jodi2010

It is different for me everytime. Mostly though it involves the bad headache bloating and bad joint pain and edema in my lower legs and "d", but its always different and changing up on me...and i get so cranky i can't stand myself. and the time it takes me to get back to a good place usually is differnt. I think it depends on how much got ingested and what...

brown sugar and cinnamon pop-tarts!!!!..much healthier eating habits now and much happier but oh how i loved pop-tarts!!... but then again Kelloggs probably owes me about 3 bottles of ibuprofen and a 10 pack of Charmin:)

I have been doing so well for so long that i forgot about some of the things that can happen...well, i dont know what "got" me because i am usually very careful, but i got hit really hard this time..Been very sick for 4 days now with all the usual stuff, just magnified this time along with really swollen lower legs. They are painful and i feel i might "pop...

I am from the Erie area, there is Whole Foods in Erie and Giant Eagles in the area do carry udi's.

oh one day at work i offered someone some blueberries, they actually looked at me and said" oh no, you eat them, thats probably all you are going to eat today"..okay at that moment the most fearsome skinny woman you ever saw came out of me..lol!! I was ready to throw down!! ...i am through trying to convince people that i do not have an eating disorder...

ARghh!! i feel so bad for you, not only because you went throught sooo much, but i think many of us were missed diagnosed for a long time..i too went through all the symptoms, many doctors, many differnt "guesses" of what was wrong..IBS,maybe chohns, depression,panic attacks, hormonal, maybe thryoid..gallbladder came out too..but then finally the right one...

I absolutely agree that becoming so ill is a huge motivator in our way of eating..But it has also opened my eyes to how people eat and shop for their food.I have caught myself many times looking at people grocery shopping and glancing in their carts and thinking to myslef "You have NO food in there!! Its all junk, processed horrible stuff!!"...Being a celiac...

thank you all so much for the helpful hints and encouragement. There are days i get very frustrated but i am starting to learn more and more how to deal with all this and become more educated as i go along. So very glad to have found this site:)

Hello all. my name is Jodi I am a 40 yrs old and just diagnosed with celiacs in December..i was, like probably many of you misdiagnosed for years with anything and everything they could come up with until i found a wonderful Dr, who, lucky for me had another Dr in his practice who was a celiac.. After hearing my laundry list of symptoms--he gave me a simple...