Lisa

My favorite is Altoids. Also a multiple-paged thread. You wanna talk fun?!

Some legends just never die! (but I think the chocolate does contain gluten)

Lissa,

You have been gluten free for three years and most likely totally healed from when you were so ill.

It might take continued exposure to gluten over an unknown period of time for you to react as you did before. Or, your reaction could be delayed for several more hours or several more days. Everyone is different.

Try not to get nervous, it might make it worse or confuse your symptoms or you might be totally surprised. Sometimes you just have to roll with things.

Hum....my favorite is toilet paper. I do believe we had a thread of over 23 pages discussing the subject. Boy was that fun!

This might help you with some questions:

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I would think that every Mexican Restaurant is a little different. I have used my Truiumph Dining Cards in Spanish and the staff was very helpful. I would speak to the manager during off times and you can go over the menu.

I buy from them regularly. I even get e-mails from them which the one Monday showed the new gluten free item. I always check the web site before I buy and I have talked to them on the phone when the ingredient list isn't too clear. I have never had a negative response from them. I get the chicken breasts, veggies, jumbo shrimp, and have never had any problems.

Thanks Jenny. I'll have to flag them down next time the come around.

I've never bought anything from them except ice cream, years ago. Do they have other gluten free products?

Maybe Blessing was just dreaming about a day when she can cheat and get away with it. I bet most of us have had similar thought at least once during our traveled road.

If I were to cheat, it wouldn't be for pizza or at a Sonic. It would be at a very, very expensive French restaurant and I'd probably blow a whole weeks salary and do it up right!. Now that might be worth it, once.

Well, many times it depends on the situation.

If it's a small dinner party. I would tell them that you have recently been diagnosed with a food allergy. Offer to bring something that you can cook and share with the others. Or, you can mention that you would love to join them for dinner, but will be bringing a salad (or something) that you can eat due to your food allergies. And stress the company or fellowship rather than the food.

I always stress that I don't want anyone to go out of their way to accommodate me. I have found that it makes most people a little nervous., understandably.

Larger parties, you can bring a dish to share and get to the spoon before others dig in.

For cocktail parties, I generally eat before or after and size up the food closely while I'm there.

But, it was some time until I felt comfortable and confident to be a happy guest.

Thanks for clearing my confusion!

There is a lot to learn about this stuff. I learn something every day.

Since you're Diabetic, you should be on chromium supplementation. I recommend 1,000 mg/day to my patients and take that dose level myself, recommended by my PCP. Chromium is a co-factor to insulin crossing the cell membrane and taking the glucose with it into the cell to be used as fuel. A deficiency of chromium leads to insulin resistance and Diabetes.

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Although trivalent chromium (Cr(III)) is required in trace amounts for sugar and lipid metabolism in humans and its deficiency may cause a disease called chromium deficiency, hexavalent chromium (Cr(VI)) is a toxin and a carcinogen, so that abandoned chromium production sites need environmental cleanup.

My interest in chromium is based on a family member working in a plant that produces chromium based products. Health concerns from working there are very real. Chromium can be dangerous. Is 1,000mcg considered "trace amount" and thus safe to recommend?

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This article is about Dr. Kenneth Fine. He is discussing testing through his company and markets to those who's conventional testing has not provide positive results through serologic testing. Enterolabs test via stool testing.

Although many people here have used his services and are strong supporters of Enterolabs, there may be better articles relating to blood testing.

Positive Serological testing is not an indicator that a person is at the end stage of Celiac Disease. Rather, it provides information that your body is reacting to the presence of gluten, by creating antibodies.

Here is some information:

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I does get easier, but here are some things that will help

Here is a list of good companies who will clearly list all forms of gluten:

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Here is a list of safe and forbidden foods:

https://www.celiac.com/categories/Safe-Glut...3B-Ingredients/

Here is some information on labeling:

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And I highly recommend the Triumph Grocery Guide (at www.truimphdining.com), which can help you with your shopping until you can master label reading.

In the beginning, it's good to cook simply. Meat, fish, potatoes, rice, veggie and fruit. Add things one at a time and expand you diet when you can safely explore other options.

He took a spill in the flour, next he'll be rollin' in the dough.

Doctors now adays feel that most everything is stess related.

Your hiatal hernia can certainly give you reflux.

First of all, there are no stupid questions here. Every question and answer helps someone else, so please feel free to always ask!

This might answer your questions:

https://www.celiac.com/articles/1095/1/Rese...ents/Page1.html

This is also a must read! This is very intesting:

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I have heard that first degree relatives have a 20% change of Celiac Disease. If that's the case, it's a very good likelihood that your children may never develop Celiac.

Testing for children under the age of five is highly unreliable and your child is not symptomatic. I would be aware of the possibilty and watch for symtoms.

does anyone know if ocean spray light cran-grape juice is gluten free or not?

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Frequently you can find this type of information if you google the product name and -gluten free.

I do have the Grocery Guide and I would highly recommend it.

In the first year of gluten free, I would have found it invaluable. I would have taken it with me where ever I went. It came out a little too late for me, but I wish I would have had one. No, I take it back....when my husband goes to the store, I can tell him what brand and flavor of ice cream to pick up, if I'm not there to read the labels.

BTW,I am a big fan of Triumph products (can't tell huh ) I keep the Restaurant Guide with me whenever I go out of town. I just love it.

You can find information here at the Gluten Free Mall.

Judy,

It's a tough thing to take on. Best advise I can give you is to change your routine. When the phone rings and your usually want a cigarette, go somewhere where you never smoked. Go to your bedroom or a bathroom and talk.

When you're done with a task, start a new one immediatly. When you have a drink or a glass of wine in the evening and want to smoke, go for a walk instead or do something in the house. Keep your hands and your mind busy.

Many times picking up a cigarette is not for the cigarette itself, but it's out of routine. Change your routine.

After a while, when I would still have a craving, I would imagine that after two puffs, I would have this icky taste in my mouth and told myself it just wan't what I wanted to do anymore.

Anyway, best of luck to you and be strong my friend.

xxoo

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Google your product name and -gluten free and you usually can come up with an answer.

"two years after adopting a gluten free diet, about half those people diagnosed with celiac disease continued to have villous atrophy as severe as when they were first diagnosed. Only about one in five of those with severe intestinal damage (villous atrophy) on a gluten free diet had raised (abnormal) blood levels of transglutaminase antibody, meaning that standard blood tests to monitor disease activity were relatively ineffective."

I would like to see the reserach that drew the conclusion to this information. . Considering the gluten free diet is self-directed, it would be almost impossible to draw this conclusion unless it was a controlled study, which would be impossible for a two year research project.

Mollifier, do you have a connection to this vacine, research or e-mail marketing?

Welcome Em,

Mastering the gluten free diet can be very complicating in the beginning. Perhaps you can keep a food diary. Have you checked your meds, lotions, vitamines, shampoo. Scratched pots and pans can transfer gluten, a shared toaster can do the same.

Have you considered testing? If so, you must continue to eat gluten for the optimun in accuracy.

Please do not accept IBS as a diagnosis. Continue to seek a cause. It could be something as simple as a slow moving digestive system. I recall having gas pains so strong that I would black out, many many years before Celiac became an issue.

Good luck.

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Did your doctor run all these tests. You should have had all of them, because they can be interpreted as they are interactive?

You can certainly try the diet again. If you have positive dietary response, it's a good indication that you have a gluten issue, either Celiac or an intolerance. The RX is the same, as you well know.

Congratulations Jennifer! You will notice a big difference in your life in many ways. And you don't have to feel like a second-class citizen anymore.

YOU GO GIRL!