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  1. gailc
    I avoid soy because of the link to breast cancer. I have had some scares and two biopsies. Not cancer.
  2. gailc
    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.
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    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
  4. 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...
  6. 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...
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    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. ...
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    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.
  9. 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...
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    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...
  11. 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...
  12. 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
  13. 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
  14. 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...
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    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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    ARCHIVED Double Vision

    gailc replied to elye's topic in Coping with Celiac Disease

    Hi, I noticed I had some double vision in my right eye only, and only horizontal lines. I am very nearsighted and cannot focus across the room and I would see the ceiling line repeated down about two inches. The door did not do this. When I turn my head that extra ceiling line would go away and I would see one from the door. Four months ago I went...
  17. gailc
    Congratulations on your resolve. I found out today what I hope is the last sneaky wheat in my diet. The little crackers, actually fried won ton wrappers at my Chinese restaurant. I was told they were rice, twice. Today a different person said they had wheat. He brought out an unopened package, first ingredient was wheat. I google things like 'gluten...
  18. gailc
    Try eating lots of fresh fruits and vegetables. They will make you feel better even if you had no problems. Be sure to get some gluten-free bread because you will crave it. Remember even french fries often have wheat on them. Learn the sneaky names for wheat and gluten like spelt, malt and dozens more. Get some books from the library, search for lists...
  19. gailc
    Have you tried all kinds of gluten-free bread? I hardly notice the difference in the breads so maybe they are better here. There are many different grains that can be used to make bread. Did you toast the bread, that made it a lot better for me. Tapioca bread is good, but not for sandwiches, it falls apart. gailc
  20. gailc
    You can google or search this site for infertility issues. I had a colonoscopy and endoscopy last week. My blood tests were negative, biopsies negative. But I have all the signs, including my lactose intolerance is gone. You should be asleep for both procedures, mildly put out. I woke up when the tube went down my throat, not even bothersome, but they...
  21. gailc
    It seems like there is some sort of competition for a label - I have no idea why, though. ---------------- without the label you might not be getting proper treatment. Some doctors don't want you on a gluten free diet unless Celiac. I call that irresponsible, what happened to "first do no harm"? Also if labeled Celiac they may do some tests more often...
  22. gailc
    I doubt it. Oh, you already had the test, I was going to wish for you that you don't have Celiac, but if you do I wish the test would show it. You can be 'just' gluten intolerant and it feels just as bad as being Celiac. Works for me. gailc
  23. gailc
    They say I don't have it, I say I do. My decades of Lactose intolerance went away on the diet. I am just wonderful on the gluten-free diet. I only wanted it to actually be Celiac because I'd heard some have their Lactose intolerance go away. Otherwise I don't want it to be that. In that matter wanting makes no difference, I have it or I don't. I...
  24. gailc
    My headaches lasted about 2 months but were quite mild compared to the migranes I used to get. They started a couple days into the diet. The first meal prooved it to me on the intolerance, I did not have pain after eating. Or the other 10 or so gastro pains/cramps/nausea etc. then other problems started disappearing. Don't for a second even think...
  25. gailc
    I don't believe the tests rule it out just they might not have biopsied the right spots, those biopsies are difficult to ananyze. and you may not have been eating enough gluten/ not advanced in the disease. Try the biopsies then the gluten-free diet and if it helps stick to your guns. I got rid of everything in the house with gluten. If you have...
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