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  1. Rachel--24
    Julie, Have you ever tried agave? I've been using some organic Agave sweetener and I seem ok with it. Its also alot less sugar than the maple syrup and probably healthier. Tonight I made more cookies but this time w/out the Tapioca. I ate almost all of them and so far so good....no stomach rumbling or racing heart. Keeping my fingers crossed. The cookies...
  2. Rachel--24
    I can handle some pure maple syrup as long as I dont overdo it. The honey gives me bad reactions....it seemed worse when I tried the raw stuff.
  3. Rachel--24
    I had the same problems from the anesthesia....I felt weird and poisoned after they did all that to me too. I felt they were excessive with the numbing cream and shots. I remember after the first experience I had to go back and I told him straight up that I did NOT want any numbing. I would rather deal with the pain. I think he numbed me anyway. That...
  4. Rachel--24
    Calicat, I have those scars too. In the beginning noone was believing me because outwardly I looked fine. I was in alot of pain and felt like I was losing my mind and wasnt really getting any support. I was scared and felt very alone. Thankfully everyone came around when they realized something really was going on and it was getting worse....I've had alot...
  5. Rachel--24
    Donna, In the beginning my eyes were so messed up. At that time they were sooo stiff and dry. I kept going to the opthamologist because the pain was really intense. Probably the worst I've dealt with through this whole ordeal. She just kept telling me I had dry eyes and lots of people have them and I just need to use drops. Ummm...no...I know people with...
  6. Rachel--24
    As far as I know there is no such thing as a resteraunt that does not use MSG. True they might not *add* msg but it would be plentiful in the ingredients they use. Its unavoidable.
  7. Rachel--24
    If there's nothing harmful or insideous about MSG why do they feel the need to process it into other ingredients in order to avoid the labeling....innocent sounding ingerdients such as "natural flavors"?? Why not label it as msg so we *know* what we're eating. They call it "clean" labeling. I call it *dirty*. As long as msg is processed *into* another...
  8. Rachel--24
    When I was real sick and crying in my doctors office about my weight loss and being scared....not knowing what was wrong. I was telling him I was reacting to everything I ate...I thought it was sugar at the time. He just told me to eat lots of bread and ice cream and to get some carnation instant breakfast and Ensure. I followed his advice (not on the bread...
  9. Rachel--24
    Calicat, I love that!! Your Mom sounds very sweet. My Mom's very sweet like that too. She's taken care of me alot through all this and she gives me massages most nights while shes watching her soaps. I Love my Mom. (sometimes she reads the posts too)
  10. Rachel--24
    Julie, My temperature drops too but I dont turn blue really...my skin gets kind of pasty looking though. My fingernails get kind of hard and whiteish. Before I ever changed my diet I was freezing all the time and I spent 2 years focusing on my thyroid since I'd had treatment for Graves Disease....I thought all my symptoms stemmed from that. Amazingly when...
  11. Rachel--24
    Julie....yep that *is* the million dollar question. Whenever I gained weight eating the processed foods it was all water...like 8 lbs. in a day. My doctor didnt believe me....siad he found it hard to believe. It was true. Now I'm at 112 and it doesnt feel like its all water weight and also I'm not losing it all overnight like I used to. Its been stable...
  12. Rachel--24
    I think I might be ok with potatoes but its hard to tell for sure...everytime I'm eating them I'm already reacting from other stuff so I'll have to try them when I'm totally fine to know for sure. Thanks for posting that. I was kind of emabarrassed to "share" all that but hey....its what happens to me. Strange as it is. Its hard to...
  13. Rachel--24
    Patti...I had the worst reaction to the Dari-Free. It cost me $9.99 and I only got to taste a tiny bit....it was good. I was already not feeling great at the time but as soon as I drank it I got the "sticky" eyes I described in my last post. I think it was the carageenan since the same thing happened with SILK soy and the boxed rice and almond drinks....
  14. Rachel--24
    From what I've read they've done some shady things in their "testing". For example it was discovered that the placebos used actually had aspartame in them which coincidently causes the same negative effects as MSG. So when people were reacting to the placebos they were saying there is no basis and the reactions people get had nothing to do with msg. Alos...
  15. Rachel--24
    OMG...I might be on to something! I've been thinking alot the last few hours. As far as the MSG I had kind of put that on the backburner the past few days cuz my mind was so busy with other possibilities. Well heres what I was thinking about. I was making pancakes everyday for like 2 weeks with rice flour and and only a tiny bit of potato starch...
  16. Rachel--24
    I made some super healthy cookies yesterday...I just kind of make stuff up as I go. I dont even know how they turned out half way normal cuz I just threw stuff into a bowl and mixed it. Anyways my heart was beating really fast afterwards. This happens sometimes and I'm not sure if its from MSG, sulfites or something else. It seems to happen whenever I have...
  17. Rachel--24
    Key and Floridian, I'm so sorry that you guys are having it rough right now. Monica, I hope you feel better after taking out the dairy....it seems like that has a positive effect the majority of the time. Donna, you still havent heard anything about the biopsies? Waiting is sooo stressful.....I know how you feel. Hope you get the results soon...
  18. Rachel--24
    Anything IgE you were tested for would be a "true" allergy. Anything IgG would be more typical of leaky gut and can be reversed with rotation diet and/or healing of the leaky gut I have the same problem....I'm fine on a clean diet but when I first went gluten-free and started eating stuff like snickers bars and other processed foods....I started...
  19. Rachel--24
    Well tomorrow I'm gonna take this test so maybe I'll get some type of answers from it re: the soy and corn. Open Original Shared Link I've already had the gluten and cow's milk tested via Enterolab...it was also IgA. I was negative for dairy in that test so we'll see what happens with this one. I've been gluten-free for a year so that should be negative...
  20. Rachel--24
    It could be MSG you're reacting to. Carageenan contains MSG and its on the list of things to avoid. Glutamate was originally discovered in seaweed and thats where MSG came from....they took the glutamate in its natural state from the seaweed and made MSG as we know it today. The "not so natural substance". Here is something about seaweed, MSG and Hypothyroid...
  21. Rachel--24
    I have this happen occassionally too. Its almost always on the tips of my fingers though. Its always when I'm not feeling well and am getting reactions from food I've eaten. The cuts dont bleed either...its just split open skin without having dry hands. When I get really dry hands my knuckles will crack a little...but the cracks on my fingertips are different...
  22. Rachel--24
    Autoimmunity has everything to do with it in my opinion. Gluten Intolerance is autoimmune.....its not an allergy....Celiac is an autoimmune Disease. If you have a response to gluten whether your Celiac or not.....its an autoimmune thing. Its believed to be a huge factor in other autoimmune diseases such as thyroid and diabetes. When gluten leaks into...
  23. Rachel--24
    Thanks for the link Beverly, I do have multiple chemical sensitivities...the doctors I've seen say its caused by leaky gut in my case....or possibly an infection. They also looked into Mercury toxicity....nothing has been found at this point as far as heavy metal toxicity or parasitic infections or autoimmune problems. Everything has come back normal....
  24. Rachel--24
    Julie, As far as getting worse on the gluten free foods....did you actually get worse or did your symptoms just become more noticeable? For me I was way worse before cutting out gluten...I stayed on a clean diet for four months but when I started adding in the gluten-free foods my symtoms slowly began returning. Its a cummulative effect...a build-up...
  25. Rachel--24
    Goitrogens are mainly from the cabbage/broccolli family...also soy. They can affect your thyroid if taken in excess over a period of time. Goitergens dont cause immediate reactions to your thyroid when eaten. If you get an immediate reaction to foods like I do...its not thyroid related. I lost all the puffiness in my face last summer when I ate only veggies...
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