RunningPickle

I was diagnosed with Celiac Disease in 1997 and unfortunately was lead to believe that I'd outgrown it in 2002. I just recently started going gluten-free again. It's been about a month. Now granted, I've done this before, so I'm having a better time knowing what I can and can't eat than a complete newbie (and I don't say that in any kind of derogatory way...

I was recently there and my boyfriend and I were ordering off the gluten-free menu. We'd ordered our lettuce-wraps first and when we ordered our gluten-free entrees, the server mentioned to us that we want to make sure that we specify the gluten-free lettuce wraps, apparently they are slightly different ingredients (plus less risk of cross-contamination)...

First, let me say that I sympathize with your daughter immensely. I was 17 when I was first diagnosed. I had extreme pain under my rib cage on the left side to the point I curled up in the fetal position and just sobbed. I started getting better relatively quickly. And while my case was considered relatively severe at the time (though it sounds like your...

Hi. I'm 29 and I was adopted as an infant. At 17 I was diagnosed with Celiac Disease. At 20 I identified and contact my birth mother for various reasons. Later through her, I was able to meet my birth father's family as well (he's deceased since I was 4). For me, the 1 in 20 (5%) chance that it was genetic wouldn't have been enough to contact them...

So I was diagnosed with Celiac's Disease when I was 17. The events leading up to my diagnosis were miserable. I'd grown up thinking a stomach ache after eating a meal was normal. My aunt would tell me I eat too fast, or my mom would say I just wanted to get out of chores. By my junior year of high school, the pain was unbearable. Initially thinking I had...