    I am fairly confident our home is gluten free. I bring my own lunch to work and eat it on clean napkins to ensure I don't pick up crumbs from the tables. I do cook a lot of meals from scratch now. Have really gone back to basics. Only tonight I made chili con carne and it actually tasted really good. We eat out maybe once a week and so far I haven't gotten...
  15. Shannonlass
    So I've been gluten free for about 11 weeks. Most times I feel I get the diet right but on occasion I know I've been glutened though I cannot always tell from where. So my question is how long do you feel it was before you had gotten to grips with the diet and were avoided getting glutened 99% of the time!
  16. Shannonlass
    I am HUGELY bloated at the moment. I could pass for a pregnant woman. I have been following my gluten-free diet closely and this has just happened in the past 2-3 weeks. I haven't changed my diet or introduced any new foods so I don't know what is causing it. Has anyone experienced this?
  17. Shannonlass
    I have a steel colander and steel sieve. At this stage we are only cooking gluten free pasta but up until 2.5 months ago these would have been used to strain gluten-containing pasta. They have been scrubbed to within an inch of their lives (I hate the goo that pasta leaves behind). My question is, is there a possibility that there is still gluten left on...
  18. Shannonlass
    If you are staying at the same weight I don't see a problem really. Lucky you. My weight just keeps going up and up and up no matter how carefully I eat or how much exercise I take
  19. Shannonlass
    Wow guys. I really feel for you all. Maybe because I am a newby (9 weeks gluten free today!) but I don't seem to be taking a reaction at all (see my other thread) It kind of has me worried though. I'm afraid I am not doing the diet properly at all and the first I will know of it will be when I get my antibodies checked in June
  20. Shannonlass
    I know I am perhaps lucky. I think I may have to start paying a lot more attention to my body to really know when I have been glutened. As I type this I *think* I might have been exposed but 2 hours later I feel fine. No cramps, nothing (as yet!)
  21. Shannonlass
    I am starting to think that I may not be having any symptoms after I've ingested gluten. I had one suspected case of it a week after I went gluten-free but nothing since then really. After that occasion I got pretty bad diarrhea but nothing like that has happened in the 8 weeks since and I am pretty sure I must have come into contact with gluten since then...
  22. Shannonlass
    I'm getting my IgA levels checked 4 months after the initial tests were done. Is this enough time for my system to go gluten free or should I just wait for the 6 month mark? My levels were crazy high the first time. Also what is the level that I need to be below??
  23. Shannonlass
    I have put up weight too. Not a crazy amount but enough to make me a little unhappy.I had giardia, a water parasite which basically gave me diarrhea/loose bowels for 2 months. In those 2 months I lost almost a stone which doesn't sound like much but it looked like a LOT more. When I got my celiac diagnosis I had put back on some of the weight. I have...
  24. Shannonlass
    Mine was something along the same lines. My consultant said it was the highest he had ever seen.
  25. Shannonlass
    I feel better in ways but it's hard to tell really as I had a 6 month run of hell prior to diagnosis. I moved to the Middle East at the end of last July. I had been suffering with nausea when eating/after eating for 3+ years but things deteriorated badly. I began to throw up as well. Then in mid november I got the most awful diarrhoea which continued for...
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