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  1. ButterflyChaser
    YES! I just bought a jar of Nutvia today, and confess that I thought about this thread!
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    Takala - moderators - I wonder if that APA article could be made a sticky in the pre-diagnosis forum? "Excessive preoccupation" - you've gotta be kidding. When did fear and C. cease to be natural survival/feedback mechanisms? It's not just "wheat lobbyists," though - it is also psychotropic drugs lobbyists: preoccupation should not be part of a functioning...
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    I'm sorry, Mushroom... I don't really know what the doctor who treats her for MS says (we live 12,000 miles away from each other), but I spoke to my brother today, and they had gone to a cardiologist who suggests she starts a therapy for hypertension. So I was wondering if the two may be connected, but it seems that the opposite problem is more common...
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    Hi all, my SIL has had MS for a few years now, and she seemed to have been doing fine with interferon. Lately, however, she has developed rampantly high blood pressure - today it was 120-170, and has been very high for a while, she is just 33. Has anyone here any ideas about whether high BP could be connected to MS (and/or interferon)? I have made...
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    This stuff is scary. They gave meds for GERD to my father because he was stressed; he was growing a huge aneurism in his aorta. They did it with me, too: "there there, it's just anxiety, you're in grad school; here take some meds" - I have a rampant hyperthyroidism which causes me bouts of thyrotoxicosis. WHERE did you get your MD, at Banana Republic School...
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    It was a Stonyfield, of which the company says "our ice cream and frozen yogurt products (except for the Cookies 'n Cream flavor), do not contain gluten. We follow safe manufacturing practices to ensure there is no cross contamination in the gluten-free varieties, but because they're run on the same equipment as products with gluten, they are not certified...
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    My ex was celiac and had the worst sleeping disorder I have ever seen. I now think he had night terrors, but he seemed to have never given that a thought, even if he described that "nightmare" weight on his chest. He screamed and sometimes even hit me when that happened. I would retreat to the farthest corner of the bed and mostly spend the nights awake because...
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    Hi all, I am so grateful Turtle started this thread! My docs got me on a grain-free (even plain rice causes me bad D) and legume-free diet (always had a hard time with legumes), and also asked me to limit dairy to no more than two servings of milk or yogurt per day (fun fact: I was lactose intolerant as a baby, but apparently grew out of it? I was messed...
  9. ButterflyChaser
    THIS. Adelaide, I need the names of the chocolate bars you buy. There was a family-owned chocolate laboratory 10 blocks away from my old college, and in undergrad I went to such extremes of snobbiness that I wouldn't eat chocolate that had been made for more than two weeks (talk about checking labels...) I have been dying for some decent, well-tempered...
  10. ButterflyChaser
    My respect to you for having the guts to drink the abominable melon vodka. No, wait...
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    Ouch, I knew our flavoured vodka were awful, but didn't know they were also bad for you . I am lucky that I consider the flavored ones totally revolting. I get shivers at the simple thought of the infamous canteloupe vodka. I feel less weird now. It is so interesting that many of us cannot stomach alcohol. I have always been a very light drinker also...
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    I get puffiness - all over, but on my face only when it's really, really bad. My mother calls it "moon face." If I have a bit of cornstarch, say in a cup of hot chocolate, I am ok. But if I eat a couple of servings of corn, like a bag of popcorn, then it gets me.
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    Thanks! I think I won't try the vodka-challenge for a while though. I swelled for over 8 lbs for, like, less than half a shot, and that has not gone off yet.
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    Hi all! I have spent some time back home (Italy) and generally didn't have much problems eating out, because servers and sometimes even cooks go out of their way to give you a dish similar to what everyone else is having but without gluten and grains; nor had I problems staying home, because my mother had secured different nonstick pans for me, and my family...
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    Glad to help I think you will have to play around a bit with the proportions: coconut is high in fibre and absorbs a lot of moisture, so it requires more egg than almond flour. I simply poured the mixture in my donut pan. I know that's not how you make bagels, and I used to make-boil-and-bake my own back in the days, but I personally don't think I could...
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    Yet another cat thread, I know... I received a kitty for my 30th birthday - a bright, tiny, redhead (like her owner) I called John Keats. However, the gift was received in Italy, and I need to import it into NYC. It is currently at my parents' back home, undergoing all due vaccinations and stuff. What documents/vaccines does a cat need to enter the...
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    Coconut, since I cannot have almonds because they make me drowsy. I think it was 55 grams of coconut for 2 cups of egg whites - plus some salt, baking powder, xantan and psyllium... You get six 6-inch bagels. The texture is a bit odd if you are looking for a chewy, dense bagel, but I am not fan of chewiness, so I appreciate their crunchy, golden crust and...
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    I just made my first batch of paleo bagels!!!!!!
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    Hugs Nikki ... I have ordered a professional baking pan for donuts, it's heavy enough to classify as self-defense weapon. If you need it, it's yours. Just stress management, you know...
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    Update: as of my current knowledge, the intensive screening on Italian schoolchildren was only done in some occasions and in some places following an academic study. Different regions of the country probably adopted different strategies to implement the early diagnoses prescribed by law in 2005. I am waiting for more information from the national association...
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    Just heard back from the Chicago center (they are super sweet, by the way!) for a specific version of this, namely: whether the gluten-free diet has any impact on autoimmune thyroid disorders. Dr. Guandalini informs us that there are no current studies yet concerning the link between the two in *non* celiac patients. So, as it stands, it would seem that...
  22. ButterflyChaser
    Thank you all! I mentioned them to my dermatologist last night. He concluded that it must be a reaction probably to wheat, because it only appears after consuming/touching wheat, and told me I should live "as if" I had celiac disease, even if the blood work is negative, because it could still be NCGS. I hope the edema it is associated with wheat exposure...
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    Not soy (in my case it causes cardiac problems), but I had your same reaction in my mouth when I was allergic to kiwi and pineapple and accidentally even placed a piece on my tongue and then spit it out. That lasted for several years when I was a kid/teen. Didn't have any for more than 10 years, now I can have some, but only rarely, or the sores come up again...
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    Not until you mentioned it! It does look a bit like KP, even if my red spots are very much far from each other, and they appear in areas of my body which are totally hairless (genetically unhairy woman typing). However, it does not behave like it: it only comes up when I get "glutened" and vanishes after a week/ten days of strict gluten-free diet. Could...
  25. ButterflyChaser
    Thanks for confirming I hadn't turned into a poor reader. I'm the same way, too: I have experienced (and so have others I know) real benefits/healing from non-chemical treatments - and by real I mean measured and recognized by conventional medicine specialists. But in my case those who prescribed these therapies were all in the "regular" medical profession...
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