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  1. Skylark
    Yeah, I know about throwing away food. I need to give away all my rice and quinoa since I'm grain free right now. Greens cooked in big batches keep fine for a few days in the fridge. I'm not sensitive enough to CC to have to worry about minor CC in the grocery store. Cleaning them to get grit off seems to make them gluten-free enough for me. Green...
  2. Skylark
    I don't understand why your TTG was flagged as "Normal" if it's over 20. Lab computers don't generally flag things incorrectly. Did you make a typo and it's 11.6? If you are SURE it is 111.6 and flagged as "Normal" you might need to call the diagnostic lab (or get the Dr. office to call) and ask what happened. You might need to be retested. Positive...
  3. Skylark
    Ugh. The reflux sounds terrible. I'm a little confused as to why you are eating butternut squash if you are trying to test fructose malabsorption. Is there something terribly wrong with leafy greens???
  4. Skylark
    Quinoa and brown rice are grains and not allowed on GAPS. Going grain-free, refined sugar-free, starch-free, and lactose-free is CENTRAL to the diet because it's based on the specific carbohydrate diet. The idea is to get a few carbs from simple sugars in fruit and honey and eliminate all disaccharides and starches that feed the wrong bacteria and yeast...
  5. Skylark
    Fennel seed is OK. I'd skip the sorbitol if you can get by without it. Sorbitol alone can cause gas and diarrhea! If FM is your problem, the reflux should improve considerably on a low-fructose diet. Good luck! By the way if the potatoes cause problems you may need to go sugar/free low starch. Have a look at GAPS diet. Open Original Shared Link...
  6. Skylark
    Also make sure the corn you use to challenge is non-GMO. Corn products labeled "organic" should be OK. You want to test corn, not toxic bacterial proteins. My grandmother was like Jestgar. Plain corn gave her a bit of trouble but she ate cornmeal very comfortably.
  7. Skylark
    The early part of GAPS that you use to settle your stomach is free of casein, soy, legumes, refined sugars, all grains, and starchy vegetables. Eliminating refined sugar and starch is central to the diet because it starves out yeast. Casein, soy, legumes, and grains (particularly corn) are all problem foods for celiacs and people with malabsorption. You...
  8. Skylark
    Cheaper, yes. Thing is if you discover gluten is a problem you have to poison yourself for three months to go back and be tested to know for sure whether you are celiac. Otherwise you will always wonder how dangerous CC is; the consequences if you just have one of those Christmas cookies. Most of us react more strongly after being gluten-free for a while...
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    Skylark replied to Jai's topic in Coping with Celiac Disease

    You need a second opinion if you're hypothyroid and symptomatic and your doctor refuses to treat.
  10. Skylark
    Positive blood test and a strong reaction to eating gluten means you're celiac. If I were you I'd stop poisoning myself for that damn doctor who doesn't have any horse sense.
  11. Skylark
    Really? Do you remember where you saw that? I'd really like to send the info to Mom. She'll find it interesting, though it doesn't change her bad reaction to brown rice. If it was in the Yahoo! group she will have seen it becasue she is a member. I think it's easiest to test for FM by going very low fructose, then worry about glucose:fructose ratios...
  12. Skylark
    Looks like a negative celiac panel to me. Weird. Yes, you should start eating gluten again and request a biopsy if you want a definitive diagnosis. Yes, we sometimes have liver enzyme elevations. Hashi's is common among celiacs too.
  13. Skylark
    Mom has FM so I know a fair amount about safe foods. Try white rice (NOT brown), white potatoes, meats and fish, eggs cooked any way you like. Season with herbs and spices and avoid garlic and especially onions. Seeds and nuts are fine. For veggies, the best are chard, spinach, turnip or beet greens, mushrooms, and celery. Cucumber, peas, zucchini, summer...
  14. Skylark
    Dried single spices are usually completely safe. It's the mixes that sometimes have flour to make meats brown nicely and the wheat must be declared on the label as an allergen. If you're really nervous, go to her house with a gift of fresh chives and sage for the turkey.
  15. Skylark
    Is there any way to postpone the celiac panel and go back to gluten for a few weeks? I would personally go a month eating a full gluten diet after that six weeks gluten-free and yes, start eating 3-4 slices of bread worth of gluten a day. After the antibodies go away completely (usually 3-6 months) it can take 2-3 months eating gluten to get measurable antibodies...
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    I just saw this on the GAPS webpage FAQ the other day. Maybe it will help. This is from Open Original Shared Link "Even the smallest amount of any probiotic food or supplement causes me severe bloating, fatigue and pain. How do I do the diet if I can
  17. Skylark

    ARCHIVED Out..of..breath

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

    For me it's low thyroid. I totally lose my exercise tolerance and a couple flights of stairs will have me red-faced and breathing hard.
  18. Skylark
    Great news! I'm glad to hear you're feeling awesome. You might even have helped your friend by opening his mind about cholesterol.
  19. Skylark
    Try one with an enteric coating to avoid the burps. Also it helps if you take them with food and only take one per meal. It sure can't hurt. Fish oil makes a huge difference for me which is why I mention it.
  20. Skylark
    First, have you been tested for celiac? You must be eating a normal diet for the tests to work. When I first went gluten-free, I just scrubbed everything well. The only things I avoided were my toaster (you can't get all the crumbs out of the vertical kind) and my bread cutting board with the crumb catcher. I felt a lot better so then I got to replacing...
  21. Skylark
    Joy beat me to it. If you don't feel better off only gluten in a couple months, remove dairy as well. Mucous membrane inflammation is often dairy. She is also absolutely right that many of us have issues with soy too. If you eliminate a lot of foods at once, the way you sort it out is to challenge one at a time for a few days. If you react, you wait...
  22. Skylark
    No, this is not right. Celiac antibodies go away on the gluten-free diet. Six weeks is enough to get a false negative if your antibodies were borderline to begin with, particularly if you're now asymptomatic. If they were really high you'll still get a positive result. On the off chance you have a true allergy to wheat antibodies would show up but I don...
  23. Skylark
    You mention thyroid-attacking antibodies. Do you have Hashimoto's? If so, you need to see about getting referred to an endocrinologist. As well as gluten-free, I take a little selenium and avoid goitrogenic foods like soy and uncooked cruciferous veggies. I also avoid fluoride because it is a thyroid and endocrine poison. There is info here on reducing...
  24. Skylark
    I get insomnia if I don't take a couple capsules of double-strength fish oil every day. It might not work for you but it's easy to try!
  25. Skylark
    People are so cruel with the "suck it up" stuff. They have no idea how ill you might be feeling. Do what you need to do in order to get well and ignore the people who have no idea what it's like to have celiac.
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