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    Keep coming back here, to the Forum! You will find that the folks here are very supportive and more than willing to answer your questions. Don't be scared!! Try to be positive -- you can get better, especially now that you know to try dietary modifications. It is scary to wonder what you are going to eat to survive, but there are alternatives, and some...
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    I have tried gluten free Bisquik, but it just is not the same...I did not like it at all. I probably need to be gluten free for a longer time and then try it again some time. Maybe if I wait a while it will taste better to me.... I was only gluten free for about 2 months when I tried the gluten free Bisquik.
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    age is just a number, and I'm not a number..... but I'll throw this out there: 52. I was diagnosed in November 2011, but I have had sypmtoms of celiac disease since I was a teenager. Thank you to all the folks here at the celiac.com forum with all their information, stories, and advice!!
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    I have been gluten free since January 1, 2012 and I did not start losing weight until just last week. I know that I was overcompensating at first and eating larger meals. I have gotten to the point where I do not eat unless my stomach growls and that has finally started a nice, slow weight loss in the past week about 3 lbs. came off. I hope it continues...
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    1. OMG YES!! Actually, I have had gluten intolerance and/or celiac disease for over 30 years BEFORE being diagnosed at all. (by endoscopy and colonoscopy). My symptoms seemed widely varied and unrelated to each other. If I complained of fatigue I was told "everyone is tired", my gastro-intestinal symptoms were "irritable bowel syndrome" --I was to take...
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    Okay, I have had a bad reaction from eating foods with certain dyes in them. That is to say that I suspect that the dyes in the foods are what caused my bad reaction symptoms.
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    why not buy dry black beans? you just soak them overnight and then cook them. it's really easy. I do not like food that comes out of cans. The only canned food I do eat is gluten free 'baked' beans.
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    I don't eat much Cinnamon Chex at a time, maybe only 1/2 cup (or less) is a serving for me, or maybe I should say that amount satisfies me. I have not noticed a bloated feeling. But I usually do not want more than the 1/2 cup or less of Cinnamon Chex.
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    I think I got glutened today, by driving on a highway where they have been mowing in the right of way and median 'grasses' recently and still are today. (who knows what grows wild out here in Wisconsin!) About 45 minutes to an hour later I suddenly had some old, familiar intestinal symptoms. I cannot figure out what else could have caused my body to react...
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    Oh! Reading this thread just made something 'click' for me! My Mother was diagnosed with Alzheimer's Disease, BUT I believe that she may have had either Celiac Disease or gluten intolerance. The words BRAIN FOG just now hit me hard --I feel bad thinking that she may have had better brain power if only we had known to get her gluten free! (Mom passed away...
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    Wow!! Thank you for the info Hootie!! Good to know, as I have only tried one rice bread and hated it! I will definitely look for this bread from Gluten Free Houston or order on their website.
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    jeanzdyn replied to amcam17's topic in Coping with Celiac Disease

    I sympathize with you, amcam17, it is not easy to make a major change in your diet and then watch someone else have what you cannot. I had already been altering my diet in an attempt to alleviate my symptoms. The result of that was that it was a little bit easier for me to make the jump to gluten free. You need more time away from foods you cannot...
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    Okay, I will try using a dust mask the next time I find myself at a flour mill. I do know what you are talking about. One of the things our company does is Qualitative Fit Tests for respirator fit, so I know what N95 masks are and what to look for. (fyi: we do not sell or supply dust masks or respirators, so I am on my own to purchase such items.)
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    I don't know why this posted like this --I only meant to EDIT the post, not quote it --I clicked on EDIT not quote.
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    Oh! I once had diarrhea (much as you describe) off and on for about 2 years. Try taking acidophilus --that is the probiotic that is found in yogurt. You can buy it in capsule form. That really helped me. (At the time I had no health insurance, so I did a lot of research into what I could do, without medical intervention, to make the diarrhea go away....
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    Just get a business membership, I believe that I paid $35 this year for the plain business membership. They don't check to see what your 'business' is, or verify it in any way that I am aware of. I have never been questioned on it in 4 years of membership at Sam's Club.
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    I can't get the forum to 'multiquote', but anyway, here are some answers to tarnalberry: I was diagnosed with celiac disease by a gastroenterologist after endoscopy and colonoscopy, and blood test. I do live in the US, so I will think about your advice regarding the ADA. I have asthma and that means that I have trouble breathing through a respirator...
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    I have experienced this too. It is an itching sensation, apparently internal, in the abdomen area. It is occasionally accompanied by pain the same area. It makes me crazy sometimes, I have to really work to ignore it. I think it is occuring less often now, as I have been gluten free for 5 months.
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    I am not sure I am starting this topic in the right place... Anyway, it's my job: I work for a company that provides services to various factories and plants of all kinds all over the U.S. It is my job to travel to the client locations to provide the services of my company. Today I have been working at a flour mill. Literally, they mill flour there...
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    This topic thread is very interesting to me. I have been gluten free for 5 months and have recently started waking up, after about 5 hours of sleep, and feeling extremely anxious / nervous / rapid heart beat.... I was wondering about it. Maybe it has to do with detoxing from gluten? I have not consulted a doctor as yet, mainly because I cannot afford...
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    Welcome to the forum. For a few reasons I decided to have a colonoscopy. The GI also did an endoscopy. Biopsy with both procedures of course. They also did a blood test. The result was a diagnosis, but how they verbalized that was "we think that maybe you have celiac disease". I was not surprised by the diagnosis. I had experimented with a rotation...
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    Hello Jean,

    I'm not sure how to reply to the comment you left on my profile, hopefully this will be okay!

    I was reading and ran into Elizabeth Vliet, a doc in Texas who specializes in hormones. I don't know your age, but I'm well past 50 and the 'pause. Dr. Vliet says a lot of trouble like ours is less to do with food/exercise, more with hormones. Wro...

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    before cancelling the biopsy --are you getting an endoscopy, a colonoscopy, or both? I would still get a colonoscopy, as that is also a method for detecting colon cancer, which is preventable if a colonoscopy is performed at the right time. In other words, while they are there, the doctor can remove any polyps, etc. and send that in for biopsy as well...
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    One thing I do remember is that eating gluten just made me want more gluten. Like somehow my body craves the thing that is worst for it. Any time I ate bread, pasta, donuts, it seemed like I could not get enough --never felt full until I was literally stuffed full. And diahhrea was a daily thing, every morning without fail. You need to get gluten free...
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    I did not go gluten free in support of another person. But I did find out on my own, but did not accept that I needed to be gluten free until the diagnosis: For many years I was plagued, every winter, with severe itching -mostly on my legs. There was no 'eruption', no blisters, no rash, no swelling. I tried many different ways to alleviate that horrible...
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