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  1. aikiducky
    Probiotics are good bacteria. I take a brand where you have to open the capsule they're in and mix it in a little water for fifteen minutes before drinking it. Somehow that lets the bacteria survive the acidity in the stomach better. Anyway... I call the mix my "bug drink".... Pauliina
  2. aikiducky
    It's a Dutch brand called HEMA. I'm afraid they only sell it over here. Pauliina
  3. aikiducky
    I love that my husband found gluten free licorice for me! And that he's so careful with washing dishes! And I love the licorice. I love love love my job, and I love that I can say that I love my job... I love dates, and pork chops with mushrooms, and applesauce with coconut cream (have I gotten anyone to try that yet, I've been singing...
  4. aikiducky
    Are you taking a probiotic with your antibiotics? Otherwise you're going to wipe out the good bacteria in your gut, and that will make you more suspectible to other bugs again. Pauliina
  5. aikiducky
    You have a weak positive blood result, a suspicious biopsy, and a positive from enterolab (and I assume, symptoms that made you go for testing in the first place?). I can see that just one of those might still feel like too little evidence, but all those together, and all pointing in the same direction? Are you gluten free yet? Pauliina
  6. aikiducky
    I love the word snarky! Sorry for saying "I love" in this thread! I kinda hate the slugs we get over our living room carpet... And my one-stop-shop supermarket doesn't carry my fave rice cakes anymore. Uh...I can't really do this, there isn't really anything I want to complain about. Instead I'm just going to send a giant cyber {{{...
  7. aikiducky
    Actually I read somewhere (and it's so annoying that I never remember where, because I'd love to give you the reference) that it's not the fat, or that it's not necessarily the fat, but too much gas in the poop that makes it float. So the poop is porous like foam and floats. It would make sense with celiac, at least, the gas, I mean. Pauliina
  8. aikiducky
    I sometimes just cook a pear in the microwave, cut up in pieces it takes about two-three minutes in my old and very inefficient microwave to cook. I find it sweet enough by itself nowadays, i'm not that used to very sweet things anymore. Pauliina
  9. aikiducky
    The blood test can be used to check how well you've been following the diet. If there are detectable antibodies in your blood, it means it's likely there's some damage to your intestines, too. And it definitely tells you that you have had some gluten! (Although if you knowingly cheat, you know that already, lol). Pauliina
  10. aikiducky
    It takes me about three weeks before everything is completely back to normal. If I get glutened again during that time it takes another three weeks plus some. Actually it sounds like you have been glutened quite often in the last months? It might take a while to get over that again. Pauliina
  11. aikiducky
    Well, there you go. Have you told the doctor that? Pauliina
  12. aikiducky
    Hi Rose! the most important question is: How did you feel while you were gluten free? Pauliina
  13. aikiducky
    No suggestions about who to see, but I think it would be very interesting to know what a biopsy would show. Pauliina
  14. aikiducky
    I'm afraid what I'm going to say isn't going to be very encouraging... Just one thing to point out (ok, two): After two years gluten free, what you would EXPECT to see is "inconclusive" blood test results. That's the whole point of the diet, that you don't have the constant ongoing reaction anymore, and hence also no antibodies to detect. At most it...
  15. aikiducky
    I haven't noticed that at least. Are you feeling worse than you did? Actually, now that I think about it, both my husband (non-celiac) and I have noticed that we feel more tired when the weather is rainy and dark and overcast. I think it has to do with the air pressure. But my Gi symptoms don't get worse. I read somewhere that introvert people react more...
  16. aikiducky
    Sounds like you're lactose intolerant. Lactose is the milk sugar, and it gets broken down when cheese matures, so matured cheese doesn't have lactose. This means you should either avoid milk products with lactose, or take lactase pills (the entzyme that breaks down lactose) before eating anything with lactose. But you would be ok with cheese, and possibly...
  17. aikiducky
    I hear you about the regular versus organic meat... My supermarket had some "corn fed" chicken last week and I thought maybe I wouldn't react to that- it was a quarter of the price of their organic chicken. Well, that was a week ago and I'm bloated and tired and constipated, in other word exactly where I would be a week after a mild glutening. On a positive...
  18. aikiducky
    Funny how some people seem to be able to tolerate alcohol better, and other worse, after going gluten-free? I don't really like to drink more than about two glasses of wine nowadays. I guess there must be some kind of a cultural difference here... I have never had remarks about drinking juice, or tea for that matter, lol, at parties. After training...
  19. aikiducky
    I just wanted to report that I continued my applesauce experiments -the answer was obvious, once I thought about it: cinnamon, of course! So now I've got: warm applesauce, mixed with some coconut cream (the creamier the better) and cinnamon. Tastes like apple pie, yum.... Pauliina
  20. aikiducky
    Eat more fish and meat. It wil keep your energy levels up longer than carbs do. Use nuts as a snack - also lots of protein to keep your hunger away. Fruit when you need a quick blood sugar boost. Vary your rice and corn with other gluten-free grains. Sweet potato is a good alternative to potato. Add extra olive oil to warm meals, if you have a high...
  21. aikiducky
    Yes it's possible to be both intolerant and allergic to gluten, those are two different reactions after all. In your case though it sounds more like you're intolerant to gluten and on top of that allergic to something in barley, no? Otherwise you would get the respiratory reactions to everything containing gluten, too. Pauliina
  22. aikiducky
    I think you might have been craving the proteins and not necessarily the fat in nuts and milk products. Gluten containing grains have much more protein than the not gluten containing grains, so when you cut those out, you are in fact getting less protein than before. I find myself eating more meat and fish nowadays than before going gluten free. And the SCD...
  23. aikiducky
    I read something similar by a Dutch doctor recently. He said that there probably were some people who would have all the celiac symptoms, and feel much better gluten free, but never develop complete flattening of the vili, and who would have a hard time getting an "official" diagnosis because of that. Pauliina
  24. aikiducky
    I can't tolerate cow's milk, but I'm fine with a little bit of goat's cheese. I try to keep it in moderation though, and, I wasn't very sick to start with, I got better pretty quickly. So my case might not be something to go on. Pauliina
  25. aikiducky
    I'd definitively look to eliminate all possible sources of cross contamination first, and only then start thinking about further allergy testing. Your symptoms sound exactly like your getting mildly glutened somehow all the time. Pauliina
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