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  1. Skylark
    White rice and bouillon for me. I switch to tea instead of coffee too. If I get sick for a few days, I'll stew a chicken as I feel better and make chicken and rice soup.
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    Ugh. Sorry to hear you got CC'd. I use Immodium for D, and once its settled I switch to Pepto Bismol for the nausea. I don't know a way to settle down the autoimmunity so I just take things that help the symptoms.
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    What do they think the flour is made from? Does it grow on flour trees? I've run across this too and really wonder what people think they're eating.
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    Bulk bins are a bad idea. You don't know what was in any particular bin in the past, the scoops can be moved around, and bits of gluten-containing food can be spilled into something that would otherwise have been gluten-free.
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    My friend made stir-fried sliced zucchini with tofu cubes and SanJ tamari sauce the other night. It was really good! Do you have any of the Laurel's Kitchen cookbooks? I've been making vegan bean, lentil, squash and pea soups from that cookbook for years. It's not a gluten-free/CF cookbook but there are plenty of recipes and ideas in it for vegetarian...
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    PID is pelvic inflammatory disease. It's when a vaginal infection like Chlamydia gets out of control and into the pelvis. The signs are pelvic pain with cervical pain and/or sharp ovarian pain on exam. I had them all, but the docs could never culture an infection and it turned out to be from endometriosis. As far as the vitamin C, what I was told was...
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    Hi, and welcome to the gluten-free diet club. As I think about it, I don't say "celiac disease" but just "celiac". I don't think of myself as having a "disease". I had a "disease" before I figured out I couldn't eat gluten! Now I'm healthy. By the way, I'm not formally diagnosed but it's much easier to say "celiac" in social situations and leave...
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    What does your doctor say about the false positive rate of this test? There is no harm in trying the diet to see whether it helps you out.
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    I not only get endometriosis, but perimenstrual migraines. My endometriosis also took forever to diagnose because a lot of the damage was behind my ovaries and the symptoms were like PID on exam. They finally did a laser laproscopy and saw no PID scarring and lots of endometriosis. I take birth control pills for 9 weeks to spread out my miserable periods...
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    The Enterolab antibody tests are of no use for someone who is low IgA (assuming they're of any use at all), and the genetic tests are merely interesting information and not diagnostic. Save your money.
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    How funny. Is there anything you do every four days? Workouts, job? Your diet looks very low fiber. I wonder if adding something like an apple to breakfast and having some brown rice instead of the mashed potato would help normalize things?
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    DQB1*0402 one of the few alleles not associated with celiac disease. Where did you get that 77% number, Mari? The big Prometheus study puts the chance of celiac in DQ8 heterozygotes at more like 2% risk. Open Original Shared Link I haven't seen any work that would put the risk that high. Fecal anti-tTG is a marker for inflammation. Enterolab doesn...
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    Celiac is genetic, and the single highest risk factor for it is a first degree relative (parent, sibling, or child) with celiac. I can't put a number on it for you but maybe someone else has run across them. Allergies seem to be genetic as well, and they also seem to be on the rise. I don't know about celiac and pregnancy, although there are plenty...
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    I started sleeping when I sorted out the psych issues, which requires gluten-free, fish oil, and lots of a high-potency vitamin/micronutrient supplement. If I get into gluten or slack off on the handfuls of vitamins and fish oil, I'm lying awake at 4am, anxious and deeply worried about something that would be trivial if I felt normal.
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    I can't wait for Bisquick. Gluten-free chicken and dumplings! Someone give a shout when you see it.
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    When I was in grade school and had allergies here's some of the things Mom used to pack: Thermoses of soups (Always, always remember a spoon. This is IMPORTANT.) When mom could find them, I really preferred a wide mouth thermos that I could eat out of. Back when I was a kid they were glass on the inside but you can get great stainless steel ones now...
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    You're welcome for the info. If it helps any, it's really not hard on the few mice used to get the cell line started. They do get a few shots to immunize them and an occasional blood test but for the most part they live like pet mice, hanging out in decent sized cages, getting good care and plenty of food. Mice are social and lab mice are generally housed...
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    It's wonderful you found something that helps your family. Not all people who can't tolerate gluten are celiac. Yes, yes, yes follow your common sense! It's a shame that your GI doctor seems to have abandoned his. Fire him and find a doctor who is willing to treat the patient rather than a series of test results.
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    5'8" I wouldn't want to be taller!
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    It can be very confusing to sort things out. I was thinking it was the Celebrex, but that seems like a long time between the drug and GI issues and I'd think you would have seen a reaction that strong before. My own timing for gluten GI trouble is about 4 hours, so if it were me I'd suspect the nuts. They weren't out of a bulk bin, were they?
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    It's taken Mom two years to finally decide that gluten-free means she can't pick the breading off her Chick-Fil-A chicken strips or eat Chinese food with soy sauce. Her system finally settled down to where she realized she was reacting to things like that. I had tried to explain the diet before, but as I said earlier in the thread, she didn't "own" it. ...
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    Exhaustion and dry skin? Those are signs of hypothyroidism. Have your doctors checked your thyroid? Hypothyroidism is really common with celiac disease.
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    That's great news. Congratulations!
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    Hi, and welcome to the board. Yes, you could have celiac. The things that are more suggestive are low vitamin D and magnesium, which is absolutely suggestive of malabsorption, auto-immune thyroid disease, and the itchy blisters, which could be dermatitis herpetiformis. I don't know about the natural killer cells. Maybe someone else has run across it...
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    I got badly glutened at a Thai restaurant where I asked about wheat ingredients and had spring rolls with rice wrappers and Pad Thai. Someone said that they had seen packages of Thai rice noodles with wheat starch listed as an ingredient, and that may have been my problem. I have had enough issues with Thai that I don't eat at Thai places any more. As...
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