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  1. cavernio
    I'm in need of a birthday cake recipe or good one I can substitute in. Can haves: -buckwheat flour -eggs -vegetables of any sort -lard -sugar -baking soda -spices Can't haves: -any other type of flour, including ground nuts -non-chocolate preferred -dairy -grain-based oils -baking powder The only flour I have at my disposal is buckwheat...
  2. cavernio
    Sorry for double-post, just read your other topics leis. First hit in googlescholar for b12 brain lesions: Open Original Shared Link# Another peer reviewed article: Open Original Shared Link "Multiple Sclerosis (MS) and vitamin B12 deficiency share common inflammatory and neurodegenerative pathophysiological characteristics. Due to similarities...
  3. cavernio
    I hate acronyms and I hate more that I use them when typing all the time. I also swear I've encountered, more than once, a place where g.f. meant something besides gluten free. Such a nice feature!
  4. cavernio
    "OOps just noticed I misspelled dessert. Oh, well, it seems kind of appropriate!" lol Yeah, that really, really sucks. Reasons like that are one of the reasons why I'm avoiding eating at my parents, for now at least. Like when my mom passed the bread basket, an actual woven basket with lots of holes, overtop the main gluten-free dish. Its kinda a...
  5. cavernio
    Note that swollen tongue is a possible symptom of B12 deficiency, so it might not be the dairy doing it. Make sure your next doctor visit, whoever it is, to tell them about your diet and your suspected b12 deficiency. I'm honestly a little astounded they haven't measured it in you before, b12 is one of the things every doctor I've met tests me for (I'm in...
  6. cavernio
    I don't know why this is, but I definitely experienced similar things to what you are, just not to such an extreme. Being gluten free I've experienced far fewer of these episodes. Notably, dairy seems a likely culprit for these reactions in me too. What you have sounds worse than how I was though. I would described it as feeling like I was getting the...
  7. cavernio
    "a bad person would not come on Celiac message boards and give helpful advice" :-p that's funny but good tennisman! More often than not I'm incredibly argumentative. It's not fighting until there's a fist involved, right? I'm pretty sure that being in the tropics on a cloudy day would still have enough sunlight. Being as far north as england, I can't...
  8. cavernio
    Sounds like celiac. Note that celiacs have leaky guts too. Make sure that your house and all your ingredients are gluten free. Eg: the cinnamon you have may have traces of gluten from manufacturing or from your own house. Eggs and shellfish sound like regular allergies, but try washing your eggs well before cracking, and washing hands well after touching...
  9. cavernio
    While you're eating gluten foods that might otherwise have no effect on you, will have a bad effect on you. Bananas used to give me migraines 80% of the time. Not anymore.
  10. cavernio
    Good of you to try the gluten free diet! Firstly, I will suggest that you strongly consider getting tested for celiac disease BEFORE starting you gluten-free diet. Being diagnosed as a celiac will mean doctors will actually consider you one instead of potential dismissals of your health problems and personal gluten-eating experience. It could also make adhering...
  11. cavernio
    Zinc competes with magnesium (and iron) for absorption, so overdoing the zinc, even if you are still deficient in it, could screw up your body even more if you are also deficient in iron or magnesium. You probably know all about iron deficiency, but magnesium deficiency isn't nearly as well known, and is also, apparently, being discovered as a potential issue...
  12. cavernio
    I've mentioned this a few times, but it only makes sense to me, knowing the current research, that when a celiac first goes gluten free, they will be absorbing fewer nutrients than when they were eating gluten. Open Original Shared Link One of the findings of this study is that intestinal permeability in celiacs is increased higher, and for longer, when...
  13. cavernio
    I was diagnosed with a completely wrecked small intestine where damage was seen at the top of it that very likely went all the way through the intestine as where the small intestine switches to the large one, it also didn't look good, despite a very healthy looking colon. I have never had an upset stomach or what I would call diarrhea or constipation...
  14. cavernio
    Can't help you with your money, but if you mouse with your left hand right now, you could learn to use your right hand to give your left arm a rest.
  15. cavernio
    you should be manufacturing a lot of vitamin K in your stomach, or at least changing it from K1 to K2 (or vice versa, I forget.) In any case, the important thing is that your gut should be doing that for you provided you're eating enough of the right foods. If it's not, then you could be lacking the proper bacteria necessary to do so. I know small intestine...
  16. cavernio

    ARCHIVED Legumes

    cavernio replied to cavernio's topic in Super Sensitive People

    Thanks, I'll start using them again and give them a good scrubbing. I don't know if I'm super-sensitive (looks like my neuropathy might be), but until I have no symptoms, I think it's smart that I eat like one.
  17. cavernio

    ARCHIVED Legumes

    cavernio posted a topic in Super Sensitive People

    Are they safe for super-sensitives? I know someone on here always says they see various other grains in their dried beans or lentils or whatever. If I find these and just pick them out, would it be safe enough? If I get dried ones, there's always washing and soaking. Would that be enough for you? Are there some brands that you're fine with, or ones that...
  18. cavernio
    Smells are small particles of the substance that you smell. The threshold for our noses being able to pick up smells is very, very small. Chlorine, for instance, has a detection threshold of 0.01ppm, and it's one of the highest on this table of odors. Open Original Shared Link. This is well below the 20ppm for most celiacs and villous atrophy. However, our...
  19. cavernio
    Unlike lactose, there are multiple different caseins. I remember reading that only 2 types seemed to cause reactions in celiacs. In any case, different types of milk will probably have different amounts of them.
  20. cavernio
    For what it's worth, the celiac society of canada still says to avoid all oats. It's only recently that oats have been considered safe for celiacs, since newer studies seem to show that it's simply trace amount of other grains mixed in with the oats that are the issue.
  21. cavernio
    There's basically 2 ways to find out what foods bother you. 1) remove 1 food at a time, for a period of time, see if it helps, and reintroduce it again or 2) Stop eating everything and anything that you are suspicious of and then add them back 1 at a time. I would suggest nixing caffeine intake if you feel it's causing you issues. But you'll also probably...
  22. cavernio
    Symptoms sound like me pre-gluten free. I still experience some of them. My thyroid seems to be fine though. It sounds like she has an infection of some sort, not that I have any clue, but I think it's time to push your doctor into looking more in depth. It sounds like this has been going on for awhile, and is definitely not the sort of thing to let pass...
  23. cavernio
    I'm still healing, gluten-free since jun 2012. I had a biopsy done in Feb, and although I haven't had an appointment yet about it, the doctor wrote on my sheet that the villi were healing. I still have many symptoms too. If you've had celiac disease since childhood, then that's still many years to heal up, could be a decade or longer. I'm only 30 and I suspect...
  24. cavernio
    Yeah nuts do that to me too. I've never been worried about it, well, not knowing now that I have damaged intestines.
  25. cavernio
    Yes it does. I don't find many things labelled gluten free without some sort of accreditation to them. Only thing I can think of that comes to mind are chips. I will contact companies regarding products I want to use if they don't label it gluten free. I avoid brands that make everything, like no name or compliments. If a product doesn't sit right with me...
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