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I'd kill for a gluten-free beer. I miss beer as much as I miss bread.

I've always been an average weight... always wanting to lose about 20 lbs (and doing it several times). I didn't get the unexplained weight loss symptom of celiac, and AFTER going gluten-free, I packed on about 30 lbs!! At the moment I'm doing Weight Watchers on my own to try and lose about 40-50 lbs. I'm about 6 down... many more to go!!

Just ordered mine!!

I read that there is a new pizza joint in NYC with gluten-free pizza AND gluetn-free beer!! I've thought about coming all the way up (2 hours) just for that!!

I'd never heard of it till I was diagnosed!

My symptoms started in the summer after spending weekends boating in the Delaware River. My doc thought I'd picked up some ugly bug or something and put me thru a course of Flagyl while we waited for my blood work to come back.

My daughter's fiance started having mild gut symptoms that progressed over the next year till he finally took himself to the doctor who suggested gluten intolerance. He thinks I "witch cursed" him!! haha

After my diagnosis, I'm convinced that my sister's lifelong eczema and skin/internal allergies and my brother's occasional eczema are gluten related... but neither will be tested!!

Is he having tubes put into his ears? The procedure does only take 5 minutes, but they'll put him out and will want him to wake up a little before he goes home. My daughter had some cereal before she left, so just bring some crackers or a light snack (similar to toast or crackers) and some juice you know he'll like.

Sour cream!

Yep... my newly diagnosed daughter pointed out to me that the sour cream I'd been enjoying had modified food starch! You could have knocked me over with a feather!!

Regular, full fat, doesn't contain MFS, but some brands of the lite sour cream do... go figure!!

Yea, I've gotten the "Can't you just eat a LITTLE??" Yea, I answered... if I want MOLTEN ACID shooting out my butt.

When I explained to some nice older ladies at the bake sale table that I couldn't eat any of their wares... and told them why, they gasped and said, "Oh my... WHAT do you eat??" I looked down at myself (I didn't GET the unexplained weight loss symptom...) and said, "Um... do I look like I'm starving??"

Also... how did you find the bread on day 2 or 3? I've made some homemade recipes and find they end up tasting and acting like the commercial brands out there... crumbly and not very good tasting.

I'm still a Manna from Anna fan. Haven't found one bread better!!

Kettle cooked Lays are so good, I'm sorry my daughter even GAVE them to me!! Now I have to stay away cause I'm trying to lose weight... (I didn't get the weight loss symptom of celiac disease...)

I LOVE cereal and was going to start hunting down these brands... but the reality is that I have a real problem with cereal and portion control. I can quite happily eat the whole box at one sitting!!! haha

So, I guess I'll stick with my yogurt and banana on work days and my bacon and eggs on the weekends!

Oh man... we just found Bone Suckin' Sauce... it's delish!

I've found that often the "store brand" of things like BBQ sauce and spaghetti sauce have better ingredients than the big name brands. Often the big name brands will have modified food starch and high fructose corn syrup (which doesn't have anything to do with celiac disease but is just a sugar no one needs!!) when the cheaper store brand does not!! Check them out!

After trying several OTC breads and several from scratch recipes, Manna from Anna bread mix is my fav. I make it once a week or so. I also make it sometimes in English muffin rounds for rolls.

Check her out at mannafromanna.com

I got the list, celiac3270! Thanks a million!!

I still pick up things I KNOW are not gluten free and think... maybe THIS time it will be... hahaha.

I'm so lucky that those who love me also can and do read ingredients before they buy them to cook with.

Irish and Scottish on both sides.

I too got zapped somewhere over the holidays. I made seafood and was so careful not to bread anything and all sauces were made by me. I can't figure it out, but boy... are my intestines mad at me!

All the hot wings recipes I have contain flour. I've never liked them, so it's not a prob... but the flour was in the hot sauce, not dusted on the chicken itself.

1. Manna from Anna bread mixes

2. Red wine

3. White wine

4. Tinkyada pastas

5. Manna from Anna bread mixes!!!

Reading this thread with interest, as my middle daughter who was recently diagnosed with Celiac Disease is trying to find the right combo of meds for her bipolar, which is also fairly new and SCARY (for her mom anyhow!). She's finding the whole gluten-free lifestyle hard to embrace and I'm so thankful I've been dealing with it long enough to be able to give her answers when she has questions or to direct her to where she can find the answer if I don't know.

I'd love to hear that others feel better with their bipolar issues after being gluten-free for a while. My daughter has more GI symptoms than I did/do, and doesn't feel well much of the time... so feeling physically better AND mentally better can ONLY be a plus!!

All this said... her doctor told her that if a food/medication says simply "modified food starch" that it means it's soy starch and that she can have it. I told her that she can't take the chance. This same doctor told her she also has a "wheat allergy"... but she felt like a croissant this morning so she ate it. "Then we're not talking about the same thing," said my daughter... "because if you have Celiac Disease, eating a croissant is not an option."

I stopped licking envelopes when I read the medical article about the person who got the tinest paper cut when licking an envelope and there were eggs on the glue and an insect of some sort (roach??) started growing in his lip!! Blech!!

I have those corn flake crumbs, katydid! They're good! I also crush up chinese rice crackers... they're good too!

Welcome from me too! Where in NJ are you ? I'm just across the river near New Hope, PA. This is an awesome site with all the answers you ever needed for questions you never thought you'd have to ask!!

I read this yesterday... just ANOTHER good reason to nurse your babies!! I also read that if you're still breastfeeding when you introduce cereal to your baby, the chances of celiac disease are less.

Yea, I was lucky to be diagnosed so quickly... altho now I laugh when I tell people about it and say, "the first symptoms is unexplained weight loss... um... I didn't get that one!"

When I went to the rheumatologist, he explained it all so well to me. He said that my body is like a country (I asked if that was some kind of sick FAT joke?? haha). My immune system is the army that defends my country. When I get sick, my army comes to the defense and helps me get well...

So... sometimes when there are no germs to fight...or even when there are... the army (immune system) gets restless and starts fighting amongst themselves (autoimmune disorder). It's the immune system fighting itself!

So, he said that this elevated ANA meant that my army was sort of poised to fight against itself if it got mad enough.

I don't remember what my ANA number was... but the numbers go up in a funny way... sort of exponentially or something... so a big number looks bad, but really isn't.

I'd call your doc and get a better explanation!

My symptoms were unrelenting diarrhea and belly noises that sounded like wolverines were fighting in there!! I had no pains or other sickness. I thought I'd picked up some sort of parasite! The doc gave me a course of Flagyl, the med for "bugs" and did blood work and a colonoscopy. The results were SO positive, I didn't have an endo. I'd only had my symptoms for about 2 months when I was diagnosed.

About a year later, my routine blood work for my yearly physical showed the slightly elevated ANA. My doc sent me to the rheumatologist who did more extensive blood work. So far, so good... no symptoms from it.