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  1. Katrala
    Something my husband said to me a few months after my diagnosis when I was trying to fool with a recipe to make it taste a certain way. "Appreciate food for what it is, not for what it's trying to mimic." You're going to have a lot of mixed feelings and there will be times when you're perfectly OK with everything and other moments of frustration...
  2. Katrala
    This is exactly what I was looking for - thank you! You are very good at wording such things in a way that is understandable to people who aren't familiar with such things. I had an endoscopy just before going gluten-free. I wish I had thought to ask for a copy of it. Looks like another couple weeks of playing phone tag to try to get it. ...
  3. Katrala
    Most doctors will tell you to not go gluten-free until the biopsy. The good thing about the biopsy is that you'll have a baseline and any other problems can be discovered. Also, you'll have a 100% diagnosis. If you're OK with not having an official diagnosis (you may find a doctor who will diagnosis without, though,) then go ahead and skip it. ...
  4. Katrala
    Yeah, I guess I am. I hear about these people that have these dramatic recoveries. OMG I've been gluten-free 2 days and I feel like I'm 10 years younger! That's not me. I have more energy and don't have to take a short nap in the car before driving home so I won't wreck. I can see that healing has been a gradual process. I've gained, on average...
  5. Katrala
    Which of the 3 tests are the "celiac" antibodies? All of them? I'm trying to understand what each of the 3 mean independently. If you look on the bottom right corner of the first one, you'll see "start on gluten-free diet." This was written in January 2011 and I was never called with lab results or told there was anything abnormal. It wasn't until...
  6. Katrala
    Does the negative on the Gliadin Peptide Ab, IgA mean anything? Also - what is "equivocal?"
  7. Katrala
    So I had my checkup with my GI. My doctor is decent (no bedside manner but knows what he is doing,) but his office staff is horrible. I've spent 2 weeks trying to get the results from my recent follow-up blood work and finally got someone on the phone who told me my most recent results showed "I didn't really have Celiac." I told her I was confused, since...
  8. Katrala
    I used royal icing for the border but was afraid of using it for the whole thing.
  9. Katrala
    I ate at a Five Guys for the first time a few weeks ago - in Tampa, I believe. The cashier rang up the bunless request / allergy and while I was watching the guy make it, I said to my husband, "I wonder if he'll know to change gloves?" He heard me and asked if it was an allergy. When I told him yes he looked at the cashier and said, "You have to TELL...
  10. Katrala
    There are those "Taste of Thai" soup packages that you can get at Big Lots for about $1 (or sometimes less - I've found some for $0.60 before and stocked up.) They aren't the best tasting stuff and are full of sodium, but I always keep a couple at work in case I forget my lunch, etc. Also, deli meat wraps. Like, just use the meat as the "wrap" and put...
  11. Katrala
    I know nothing regarding what the literature says about this. However, I had my gallbladder removed at age 25-ish. I felt like my celiac wasn't really "triggered" until age 29, though, although I could very well be wrong. I had a "losing weight, going downhill" period until diagnosis. Before that I was OK, I guess (compared to the downhill period...
  12. Katrala
    My husband received a "toaster pastry" press for Christmas and I decided to give it a whirl on my long weekend. The recipe that comes with the press calls for a lot of flour, so I was concerned that substituting that much gluten-free flour mix wouldn't have great results. Instead, I took a pie crust recipe from a book, tweaked it just a little bit...
  13. Katrala
    I guess it could be piped, but he just "plopped" it into the parchment paper and then smoothed it out.
  14. Katrala
    I came home the other evening to see that my husband had made breadsticks! I haven't had a good breadstick since going gluten-free and was excited about how good these looked (and tasted!) These even tasted good heated up with leftovers the next day! Since you can't really "shape" the breadsticks, he came up with the idea of using rolled parchment...
  15. Katrala
    I think a better route would be to make muffins from Bob's Red Mill with bean flour and leave them for the food thieves. Make sure to mark them "gluten-free" .. that should scare them from ever trying gluten-free marked food again.
  16. Katrala
    I know I had to get glutened somewhere last Thursday. After feeling terrible on Friday, my left eyelid started twitching. It's been 5 days and it's still twitching. Not my entire eye (socket area,) but just my eyelid. And only the left one. It's driving me crazy. Anyone else have a symptom like this?
  17. Katrala
    Here is the cinnamon roll recipe I started with: Open Original Shared Link I made a few changes, using brown rice flour instead of millet flour and, once, arrowroot start instead of potato starch. Also, I used a bit more cream cheese than was called for and had a thicker overall icing. I followed the exact directions the first time and the icing...
  18. Katrala
    I went to the doc for my checkup earlier this week and he was surprised to hear I wasn't having D, but the opposite. He said "that's odd." And I consider him good compared to other stories I've heard.
  19. Katrala
    I just left this morning for Florida but will post recipes when I get home.
  20. Katrala
    I'd say the majority of those with celiac have no major outward GI symptoms. Which is why it's under diagnosed. The symptoms of celiac also appear like other diseases as well, so I'd say it's not the easiest to diagnose. Plus, docs are still in the learning phases.
  21. Katrala
    Well, in a way, he WAS right..
  22. Katrala
    Crohn's disease affects men more than women. I'm not so sure the theories regarding behavior towards doctors can really explain that.
  23. Katrala
    I'm looking at the reported averages. While I realize that one family or small group of people may represent a different percentage, generalizations can't be made from such a small sample size.
  24. Katrala
    I'm totally the "stand up for myself" type and my husband knows it, but I have to agree here. If it's his family, he should try to do something. Just like I'd hope you do for him if the situation were reversed. Our battles with social food events (which is pretty much every social event) is ongoing and while you'll learn to better navigate the longer...
  25. Katrala
    So I've read that celiac disease is more common in women than men. Also, DH is more common in men than women. Is the reason for this known? Is it because pregnancy can be a trigger? Or because women have more stressful lives, making a trigger more likely? (hehe, kidding!)
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