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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),...
  3. learning2cope
    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...
  4. learning2cope
    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.
  5. learning2cope
    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.
  6. learning2cope
    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...
  7. learning2cope
    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.
  9. learning2cope
    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...
  10. learning2cope
    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...
  11. learning2cope
    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...
  12. learning2cope
    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) ...
  13. learning2cope
    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...
  14. learning2cope
    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...
  15. learning2cope
    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...
  16. learning2cope
    Well I was doing great until lunch today. Yesterday I decided right after I woke up to go gluten free to see if my mysterious symptoms resolve. I had no gluten yesterday (that I am aware of). Since we really don't have much in the way of gluten-free foods here, I ate: Breakfast: Isopure Zero Carb 100% whey protein isolate vanilla powder + water...
  17. learning2cope
    Ah darn. I was glutened. I made grits. I checked the grits ingredients. Quaker Quick 5-minutes Grits WHITE HOMINY GRITS MADE FROM CORN, NIACIN*, REDUCED IRON, THIAMIN MONONITRATE*, RIBOFLAVIN*, FOLIC ACID*. *ONE OF THE B VITAMINS I thought I'd be fine! Well it was either the grits, pyrex bowl, 2 measuring cups, spoon, plastic wrap, salt our our...
  18. learning2cope
    Well actually I seem to be able to handle harder cheeses (mozzarella, cheddar, -jack cheeses) but can't handle cottage cheese, milk, cream in large amounts (more than used for coffee), frozen yogurt and regular yogurt. I seem to be able to handle sour cream in amounts used for soups/chili or burritos, etc which surprises me. I did have a little more gas...
  19. learning2cope
    I feel the same way. Argh! Yesterday I had no major issues. I did an experiment. I completely avoided gluten yesterday. I am having a slight sensitivity to cheese (bloating and gas and slight heart burn) but it goes away pretty quickly on it's own. I did not have to take any tums or Phenergan yesterday. Yay!
  20. learning2cope
    Oh I did call my doctor for the endoscopy results and there were no biopsies taken (great...) they did find "grade 1 irritation" from gastric juices in my "lower esophageal junction". It sounded mild, so I don't think it's much of an issue. We already knew I had GERD. Have had it for about 4 years now.
  21. learning2cope
    Now I am having what appears to be an allergic reaction to my Victoza (injectible diabetes medicaion). My belly is all red and itchy all over the right side (where I injected yesterday) and around the injection site is one large red area. I'm not going to take it today. I am miserable right now with allergies. This morning I had to use my eye drops again...
  22. learning2cope
    Thank you. I will likely go gluten-free very, very soon to see if it fixes anything about my recent health problems (or even life-long health problems!) I just don't know what to do since my parents are not likely gluten-sensitive and mom is the one who cooks for us all (even though I am 29 years old, disabled, and living at home.) Mom is very adament...
  23. learning2cope
    Hi, everyone. My blood work was negative for Celiac last year, and I also had a biopsy done on my hand (palms) where I have an undiagnosed pustular psoriasis-like rash (and on the soles of my feet) and that was inconclusive for psoriasis AND DH. So I am still no further to finding out these health problems I have. I had an upper endoscopy but I don't...
  24. learning2cope
    Ok, thanks! I'll look it up.
  25. learning2cope
    Hmm those sound like good ideas! Thanks!! Right now I'm having severe itching in certain spots on my right hand. I've already torn the skin open (GRR) so now it's going to burn with whatever I put on it. Then it'll scab over, blah blah you know how that goes. So I think I might look into numbing creams. Do you have any specific recommendations for those?...
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