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I'm in my 60's but I look in my 40's,

  1. gailc
    I avoid soy because of the link to breast cancer. I have had some scares and two biopsies. Not cancer.
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    I get coughing and choking from canola oil. I cough up stuff. Symptom is like bronchitis. I have gluten intolerance, maybe celiac. the choking persists for about a week, it simulates a cold. I got it from the gluten free menu at Outback too, that time I got cramps for 25 hours. the cramps start about 20 minutes after finishing eating.
  4. icon gailc reacted to a comment: Exploring a Non-Biopsy Approach for Diagnosing Celiac Disease in Symptomatic Adults
  5. gailc
    sounds just like me, spontaneously grew fungus free nail on gluten-free diet. now to see if the medicine works on fingernails, podiatrist said she could not advise me on non foot stuff. I'm just going to use the medicine on it. gailc
  6. gailc
    What a coincidence!! I am just 10 months gluten-free too, and I went to the dermatologist Wednesday thinking I had a toenail fungus. The new nail growth 1/16" is much thinner and a different color. He said yes fungus. Friday I went to the Podiatrist and she said the old nail had fungus, the new nail coming in doesn't. It self healed I guess on the gluten...
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    I was finding the diet difficult. Since diabetes is in the family history and I expect to get it I asked Kaiser if I could take the diabetes class to learn to eat right. Conquor both diets at the same time, this will avoid going through the diet change shock again later. And may delay diabetes. I learned a lot. Substitute brown rice for bread. That...
  8. gailc
    I gave all mine away except I forgot the Beano, big mistake! I gave the food to a friend who is down on luck. Lost job, car died etc. I let her decide to keep or throw away, some was quite old, some very fresh. Like the other person said, don't eat canola. You can try it when you are better if you want to go through all that again. gluten...
  9. gailc
    Yes you can get withdrawl symptoms, a doc once told me you get addicted to things you eat and withdrawl can be nasty. My withdrawl from gluten was not as bad as withdrawl from beef and eggs many years ago. Because some of my symptoms went away with the first meal I had more motivation to stay gluten-free, also it made me very happy I found the answer. ...
  10. gailc
    I got a low blood sugar reaction to something yesterday, all I'd had was yogurt. Dizziness, ears swelling and clicking. I checked the ingredients and it had aspartame, something I avoid, hadn't had any since going gluten-free 7 months ago. Chalk that one off my list of edible foods.
  11. gailc
    I have found the gluten-free diet to be traumatic, not the diet itself but searching for foods. In order not to go thru this again when I eventually get diabetes I decided to do that diet now too. (DIET=the food we eat and the liquids we eat). The diabetic diet is pretty much gluten-free except for substituting gluten-free bread, but I'd rather have rice...
  12. gailc
    I have been in misery the last month and a half, turned out to be canola. I've been gluten-free 7months and read labels. I knew maybe 4 years ago about canola and got rid of my bottle, but I didn't know it was in processed foods. I read the ingredients very carefully for gluten and now I will go back a second time for canola and soy and olive oil. If...
  13. gailc
    The big 'C'? 12 days for me, laxatives and stool softeners did not work. Doctors said over a period of about 30 years, 'what was normal for me was normal', but then they shut me off before i was able to say 12 days, so they never heard that. 5 laxatives, one a day on day 7 thru 11 worked, or did it? It was day 12. First I ever heard of 'normal' numbers...
  14. gailc
    Just a suggestion, keep a food diary. This way you can find how 'something' has crept into your diet and is bothering you. If problems, eliminate some new foods. be aware it can be immediate or take weeks for symptoms to appear, maybe longer. gailc
  15. gailc
    ---------------------- thanks for this posting, when I eat olive oil I feel like there is oil in my mouth, even the next day. Be aware some sell non-virgin olive oil as virgin. I'm going to try avoiding the hydroginated oil, wonder if that's on the label. gailc
  16. gailc
    About 4-5 years ago I started choking on saliva and swallowing food and drink into my lungs. It took a very long time to determine the cause. I really suspected Canola oil so I stopped and started using it. I seemed to be better without it. So I eliminated it, or so I thought. My choking got about 75% better. 7 months ago I tried the gluten-free diet...
  17. gailc
    Hi, I had asked a while back how long it takes for lactose intolerance to go away on a gluten-free diet. I got 'depends' as an answer. That didn't help! I have more information. I suspected it had gone away in a few weeks but was chicken to try. Then I read somewhere, a book I think, that a doctor recommends his patients to do a lactose challenge...
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