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  1. C-Girl
    Wow, I wonder... I was blaming the fact that all my cute, petite bras don't fit anymore on an ovarian cyst that's acting up - or so my gyno said. I just thought it was a coincidence. It would be nice to be able to buy bras from a normal store instead of having to find them online!
  2. C-Girl
    It took me a solid 7 weeks before I got rid of the D. At first, it went from 5-8x/day to 1-3x, then started to firm up. Somewhere in there, I ate quinoa, and I thought I would die. That caused another spike which may have set me back. I was fine for a couple weeks, then tried this damned gluten-free beer that set me back another 3 weeks. Now, I'm having inexplicable...
  3. C-Girl
    I loved Gluten Free Goddess before, but now I love her even more. I've had to go FODMAPs free and struggled to find anything to eat that was at all exciting. Thanks to the wonders of Facebook I now am equipped with this link: Open Original Shared Link If you still suffer from the BIG D, bloating, stabbing stomach pains (I hate you garlic), consider...
  4. C-Girl
    I've been overseas plenty of times, and have two adapters, but I'm concerned I'll blow up my rice cooker using one. I had an immersion boiler that I ruined trying to use in Europe with one of those... But thanks for the advice. I'll definitely go with a bag full of food - just in case.
  5. C-Girl
    Thanks everyone! I am going to do it, even if it is two weeks - it's just two weeks. People have been lost in the wilderness and lived that long on just water. Even if I don't eat anything (a distinct possibility considering the pace - there isn't time to go to well-researched restaurants, it's pretty much get food where you can kind of a deal, and will be...
  6. C-Girl
    I'm flattered you think I sound young! No, I'm 47. I'm not sure that qualifies anymore... My main concern about the trip, aside from not being able to find food, is that my last Big Assignment to Italy resulted in my diagnosis. I'm fairly sure I picked up an enterovirus that triggered the symptoms, leading me to find that I'd had celiac for years and...
  7. C-Girl
    So I have this opportunity to travel for work - it's the biggest assignment of my career - but it involves traveling from place to place every day, relying on either hotel breakfasts, lunch buffets and whatever restaurant is close. Also, traveling with a group of non-celiacs in a high stress, hectic and fast-paced event in Europe. I've been wanting to...
  8. C-Girl
    This restaurant has made their entire facility gluten free - nothing containing gluten is used in the kitchen at all. Only one dish, the quesadilla, and the desserts (made off-site) have gluten. Even the tortilla chips they serve are <5ppm certified. I had my first fried calamari since my diagnosis there - it was pretty darn good. I can't say the rice...
  9. C-Girl
    There is another one called MySymptoms that I found, I can use it to do all of my food entries and then email a report to my nutritionist. It also does analysis to try to correlate your symptoms to a specific food item. I think it's great, but it takes a lot of effort to put everything in.
  10. C-Girl
    Ugh, insurance. Shop around! I found a $1000 difference between gastroenterologists when it came to the endoscopy, and the blood test for celiac is not cheap. But if you can stomach a few hundred bucks to get that done, and it's definitive, the level of confidence is such that she could probably skip the endoscopy. Mine was off the charts, but the doctor...
  11. C-Girl
    I just posted this in another part of the forum: "In a 2010 study, only 12 of 32 individuals who said they felt better on a diet that excluded gluten or other wheat proteins actually had an adverse reaction to those molecules. “Thus, about 60 percent of the patients underwent an elimination diet without any real reason,” notes study author Antonio Car...
  12. C-Girl
    Not sure if this has been addressed already - but I found an Open Original Shared Link on non-celiac gluten sensitivity, posted on their Facebook page today. Most striking to me: they found amylase-trypsin inhibitors and wheat germ agglutinin can stimulate inflammatory markers in vitro; gluten broken down into short-chain amino acids (like, say, Omission...
  13. C-Girl
    Mine had me cut out all FODMAPs for a month (google it). Celiac wipes out the small intestine so lots of bad things get thru to your colon and cause problems. I felt better in a few weeks, and after six weeks I was feeling good enough to get over ambitious and ruin it all with bad gluten free beer...(see omission thread). Better now with one week on the elimination...
  14. C-Girl
    Despite the CSA certifying Omission as safe for celiacs, I can attest - it is not. I actually hadn't researched it before consuming it: I went to the beer store and asked which gluten-free beer was the best, and the guy handed me one and said this one tested the best. Stupidly, I drank it. It gave me a stomach ache instantly - I was bloated a bit the...
  15. C-Girl
    Welcome Icelandgirl - so sorry you have to join us all, but once you get to feeling better you'll find it's not so bad after all! Sunday morning pancakes was my tradition, and when I was diagnosed I was afraid I'd never enjoy them again. However, King Arthur makes a fabulous gluten-free pancake/waffle mix. It's really good. I couldn't even believe it was...
  16. C-Girl
    I was in the same camp as you - I thought I had picked up a bug when I suddenly had diarrhea. The blood tests were a lark, even the gastroenterologist was stunned I had celiac as I had only just picked up the symptoms. The blood test should consist of four different tests - together they are better than 95% accurate for celiac disease according to the scientific...
  17. C-Girl
    Have you considered it might be the beans, not the rice? Look into the fodmaps diet, it sounds like that could work for you from the things you mentioned. It might not fix everything but it sure helped me get my guts in order.
  18. C-Girl
    I guess I just think it's disingenuous to have a "completely gluten free" restaurant, to the point you won't let your employees bring gluten foods from home, to tout it as such and then serve gluten-y beer. Cross contamination from glasses? Probably not a factor if they wash them in a dishwasher, but it's still annoying. Why not just have a truly gluten free...
  19. C-Girl
    Oh it gets better and worse. That BizJournal story was yanked and not replaced. But the better journalists at the N&O asked specifically about celiac. Turns out the guy really is focusing on the fad dieters and not us lowly celiacs. And he is serving regular beer. God forbid you give up that alcohol revenue. I think I'll stick with my few local retaurants...
  20. C-Girl
    There is so much wrong with this. Open Original Shared Link A journalist who writes about a gluten-free restaurant, never once mentioning celiac disease. And "local and gluten-free beer"? Not "local, gluten-free beer"? Are we to believe this guy is going to serve regular beer in his restaurant? Oh, I'm so angry. :angry: :angry:
  21. C-Girl
    I would highly recommend a visit to your gynecologist, ask for an ultrasound. It might be your celiac, but bloating is also a symptom of ovarian cysts and cancer. Not to be alarmist, but the symptoms of ovarian cancer are so close to celiac, and are subtle, so if you are this uncomfortable it's definitely worth checking into. Otherwise, my nutritionist...
  22. C-Girl
    The potato worked great! Except I didn't add enough water so it got a little brown on the bottom, but it didn't detract from the experience. I cubed the potato and added a few tbsp of water. I will up that next time.
  23. C-Girl
    The egg cooks from the heat of the hot rice - just mix it in after the rice is done and wait a minute or two.
  24. C-Girl
    Since I've been eating a LOT of rice, I decided to invest in a mini-rice cooker to make breakfasts and also to take on the road with me so I know I can get a safe meal. I've been experimenting with different recipes and thought I'd share/solicit ideas for more. Meet my Open Original Shared Link - it's so cute! Kawaii! My first goal was to get the...
  25. C-Girl
    I was referred to a nutritionist who was very informed about celiac and she was absolutely, positively instrumental in helping me to overcome my symptoms. I cannot recommend more highly that you pursue finding one who will work with you, especially if you have nutritional deficiencies! If your insurance covers it, you'd be selling yourself really short to...
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