WestCoastGirl

Woooo hooooo! Thank you!

Does anybody know a gluten-free version of Raisin Bran? I miss it so much.

I don't personally have this experience, but since there can be silent celiac, I can't see why there couldn't be silent NCGI.

Aw, the poor little dear.

+1 for Billy Joel reference!!!! And yep...I think laughter really is some darned good medicine...so the more crazy people around...the better!

OMG, you beat me to it.

Ha! <3

Wow, I'm originally from New Jersey and am loving hearing all the place names. Moved from Bergen County (River Vale) but am very familiar with Hackettstown - my aunt lives in that area. And I lived in Sparta for a year.

NoGlutenCookies, that's actually a fascinating theory. There must be *some* reason for the phenomenon, right? That's pretty interesting. Gilligan, funny you should mention collagen, I actually started taking it in capsule form...but for vanity... (gettin' old)

Ha ha, awesome! Thank you, everyone!

Also...as to the possibility that you're native (do you mean Native American?), I don't think that's probably the reason you have a sensitivity to gluten. I know plenty and then some of Euro- and other-descent people who have NCGI or celiac disease.

I am so sorry. Most doctors just don't "get it." It's the whole cultural "but wheat is such a wonderful, happy, benign food that there must be practically no celiacs in existence!" thing. (If they even read a paragraph on celiac in med school. I've heard from med professionals that their nutritional unit is extremely short, like, a page short. Don't know...

Thank you. <3 I haven't made a bone broth. I am definitely going to make that. I've been making broths out of pieces of chicken, etc. I haven't started a probiotic yet...I will go get some.

Oh gosh, thanks so much to both of you. I really needed to hear this! I'll hang in!!

I have not been DXd. But I am without a doubt gluten sensitive at the very least, to the point that by now, I am barely able to function. Yes, when I first related how I was feeling to gluten intolerance, I was angry. I felt that EVERYBODY else could eat "normally" and I couldn't. But recently I've come to a realization. Everybody can't eat "normally...