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    Yes, they are tiny little, extremely cute South American monkeys.
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    Hi Carol, and welcome to our board. While I agree with everything that has been said, I want to add that being gluten free involves more than just eating gluten free food. You will need to buy a new toaster for your gluten free bread, as it isn't possible to get the old one clean enough to be safe. You also need to replace any non-stick pots and pans if they...
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    I agree with the cranberry juice (and take cranberry pills as well). Also, take pro-biotics (acidophilus), my homeopath says that they are very helpful to get rid of bladder infections. I'd never have thought of that myself!
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    I just read (I believe in Dr. Green's book) that they tested how long the effects are visible from a glutening, and I believe it said three weeks. Still, it isn't a good idea, of course. And as for the elevated cancer risk for celiacs, it takes five years on a strict gluten free diet for our risk to be average (as in non-celiacs). So, you never want to do...
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    Megan, if it makes you THAT sick, that should be all the evidence needed! You obviously can't tolerate gluten at all. Do you really need an 'official' diagnosis from a dumb doctor? Is it really worth it?
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    Nicole, it can be hard at the beginning. What is done is done, no point in berating yourself for a weak moment (okay a few week moments). Just start over, and make sure you have some nice treats around for yourself for next time you get tempted. M&Ms are fine, usually ice cream is fine, a lot of chocolate is, and do bake yourself some nice treats...
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    Stephanie, if you have been gluten free for two years, it could possibly be at least a year of eating gluten for enough damage to show up again for a positive test result. It is very likely you would get a false negative unless you eat gluten for a long time. Is it really worth it? Did you initially feel better when you went gluten free? If yes, once...
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    My second youngest daughter, Janet (20), has had tonsillitis a few times, and her tonsils are now enormous, she keeps getting strep throat, sore throat all the time, ear infections, sometimes bad pains in her legs............I think she may have Celiac disease, too. And last year once she had those enormous, gross blisters on her feet, and no clue why (they...
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    Thank you so much, such an easy fix, and yet so frustrating if you simply don't have a clue you need to do that! And I kept resizing it smaller and smaller, thinking that was the problem. Now I put a better one in, clicked refresh, and there it is. I learn something new every day!
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    Hi, this is driving me nuts. I have a nice avatar, but I wanted to put in a picture of myself. I have it in other forums, and it works fine. The picture I am trying to use is only 12 kb, and 80 x 97 pixels, well below the limit. Still, every time I try to update it, it will just resize my old avatar to the same size as the one I want, distorting it in...
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    Debbiewill, you make a good point here. I believe that you likely were intolerant all along to a food you can't tolerate any more after not having it for a while. That goes for the cheese, Monica (you are likely casein intolerant), or the breads (gluten intolerant all along without knowing). If it makes you feel bad in any way when you eat it, cut it out...
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    Personally, if we would have a toaster oven (and if I could eat gluten-free bread, which I can't, since I can't tolerate any grain at all), I would just get a new, cheap toaster (okay, I did, it just sits there now ). Because for me, I would find it a lot of hassle to constantly have to put foil in whenever I would use it, and would probably forget at times...
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    Diosa, Stevia is not an artificial sweetener, but a herb that happens to be very sweet. It is considered a supplement and is actually good for you. So, why don't you stop using the extremely unhealty Splenda and just use the healthy Stevia instead? Well, apparently he may know what he is doing when it comes to heart transplants, but doesn...
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    Hi radman, and welcome to this board. I really hope you'll stay. If you are serious about learning how to live well with celiac disease, this is the place to be. And sure, I got ticked off a couple of times by things people said (it doesn't help that I can be oversensitive due to Asperger syndrome) and left for a few days, but just had to come back...
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    Well, I read through the links, and I think most of it is utter nonsense. That makes me an Indigo child, because all they say applies to people with Asperger syndrome, too (which is, as far as I am concerned, just being different, not diseased, not problematic in itself, just different). I agree that it is wrong to put kids on Ritalin, for the sake of the...
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    Saturated fat isn't bad. The only really bad fat is hydrogenated fat and trans fats. Real butter is healthy, lard is healthy. A lot of oils that are claimed to be healthy are not. Real butter is much better for you than smart balance. Your body NEEDS saturated fat, it can't function without it. Your heart needs it, your brain needs it. Its a myth that its...
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    I know you are not. But it would be better for you to substitute sugar for the Splenda (while sugar isn't good for you, its better than Splenda), real butter, regular cream cheese and regular cottage cheese, then I have no problem with those recipes, they look like nice treats.
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    frenchiemama, there are many reasons why the South Beach diet is another fad, and a bad one at that. One reason is, that the guy who invented it doesn't know much on good diet principles (he himself is on statin drugs, which proves my point). LOW FAT diets are bad for you! They actually cause heart attacks, rather than preventing them. And Splenda is just...
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    Gluten also gives me C more often than D, and it makes me ache all over. Your symptoms sound just like mine. And if you KNOW that it is gluten causing this, why do you still eat it? You don't need to have your doctor's permission to stop eating gluten. If you know you feel well when gluten-free, and terrible with gluten, who cares about test results. Your...
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    Shannon, that sounds actually quite typical for celiac disease. By now I don't even get the diarrhea the same day any more, but the next day. But I used to have pretty much the same reaction as your son, other than the vomiting (I rarely vomit, even though sometimes I wished I could, it would make me feel better when sick). A lot of people have been saying...
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    I have been seeing a chiropractor twice a week for five or six years. I started out with an awesome chiro back six years ago, and then moved to his best friend, who's office is half way to where his was. My chiropractor is Dr. Darryl Bossence in Cookstown, Ontario, and the best chiropractor in the area as far as I am concerned. He not only is extremely knowledgable...
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    ARCHIVED Quote Of The Day

    Ursa Major replied to moonunit's topic in Doctors

    Now, as sad and disgusting as your story is when it comes to doctors, that quote totally cracked me up. Sometimes the most unlikely people are the ones with the most common sense.
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    ARCHIVED Quote Of The Day

    Ursa Major replied to moonunit's topic in Doctors

    Last summer I was seriously ill (after being sick all my life, but this was bad) with chronic diarrhea and awful pain and weakness. One day I got the most awful chest pains, that absolutely took my breath away and seriously put me into shock. My husband rushed me to the hospital, thinking I was having a heart attack. They hooked me up to monitors for five...
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    I've had eight miscarriages, my babies were never safe until I was about 5 months pregnant. I would conceive first try (or even without really trying) but keeping the babies was almost impossible. It's a miracle I have as many kids as I do. I ALWAYS had heavy, unexplained bleeding early on during my pregnancies, how those kids were able to hang in there I...
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    Celiac disease is only degenerative if you don't follow a gluten-free diet, because you do more damage to yourself continuously. If you don't eat gluten, you don't damage your body, and will be healthy.
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