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  1. i-geek
    *hugs* Sorry you're having such a rough go. You need a smart-a$$ answer for the "what DO you eat?" question. You could always respond thusly (with a big smile on your face and a cheerful voice): "Puppies! They're gluten-free."
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    i-geek replied to Kimeran's topic in Coping with Celiac Disease

    I know, right? With a few exceptions, it's the opposite of my recent experience in Japan. There I was escorted out of one restaurant by management, refused service at another one, and in other cases served things with shouyu (soy sauce brewed with wheat) after I had requested no shouyu. The food in that country is a minefield for celiacs. Barley tea served...
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    I wonder if it's the way Bob's processes the tapioca. I love all of their other single-ingredient flours but can't stand the mixes (and I too thought it was the bean flours). Now that I think about it, Pamela's also uses tapioca and I love those mixes. Weird.
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    i-geek replied to Kimeran's topic in Coping with Celiac Disease

    On honeymooning in Italy: The Gluten-Free Girl and the Chef (bloggers who just published a gluten-free cookbook) went to Italy for their honeymoon. This was well after her diagnosis of celiac disease. Here's one of her posts on eating while she was there: Open Original Shared Link. I really, really want to go there. Have a fabulous time, Kimeran.
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    I'm having a similar problem after 8.5 months gluten-free, but I'm quite sure it's due to unhealed gut damage from a bad glutening about 3.5 weeks ago and CC events since (trip to Japan where I got really badly glutened the second night there and probably CC'd at least every other day due to the language barrier and lack of known safe foods, then a CC incident...
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    Oh no! I'm so sorry for your loss. Sadly, I too know from experience how hard this is. Take care of yourself however you need too. Frosting is a good start.
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    My tests came back negative as well, and like you, the only celiac test run from my blood was tTG-IgA. I'd been on a low-gluten diet because it was the only thing that alleviated some of the misery (I didn't know it could give false negatives). I know now that a total IgA test should have been done, because a total IgA deficiency is fairly common. In...
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    I wonder. My dad (the parent from whom I think I inherited gluten intolerance) had to have his appendix removed when he was a 22-year-old newlywed. He is first-generation Mexican-American and grew up eating a more traditional Mexican (low gluten) diet. Then he married my mom, who is entirely of European ancestry and likes to bake. I wonder if the shift...
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    Oh, that's a bummer. Sorry you're feeling so ill. I'm not officially diagnosed either (negative for bloodwork on an incomplete panel, doc refused to test further so no biopsy), but determined last December that I had a gluten intolerance. I feel comfortable calling it celiac disease because of my family's strong history of autoimmune disease (on both sides...
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    Original topic: I'm really sorry that happened, hon. I hate the belly bloat. Mine's bad lately because apparently I've damaged my gut enough while traveling that I need to go back off of dairy until I heal. I work down the hall from a couple of fitness freaks who have no qualms about commenting on other people's bodies, so that makes me even more self-conscious...
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    I didn't know that pregnant women weren't supposed to go out and have fun with their partners before the baby is born (especially in CA, which if I'm remembering correctly, has a smoking ban on indoor establishments).
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    The "manufactured on shared equipment" is a huge red flag for me. I've taken that chance and gotten sick from it before. As a rule now, I avoid anything with that disclaimer. I prefer Lundberg rice because they only process rice in their facility. I've had good luck with quinoa from Nuts Online (Open Original Shared Link, certified gluten-free).
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    I've had the same problem with tapioca starch. Even a fresh bag gives an "off" smell IMO. I usually sub potato starch for it, although corn starch would work just as well. Considering how many recipes and products use it, I wonder if some of us are just super-tasters for it. A lot of people must like it, otherwise it wouldn't be so popular.
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    Elena gave advice on her blog: Open Original Shared Link.
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    I've found wheat berries in lentils before. I remember reading somewhere that others had found barley in bags of red lentils. It would not surprise me in the slightest to learn that something similar was in that bag of split peas, and thus would have been cooked right into the soup. My rule for legumes is always sort (a good rule regardless, since beans and...
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    Give it time. You're trying to reverse years of damage. My headaches went away within the first week, but the GI symptoms took considerably longer (and I'd only been suffering from fully active disease for a few months). For example, the bloating/gas persisted for a few weeks after cutting out gluten and it was at least two months post-gluten-free before...
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    Have there been any changes in her diet recently? Something as simple as switching brands of a favorite food or beverage? Otherwise, sadly other intolerances can develop. I'm 8 months gluten-free and am having GI issues again (although thankfully not anywhere near as bad as those last few months pre-gluten-free). Now I'm trying to figure out if I'm still...
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    Time to buy new BBQ sauce. My mom bought this so that she could serve us BBQ chicken (she cooks mine on foil): Open Original Shared Link. I think she bought the Regular variety. Good stuff. We also like Sweet Baby's Ray's sauce- also gluten-free.
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    December 27, 2009: Breakfast at my in-laws house, the main features of which were my mother-in-law's special bread that she only makes at Christmas and my sister-in-law's cookies. Ugh. I was already suffering from three days of family festivities (my own personal gluten challenge, although I had been avoiding obvious gluten when possible) and that pushed...
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    Honestly, I couldn't fully heal until I made our kitchen gluten-free (except for the husband's beer stuff). I kept getting CC'd from stray crumbs or pasta residue, bun or sauce residue on the grill, or even from things like grabbing a condiment bottle that my husband had previously grabbed with his hotdog-bun-glutened hand. I don't expect him to eat gluten...
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    To make it easy on yourself while you're learning, stick to basic, whole foods as much as possible and cook for yourself so you know exactly what goes in your food. Fresh meats, veggies and fruits, grains like rice and quinoa, pure herbs and spices (seasoning blends are risky and often contain wheat)- McCormick is a good brand, pure oils and vinegars, eggs...
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    I agree with everything else posted, plus I'd like to add that if the husband can't imagine a kitchen without gluten, IMO he's not really a "foodie", or at least not a particularly creative one. My husband and I are major foodies, plus he brews his own beer. He looks at my celiac disease as a challenge to learn how to cook and brew amazing gluten-free stuff...
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    Honestly, my money is on the antibiotics. They do affect your gut microbiota, so you could be feeling the cumulative effects now. Or you could be right, and your friends may not be as careful about CC as you would be. Sounds like you're doing the right thing by taking it easy and eating light foods. If you took a gluten hit, at least it sounds like it wasn...
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    K8ling, actually we're the ones who have it easier in the long run. We have major incentive not to eat gluten. Thus, our guts can actually heal and we can recover. If we were asymptomatic, we'd probably be fine with cheating every so often, destroying our health slowly without even realizing it, then getting sick with any one of several more severe, less...
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    Another vote for Udi's bread here. It makes fabulous grilled cheese. And you can eat said grilled cheese with Pacific Naturals tomato soup. It really does get easier. I think we've all had a grocery store meltdown at first. Kind Bars are a nice change-up from Larabars. Fage, Brown Cow, Stonyfield, and Yoplait yogurts are safe. I'm not sure I trust the...
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