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April in KCs response was so good. I think that's one of the trickiest situations, well-meaning friends who are going out of their way to "help" but not being informed enough to avoid cross contamination or gluten containing ingredients, and then the gluten-intolerant person looking ungrateful when he/she can't eat what was offered. I think it would...

Please give some advice Meatballman to me, the gluten-eating wife of a super-sensitive celiac...I find myself on occasion apologizing to him when I eat gluten in front of him. I can't help it! I know he wishes he could share...what's more annoying - me turning down his suggestion that I have that cinnamon roll (becuase he feels guilty if I don't eat what...

I am the wife of a super sensitive celiac and we experience the same thing. One of my husband's reactions to gluten is depression and anger. He'll say, "I'm just so angry!" and unfortunately as the one closest to him it often gets directed at me. I adore this man. He is the best friend, husband, and father, but when he gets glutened he turns into an awful...

My husband can usually tell within minutes of eating the offending food (always cross contamination only, he never intentionally eats gluten and we are very careful.) His first symptom is "brain fog" which goes away after a while. His worst symptoms appear the next day: severe joint pain, extreme fatigue (usally spends an entire day asleep in bed), followed...

That we can't even trust the "gluten free" options at most restaurants. Well meaning friends say, "such and such a place has gluten free pizza now!" Not a chance my super-sensitive celiac husband could eat it safely. Stupid cross-contamination.

That's hard to answer. I feel like I'm still figuring that out (almost three years later!) My husband is the great cook in the family and as a matter of scheduling/division of labor - I do most of the cooking. We love ethinc food and I'm not great at that kind of cooking. That's where we really miss going out: Indian, Thai, Veitnamese, Ethiopian - how...

Wow...thanks for the compassionate responses. This forum has been so theraputic for me. My first night on, I was up most of the night feeling so validated by reading what seemed like our experiences over and over again. It was so nice to feel like we weren't crazy when even loving family members had a hard time masking their disbelief that this is "real...

So what happened? Please update. I've considered the same kind of "test" myself - can't ever schedule it in to our hectic life though.

I'm also trying to figure this out (without health insurance.) Last time we forked out the bucks to go see a gastroenterologist was about 9 months after my husband went gluten free. Within a week of the new diet he said, "I'm never going back!" and in a month he had lost 20 lbs and regained a color, postive mood, and general health that I hadn't seen in...

Thank you so much everyone for your kind words. I have really enjoyed joining the community here. We've been at this for over two years now and it was only about a month ago that I spent several hours overnight reading these forums (feeling discouraged about a recent CC episode.) It was like I was reading our own life story. It was so validating to discover...

Wow...that is all so encouraging! Italy is coming way up on my travel list now. Thanks for the wonderful suggestions. Anyone have experience on wether or not gluten-free airline meals are actually gluten-free? Safe from cc? So many restuarants now offer gluten-free (and my very sensitive husband inevitably ends up getting glutened.) While I'm glad awareness...

I'm about to loose it. We keep a gluten free home to protect my very sensitive celiac husband. We've had a house guest for the last week (who by cooincidence just found out he was celiac and is now learning the ropes - so far he is asymptomatic, so he hasn't dealt w/cc and some of the other issues we do on a regular basis.) The guest was one of several...

Ok, so we're doing great gluten free at home - totally clean. But every time we travel my gluten-free husband ends up with a reaction due to cc at some restaurant (in spite of my best efforts to research in advance and talk to wait staff.) Now that our small business is doing well enough that we can realistically take a month off each summer to travel,...

The first six months were the hardest and at first it was very frustrating - you have to rethink how you do food, but now that I'm two and a half years into it, preparing meals, baking, etc. is all so natural. Made chocolate chip cookies tonight (using Pamela's mix and the recipe on back.) My husband will attest to the fact that my gluten free chocolate...

We're just over two years into this and unfortunately, still deal with gluten reactions on occasion. This is always due to CC. Our house is gluten-free and my celiac husband never intentionally eats anything with gluten...but CC at a restaurant or family member's house will knock him flat for three days. There seems to be a regular progression through...