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  1. luvs2eat
    soft boiled eggs, or scrambled eggs on rice cake, or fruit and yogurt. Yum
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    I attributed my lack of weight loss to my early diagnosis. I only had diarrhea for about 2 months when I was tested and went gluten-free immediately. When I told people about Celiac disease and they asked me the symptoms... I said, "Unexplained weight loss..." and I'd sort of look down at myself and say, "Um... I didn't GET that one!" Other people would...
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    My ONLY symptom that sent me looking for answers was diarrhea. Like you, Imodium was part of my daily diet. I had no abdominal pain (lots of NOISE, but no pain) or any other symptoms. It was reading about all the things that can happen down the road that convinced me that going gluten-free was mandatory. I've been completely gluten-free for almost 3 years...
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    I think I'm going to make up a card that says: No gluten means don't give me anything that contains any kind of flour or food starch. That would be a huge help. Ya can't just say wheat... cause people offer you WHITE bread... it's not wheat bread. Yikes!
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    After I'd been gluten-free for a year, I gobbled a thick slice of the beautiful crusty loaf of bread I'd made and always loved. The repercussions were so negiligent... that I started dreaming about scheduling cheats... maybe a Pizza Hut stuffed crust pizza one month... a Subway hoagie another month... but the planned cheats never happened. Now, I've been...
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    Something similar happened to me in the short procedure unit. After a shoulder manipulation (for a frozen shoulder), I woke up in considerable pain. Before they could give me a pill for the pain, they insisted I have some food on my stomach. We started going thru their list, "No, I can't have toast, No I can't have crackers... or cereal... or a cookie." Just...
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    I've always made gluten-free corn bread... this recipe comes from my Southern friend. Turn the oven to 400
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    My southern girlfriend makes her family's fried okra with corn meal. I'll ask her how she does it. I've been making bread crumbs for things like crab cakes out of the thin rice crackers in the asian section of the grocery... do you know the ones I'm talking about? They come in neat flavors like seaweed and wasabi. I just wiz 'em in the food processor for...
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    I just ask for a burger without the roll... folks always ask if I'm on Atkins. I'd also bring wine and ask if I might bring something (salad, appetizer, dessert) that I'm sure I can eat. I always tell folks not to worry if they're serving food I can't eat. I NEVER starve eating a bunless burger and salad.
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    luvs2eat replied to a topic in Gluten-Free Restaurants

    That's one of my greatest fears... that when I'm old, I'll end up in a nursing home and they'll feed me white bread (cause it's not whole wheat bread) and I'll have terrible diahrrea all the time and they'll get really mad at me and I'll get terrible bed sores. My doctor laughed when I told her this. She said it'll be written all over my chart in such...
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    luvs2eat replied to aljf's topic in Coping with Celiac Disease

    Yea, I don't get eating gluten on purpose either. I had mild gastro symptoms for a long time and used to think I might be able to "plan" a gluten cheat... a beer here, a yummy piece of homemade bread there... but then I realized that I'd become so sensitive that there are no on purpose cheats for me! I have that "romantic" craving for gluten. It's like...
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    If he was on dialysis, that's got to do with kidneys... maybe he had what the young kid on Different Strokes had... dang... I can't remember his name... that made him really small and short... and in need of a new kidney!
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    Yea, I was gonna say check the soy sauce and the hash browns. All the gluten-free brands of soy sauce I find too heavy and dark... I can't believe wheat makes that much difference, but apparently it does. I've not found a brand yet that's tasty.
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    My house isn't even remotely gluten free. I just don't EAT it. I cook food that's not gluten free all the time for my sweetheart and kids when they're visiting... I just don't EAT it. When there's a recipe, for example lasagna, where I can substitute brown rice pasta and almost no one will know the difference, I'll make the switch... I can't imagine eating...
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    Another Manna from Anna fan here! I don't use a bread machine tho, so I can't help there. I mix it up in the old Kitchen Aid and bake it in english muffin rings.
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    My doc told me when he gave me the celiac diagnosis that it's most common in those if Irish descent... my mom was right off the boat, born in Belfast. All my relatives are either Irish or Scottish. Hope the German and Russian added in to my daughter's gene pool will help them avoid this NO FUN deal!!
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    I did the same thing a few weeks ago. We made this awesome taco meat and it didn't occur to me to read the many ingredients cause my son-in-law was cooking and he's got the skin form of celiac (hives and only mild intestinal symptoms). I woke up in the middle of the night positive there were WOLVERINES trying to claw their way out of my intestines!! I didn...
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    I only had chronic diarrhea for about 2 months before I was diagnosed. It took a whole year of a scrupulously gluten-free diet before I decided my BMs were back to "normal." If there's one thing I've learned from all the reading I've done on this board... is that "normal" is a relative term and all of our symptoms and reactions are so different. Hang...
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    Welcome from me too! How does one find out they're in remission? I have a long list of foods/drinks I'd have if I wasn't celiac disease... haha... I'd start at the top of that list and keep going till my remission was over! Yea, I know I'm fooling myself. But it's a nice dream... of a Pizza Hut stuffed crust pizza and a tall frosty beer...
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    I've tried many gluten-free bread recipes... using many different types of flours... and none have been acceptable to me. They all were grainy and break apart with or without toasting. I tried Manna from Anna bread mix on the advice of folks here and am now their greatest fan. They have a dairy free bread mix too. I make it every Sunday, in English muffin...
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    My recipe for General Tsao's chicken calls for dredging the chicken in corn starch before frying. I don't have the recipe close by, but can find it if anyone wants it.
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    Can anyone recommend liquid vitamins? I can only think of liquid children's vits. It took me a whole year before I felt like my symptoms (diarrhea, bloating) were gone and I felt back to normal. I never got the "unexplained weight loss" (darn) and have put ON weight since goign gluten-free. My doc said to me that Celiac disease was common in those...
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    Please don't be afraid of the tests. The colonoscopy is actually fascinating... I wasn't asleep at all and watched mine, asking the doc questions the whole time. I've not had an endoscopy but when my friend had it done, her doctor asked her which "island" she'd like to go to with her preop drugs. Pick an island and enjoy!! Reading thru your various diagnoses...
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    1. sex: F 2. age: 52 3. ethnic group: white (of Irish decent... my doc said that was common in celiacs. 4. age at which you were diagnosed: 48 5. How did you feel when you were diagnosed? really sad... homemade bread is my favorite food. 6. Did you have health problems in childhood? Nope. I remember an episode when I was 5 when there was a question of...
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    I've gained weight too since being gluten-free. I think part if it is because I over-compensated with the food I WAS allowed (rice, potatoes, gluten-free pasta, and now Manna from Anna bread) in place of the food I'm no longer allowed to have. When I explain to folks about Celiac disease and they ask me the symptoms, I tell them one is unexplained weight...
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