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I too have had C my entire life. Unlike others, I tended to go about every other morning, but it always felt like my gut was just clearing out just enough to make more room to pack in more. It hurt my gut when it would try to get moving the night before. My only relief would be around "that time of the month" when everything would get cleared out by the...
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That happened to me too! My periods got closer together, about 3 weeks apart, and lasted a week. What I hated was that I spotted for the week prior to it starting too so I only had about a week off in between. It lasted about 6 months... This was a year or two before I was diagnosed with celiac and (what appears to be) an under-active thyroid which I'm...
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I'm starting to feel better. Yeah! I think withdrawl was worse for me that how I would feel after a gluten fest. It was no fun at all. My headaches are pretty much gone and I don't feel exhausted anymore; that's probably why I'm not quite as grumpy now. I have glutened myself already. I had an Estrella Damm Daura beer. It said gluten-free so I didn...
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I was diagnosed celiac just 3 weeks ago, and have only been gluten-free (for sure) for about 10 days, so I'm not completely sure of my answers since I've been glutened for so long. *How soon after you ingest gluten do you begin to feel "glutened"? If it's on an empty stomach (pancakes for breakfast), I feel a stomach ache within 10 minutes. ... -
Gluten Free Pantry has a nice brownie mix that could sub for a birthday cake with a nice frosting. It's cake like but nt really a birthday cake so it might work. I'll be using that for my son's 5th birthday next week; he's having a military birthday so I'm putting a small tank and military figures on top. I'll also be trying a couple of recipes from...
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I thought i was gluten-free for the first 1.5 weeks but discovered I wasn't. My hummus has gluten and I forgot about checking one vitamin. I was having bad headaches too... thought it was withdrawl. I guess it was pms. I am almost 100% sure I am gluten-free now, and have been for about 4 days, and I feel just beat! My headache is back and huge and...
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Ugh, I haven't gone bathroom in 3 days and I'm starting to get rather uncomfortable. LOL I wish it would get going again. I'm starting to get quite a distended belly, and it's gross to think about why. That's TMI isn't it? I just realized that I hadn't checked my fibre supplements to see if they are gluten-free, and one isn't. I haven't really...
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I've been gluten-free for just over a week and I'm down about 4lbs. Kind of a nice bonus. If I stopped eating a bowl of popcorn in the evenings, I'd probably be down even more. I'll cut the popcorn to once a week and see if I can't take advantage of my damaged gut to lose a few pounds before it heals and it becomes harder to lose weight... like...
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I took my boys to a kiddie birthday party today, and it was the first time that I felt like I'm missing something. They had a wonderful cheesecake, various bowls of chips (no idea of the brands), a few other snacks, and a plate of veggies. I ate a few carrot sticks. It wasn't awful passing up on homemade cheesecake... okay, yes it was awful but it was...
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Thanks Karen. My brand (and it was a bit cheap LOL) had smoke flavour and I know that can be bad with... Ah, I think it's hydrolyzed wheat protein... gotta look into it more, or spend more money. ;P
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I have so many things I need to check for gluten! Mostly vitamins and remedies. I took a Hyland's Calme/forte tablet in the middle of the night when my son kept waking me up and I was unable to get back to sleep. Within a few minutes I had a stomach ache that kept me awake... the opposite of what I was hoping for. lol About half of my vitamins are...
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I "think" I went gluten-free yesterday... not sure. This is what I ate: m1 - 2-3 egg bake w/ red pepper, onion, spinach, spices and rice milk, 2 slices chicken bacon m2 - no snack - out of house running a field trip. m3 - 3-4 egg leftover m4 - apple m5 - bratwurst, sauerkraut, peas, cottage cheese, yams m6 - bowl popcorn and spices Today I double...
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Today I'm just annoyed. I'm mad that I've had this for 30+ years and didn't figure it out... and that my doctor had no clue even when I went to see him about it as a child. Grrrr. Apparently pain is NOT normal for most people! Most people don't have pain moving or eating... I feel quite ripped off! Grr.
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Bummer. I went for my appointment today and I was half expecting the doctor to say I was fine and then I'd have to decide to go gluten-free on my own... but with the back-up plan that I could probably abandon it some day... Nope. I definitely, without a doubt, have celiac. The home test I did, with not quite enough blood, gave me a very faint...
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I called my Dr's office today because I was starting to strongly suspect that my results were in but they were normal (or very close to normal) so my doctor didn't call me... he's done that before. In fact, that seems to be pretty standard practice for drs around here. Anyway, I was right and the results were in but they won't release results over the...
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I'm bad at waiting. really. I thought since I am going a little nutsy about finding out if I'm celiac, I would buy another Biocard home test and retest my IgA tTg to double check if that faint line really was a positive test. Maybe I somehow did it wrong... maybe I second guess myself too much. Anyway, the store was out of tests! they only had them for...
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I've been lurking around the forum and I gotta say that the idea of being "glutened" after being gluten-free scares me. I'm still waiting for my blood tests, so I'm not even 100% sure I'm celiac yet (just a positive IgA tTg home test), but the symptoms I do have don't seem as bad as the symptoms many people have. Yes, I get bloated, often to the point...
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I had my celiac screen test yesterday and I am soooo impatiently waiting for the results! I had a positive tTg home test so I'm pretty sure I have it but I want confirming positive blood tests before I drop so many of my favourite foods! The celiac screen up here in Alberta is for tTg IgA and EMA and from what I understand, if I get positives on that...
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Thanks, Katie. I appreciate your support. Nicole
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I've suspected for a few years that I could be celiac. I wasn't having crippling pains or running to the toilet but I often get a stomach ache about 20 minutes after I ate, I always take extra fibre or things don't move, and a few days a week I get painful bloating in the evenings. It's been like that since I was a child. About 30 years ago, I remember...