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ARCHIVED Recently Diagnosed And Things Have Gone Downhill
julandjo replied to julandjo's topic in Post Diagnosis, Recovery & Treatment of Celiac Disease
Wow you guys. I am so thankful this board is here as a resource, and that you all took the time to advise me. THANK YOU!! I am dairy-free as of today... *teardrop* Hopefully things will turn around and I can start to get a few foods back into my diet. If not I'm going to request some more testing. -
ARCHIVED Recently Diagnosed And Things Have Gone Downhill
julandjo replied to julandjo's topic in Post Diagnosis, Recovery & Treatment of Celiac Disease
Oh man this is NOT what I wanted to hear. So okay, if I (very grudgingly) give up dairy, how long until I feel relief? I think it'd be a bad idea to trade dairy for something else I've eliminated... I should probably wait until I feel better, then retrial a new food. Right? Without dairy, my diet is seriously not up to nutritional par. -
ARCHIVED Recently Diagnosed And Things Have Gone Downhill
julandjo posted a topic in Post Diagnosis, Recovery & Treatment of Celiac Disease
Backstory: I had my gallbladder out in January, and went gluten-free in February. I decided to gluten free because both of my kids (1 and 3y/o) have major food intolerances and gluten is one of their biggest triggers. I thought maybe going gluten-free myself would be a good idea. I immediately felt so good; my joints stopped hurting, I had more energy... -
I echo others' thoughts on cutting out the processed gluten-free stuff (crackers). I've found that I have problems with a lot more than just gluten. It took months to figure this out and that whole time I was eating the crackers, cookies, etc. thinking they were all safe. Turns out I have a big problem with rice, which is in almost all that stuff! Now...
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ARCHIVED Quaker Cornmeal?
julandjo posted a topic in Gluten-Free Foods, Products, Shopping & Medications
I'm trying to figure this out. I ate quinoa (for the first time in over a month) early in the day, then I had some Quaker cornmeal in a recipe I made that evening. About an hour after the cornmeal I felt very "glutened" - very sore joints, painful guts, etc. I'm hoping desperately that I got CC'd by Quaker, instead of my beloved quinoa being the problem... -
I never had a problem (or so I thought) with rice until I went gluten-free. For months I couldn't figure out what was still causing me so many problems. I *finally* nailed it down to rice, and now that that's out of my diet I'm feeling so much better. I describe my "riced" feeling (get it, like "glutened"?) as a spikey dryer ball going through my intestines...
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Well I'm sort of in the same boat. I had been gluten free for 3 months (not nearly as long as you!), then I saw a GI doctor who wanted to run the bloodwork. [i'm hoping to get a diagnosis so that my kids, who have been gluten free since birth except for a few 2-3 day trials that yielded horrible results, can be diagnosed without having to ever go through...
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I too had been 100% gluten-free for just over 3 months. I self-diagnosed based on my kids' intolerances. (They're 1 and 3 and both *very* intolerant of gluten, plus several other foods.) After learning how hereditary this can be I decided to try going gluten-free as well, and immediately felt so much better! No more joint pain, better sleep, better focus...