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    Yay! Welcome to the gluten-free club. I hope you feel a lot better off gluten.
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    Glad to hear you liked the spaghetti squash as a "sauce holder". It doesn't really have a very strong flavor on its own. If I'm around the house trying to remember something in an hour, I set the oven timer.
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    Oh my gosh yes! Isn't it ridiculous? I bet you feel much better off gluten ctenny. Give it a few months, as healing your nervous system takes time.
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    It means you're celiac. You don't need to wait any more. Endomysial IgA is an autoimmune antibody to your intestines that is very specific for celiac disease. You need to be on the gluten-free diet because even if your biopsy is negative now and your doctor doesn't diagnose celiac it's usually only a matter of time before the autoimmune damage gets bad...
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    Coconut is usually OK for people with nut allergies. This might give you an idea of the safety. Open Original Shared Link
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    I had bipolar illness on gluten. A year or so plus some high-powered nutritional supplements and my bipolar magically went "into remission". It left my shrink scratching his head but I knew what happened.
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    The damage they look on your biopsy is microscopic. They are looking for damage to the tiny, fingerlike projections on your intestinal lining, called villi. If the celiac is really severe the Dr. can see inflammation or visible changes to the shape of the intestines, called scalloping, but usually things looking OK to the naked eye doesn't mean much. Sorry...
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    Organic milk still has casein and lactose. If you are still feeling ill, I'd recommend eliminating dairy altogether. If you feel well and seem to tolerate the dairy OK then go for it!
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    Sounds like a wise choice to me.
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    You are over-thinking this. Listen to your body. Try a week with only cod liver oil (which is really a food), try a week with more stuff. See which week feels better. Over time you will come to find what you need and what you don't, and it will be different for you than for anyone else on the board.
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    ARCHIVED Brain Fog

    Skylark replied to ndw3363's topic in Food Intolerance & Leaky Gut

    I like virgin coconut oil for yeast, and a good probiotic. You also might ask your Dr. about checking your thyroid.
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    Glad to help! Any dairy other than a little ghee makes me sick. I haven't tried the fermented cod liver oil to know. It sounds really good - I just found Carlson's on sale and figured I'd try that.
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    No wonder you feel weak at 62. My understanding is that if you can settle down the insulin by eating lower carb everything will level out better. Maybe missy'smom can tell you more. My own blood sugar is certainly much better between meals since I've been grain and starch free. Spaghetti squash has a very mild flavor sort of like acorn squash but not...
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    You are not alone with the stronger reactions. A lot of us notice it, me included. I also react to less gluten than I did when I first went gluten-free. For me it's GI and I usually get a canker sore in my mouth. And maybe anxiety.
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    You poor thing. I always get horribly depressed when I'm running a fever. Remember that it's the infection and you will fell better soon. I'd send you sorbet and gluten-free porridge if you weren't thousands of miles away. Hey - can you find Jello or gelatin to put in fruit juice? It goes down easy and Jello always makes me feel a little better. I think...
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    Hi and welcome. It sounds to me like you might have a wheat allergy. That tongue tingling and mouth thing sounds like it could be oral allergy syndrome. You can be tested for a wheat allergy without going back on gluten, though food allergy tests are notoriously unreliable. As far as celiac (you can have both allergy and celiac) you and I are in the...
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    If you can bring something warm, lasagne or baked pasta with rice noodles always goes over well. Nobody notices that the noodles aren't wheat under all the sauce and cheese. It gives you a nice, filling meal too.
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    Have it over zucchini or spaghetti squash. Low-carb and super yummy! A small piece of chicken and green beans is no fat, unless you ate the chicken skin or put a generous dab of olive oil on the beans. Also, maybe you just need to eat more frequently.
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    ARCHIVED Gaps

    Skylark replied to alext's topic in Coping with Celiac Disease

    I think you've confused GAPS with an allergy elimination diet. GAPS is a gut-healing diet designed to heal and seal a leaky gut by regrowing a better selection of gut bacteria. GAPS does cut out corn, soy, and initially dairy, which are very common allergens so if your wife is intolerant to those things it might help her figure it out. There is much more...
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    That's great news you got the glucose meter! I've been cutting out starches because I'm on GAPS diet. It's pretty easy to fill up if I replace my bread at lunch with a handful of nuts or nut butter on celery, and my rice or potato at dinner with some avocado or olives. I was having some reactive hypoglycemia and it's all cleared up. You have to be careful...
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    A lot of people with celiac are intolerant either to lactose or casein. If you're lactose intolerant, you'll be OK with lactose-free diary. Lactase is made at the tips of your villi and it sometimes reappears when you're healed. It will probably take considerably more than six months. If you can't even tolerate lactose-free dairy, you're casein sensitive...
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    Hi and welcome to the forum. Yes, start with celiac panels on the kids. They are at increased risk for celiac since you have it.
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    Hi there. Have you tried going off dairy?
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    You need to stay eating gluten and get celiac testing from your doctor. It's OK to be off the dairy for testing but the celiac tests do not work on a gluten-free diet. Celiac IS inflammation of the intestines and it's far more common than Crohn's. There isn't a single symptom you have listed that doesn't match celiac. Gluten can mess up our bodies in...
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    I don't know that you can. Mine is testing 8am serum cortisol, which is a near-useless measurement, just to rule out that something isn't horribly wrong with my adrenals. I will be genuinely surprised if my cortisol is anything other than low-normal because I don't have enough adrenal symptoms, only the dizziness. I just got the Stop the Thyroid...
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