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  1. NancyL
    I plan on being a very active member here as I have so much to learn from you all so this is very liberating. LOL
  2. NancyL
    I started my journey on the board with this post about being overweight + Celiac and whether the two can go together. I'm 42 years old and mother to 3 boys (the two youngest at almost 4 yo and 6 are biological) with a history of endometriosis, miscarriages and a tubal pregnancy. In my early 20's, I was very thin. At 5'4" (but big boned), I was...
  3. NancyL
    LOL, I can now post on the board freely. It's nice to see my posts automatically pop up instead of waiting to be moderated. Not complaining. As a web designer who has done many bulletin boards for clients, I sincerely understand the need for establishing yourself but I'm happy I've made it past 10 posts!
  4. NancyL
    I'm very, very new to gluten free so I'll be an active watcher on your posts... especially to see if anyone makes corrections or suggestions! I'm glad you're keeping an online diary. I look forward to YOUR future meals! LOL
  5. NancyL
    I don't think I did but I'm not positive. They've done lots of blood tests, stool tests and diagnostic tests on me in the past year and a half and shamefully, I wasn't interested enough in what they were testing for. I just wanted an answer without considering all of the possibilities. LMAO! Love the candor. I'm having second thoughts...
  6. NancyL
    Thank you. I've only been gluten free for 3 days so it would be VERY easy to "fall off the wagon" LOL Although I'm finding the gluten free diet to be very easy. There were lots of things that I was already eating and buying that I didn't even know were gluten free (like my soy creamer that I use instead of regular creamer to help my cholesterol levels...
  7. NancyL
    It's funny because when she was originally planning to do my colonoscopy she had mentioned doing and Endoscopy too. I don't know how the endoscopy got dropped. Maybe my insurance had denied it because I had an Endoscopy in June for chest pain thought to be due to my hiatal hernia. We were also (when the colonoscopy came up) discussing having my hiatal...
  8. NancyL
    I'm not positive that the celiac panel was included in my blood work. Another great question for my doc on Monday. Her nurse is going to love me (not, lol). I'm reading a lot about false negatives, does that mean that only the biopsy of the small intestine is the only conclusive and reliable way to diagnose Celiac's? Or can that give a false negative...
  9. NancyL
    Hi all. I'm sorry, I jumped right in and started posting in other folders. I guess I should've started here! I'm very glad to have found this site. I'm 42 and for years have been having intermittent stomach issues. Since they weren't constant, I never got to the Doctor in time to be evaluated at my worst. Last month, I happened to have my yearly physical...
  10. NancyL
    Thanks so much for that info. I'll call my doc on Monday. I'd called her on Friday and her nurse said go ahead and try the gluten-free diet but maybe I should put it off until they do a small intestine biopsy (I'm only entering Day 3 of gluten-free). I don't want to skew the results.
  11. NancyL
    I don't really know the do's and don't's of hypoglycemia but wanted to tell you that I just had a colonoscopy (my 3rd at 42) and my prep consists of 1 boiled egg and 1 piece of dry white toast for breakfast the day before, then 4 laxatives at noon (drink as much as you want including soda, eat jello and chicken broth) and then in the evening, you drink 6...
  12. NancyL
    first off, Happy Birthday! Also, your symptoms sound a LOT like mine. I don't have a Celiac diagnosis (yet) but I feel pretty sure that I have it or something like it. I'm just starting the gluten free thing now that the majority of my tests have been run. I'm only on day 2 but I was very pleasantly surprised how many gluten free things there are...
  13. NancyL
    Well drat. Thank you for letting me know that. The surgical nurse told me that the biopsy would be testing for things like cancer, colitis and celiac. No they didn't do an upper scope at the same time. When I woke up (I have to have general anesthesia for colonoscopy because in the past I fought them unknowingly) my Doctor said to keep my prep instructions...
  14. NancyL
    I believe that I "may" have Celiac Disease (won't know until all of the Doctor reports are in)... at the very least there is something that keeps mimicking an appendicitis that keeps happening in my lower stomach/intestines. Since the doc has finished all of her testing and we're just awaiting biopsy results I've decided to do a gluten-free diet to see if...
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