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  1. skigirlchar
    YEA!! i'm so glad you are feeling better! lol i love how you put it - "playing that packing-tetris game in my head " because that is what i am doing right now! between boxing things up, trying to purge, and trying to figure out what goes w/ me and what i need to sell or donate, that's stress enough! Good luck on your last final!
  2. skigirlchar
    of course, if you are corn sensitive then you should probably still avoid it
  3. skigirlchar
    Be upfront w/ everyone now. Give them some basic info and let them know that you need to bring your own cooking utensils and foods for certain meals covering those foods. A new cooler clearly marked in some manner and mark the pots/utensils the same way (if the ceilac diagnose is a child, maybe let them do the decorating.) for those foods Take your...
  4. skigirlchar
    yes - cross contamination CAN STILL BE AN ISSUE! about 2 weeks ago spring and allergy season showed up in my neighborhood. it became that much worse for me. again, everyone is different though. i seem to be ok w/ quaker oats - but others can only eat gluten-free certified oats. HOWEVER i had a reaction to their corn grits.... everyone came out of...
  5. skigirlchar
    at least he had HEARD of Celiac! i too get nauseous when i have to go into the bread isle at the grocery store.... and I HAVE TO to get to the gluten-free FOODS!!! some idiot though it would be a good idea to put the gluten-free foods w/ the organic foods on one side of the SAME ISLE as the bread! it could be that you are breathing in things that your...
  6. skigirlchar
    do to financial constraints i couldn't totally do a kitchen overhaul so i slowly eliminated my "bad" foods by either giving things away to friends who would go shopping w/ me and would buy me gluten-free/CF/SF products in trade, or eating much smaller quantities to fade the "bad foods" from my diet. now, i am in the middle of moving and am trying to not...
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    soy elimination was a HUGE benefit for me yes, it's a LOT of work, but the physical symptomatic relief i felt made it worth it! good luck!
  8. skigirlchar
    the more time you take the more you will find there ARE places you CAN go! many city online restaurant guides now have gluten-free listings. many major chains are putting gluten-free foods on their menus. yes, it's a pain to call but it's your health so take the time to call places - amazingly even some Italian restaurants have gluten-free foods and are...
  9. skigirlchar
    oh - i just went back and saw in the initial post you asked about the cost of testing w/o insurance.... it's a lot. and the more they test for, the higher it gets. even w/ many insurance plans you end up footing a lot of th bill
  10. skigirlchar
    sorry i didn't get back to you sooner! i have been in the middle of a crazy job hunt and apt hunting! ACK! i found the betty crocker mix to work fine. i typically use "smart balance" instead of butter - ONE OF THEM IS GLUTEN FREE *but you have to check the side of ALL the tubs to make sure you get the correct one! and of course, there could still...
  11. skigirlchar
    i eat a LOT of the few foods i can - lettuce has taken up residence in my fridge. it's a lot of trial and error. (and now that it's "allergy season" i have to eat even less of my allowed foods because, while i have allergies all year long, my food ones double now that the pollen is flying.) as for the testing - some allergy tests are there for food allergies...
  12. skigirlchar
    you could also be dealing and imbalance - have you found a pro-biotic to add to help balance out your system? i too had to eliminate the same foods as you and as i added in beans (though i avoid lentils like the plague) and rice i was hit w/ gas in a major way. and BLOAT!!! (can you say "state puff marshmallow girl?) at first i was really skeptical but...
  13. skigirlchar
    alaska does put a damper on shopping - but you also didn't put that in your original message :/ i understand the candida issue - IT DOES GET BETTER!!! i had already been on a limited diet because of allergies when this started for me, too. adding beans & rices - when i already disliked them - was tough. the pots - if they have a "non-stick" coating...
  14. skigirlchar
    I would suggest to both of you that you ask your hosts for the names of the local grocery stores where you are going now. MANY now have online lists of the gluten-free foods they carry. You may be putting a lot more stress on yourself than needed! I have NEVER bothered to take anything with me and my friends have always been very accommodating. Yes...
  15. skigirlchar
    hate to break it to you but it could be one, the other, or both. many of us have a reaction to corn products. there is also a lot of discussion that only only a few companies have true gluten free oats. put that together and corn grits are a flair up waiting to happen. if it makes you feel any better, i bough the same box for my parents for when they visit...
  16. skigirlchar
    everyone's system is different that being said, if you eat wheat and you feel like garbage & then break out in hives, that's prob a sign if you want to be more "scientific" w/o formal allergy testing, go 2-3 weeks and then have some bread or a nice wheat beer i get a double whammy since i'm also yeast allergic
  17. skigirlchar
    if you feel better when gluten free, then live gluten free it IS a lot of work. i am still not 100% gluten or casein free (i work much harder to be wheat and soy free) I came back negative on both the blood work and the biopsy for celiac, but my allergies are so severe that the gluten-free/cf/sf diet (aka celiac diet) is right for me. it took...
  18. skigirlchar
    for years my nails peeled (my toe nails showed the horizontal bump you talk about too).... the more i keep to the diet, the stronger they have gotten ( i was even able to maintain a natural French manicure for around 5 weeks in a row. )
  19. skigirlchar
    CALL OR GO TO THE ER (especially w/ the hives!) Amox is a derivative of Penicillin - and if you are allergic to it and have a mild reaction now, you could have a more severe to deadly reaction in the future. If you really can't get to one and you aren't sure call your insurance company and ask them for assistance and tell them you had a severe allergic...
  20. skigirlchar
    one of my best 1st dates (before my dr. even thought i might have celiac's) started over 5 plates at as tapas resturant. 1/2 the choices could have made would have killed me but i just told him I had a lot of weird allergies. ended up being one of THE BEST DATES I EVER went on. I kept trying to get him to talk about himself, he kept wanting to know more...
  21. skigirlchar
    I was just looking you up today on the message board to see how you were doing. i am STILL struggling outside of the home, but inside I do very well. It probably helps that I live alone. I seem to have adjusted to the gluten-free pasta sold at my local grocery store (GIANT - MD, as opposed to GIANT-PA or GIANT EAGLE.) some of my friends are very aware...
  22. skigirlchar

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    skigirlchar replied to Roda's topic in Coping with Celiac Disease

    Good for YOU! Sometimes just speaking up for yourself really is all that it takes!
  23. skigirlchar
    even those of us who have been found negative w/ the scope go through the same thing when we put gluten in our bodies. at home my shelves are gluten-free/CF/SF most of the foods i am allergic to i can cheat on and enjoy periodically outside of the home, but Soy & Wheat knock me back like i have been hit by a bus. (unfortunately i am allergic...
  24. skigirlchar
    my dr 1st thought i had ceilac disease and tested me prior to me going gluten free. i have tons of allergies and since testing i have had a variety of tests. while all tests have found me to NOT have ceilac, i HAVE been found to 1) have an extreme wheat allergy, 2) an extreme yeast allergy, & 3) a (hereditary) hiatal hernia. between these 3 and stress...
  25. skigirlchar
    betty crocker has 2 flavors of cake mix... frosting... well, i would start experimenting now
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