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  1. aikiducky
    I'd like to chime in on this part a little. We live abroad as well (Finnish, living in Holland), so I've gone through some of the same process that you are going through. Moving to another country is always very stressful, even when it goes perfectly. It's never going to be exactly like you thought it would be. Just like any major life change (like...
  2. aikiducky
    Seriously, if you've only been gluten free for one and a half months, it could very well be just simply a case of your intestines not being healed completely. It can take a couple years to heal! Be nice to your gut and don't eat very hard to digest stuff for a while, don't eat huge portions but just enough that you can still digest it, maybe that is all...
  3. aikiducky
    If it feels like lactase sometimes helps, maybe it's a dosage problem? It can also depend on timing, because obviously the lactase and lactose have to be in the same place at the same time in order for the lactose to be broken up. You can safely take more lactase than most packages recommend as far as I know. Btw, soy gives me terrible acne. As...
  4. aikiducky
    After hanging around here for a few years now, I nowadays always tell people to get all the possible testing done before trying a gluten free diet. That means a celiac blood test panel: Anti-Gliadin (AGA) IgA Anti-Gliadin (AGA) IgG Anti-Endomysial (EMA) IgA Anti-Tissue Transglutaminase (tTG) Total Serum IgA AND a biopsy of the small intestine...
  5. aikiducky
    Just a heads up that the only one of those tests that tests specifically for celiac is the endomysial antibody, and that one can be used to rule celiac in but not to rule it out. It can give a false negative if your intestine isn't damaged enough. So if it comes back negative, you might need to talk with your doctor about further testing. Pauliina
  6. aikiducky
    I can't think of anything helpful to suggest, but I just wanted to send some good thoughts your way! Pauliina
  7. aikiducky
    It depends a lot on how long you have been gluten free. The usual recommendation is that you should have been eating something like the equivalent of three-four slices of bread for at least three months before the tests, but if you've only been gluten free for a couple weeks it's probably enough to just start eating gluten now. If it's been longer I'm afraid...
  8. aikiducky
    If you suspect you're casein intolerant, you should try cutting out all dairy products for a while. I know it's a pain, but that might well be keeping you feeling tired, I know if I would have dairy even just now and then I wouldn't be getting out of bed. It can also make you slightly depressed. Pauliina
  9. aikiducky
    I agree with the previous posters - you don't really have very convincing proof for yourself that you have celiac, and since it doesn't make a lot of difference in how you feel, it would be better to go back on gluten and get thoroughly tested. Make sure you have eaten a good amount of gluten for at least a few month before you go for the tests, so you don...
  10. aikiducky
    The only thing European wine makers have to warn about on labels is sulphites as far as I know. There is discussion about requiring them to warn about other allergens but that's not in effect yet I think. I haven't found much info about using gluten as a fining agent, and I doubt that it would be used much, but casein is used, that's not a myth or anything...
  11. aikiducky
    It could be that your mom still hopes secretly that it will be temporary, simply because she is your mom and doesn't want to think that you might have a life long strict diet to look forward to. You know? Give it some time and it might be that you both start to feel better about the whole thing. Pauliina
  12. aikiducky
    I'm with David, to me it sounds like some kind of cc issue in the baking of the bread, rather than the flour itself? Or cc in general at the restaurant, wouldn't be that surprising. Pauliina
  13. aikiducky
    Maybe they could run an Ema (endomysial antibody) test plus the tTg, the Ema is as far as I know very specific for celiac, meaning if it is positive it is very unlikely to be anything else. It's a blood test so it shouldn't be too difficult or invasive to do. Pauliina
  14. aikiducky
    Just a little note that goats milk does have lactose. Some people who are allergic or intolerant to cows milk protein are able to tolerate goats milk better, but for lactose (milk sugar) intolerance it really doesn't make much difference. Of course, hard cheeses have very little lactose anyway, that would also go for a well matured goats milk cheese. Pauliina
  15. aikiducky
    This is more or less the trick I use as well. I see gluten stuff as something that looks nice and smells nice, but that isn't meant for consumption. Just like I don't go around eating roses either. I think you could probably train yourself to think this way, if you start to tell yourself every time you see gluten food "that isn't food" it should start...
  16. aikiducky
    As far as I know, casein and egg white are not uncommon in fining wine. So for someone with additional intolerances, wine could possibly give trouble. Article for example: Open Original Shared Link ...searched a bit more and I did find something about gluten: Open Original Shared Link The second one is a study, I don't know if anyone actually...
  17. aikiducky
    What I'd recommend for anyone is that you also make sure your finances are "stocked" for at least a couple months ahead (even better, half a year), that is, that you always keep a couple months expenses worth of money somewhere that you can access easily. In case of unemployment, or a health problem or accident of some kind, or just the unexpected household...
  18. aikiducky
    There was quite a nice article in Newsweek about what to do to protect yourself from the credit crisis: Open Original Shared Link Pauliina
  19. aikiducky
    If you want to add more carbs to your diet but not bake, how about cooking some rice, quinoa, gluten free pasta, potatoes, sweet potatoes? Pancakes made with corn, buckwheat, rice etc flour? A safe brand of tortilla chips? Pauliina
  20. aikiducky
    Flour is really really difficult to work with without getting at least some in the air, from where it will land where it may. If you inhale flour dust, you'll also swallow some of it. The good news is that you can bake most recipes gluten free without big problems, a lot of recipes will work just like that just replace the wheat flour with a gluten...
  21. aikiducky
    I've noticed that I often go in cycles when it comes to certain foods. I'll eat more protein heavy for a while and then for a while I really don't feel like I need it that much but I really start to crave rice and root veggies and other carbs. It seems that as long as I eat more or less what my body is asking for i feel pretty good! So maybe not freak out...
  22. aikiducky
    No, really, the little that you do poop is all that is left of your food after the usable parts are absorbed. What makes for more volume is more water in the poop plus more discarded gut bacteria. It might be that you don't have a very sturdy gut flora right now. And since thing are moving along so slowly, the water gets reabsorbed. I think. It kinda...
  23. aikiducky
    Your doctor is thinking of antibodies against some diseases that don't go away and give immunity for a long time. Gluten antibodies are different. They do disappear from the blood if there is no gluten entering the system. Though some people do show a weak positive even after two years on the diet, if they had a very high antibody count to start with. ...
  24. aikiducky
    You said you have been gluten free for three months now? How are you feeling now? Are you looking to get tested to keep yourself motivated on the diet, or are you having continued symptoms that aren't getting better? I think Enterolab even says on their website that they cannot diagnose celiac, only show if you react to gluten in some way or another...
  25. aikiducky
    The different explanations I've read about around here: endoscopy looks for damage in the small intestine. That damage doesn't develop overnight. So it is possible that if you haven't been ill for very long, that you just haven't developed enough damage to be seen yet. In that case a repeat endoscopy in a couple years might give a different result. Another...
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