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  1. learning2cope
    Yes, I have looked all that up. And it was most likely seratonin toxicity. I'm doing well on the half dose of Lexapro. I am much more apt to cry at heartbreaking or heartwarming things since the Lexapro tends to make me not emotional enough to cry at things. But other than that I'm doing well. No mood swings, not much anxiety all around so far. It feels so...
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    Well, since my last post things have really turned around in a good way. My mom is now on my side fully with going gluten-free. I feel so much better, though I am now having huge flare-ups of new and typical allergies, and also now having loose stool and gastro pain. I think it's my daily pills... I'm having issues with lactose still, gluten (of course),...
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    I was having an allergy (I think) to my multi-vitamin so I quit taking it and now am not taking any supplements. I'm having so many allergies all of a sudden. It's crazy. I'm now allergic to my skincare products - except for coconut oil and jojoba oil. My shampoo eats away my skin (bad contact dermatitis) so I will have to start using vinyl gloves b/c I'm...
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    Yeah I now think that. :P Oh well. I haven't eaten from it again, and won't. Live and learn. I'm brand new to this so I have some learning experiences ahead of me I think.
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    4 days. But I understand. I don't typically have much of an intestine problem when I eat purely gluten-free foods. I had no reaction with the Chex gluten-free cereal with our gluten-free soy milk last night (as an example.) Yes I could be having reactions to anything that I eat since my body is inflamed right now.
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    While I understand your reasoning I do know that I am having different reactions to cheese versus gluten. I've been paying attention for a few weeks with what I eat and how I feel and finally decided to go gluten-free. And when I say I was "glutened" that to me means that I apparently ate gluten and had a reaction that is typical to me such as diarrhea, bloating...
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    A great thing happened! Mom is so much better dealing with this. Mom and dad went to the store yesterday evening and picked up a good amount of gluten-free food like pasta to try, 2 bread mixes and an all purpose flour, 3 gluten-free cereals, and the gluten-free Bisquick pancake mix. We tried the Bisquick today for our biscuits and it wasn't bad at all...
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    Yes, I realize now that my system is unhappy in general so a lot of things might make me have gluten-symptoms. I did call my pharmacy and told them that from now on I need to have gluten-free medications and they checked my current meds and didn't see any specific ingredient in any of them that could be problematic.
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    Yes I don't plan on eating a lot of processed foods. Maybe once per day I'll have a sandwich and some mornings we'll have biscuits. I know gluten-free processed foods tend to be high calorie and I want to avoid gaining weight. I'd prefer to continue losing weight. Yes I will start formally logging my food and symptoms. I'm already sure I was glutened when...
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    I am surprised! Mom had been not really all that willing to help me go gluten-free. She was saying "you'll be fine" in regards to cross contamination. I had sent her 2 emails to maybe spark her willingness to help out. Here is what I included in the first email: Here is what I included in the second email: Just copied and pasted from celiac...
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    Mom got 2 gluten-free pastas to try out, several bread mixes, Lay's classic potato chips, Tostitos tortilla chips, 3 Chex gluten-free cereals, more soy milk, our pasta sauce which I think is gluten-free. gfoverflow.com says it is and I think I looked it up online elsewhere and it says it is. string cheese which is gluten-free according to the Frigo Cheese...
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    I am trying. I had researched celiac disease hard-core early last year due to my suspicions. I had a skin biopsy and blood work and the blood work was negative for celiac disease and the biopsy was inconclusive for anything. So it looks like the person who looked at my skin cells botched it up or wasn't educated at all in anything skin-related. (sigh) ...
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    Ah okay, I was wondering if that could be the case. Yeah I am paying a LOT more attention to how i feel in every way after everything I eat. I'm sick of feeling sick, and achy and tired. I really am feeling better mentally these past 3 days. I'm just amazed. I did feel awful after lunch and dinner yesterday thanks to being glutened, but I woke up feeling...
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    I am working on going gluten-free. I have no formal diagnosis yet (I may not even pursue it) but I had no major issues today but around noon I had a cup of coffee (which I have every morning) but this time mom added Watkins Original Double Strength Vanilla Extract to our Half & Half for our coffee. We've done that before, but I've been now 2 full days...
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    I don't think dad would have a problem with that, but mom certainly would. I have a large table in my bedroom that would be perfect to have my own "kitchen" set-up. We have a couple of those deep large pans like for washing dishes in. I could probably use one of those, but it's plastic. Would glutenous dish water from a previous washing be hard or impossible...
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