texastricia

Since being diagnosed in June and being completely gluten-free, I have gained 8 pounds. This is enough to make many of my clothes too tight to wear. HELP! This seems the height of unfairness: my diet is severely restricted from things I love, yet instead of losing, I gain! The nutritionist said I should be encouraged that I was gaining - that it indicated...

I feel your pain - literally! For the past 6 months I have not knowingly ingested gluten, but have on occasion had all the old symptoms in spades. This usually happens after eating at a friend's home, even when everything was prepared gluten-free. I feel it must be coming from cross-contamination of pots, pans, utensils, work surfaces, etc. We ate our...

Thank you. This is valuable information and supports my "need to know".

Thanks, Diana. I like to measure progress as well!

Thanks for your insight. I am overall feeling better, but would like to be able to track my progress through definable data.

I was diagnosed in June, 2012 as Celiac through a blood test and follow-up biopsy. These were done in Lexington, KY by a young female GI to whom I will be eternally grateful. I have suffered for years and seen multiple GI's who never tested for Celiac. Now I am in Arizona and recently saw a GI doc at Mayo Clinic. This doc told me there was no need to...