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  1. shopgirl
    Oh, that's awful. I used to drink bottled Starbucks Mochas every day and once took a huge mouthful without sniffing first
  2. shopgirl

    ARCHIVED Sick And Tired Of Doctors?

    shopgirl replied to Lincoln's topic in Doctors

    This. It sounds like you said it yourself. The person diagnosed you and then sold you a bunch of supplements; she didn't "give" them to you. I like alternative medicine to a point but even the lovely naturopath I saw a couple times was constantly trying to sell me vitamins and supplements. I politely took her advice and then researched them on my own....
  3. shopgirl
    Sorbitol helps too. Apples, pears, prunes. Drinking juice warm, like someone suggested, helps. Hot anything helps: straight water, tea, even coffee because it stimulates the muscles. Olive oil is good too: either over a green salad or straight from the bottle with a spoon. If worst comes to worst, Miralax is a very gentle, easily tolerated medication that...
  4. shopgirl
    Yep. I screwed up four days into gluten-free and got a wicked stomachache when I messed up. I'd never had stomach/abdominal pain pre-diagnosis either.
  5. shopgirl
    Also: if you don't cook your meals for the week ahead of time, at least plan out what you're going to have. I write it on a dry erase board on the refrigerator every Sunday so I'm not mopey and procrastinaty when dinner time rolls around.
  6. shopgirl
    But its only ingredient is wheat dextrin. It has less than 20 ppm of gluten but it's definitely not gluten free.
  7. shopgirl
    Olive oil helps. Put a good table spoon of it on a green leafy salad. Some people even eat it straight before bed. Sometimes bad fats can help too. I don't eat a lot of red meat but a homecooked hamburger hasn't failed me yet.
  8. shopgirl
    My family has always made meatballs and hamburger with milk in them. It makes the meat juicier. I'm not familiar with the restaurant but it could be the same thing.
  9. shopgirl
    Sort of. I haven't eaten any soy in about a month as a trial. No change so I assume I'm okay with it. There's nothing I particularly want to eat right now that actually contains soy so I'm just carrying on as I am. At some point, I'll reintroduce it but I want to finish my soy-free Earth Balance first.
  10. shopgirl
    I think it's more of a nuisance than being hard. But then I don't eat out, I hate parties, and I much prefer a very simple meal of brown rice and vegetables. The only foods I miss are the ones I shouldn't have been eating in the first place
  11. shopgirl
    Yes, it's gas. The gurgling on your upper left side is where your descending colon starts. For some reason, it seems to build up steam once it hits the descending and gets a little louder.
  12. shopgirl
    Sparkling grape juice: also delicious.
  13. shopgirl
    Me, too. That's why I was so elated to find that information. The weight fell off when I went gluten-free but the theory certainly makes sense. If I didn't know when I'd be able to get food again, I'd start hoarding it too. I was kind of pleased with my body's (misguided) resourcefulness.
  14. shopgirl
    I read once that, in some people, if you're not absorbing vitamins and nutrients right, your body goes into a survival mode where it clings to everything you put in it
  15. shopgirl
    Have you looked for other foods that could be causing it? Dairy/casein? Soy? Are you eating plenty of leafy greens, fruit, vegetables? Drinking a good amount of water? Exercising? C was my number one gluten symptom and it hasn't totally eased off since I went gluten-free a couple months ago but I can alleviate it by eating a big spinach/lettuce salad every...
  16. shopgirl
    "Amber waves of grain..." We grow a lot of wheat in this country. A lot. We grow so much, we have to pay farmers not to grow more. It can be added to a lot of things relatively cheaply. I don't mean to sound like a conspiracy theorist but basically we have a lot of wheat and companies have learned how to manipulate it into their foods. I think that's...
  17. shopgirl
    Wouldn't you rather know so you can start getting healthy? The anxiety you feel could be part of the Celiac itself. Anxiety was a huge symptom for me. It's not always easy being gluten-free but it's better then being sick all the time. Get tested so you can move on. You'll always get plenty of help here.
  18. shopgirl
    I took Miralax during the diagnosis process and it wasn't an issue. Miralax is a very well tolerated and gentle medication. If it helps you, take it. I found it to be a godsend.
  19. shopgirl
    Mazel tov!
  20. shopgirl
    The same way we allow them to cover the ground they grow in with pesticides and other chemicals. And the same way we dump chemicals into our water to make it drinkable. Very little of what we consume is pure.
  21. shopgirl
    Anxiety was the absolute first symptom that went away when I went gluten-free. The panic attacks stopped like someone had flicked a switch inside me. I've still dealt with bouts of depression and I probably worry more than I need to, but it's much, much better. I know it will take time before I'm "me" again but it's a relief not to have those attacks and...
  22. shopgirl
    Well, soy comes from the soybean which is technically a vegetable so you'd have to confirm what kind of vegetables these chickens are being fed.
  23. shopgirl
    My GI doc explained to me that while I was healing random foods could cause bloating without me necessarily being intolerant to it. I might have a "reaction" to something one day and be perfectly fine with it the next. Weird things can happen while your body works on mending the damage.
  24. shopgirl
    He couldn't have seen signs of Celiac with just the scope
  25. shopgirl
    I cut out dairy for a few weeks to see if it would speed up my healing. I felt zero difference so I added in a small glass of milk every morning and was fine with it. I'm going to wait a couple weeks and then try adding a small bit of cheese or butter everyday. Outside of that 8oz. in the morning, I'm dairy-free and haven't had any adverse reaction. It could...
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