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  1. squirmingitch
    Kellog's has announced that Gluten Free Rice Krispies have been discontinued. Open Original Shared Link You have to click on the one about Rice Krispies They have come out with gluten free Eggo's which will contain oat flour. Open Original Shared Link
  2. squirmingitch
    And it's people like this who are largely responsible for the eye rolls we get when we say we have to eat gluten free. The extremists who are a couple bulbs short of a full pack. Heck, I would roll my eyes at her!
  3. squirmingitch
    OK. Thank you both. i will try those & see what happens. I doubt it's browser add ons as I have none & I don't download software. I'll report back what happens.
  4. squirmingitch
    99% of the time the top menu does not work when I click on anything there. I'm talking about the bar at the very top -- the one that has Messenger, Notifications, and my account information/access. This has been happening for some time now -- a few months. It is increasingly aggravating. I will see that I have notifications but when I click I get nothing...
  5. squirmingitch
    IF you have dh (the celiac rash) you should be aware that 60% of the time the celiac blood panel returns a negative. Dermatitis Herpetiformis (dh) is best dx'd by a skin biopsy looking for dh. This is taken on CLEAR skin adjacent to a fresh lesion. You MUST be eating gluten until the testing is complete just like with the blood test. Also, when you get...
  6. squirmingitch
    I'm so sorry. I hope they don't last long.
  7. squirmingitch
    YVW! Be sure & read the Newbie 101 thread in the Coping section. There is a lot you will need to learn about how to properly eat gluten free and protect yourself from cross contamination. Ask questions any time. There are no dumb questions. Okay?
  8. squirmingitch
    As to the question of the BO ~~~ I have always had a problem with very loud BO. I can get out of the shower & within 5 minutes have bad BO. This is what takes care of it for me: Shave your pits every day if that's what it takes. I find the tiniest growth of underarm hair has the effect as if I had a forest growing in there. Mitchum antiperspirant -- nothing...
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    Ditto word for word what RMJ said above! Except I was 55 and am now 58. So relax & take a deep breath. Your'e going to be just fine. Stop worrying! I just wish I had been dx'd at the age of 13!
  10. squirmingitch
    AMEN.
  11. squirmingitch
    Ditto what bartful said. EVERYTHING she said. Your tastes do change. It does get easier in fact it will become second nature. Yes, a lot of ailments will disappear but it will take time & you are bound to have ailments that aren't celiac related & don't disappear. I was never a real junk food junkie but i did have my junk foods i liked and one...
  12. squirmingitch
    No but derms dx dh as scabies all the time. While you're there you should insist on a dh biopsy. Make sure it's done correctly as 99% of the time they do it wrong. It MUST be taken from CLEAR skin ADJACENT to a fresh, active lesion. Print these out & take them & give them to the derm so they will know how to correctly do it. Open Original Shared...
  13. squirmingitch
    You can go to a derm & get a skin scraping which they look at under a microscope to see either a mite or the egg. If they dx by looks alone, they may be wrong so if you want to know for sure make sure they do a skin scraping for the scabies.
  14. squirmingitch
    Well that sense of humor will take you a long way. That's the spirit! I told my gluten eating friends how fabulous the coffee cake was as well as sent them photos & they were drooling. And then I told them it had 1.5 cups of sour cream & a whole stick of butter in it & 1 was drooling all over her keyboard & the other was bemoaning the carbs...
  15. squirmingitch
    Sorry to say the coffee cake might be a really hard one for you as it has sour cream & a whole stick of butter in it. Sorry.
  16. squirmingitch
    No problem. Don't worry about it.
  17. squirmingitch
    Interesting Barty! Thanks for that! It makes sense.
  18. squirmingitch
    I don't know the reason it's worse at night but we all report it is. I've never seen any medical information that even makes a guess as to why it's worse at night. Some people with dh have speculated that it's because our minds are not busy. We aren't working & keeping our minds occupied which allows us to dwell on the rash more. In a way it makes sense...
  19. squirmingitch
    Oh sure it does! Maybe I didn't make myself clear. When I quit the steroid pills -- even getting off them so slowly --- the rash came back. What I was trying to describe was that there is a rebound to the rash that many of us experience from the steroids. Yes, I was totally off the steroids and still had rash for --- well, I still have rash 3 years later...
  20. squirmingitch
    I have done super duper steroids, the kind that have me bouncing off the walls @ 3am feeling like I could single handedly build a house from the footer up in one night. They got rid of the rash and the very moment I stopped them the rash came back with a vengeance like you wouldn't believe. I went through several cycles of this (all prior to knowing it was...
  21. squirmingitch
    This is exactly the way I feel about the book. And when I first got it I was so intimidated & overwhelmed that I did exactly that --- I set it aside for a while & every once in a while I would flip through it. Then one day months later I sat down & really, truly began reading it and all those little pieces I had glanced at during those months...
  22. squirmingitch
    Once again mitchgam, dh is not & does not cause a systemic histamine reaction. An allergy is a histaminic reaction dh is not.
  23. squirmingitch
    Are you eating gluten free? If so then you need to go back to eating gluten for at least 2 months. No oral steroids or steroid shots for 2 months before the dh skin biopsy. Print these pages out & take them with you to the derm. Open Original Shared Link Open Original Shared Link
  24. squirmingitch
    I think you will be able to leave off the dry milk powder in the bread & dinner rolls & sub a non dairy fat like coconut oil for the butter & it will still be good. They do give you subs in the book - just go to page 17.
  25. squirmingitch
    Mars makes M&M's & here is a link to their allergen policy: https://www.mms.com/us/legal/allergen.html This is the most up to date ingredient list I can find online as i do not have any peanut butter M&M's on hand to actually read the label. Milk Chocolate (Sugar, Cocoa Butter, Chocolate, Skim Milk, Milkfat, Lactose, Peanuts, Soy Lecithin...
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