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  1. srall
    If I eat too much soy I get eczema and eventually sore joints. Whereas with gluten D, C, brain fog, sore joints, etc etc etc. I often wonder though if my problem with corn is actually CC. I can't quite figure it out, and I always have a gluten response to it. However I can eat gluten free oats, in relatively small amounts with no huge side effects. It...
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    I am one who opted not to do any further testing after a negative blood test. I'd been gluten free for six weeks, ended up in the allergist office after a severe glutening (not really understanding the difference between allergies and auto immune diseases at that point). She suggested that I go back on gluten for 8 weeks to get a positive test. Um...excuse...
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    I just posted this morning on the Parents with Kids board that I'm now doing the gluten challenge on my daughter. She is so desperate for relief she is completely willing to give up her usual favorites of pizza, mac and cheese and hamburgers. We'll see how this really goes, but as her mother I cannot see her in such compromised health anymore. As for...
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    Oh everybody, thank you so much! I remember how much I hated the food I was eating when I first started this diet. Now I love it. She is so committed to wanting to feel better I don't think she'll be tempted by what she can't eat. It's convincing her to try what she can eat that will be the hard part. But I'm comforted by the idea that if she gets hungry...
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    After 10 years of symptoms, and probably 2 years of severe symptoms, I self diagnosed myself as gluten intolerant and went gluten free (and dairy) in March of 2010. There has been a lot of trial and error but I'm learning and I feel so much better. My daughter is 7 1/2. She has had digestion issues for years. I have always blamed her diet...but I...
  6. srall
    I wish there were some sort of rule banning people who do not suffer from the effects of gluten being able to write these articles. I just feel like until you've been here it's impossible to imagine. I can't read them. They are there to sell magazines. Probably a 25 year old copywriter with a lame story idea up against a deadline. (Well, idea was handled...
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    I chuckled at your post a little bit because I feel like now every time I have a little sniffle I try and recall where I might have been glutened (sorry...I actually like that word...short and descriptive) and never consider that perhaps I may actually have a virus. I wanted to just assure you too, that as big a pita this whole adjustment to a new diet...
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    My story has many similarities to yours. Trouble getting pregnant. Nauseated the ENTIRE time, never could have a second child, muscle twitching, joint pain...just so many things. I'm also self diagnosed. If I'm in a restaurant I say I have Celiacs. Most of the time this makes no difference because most people don't know what celiac and gluten even mean...
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    I've discovered this too.
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    I definitely have had that reaction before. And varying degrees of that reaction depending on amt of gluten I've consumed.
  11. srall
    I have one friend. The night I discovered she had celiac/gluten intolerance was at a party where we both were avoiding the food and got to talking about why. A few weeks later we were at a fourth of July party and she was eating everything. She said sometimes she cheats and just deals with the symptoms. I think if my only symptom was a little stomach...
  12. srall
    Good questions. I consider myself on a whole foods diet, but I'll still get sun nut butter and glutino crackers sometimes. Also I buy gluten free chicken broth to make soups. So I'm really not being that pure. I guess I'd like to know where those lines are as well. I don't think I'm quite as sensitive as you are though.
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    Oh and K8ling, I'd pack your own food when you go!
  14. srall
    I guess technically I'm gluten intolerant since I'm self diagnosed. But I get sick very easily from cc or other offending foods. Ate out last night...paying today. I guess gluten intolerance is on a continuum. I could never take the meat off a sandwich and not get sick. And pizza topping is out of the question since I can't have dairy. I guess as long...
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    Could you possibly have a bona fide virus. I blame everything on food, forgetting that I might actually be sick in real life. Hope you feel better soon.
  16. srall
    If I can sleep I sleep. Drink water and detox tea. Absolutely take control of what goes in your system...don't let anyone else feed you. Sometimes when I'm having a food reaction and I'm feeling tired and anxious I have to mentally talk myself through the day. Such as: You are tired and distracted but you must stop right now and fold your laundry, or...
  17. srall
    send it back. they need to remake you a fresh salad. Usually I can get restaurants to leave off the croutons...but ALWAYS put cheese on even though I say no cheese
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    As for the beer swilling celiac: 6 weeks into this I was still so damn clueless about what had gluten. I got extremely sick from a clam chowder I ate because I didn't know it was made with a roux. (sp?) However, that beer would have made me pretty sick. In fact I'd been getting so sick from beer over the last decade I'd already dropped it not knowing...
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    I considered irrational anger part of my anxiety. It definitely fits in somewhere. I'm so relieved I was able to manage the rage with diet changes and exercises. My doctor had pen in hand to write out a prescription for Xanax. I was willing to do anything to avoid drugs.
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    ARCHIVED Tactless Boss

    srall replied to gleegan's topic in Coping with Celiac Disease

    First of all, that was rude of that manager to be so insensitive. I know it's awkward to sit with a bunch of people and eat your own food or nothing at all. Even when I'm with my very best girlfriends at one of their houses eating my own food that I bring, it feels weird. They are all chowing down on bread and pasta and chocolates...and I have my gluten...
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    I voted that I got relief from anxiety. I don't think I had depression but I had a complete lack of motivation. Maybe a form of depression. I feel more coordinated and clear headed but I didn't know if that meant I could vote that I had gotten relief from ataxia. Definitely calmer and less rage. More even keel. 7 months gluten free.
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    That was my communion post (thanks for all the responses btw). I just was going to update that it was a Big Mistake to try communion. I was pretty sick and anxious for about 3 days...3 days I could not afford out of my week. We are in the process of getting a new pastor so I'll just hang out and see if we can come up with a new system when he/she signs...
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    While perusing the site, I saw the "I'm Miserable" post under pregnancy and I had a feeling it was regarding morning sickness. I have one child, and she's 7, but I still remember the awful pregnancy I had. I now realize that it's very common for undiagnosed celiac's to be very ill throughout the pregnancy. I was hoping for the other women on this board...
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    I feel that way all the time. Like maybe I'm remembering everything as much more dramatic than it really was. I had a "well I took communion post" the other day. Let me tell you...my body was in so much pain, I couldn't run to Target to buy my toilet paper yesterday because I was in the bathroom all day (OH...the Irony), and I've been dealing with anxiety...
  25. srall
    8 days in I was seriously in the detox stage. I started feeling better after 2 weeks. 7 months in I still have good days and bad days. If my diet is very pure and full of whole foods, lots of protein and veggies, I feel at my optimum. Good luck. Give it time.
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