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  1. cristiana
    Thanks so much GFinDC for all of this, you have been extremely helpful. Boots the Chemist are in almost every town including ours so if things don't get better I can buy some easily. I have looked at the product online and recognise the packaging so I bet they do stock it. My sister who isn't a celiac told me yesterday that she took two Neurofen a...
  2. cristiana
    Sounds like we've been thinking along the same lines, icelandgirl. But I bet you are a great mom (or mum as we would say in the UK) anyway.
  3. cristiana
    I so understand what you mean about children. My husband cheered me up this evening though. As I was sitting on the sofa feeling sorry for myself, complaining that our children will remember their mother as 'always feeling ill', he replied, 'Well at least they won't remember you for nagging them to tidy up all the time' which is true because for simply...
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    The mind is powerful and I wish I could switch it from negative to positive mode. I was just reading the other day how depression can make aches and pains much worse and I suddenly realised I have got so bogged down with feeling ill and imaginging the worst that perhaps that in itself is creating a vicious cycle. I shall look out this L-glutamine esp....
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    icelandgirl - wouldn't it be great if in a few months time we were feeling better! I think one of the things that has got to me is the fact that the consultant treating me, a lovely fellow, said to me that when I adopted the gluten-free diet I would feel so much better. I had such high hopes! I was so glad - I thought without gluten it would all come...
  6. cristiana
    Love it - arsenal! You are so right. When I open the cupboard I have to be careful that all the bottles of supplements don't fall out and hit me on the head!
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    Thanks cyclinglady and GFinDC. I think part of the problem is that I can't be at home much at the moment as it is the school holidays and yesterday I think I left too long between meals and when I did eat, it was gluten-free but rather fatty food. So I shall go equipped with lots of water and eat some bland stuff today. GFinDC, that is really interesting...
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    I thought I should create a separate topic following on from my discovery that taking just a few NSAIDS over a about a week has caused gastro symptoms, probably worsened by the fact that I was glutened around the same time as taking the tablets. Cramps and indigestion, a sort of burning just under my ribs, these are the symptoms which seem to get worse during...
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    Hi cyclinglady - well done for finding the reason for the twinges. I am not 100% sure yet that it was the NSAIDs in my own case or accidental glutening, perhaps the two went hand in hand to cause the problem. Just hope it goes away soon, there's always something, I would love a day when I wasn't trying to figure out why I felt 'off'!
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    Thanks so much everyone. V. interesting links nvsom. I have decided that my journey with NSAIDs ends here! I wonder if anyone else has had the experience of it setting off their gut problems in the first place, like me. I foolishy thought that as a recovering celiac, many months on from giving up gluten, I would be able to cope with taking them again...
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    Hi everyone I have been suffering from gastro pain these last few days - accidental glutening I thought. But then I wondered, I have been taking NSAIDs (a brand called Nurofen here in the UK) because I have inflammation of the sacroiliac joint and wondered could the real cause of this gastro pain be the anti-inflammatory medication? I have just remembered...
  12. cristiana
    I was glutened albeit in small amounts twice in the last two weeks. Yesterday I had a potato salad and an iced lolly at the local swimming pool - we don't usually get much hot weather here in England during the summer months so one has to make the most of it! - and I felt queasy within half an hour of eating, really like the bad old days just prior to my...
  13. cristiana
    Are you finding that you are able to tolerate dairy? If so, that's great, but if you are having issues with dairy (this may well just be temporary) my nutritionalist said it was important to get calcium from somewhere else and has encouraged me to eat tinned sardines which fortunately I have acquired more of a taste for! Eggs are good too for providing...
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    I just wanted to say that I had sudden vertigo last summer and for months was quite sure I was being glutened, but despite being strict could not find out what was causing it. It came on suddenly, my limbs felt distant and disjointed, it was a weird feeling, and I felt that I was continuously walking on board a ship at sea. I thought I must be suffering...
  15. cristiana
    This new setback has made me look at things again, I was really really strict at the beginning as I kept having blood test results with slightly elevated gamma globulins but the electrphoresis tests didn't show any spikes, just diffuse inflammation. Thankfully the blood straightened out nicely when I went gluten free and I thought, well, I have this under...
  16. cristiana
    Well said, icelandgirl. I hope things do get better for you Nicole and what encouraging responses for those of us whose health issues persist, I think there are quite a few of us out here. Thank you all for sharing.
  17. cristiana
    Total sense - a 'lightbulb moment' in fact! Thank you so much. I am definitely not going to eat out until this joint is better because I am sure that has been the cause of my most recent CC and I have started washing my hands properly every time I make my children's toast.
  18. cristiana
    So for clarification, for a celiac, having traces of gluten in the diet not only inflames the gut but can arguably also cause any other part of the body to become inflamed - for example, the sacroiliac joint?
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    Thanks so much Colleen, I must read that - never have, even though I've been reading everything else! Perhaps that's where I have been going wrong!
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    This interests me as before I was diagnosed with celiac disease my bad headaches (which I always suspected were actually migraines because they made me feel sick and I couldn't look at light) turned into aura migraines without pain. The first episode I had was the silver flashing lights, kind of a paisley pattern, in both eyes which was then followed by...
  21. cristiana
    Thanks so much, fellow (ex-)sufferers. So interesting greenbeanie that you had relief after going gluten free. I am just wondering if trace amounts of gluten are getting in and making things worse. I have to share a kitchen with my family of gluten eaters and I'm now wondering about crumbs, gluten in the oven, on drawer handles etc. Clearly what is going...
  22. cristiana
    Well, having experienced all sorts of weird pain in my left rib and left hip/groin area which sometimes made me feel as if my skin were on fire but there was no rash, I have seen a really good chiropractor who has discovered that I have inflammation in my left sacroiliac joint - and boy did I feel it! Yet I was completely unaware of it until she touched...
  23. cristiana
    Thank you everyone. Steph, you do sound like you have very similar reactions to me, perhaps it is the fat. Oh well... back to the tinned sardines (my nutritionalist said I should eat them for my calcium intake!)
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    I have found it such a relief at last to be able to attribute all the weird symptoms I have been having all these years to Celiac. The diet has forced me to eat healthily and discover that healthy food isn't all that bad after all - in fact I rather like it, plus I don't have the dreadful cravings I used to have borne of years of eating what I liked just...
  25. cristiana
    Just wondering, in the last month or so I have been feeling queasy after eating hard cheese and other dairy products. I have also been glutened twice during this period. I am just wondering, having been able to tolerate hard cheese after a few weeks of going gluten free a year ago, could this glutening be responsible for damaging the tips of the villi enough...
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