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  1. AzizaRivers
    ^ Goldfish! Yes. I also miss mozzarella sticks. I have tried making my own but they never turn out tasting very good. I miss pierogies, and soft, warm Italian bread. I seem to have found an acceptable substitute or recipe for everything else.
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    EnviroKids makes a line of cereals. They have something similar to rice krispies, something sort of like kix I think...worth checking out. They have fun animals on the box and are marketed for children but they're still yummy, just expensive. I think Kix is also newly gluten free, but I don't know how safe they are from CC. Just a rumor I heard.
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    I'll try to help here because I think we're about the same age and I'm in a similar situation. To start, even though you don't know how sensitive you are, you need to assume the worst while you're healing. You don't need to get new dishes (just make sure things get washed properly) but you should get new non-stick pans/sheets and a skillet if you use one...
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    I'm not a parent of a celiac, but I experienced this same thing when I was first diagnosed. Your son's gut will take time to heal, and before it is healed, he will still not be absorbing nutrients properly and so may continue to lose weight for a little while. If it still concerns you, definitely talk to the doctor, but within the first stretch of healing...
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    This depends on what you like to eat and what meals you cook the most. To begin, it's best not to go out and spend a lot of money on specialty items, because they are expensive and you might not like them, and because a lot of them seem less than impressive when you've just been eating "the real thing." Here are several ideas! It's better to start with whole...
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    Tamari is also fine. What brand was it?
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    I'm mostly replying to this to say that I too had a HUGE problem with yeast that instantly disappeared when I cut out gluten. My acne also pretty much went away, though it wasn't too bad before. Lactose intolerance is very common among celiacs and the gluten intolerant, especially at the time of diagnosis for celiacs because the villi that are destroyed...
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    This summer, my boyfriend and I will be moving in with his family (right now we live on our college campus) and remaining there for the year. We share his family's food but they are tight on money so I habitually replace the foods they buy that I eat a lot of. I also have a cabinet there where I keep my gluten-free stuff. I have a job so I'm trying to...
  9. AzizaRivers
    When I go home this weekend (where my quinoa is) I'm going to make myself a bowl of it after rinsing and see if that changes anything. It's not the peanuts, almonds or pepitas as I have all of those regularly without problems. I highly doubt the fructose in the honey or maple syrup because I have both of those all the time and I eat a lot of fruit otherwise...
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    I have it, the family I babysit for gave it to me as a Christmas gift a few weeks after I was diagnosed. I haven't made anything from it as I prefer to make things from total scratch (cheaper, and often better!) but some of them look so good...and I did receive a few boxed mixes for my birthday that I haven't used yet...
  11. AzizaRivers
    To begin...yes, false positives are possible. But please do not hold onto that too tightly. It sounds like it's highly likely that you will need a gluten-free diet. Especially since your symptoms DO sound like typical celiac disease. It would really be that strange for the rest of your blood results to be normal if they caught your celiac before it managed...
  12. AzizaRivers
    Wait, have you actually been diagnosed with lupus? Or are you just suspecting it in light of your symptoms? If you haven't actually been diagnosed to have it, you need to go to your doctor ASAP and talk about it. I understand your ANA is a little higher than the normal range. Lupus isn't something to play around with so if it turns out that's what it is,...
  13. AzizaRivers
    I had totally forgotten about my planned and failed blood allergy test that I tried to have shortly after I was diagnosed, at the recommendation of my GI. I scheduled the appointment, drove there, waited for 2 hours after my scheduled time, asked when I would be seen and was told there were 4 patients still ahead of me. I had to get to class so I left without...
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    That's a possibility. I'd only had it once before (cooked that time, but not rinsed) and I didn't really care for it, so I only had a bite and a half--probably about the same amount as I got with the granola. I don't remember how it made me feel but that was around the beginning of gluten-free for me so I was a mix of good and bad on any given day. Could...
  15. AzizaRivers
    I know there are always similar threads to this, but I can't seem to find exactly what I'm looking for. If anyone wants to link to other useful threads, that would help, too. I was only sick (or, at least, I only had major symptoms) for 3-6 months before I was diagnosed in November. I tested bloods negative while sick, biopsy inconclusive after gluten...
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    My best friend was the reason I started thinking about celiac in the first place. She was diagnosed about 4 years ago, and my symptoms started to develop about a year after we met. Since they so closely matched what she told me were her issues, I decided to check it out. And post-gluten-free for me...my mom decided to take my dog off gluten to see if it...
  17. AzizaRivers
    Also, please do keep in mind that Crohn's is a very versatile disease in that it affects different people differently, and everyone's body requires a slightly different regimen to keep it under control. Unfortunately, many people either do not work hard enough at finding the best way to control it, or they do not know any better, or they do try and just can...
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    First, let me tell you that it DOES get easier. Right now it seems confusing and crazy what you can and can't eat, but it's not that bad. You get used to it. I too am a vegetarian (in a house of meat eaters) and I find plenty to eat. I'll eat whatever is being made for dinner, minus the meat. I'm sure since you were already a vegetarian, you're used to adapting...
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    My general opinion is that while they "know" the symptoms, they learned their lists of symptoms and conditions in medical school and sometimes, they get confused when they hear of a symptom that they didn't learn was common. Vomiting was my primary symptom and it caused all the subsequent problems. My GI also said it wasn't a common symptom (he said most...
  20. AzizaRivers
    That's interesting, because I've read that introducing certain foods to babies earlier actually increased their risks of developing intolerances and allergies. Not trying to discount the above information as it was very interesting, particularly the part about peanut allergies being low where peanuts are a common weaning food. But a few weeks ago I read...
  21. AzizaRivers
    I too have used Suave when I didn't feel like shelling out for the good stuff, but I have a HUGE issue with paying money for ingredients I can't pronounce or don't know the sources of. I'm not washing my hair with something that contains the same chemicals as furniture stripper. So when I can, I get Shikai shampoo and conditioner. I get my soaps from a little...
  22. AzizaRivers
    As a college student with a very small budget for food, I'm with you on that one. I don't knock those who do replace all their gluten foods with the alternatives, but I feel much better about the way I spend my money if I limit that. I do buy the occasional box of special pasta but mostly I just go for rice or something instead. I'm not shelling out $7 for...
  23. AzizaRivers
    There are a few things to think about when considering the importance of a formal diagnosis. Is it important to you, as you said, to have a formal diagnosis so you will not question your diet? Do you need a diagnosis to gain the support of family members? Are you going to try to obtain some kind of compensation (food stamps, etc.) for special food...
  24. AzizaRivers
    I don't know about your general coffee reactions, BUT...I've heard of many celiacs, especially on here, reacting to Dunkin Donuts coffee. Not sure why, I don't drink coffee myself, but perhaps they have widespread contamination or they contain some unsafe ingredient. So you might just need to find a particular source for your coffee that does not give you...
  25. AzizaRivers
    I take Jarro-Dophilus Allergen-Free. On the website it lists that it's free of almost everything you said except they don't mention corn, so you might need to call the company to check on the corn. Open Original Shared Link
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