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  1. Chaff
    It's letting bacteria process some of the food before you eat it. It's a traditional "cooking" process that is still in use today. It's how yogurt, pickles, and wine are made, for example. It can be a way to break down the foods before you cook them so that they're more easily digested or a way to get live bacterial cultures into your diet -- the same...
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    Of all the doctors I talked to about being diagnosed for celiac, all of them said I should see a mental health professional first, before testing. Then I got my positive blood test results back and they changed their tune. Erin80, everything you've written is also my experience. I turned 35 a few days after diagnosis. So my youth was spent with gluten...
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    Great title! Yes, yes, and yes. Bodies -- am I right?
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    Amen, sister. No words of wisdom, just -- yes. One silver lining, though: I've felt this way my whole life, but didn't know why or what was safe to eat (until now). At least you know what the problem is and what is safe to eat. And another "count your blessings" thing: some of the Crohn's folks are fed by stomach tube only, or are just on liquid...
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    Everything I ordered when I went gluten-free arrived in a heap in the mail today. We have a slow boat from the States, and none of this is available locally that I can tell. I got my freeze-dried probiotics, my medical powder for leaky gut, and my gluten-free jerky. I already have digestive enzymes. The probiotics seemed great. I mean, no problems...
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    Ray, have you tried soaking the seeds? I know the Paleo folks do this, but they often don't talk about it much. It's a little involved (soaking overnight and then low-level roasting for a while) but I hear it helps with digestion immensely. Most websites with instructions on it get them from the book Nourishing Traditions (which I have on order and haven...
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    I just started with a medical powder to put into water, made specially for leaky gut. It's basically Ensure without the soy and other icky stuff. People have talked about these all over the forum, but PM me if you want to know more about what I'm using (and the list I've gathered here of others to try). Broth doesn't seem to agree with me, even though...
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    Sorry -- I just realized what you meant by "Scott (admin)"! I just PM'd him. Thanks very much. I meant medical information. Also, some members of my family are feeling guilty now that they realize how long I've been having difficulty with food. I'd hate for them to be googling around for celiac information and find me complaining here. They're very...
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    Hmm...there are many people with permutations of the name "Scott." I'm not sure I PM'd the right one (no response yet). It is just "Scott" or one of the others? Thanks!
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    Breaking My Fast

    Chaff posted a blog entry in Thesmophoria

    I haven't been able to eat normal food without problems for as long as I can remember. The problems used to be worse, but I unconsciously identified some as causing me a problem. I have always been a picky eater. Today I tried to eat normal food for lunch with digestive enzymes, for the first time. Normally now the problems I have when I eat is that...
  11. Chaff
    The Straight Dope has a Open Original Shared Link; here are the key points: -- it's called punctate leukonychia (medicalese for "white spots.") -- can indicate any number of medical conditions, some serious, some not -- it's not clear how they actually form -- can be come from hitting your hand on something
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    My doctor said people who are high-strung are more likely to get diagnosed because of their personality. But I wonder if people with severe GI issues are more likely to be high-strung. I feel out of control when everything I eat makes me sick, so I get anxious...which means anxiety all the time until my diet is resolved. I've noticed women with autoimmune...
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    Thanks! It's my name...I just realized I'm putting out personal information here and should probably be a little less findable by google search. Thanks -- I'll pm Scott!
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    This website helps me cope: Open Original Shared Link I laugh, I cry, usually at once. By the end of scrolling through it, my rage/self-pity/despair-for-humanity is gone.
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    Thanks -- I just started taking these, so more information is good. I don't know anything about these yet, but for leaky gut my understanding is that some people have trouble digesting a ton of things, not just proteins, like carbohydrates (fructose intolerance, especially). Also fat malabsorbtion is a standard celiac thing, I hear. In my case, all of...
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    I see there's a "name history" thing in the profile view. I was wondering if it's possible to change my name here. If not, that's fine, too -- just checking.
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    A friend with celiac went gluten-free a year or so ago when she was diagnosed, after constant painful stomach aches, and after a few months of eating gentle foods she feels great and can eat anything (gluten-free) that she wants. No problems, no lingering issues, no symptoms of anything else lurking. Just fine. It can happen.
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    Skittles -- I couldn't eat (white) rice without problems until I soaked it for 24 hours first. It's worth a try. I've also heard this can help with nuts, but I haven't had the courage to try just yet (I can't eat any human quantity of even safe fruits and vegetables -- just doll quantities. Anything over an 1/8th a cup at a time and I get dizzy.) I can...
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    I think we're all trying to figure this out as best we can, but at the end of the day we don't have robust science to give us clear answers. We have a lot of data, some of which are scientific observations, and most of which are anecdotal evidence. The best we can do is to try out a lot of things and see what works for us, and then write about it here,...
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    Wendelann -- it gets better! It helps to have a guilty pleasure to go to when you feel terrible, like a bath and a trashy novel or a marathon of bad TV.
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    I can't eat anything on the Paleo diet, the GAPS diet, or SCD. All I can handle is polenta and white rice (soaked for 24 hours or more), plain tuna or salmon, prunes, almond milk, ginger tea, a 1/2 cup or less of avocado and only trace amounts of anything else. Oh, and wine and gluten-free cookies, for some reason. I'm looking to expand the list, but...
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    Hm...no, mine are something else. But good to be on the watch for -- thanks for the tip!
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    Hm...I don't know about it looking like gluten. I have seen this page, where a guy talks about why the antibodies involved in celiac also attack the thyroid: "I knew that attack on the thyroid was common in celiacs, because the celiac autoantigen tTG (it has a basic triplet) is also present in the thyroid and the celiac autoantibodies to tTG also cause...
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    I got those, too. And I get them on my face, just below my eyes. It's weird. I'd love to know what it's all about.
  25. Chaff
    Hi Mary, WOW this sounds familiar. I'm in much the same boat: I can eat maybe five foods without any problems, and the only safe protein source is tuna...so I can only eat a little bit of it because of the mercury content. I'm really looking for options here. At the beginning (I went on the GFD three weeks ago), I could eat nothing. I can't even...
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