ricefreejane

Hiya! Yes I've experienced this. It can be quite frightening as you realise you are not breathing regularly and are actually forgetting to breathe. As a result I have been diagnosed as having sleep apneoa and have to wear a mask over my mouth with tubes going up into each nostril every night. The whole apparatus is called a CPAP machine. Very romantic! I...

Any man worth his salt should be so concerned about your welfare and happiness on a date that he should not mind if you ask the waiter to check whether the soup etc. has wheatflour (in my case it's also maize starch and rice flour). In fact he should ask the waiter to go and check. If he gets upset that's his problem and you should probably take that as...

Yes but I get very sleepy and disorientated also if I have any kind of grain including rice, rice flour, corn, corn pasta, any chutney or sauce with cornflour plus intestinal pain. And it can take days to feel right again. But I only discovered this after I had eliminated wheat, oats, rye, barley, spelt, quinoa etc. from my diet.

Thanks for that. it would be very interesting to know what percentage of celiacs have this intolerence so if there's anyone else out there with this allergy please post. After meeting with the dietician my GP has decided to send me to London (probably) to an allergy clinic as his dietician can only devote a half hour slot to me per appointment on the NHS...

Has anyone else notice that they get a bad reaction to so called gluten free products that contain rice flour or maize (cornflour). Even tapioca sets me off. Off to dietician at Dr.s today and I hope she is going to skin test me. My grandmother was a celiac and my mother had what was diagnosed as IBS. I have hashimoto's disease (underactive thyroid) and...