Lisa

I had an endoscopy and colonosopy and the total bill for both was around $3,000. Which is totally outragious as I saw the doctor once for five minutes and was too dopy to understand what he said.

Our insurance paid for most of it.

Why won't your insurance pay?

B:

Hope you saved your **s.

B:

If you are waiting until Wed. for your biopsy, perhaps you did your self a favor. Although you are in discomfort now, it may relate to your biopsy.

Please ask the endo guy/girl to take six to eight biopsys in various locations in your small intest. It will give you a better dx.

Although uncomfortable, keep eating gluten stuff, as it will show a more accurate test.

Let us know............

Welcome to the Board:

Let me begin that celiac has over 200 symptoms, and you have listed a number of them, which may a indicate a strong possibility.

There are two ways to determine Celiac:

1. Go on an exclusive diet that totally eliminated 100% gluten from your diet. Use the results to determine your positive or negative response.

2. Continue to eat gluten and get tested, either through blood work, or an endoscopy exam.

When a doctor indicates that you have IBS.......often it stands for "I Be Stumped" (at least around here )

I am glad that you have found us. I know you will find a vast amount of information here. And really good people that have been where you are now.

Keep those questions comm'in

Thanks babe for posting. I am sure that will be helpful.

Thanks Kristy for posting that. I know that it will be helpful to alot of people.

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Lisa:

I don't know the brand name, but there is a flax seed type of tortilla chip that is gluten free. There are really pretty good, but won't give you that salt fix. , but then, that wouldn't be a bad thing.

Lisa

Hello Little Boys and Girls:

Not being computer savey, would some kind person post the link to the Delfi List of Candy for all the new moms and dad with little biddies that will scare us tomorrow night.

I think it would be a great help. Especially, when they have to pick and pitch from their goodie bags.

Thank you.

Jame:

Posting twice as I did not answer your question. I had gerd ALOT and it has appeared to have gotten better since gluten free. I do have a large hiatal hernia, so I still take antacids, which most likely the culpret and not celiac.

Try going 100% and check your personal products and make sure they are safe and gluten free. If you try for a month and see improvement, your in good shape.

But, if you choose to be tested, do NOT go gluten free. It will throw off you dx.

I hope that all these good people have been helpful to you. And, as always, feel free to ask away.

Welcome Jane:

I am glad that you are feeling better eliminating bread. Celiac Disease is complicated in the fact that it is very difficult at first to identify gluten. Wheat can be in soy sauce, lipstick, shampoos and every where you never would have thought. Gluten consists of wheat, barley, malt, rye and many oats.

Those of us with Celiac Disease must eliminate all gluten in our diets.

I would encourage you to read many of the posts here. I am sure that you will find it very informative.

I don't think that it's changed wildly. It changed a bit in nature, actually getting 'worse', though that was mostly an issue of not always feeling icky, so I recognized not feeling well. It really varies person to person.

Yes, a poor choice of word on my part..I meant widely. Sorry Tiff, bad spelling on my part.

The worst will be chugging those pills..... I too had a problem with swallowing the horse pills and to be honest, I did not finish them. Soooo, I was not as clean for the exam. Well shut, let them work harder,they get paid enough. (PS: a bad post on my part.........a clean insides is a very viewable scope)

Don't know........what does the lable say?

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Hey babe:

Neg. test for meningitus is a good thing. Can Aleve help with the soreness and pain? Baby, I hope you feel better soon

I am sorry that you feel sooooo bad

Huggs to make you feel better.

Lisa

At least for me the same as the endo., but you have to drink alot of that crappy stuff, or take alot of those horse pills. I had a hard time getting those down. It certain was more difficult than the endo.

Good luck and hope you have good results.

I glutened myself four weeks ago and I am finally back to normal. I experienced fatigue and brain fog but I was still able to function. The brain fog was not nearly as crippling as it used to be. It is probably safe to say that if you keep yourself healthy that any accidental glutenings will decrease in severity. However this could vary from person to person.

I have had similar reactions. And I also will agree that it varies widely.

MG:

Yup, any ingestion of gluten will cause damage and slow the healing process. Often, gluten is in the last place that you would look.

I generally buy McCormicks spieces, as they will always list and their natural species generally will have no gluten. But, as always, read the labels.

Once you get a handle on reading lables, it's down hill from there. (And always remember, ingrediences change. So what you bought a year ago, may not be the same as today). That is something that I have to constantly remind myself.

Make a small change and get to that 100%

I worked on the Rock the Vote campaign when I was in college. This was a cool link. Let me know if you make a video.

Open Original Shared Link

I could not display the site, but just a little advise here....sex is always funny here, religion and politics.......well, tread lightly. Ya know what I mean

But every one who has an opinion, should vote.

Yes, typical for me as well. A tenderness is a good way to put it. I think that the inflammation caused by the gluten reaction will cause that. Then 2-3 day of mild constipation.

Susan:

Everyone reacts differently and you will not get the same personal experience from others.

I have , with great attempts, to be totally gluten free for well over a year.. I do know how difficult it is to be 100%, so there have been issues along the way.

I do know, for me, that the longer I go being gluten free, I do not react immediately (other do). I believe that it is the healing that I have achieved, and I do not show symptoms. But, that does not mean that I am creating damage. For me, it has to build up a bit for the symptoms to be very noticeable. When I ingest, gluten, I have a very dry mouth and have trouble choosing the correct words...that's a dead give-a-way for me.

You will not have a-cross-the-board answer to your question. You just have to know your own system to get you answers.

I hope that this has been helpful and I answered your question

I love the roasted chicken story

But, to be honest..... If you are beginning a new gluten free lifestyle, I would suggest investing in a new grill and use natural charcoal and you will always know that you have a safe grill.

To me, it would be a good investment to my future.

Just my thoughts.

Didn't Jane Goodall study wookies in the natural. Bet she was frisked. Bless her soul.

Frisking at home.......Jim is doing the "wookie dance" as he just gave me pots and pans for my birthday.

Hummmmm