Harpgirl

lol, my hubby and I use BubbleGirl too. When I'm making dinner, I hold at least one thoroughly washed hand up as if I were a surgeon avoiding contamination of my patient.

That is awesome!

You should put that in a song and play it on your guitar!

Oh yeah, I get that too. Whenever I get glutened, at some point I will also be menstruating since my symptoms tend to last 5 weeks. I have certain clothes that just will not fasten during those weeks.

Too funny! I haven't seen Cloverfield yet, but isn't it funny how gluten is like a horror movie? I literally have nightmares about eating gluten.

Hahaha!

Thanks Yeah, I see it as poison too. So sorry you have the response to gluten that you do! My hubby is from Kansas, and whenever we go there to visit family, we drive past all the wheat fields and all I see are fields of poison.

Actually I went gluten free after my blood was drawn. The results came back a month later as negative for celiac. My doctor had already done an endoscopy for my "mystery pain" and never bothered to do a celiac biopsy. When I finally connected the dots to celiac he ordered the blood test. If I hadn't brought it up at all, he would have diagnosed me with Irritable...

I've been suffering from gluten exposure recently and because I don't "look sick," I started coming up with ways to describe how I feel. I have several symptoms, but the best thing I've found to get my point across about the pain is to say that it feels like I swallowed a porcupine. I stepped it up by doing something fun. On my author blog, I dressed...

My grandma is diagnosed with celiac disease. She "cheats" all the time. She was diagnosed in the early 90's and I don't think that she was ever taught how important it was to read labels and avoid cross-contamination. By the time I figured out my symptoms and got educated, her mind was too far gone to explain it to her. I was diagnosed as gluten-intolerant...

good words! I get too stressed myself over food. Holidays are the worst. I think I need to read your post here during those times.

There are liners that are designed for the crockpot. They are meant to reduce clean up, but if you feel you might get glutened from your crockpot, you can try the liners and see if it helps. I don't have a crockpot, only just saw and ad for them once. I had to replace my non-stick pans and plastic utensils because I was still getting sick. Stainless...

I make sure I have plenty of gluten free bars with me. Also, having a variety of bars helps because eating the same bars all the time gets old very quickly. Kind bars, Oskiri (sp?), Enjoy Life, and several others. If I'm going to be out for long enough to miss a meal at home and I'm not sure about the restaurants, I'll bring a can of soup with me. There are...

Still, with any place, you have to be careful. I'm currently suffering from cross-contamination from Five Guys. I knew she ruined the fries for me. But I was starving, it was crazy busy in that food court even at 2 pm, and my boys were running everywhere. When the girl argued about the best way to bag the fries for a gluten free customer, I gave up too quickly...

I've had family who had nothing to cut up fruits and veggies on except a wooden board. I've had them cover it in wax paper first, or just use a clean plate to cut on. I'm quite sensitive, so any extra precautions are worth it. It's the whole reason I don't eat at Subway, though they have "just salad."