Lisa

I love them all. It reminds me of what I left in DC, when I left to marry and raise two girl. I would not have traded that for a million (hum, well no). Don't some of you ever wonder what life would have been like, if you did not take that turn in the road.

I would not have traded it, but I do wonder..... I was in politics in Washington. I do wonder where I would have ended up. PS- I was NEVER AN INTERN.

Because Angelina is too busy adopting Ethiopia.

Tee-hee, good one

I was never a big sandwitch kinda girl. I you truely want to be safe, I would up to the Hillshire farm pre package meats and not do the deli sliced meats. There is probably no difference in taste and it would last longer in the package.

Welcome to our world. So many of us can help you go through this process step by step. Several of the posters are experts in various fields and I am sure that they will be helpful.

To begin with, keep your diet simple. Meats, Chicken, Fish with salt and pepper, lemon juice, olive oil...nothing real spicey. Eat lots of fresh steamed veggies, potatoes, rice (I always add Herb-ox boulion - gluten-free). Keep your diet simple until you can learn about what you can eat and what is not good. We can help you work through that.

Check anything that can get into your mouth, ie., shampoo (Dove), Soap, (Dove), Crest toothpaste, are all gluten free.

Also check your meds. I don't know what you take or what your needs are, but Aleve is gluten-free, zantac is gluten-free. Many meds have fillers that have gluten in as binders.

Then we will bet into the Delfi Product List, that will tell you which products are safe to purchase.

Overwhelmed yet? Don't worry, it takes time and alot of reading. But it gets alot easier as time and reading goes by.

1. Eat simple - easy on the spices

2. Lots of veggies - good vit's

3. Check meds - for gluten

4. Get someone here to send you the Delfi List

5. Check personal products - for gluten

6. If gluten free for a few weeks you will feel better

7. It may take up to many months to really feel better

8. It may take up to two year, if careful, to feel really good

9. I will take you about two days to feel really pissy

10. It may take you 10 days to be pissed

11. After you get pissed, you realize that you really want to feel better

12. You devote yourself to the diet because you don't want to feel like crap anymore.

13. You begin to grasp what you are preventing in your life.

14. You realize that you don't want to die of intentinal lymphoma or other related diseases.

15. You are dedicated to the diet

16. You are now in control of your life.

Hi all ... The doctor put my dear hubby on a (as low as possible) salt free diet. So ... anyone have any ideas on how to do salt free-gluten free? I made a big pot of vegetable beef soup today in the slow cooker, but even though I added things like garlic pepper, dill, parsley, and of course all the vegies including onions, mushrooms etc. it really is still quite bland I even browned the beef, onions and mushrooms first So .. anyone have any ideas? Need some for quick meals as well ... don't want to spend my whole life cooking, spring is here

S:

What about salt substitutes. I have seen something in the grocery about a salt sub. Will that work for you?

Lisa

Thank you all, my good friends here. I do think that it is the Clinique lipstick. I will revert back to Burts Bees lip gloss for many days to verify.

The Cover Girl Blush has not effected me, but going out tomorrow. Any suggestions for blush. I am looking at the last week and the only introduction was the Clinique lipstick. (at $15.00).

Lipsticks-----L'Oreal, Endless - eight hours

Neurtrogema - Gloss and Lipstick - Gluten Free Available at CVS.

I most likely could work out this problem, but there are so many new people that post and I feel that this will help. I have been gluten free since August 2005 and there are still issues that we all deal with in our day to day lives. There are traps every day that we cal fall into.

Thank you all for your posts and I am sure that it will be helpful to many others. That's what we are all about. Helping each other.

000Lisa

For five days I have had the classic D, and lower back pain is comming back. I am fairly confident it is not a food issue as I have been really careful and check with the Delfi List often.

I think it is in the cosmetics. This is what I use daily:

Oil of Olay Soap

Dove Sampoo

Lubridurm Cream (no oats)

Crest

Clinique Lipstick and Burt's Bees

Cover Girl Blush (I try to be careful as don't know if it is gluten-free)

Aleve for headaches

Mac and Bare Essentials are not available any where close. We cook on the grill alot and only use 100% hardwood charcoal. I can't think of anything else new to my diet other than Ragu Pizza Sauce with eggplant and onions (as a side dish, no crust obviously).

Does anything ring a bell for anyone.

**Could it be the Clinique Lipstick? If so are they any CVS brands that are gluten-free?

Thanks for your help. Lisa

Shirley, I know that I will never be the person that I was before I got sick. But is really makes me feel concerned. I try to do mind games with myself....For instance, when you lying in bed drifting off to sleep, sometimes I try to retrace my thoughts backwards. It is really hard to do, but I do think it will help keeping the brain muscle active. For example: A thought about a boat, what made me think about a boat, the water, what brought up the water.......

It is hard to do, but it can also kinda figure out some dreams.

Who knows

I get the hand shakes alot and it also seems to be associated with a dry mouth, somewhat slurred speach and stuggleing to find the right words. (brain fog). Sometimes I feel that I am walking sideways.

Sometime, when I type, I find my fingers all over the key and can barely type a sentence.

This is the scariest part of the symptoms for me, because I feel that it is neurological. I can sit on the potty for the rest of my life, but don't mess with my brain, kind of scary.

I have lived 2/3's of my life, I have done my duty and done it well. Now, I want to have fun --- SO GLUTEN DON'T BE MESSING WITH ME.

(i'm a small dog with a big bark )

Nope, no twinkies on the island.

Does any one know how to change my heading to the correct spelling or am I doomed to be the dumb butt of the day?

Just an FYI - it's Elisabeth Hasselbeck, not Hasselhoff.

ooop

She mentioned that on the today show of the "View". Her daughter Grace had a gluten free birthday cake for her first birthday. (which she hated, by the way - go figure)

Wouldn't it be wonderful if she could get on board with us as a spokesperson.

GOING BONKERS HERE..BEEN SEARCHING ON THIS SITE FOR 1/2 HR..WHERE IS THE ORIGINAL POST OF WHERE RADMAN SUGGESTED LISTING ALL SYMPTOMS SO HE CAN COMPLILE IT???? SINCE MOST OF MY SUPTOMS ARE THE SAME AS MOST OTHERS WITH A FEW OTHERS...I'D LIKE TO DO A COPY AND PASTE..YOU ALL KNOW MY STRENTH IN SPELLING

CAN SOMEONE CLUE ME IN WHERE THAT POST FIRST APPEARED...?

THANKS FRIENDS

JUDY IN PHILLY

Post #349

I have so many, but can't remember now. Will check in tomorrow, if I remember.

After understanding that they had a gluten fee menu, we went there for lunch. I asked the waitress for the gluten free menu............Duh, what a ditts. She said, oh yeah, that's on the internet, we don't have it here in the restaurant. Next time, the manager is going to be sitting at our table. Thank God, I love mexican and Amy's food for breakfast. Yummmmm

Acid D

Stabbing pain in Small Intest

Immediate discharge after eating - undigested

malabnorbtion

loss of padding on feet and rear- end

weight loss

fatique

loss of balance and coordination

anxiety

depression

memory loss

As above before dx - 8 months gluten free - 90% gone

I'm going to flip back and forth to you post...........what you have eaten, which has gluten in.....pizza, hamburger with bun, ham, possible, crackers..

Unless you do not want to be tested, try:

Breakfast:

Eggs, Oscar Myer Bacon, Hillshire Farms Sausage, Yoplait Yogurt

Lunch:

Quaker Oats Rice Cakes, Peanut Butter with Smuckers Jam

Corn Totti. with Hillshire Farm Deli Meats with Kraft Cheese. (alway read the label)

Dinner: endless (go the the recipe forun here)

Radman:

My biopsy indicated that my villi were totally flattened. Celiac issue. It also indicated that I have a large hiatal hernia, which often share the same symptoms as Celiac, except for the volcanic flow through the butt.

I got lost in my statement. I do believe that we vary grately in symptoms/ duration. I guess, to date, I am one of the lucky ones.

And in the Mid-South-East, I am sneezing my butt off.

Lisa

ditto

English, Doctor, Please..............

I think that we all have Celiac, but differnce in intollerence. Some are highly sensitive and other are not as sensitive. I personally think that it is because of the exposure time link to gluten in our system.

I has IBS symtoms all my life, but it was only two month where I have the constant acid D, and home bound before I recieved my DX. I also was loosing 10 lbs a year stemming from the fact that I had NO appatite for five years (not anorexia), just had no interest in food.

After eight months attempting to be gluten free, I have gained 10 pounds and have most of my energy back. Best of all, I like food again.

(Without spell check, I am totally hopeless)

Lisa

Joyce:

Celiac is alway a possibility. Your symptoms of gurgeling, gas, abdonimal pain are all symptions of Celiac. Celiac carries about 200 symptoms and not all of us have the same although many are similar.

If you choose not to be tested, I would recommend that you try being gluten free for about a month and see if you symptoms deminish. As well, if you do choose to be tested, do not go gluten free as it will sque the results.

Celiac Disease can be very serious if not diagnosed and corrected by diet. It has taken me eight months to feel better and to be able to leave my home for a week-end.

Do you have any bowl issues? That is for sure a Celiac issue. (we talk about poop all the time here, so don't feel shy).

Fill us in a little bit more. There are really good experts here to help.

Let us know.

Lisa

Sure, stress kicked in my celiac

Karen:

The show is all yours...............I got front row tickets. Hah

We have battered the poor doctor enough. It's time to let him know the secret about altoids. (Don't know about his gender, although redMAN gives a clue, preference, married, single or indifferent) I think that he is holding out on us until he know about "Altoids". What do you think??? Do you think he has earned his right to know about the mystics of "Altoids" . Has he not paid for his whippings?

Karen, what do you think. Should we let him in on the secret of running a successful partnership?

Your call chick-a-dee.

0000 Lisa

Sorry Jamie:

I am beyond those years, but soon someone will post for you. Staying relaxed is the best thing you can do now. Wish you a happy duration. Think positive, and check in.

Lisa

We are honored to have a doctor with celiac issues. We have learned from each other and perhaps we can continue to do so.