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    Have they done a break-down of the different white blood cell counts in your body? There are different varieties of white blood cells, and if you're just deficient in one type it might help identify the cause. I have the opposite problem - my counts have been high for several years. A few weeks ago they were high again, but I got a more detailed report...
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    Like shadowicewolf said, the throat closing up symptom sounds more like an allergy than an intolerance, like an anaphylactic reaction. Glutinous rice and sticky rice are the same thing, and are a separate subspecies of rice. But sometimes other rice dishes are called "sticky" because of the way they're made, but they don't use the same subspecies of rice...
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    A lot of fuss is being made over this arsenic in rice scare, but it's not anything new. This is the same rice that we've all been eating for years. And all of the worst offenders were brown rice, and not so much white rice that has had the germ removed. The way I look at it, rice is the main staple of the Japanese diet, and the Japanese are some of the...
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    You could ask them to substitute crumbled queso fresco the next time, just in case.
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    I get it frequently in my left hand, and sometimes my left foot/lower leg. For years I thought it was just the way I leaned on my desk at work, or the way I slept. It hasn't really gone away since going gluten-free though, so it might not be related.
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    As others have said, after being gluten free for a while you might not have any gluten cravings, or any desire to cheat. At first I had cravings, and the smell of cookies or bread baking drove me insane. But now that same smell does nothing for me, with no mouth watering and no desire to chow down. Going gluten free is like Pavlov's bell in reverse - you...
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    Had the worst restaurant experience of my life in a Red Robin, but it's nice to hear that they aren't all terrible. Even if the food had been gluten free, the crumbs all over the table, touching the clean silverware, definitely weren't. Eeww!
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    The "real" doctor who was on his show is just another one of these celebrity-type doctors who make their money selling "lose weight quick" diet books, and goes around telling everyone that the vegan diet is the cure for all ailments. Well, maybe he's not that extreme, but you get the point. If I followed his advice I'd be eating nothing but microwaved...
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    Exactly! If cutting out gluten from your diet improves your health, then you DO have a diagnosis. The diet reaction was all I needed to tell me it was celiac, and later I found out that it was good enough for my doctor too - even without a blood test or a biopsy. She is totally convinced after seeing the difference a gluten free diet has made. This may...
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    I started going down that road, but my husband, like yours, started going out to eat very frequently at lunch time. Then I caught him sneaking out to get fast food late at night, and for breakfast too. He was getting sick of the lack of gluten products in the house, and was having serious cravings. He didn't want to complain, but it just wasn't fair to him...
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    And the other dish was full of powdered sugar and chocolate chips...in the same episode where he accuses gluten-free convenience foods as being loaded with sugar and empty calories. So much for "losing weight with gluten free if you do it the right way".
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    I didn't watch the show, but here's an amusing write-up: Open Original Shared Link Funny how they claim that gluten is "increasingly" appearing in beer and cookies...like it wasn't there before. And this: "Dr Barnard guessed that up to 10% of the population, or 20 million adults, could be Gluten Sensitive or have Celiac Disease, most without...
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    Are you taking in enough calories? A drop in calorie intake could slow down your metabolism, leading to fatigue and possible weight gain. When I first went gluten free I was cutting out the gluten foods, but not replacing the calories with other foods.
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    Show your doctor this list of 300 celiac symptoms... Open Original Shared Link ...and highlight the Aphthous Ulcers line. According to the University of Chicago (one of the top 10 universities in the world) it IS a typical celiac symptom.
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    Could it be that she's kissing you right after eating gluten? That could do it.
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    We buy most of our meat and vegetables at a local Vietnamese market. The produce is locally grown, fresh, and cheaper than most chain grocery stores, and the meat is either raised locally or comes from sources that don't pump it full of hormones. It's all prepared by in-house butchers. We don't eat much beef, but the pork loin is about $2.50/pound. The fresh...
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    Try this flour: Open Original Shared Link And this recipe: Open Original Shared Link This isn't the greatest bread recipe out there, but it's one of the easiest, and it tastes similar to regular bread. Gluten free doesn't have to be complicated, expensive, or tasteless. You have to understand that gluten is probably the underlying issue here, and...
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    Hi Terry! I was also tentatively diagnosed with Meniere's, but haven't had any symptoms since going gluten free. Did your symptoms also disappear with a gluten free diet, or did they just go away on their own? It baffles my mind that doctors have no problems diagnosing a relatively rare disease like Meniere's with no problems, but seem to have such...
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    "I made you some gluten free cookies. Come and get some!" was the last thing I heard from a coworker before getting glutened big time on Monday. It was so sweet of her to go out of her way and make me special cookies, but to her "gluten free" and "wheat free" are the same thing, and they definitely weren't gluten free. Then there was the Subway incident...
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    I've never had sciatica before, but the last two times I was glutened (Monday being the last time) I've had this sharp pain in my lower back that extends down my leg. This time it was worse in my knee. I went to see a doctor this morning (not my usual doctor), and he made sure it wasn't back-bone related. He said it was due to inflammation of the lower back...
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    ARCHIVED Evaluation By Dr. Fasano

    kittty replied to BabsV's topic in Doctors

    What magical words! I would love to hear this from a doctor just once.
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    It's because other countries (especially EU countries) have standards that are implemented based on scientific research. In the USA the standards are governed by people with special interests, and a large percentage of the USDA voting members are financially linked to Monsanto and other GMO companies. The current Secretary of Agriculture, Tom Vilsack, has...
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    I had my first gluten nightmare last week. In the dream there were free samples of sandwiches at the grocery store, and they looked so good, so I took three of them. As I was eating them this voice at the back of my mind started warning me of danger, but I couldn't stop! The voice got louder and louder, until I realized what I was doing and jolted awake....
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    I had NO idea there was gluten in sheet rock! This has been a really eye opening thread. We live in a 90 year old house, which has plaster and lath instead of sheet rock. Anyone know if old plaster has gluten in it as well?
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    I thought you were just a slow driver Were you under a lot of stress before and during the move? I think stress can trigger a celiac response if you are genetically predisposed to it. That could have been what set you off.
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