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  1. Skylark
    Have a cup of strong tea or coffee. Caffeine is also helpful for migraines. Excedrin migraine is tylenol, aspirin, and caffeine. Good luck, hope you head it off!
  2. Skylark
    First, don't go gluten-free until you have had all your celiac testing done! This is really important! You must be eating a normal amount of gluten for the tests to work. Once you have had bloodwork and possibly had an endoscopy and biopsy, you can go off gluten. To answer your original question, it's rather rare to find gluten in tomato sauce or spaghetti...
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    What I'd like to see is the 10 ppm standard as applied by GFCO. I get sick from Amy's, who is putatively manufacturing to 20 ppm. I have never gotten sick from a GFCO certified food, and plenty of companies seem perfectly capable of manufacturing to those standards. I told the FDA this, and am praying they'll listen.
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    Don't worry! We are fixable. I have had only one week-long manic episode since fall of 2006 and I'm pretty sure it was a Hashimoto's thyroid flare-up, because a hypothyroid depression followed it that was treatable by increasing my dose of thyroid.
  5. Skylark
    I was tired. Bush's baked beans, a burger on gluten-free bread, and microwaved corn on the cob.
  6. Skylark
    Don't you hate that good news/bad news sort of visit? I mean it's always good when we don't have awful things like Lyme or lupus but then you're left with the bad news of no diagnosis. I'm so sorry to hear you got nothing from your gluten challenge.
  7. Skylark
    Good luck! I know how awful the insomnia is because my thyroid went a little bonkers this spring. There are actually three autoimmune thyroid antibodies. TPO is the most common, but you should also be tested for anti-thyroglobulin, and possibly TSI. TSI is the Graves' disease test. Also, "normal" for TSH should be between 0.5 and 2.5. It used to...
  8. Skylark
    It is a problem with every clinical trial that has ever been run. Period. There is no way to both do ethical research AND get a truly representative sample of people.
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    Please read my story in my profile. Depakote is NOT the answer for celiac bipolar illness. No psych meds are. You will just keep breaking through until you fix the underlying nutritional deficiencies. You need a really good supplement designed for bipolars like Metagenics or EMPowerPlus, fish oil, and a decent amount of choline (lecithin or egg yolks...
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    Yes, yes, yes. I had no Hashi's antibodies when I went gluten free in 2005, although I was hypothyroid with a history of elevated TSH and nodules. 2008 I had TPOab around 200. This year my TPOab was over 400 plus I had thyroglobulin Ab appear. I just had TSI done as well because my Dr. suspects Graves' on top of the Hashi's. I have been on gradually...
  11. Skylark
    Do you have signs of hyperthyroidism? Higher blood pressure, higher resting pulse rate, weight loss? That will keep you awake. Hashis folks can cycle between hyper and hypo- until you end up permanently hypothyroid. You need to push much harder on your endo, let him/her know it's been cyclic, and that you want to know if it's thyroid related. If you...
  12. Skylark
    You all are missing the biggest problem. Only volunteers enter clinical trials. If you're super-sensitive, there is no incentive Faesano's clinic could offer that would make you participate in a trial where you eat 10 mg of gluten a day. They are probably paying on the order of $100-$150 to compensate people for the discomfort of being scoped. That means...
  13. Skylark
    Grrrr.... Time to write the FDA again. Stupid clinical trials studying a self-selected less sensitive population...
  14. Skylark
    This is correct...sort of. If there is a lot of malabsorption with the gluten intolerance you can have long-term issues like osteoporosis, which is essentially bone "damage". There is also research linking gluten intolerance to autoimmune thyroid disease. As far as I have read, enteropathy-associated T-cell leukemia is only found with untreated celiac...
  15. Skylark
    Sorry, I totally misunderstood you! Once you start absorbing things like iron and calcium, you'll be absorbing selenium and iodine too. It can help to be sure you're getting the US RDA of both, but not a lot more. The absorption improvement part of why people's thyroid function tends to improve gluten-free. Less inflammation in the thyroid helps too. ...
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    Been there, done that. Don't you hate when you look at the label AFTER you eat the food? My last messup was grabbing the wrong package of crackers at Trader Joe's. Fortunately I only took a bite of one and noticed the flavor. I hope you don't get too sick from it!
  17. Skylark
    The microwave popcorn flavors look to be gluten-free and some are soy-free, but they all list dairy. It looks like the "natural flavors" must have a little dairy. Click on the item and then hit the "nutrition information" tab to see ingredients. Open Original Shared Link If you really want to support a kid you know personally, it looks like there is...
  18. Skylark
    Um... We don't absorb ANYTHING well, remember? Inflammation is bad for absorption, villous atrophy even worse.
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    Absolutely. First, we don't absorb selenium and iodine well so simply producing enough thyroid hormone can be a problem. Second, the inflammatory cytokines (sort of like hormones) your intestine produces in reaction to gluten travel in the bloodstream and can inflame the thyroid gland. Between the two, many celiacs and gluten intolerant folks are hypothyroid...
  20. Skylark
    Ooooohhhh! Thanks! Those calas look wonderful. Next weekend. The shrimp etouffee recipe on the blog looks really good too. Sadly I don't think I can get crawfish around here. If I do find them they'll cost an arm and a leg. I might give your dirty rice a go this evening. I love chicken livers so they'll be in mine for sure.
  21. Skylark
    Funny, I mix just about everything by hand and it comes out fine. You just need to keep at it for a while and it takes a bit of work and elbow grease to mix stiffer doughs. About the only time I get out the electric mixer is for cake batter where you have to whip in a little air. (Whipped cream or egg whites too, of course.) I just made a Glutino...
  22. Skylark
    My poor innocent wok did survive a thorough scrubbing with steel wool. She forgave me eventually, though it did take quite a few stir frys to set her right again. I gave away my big cast iron skillet to a student friend who really needed kitchenware and got a new one. I don't think I ever had flour in the little cast iron skillet I use to roast cumin and...
  23. Skylark
    Cream cheese and lox on a Glutino bagel. Yum!!!
  24. Skylark
    Ah, interesting to know. I've been to NOLA a few times for conferences, but always staying in hotels and eating restaurant food. I've been to K-Paul's a couple times and the food was sooooo good. Would you be kind enough to share a family recipe or two? It would be fun to get a different spin on cajun cooking, though finding real andouille sausage...
  25. Skylark
    I don't know what "real cajuns" you hang out with but I've had devastatingly hot jambalaya in New Orleans. Paul Prudhomme's jambalaya is spicy too. Open Original Shared Link The mild rice dishes I've gotten in New Orleans were usually called dirty rice, which is also really good.
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