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  1. Ursa Major
    I just read through this thread, and what comes to mind (especially after reading WGibs' menu) that maybe none of you 'hungry beasts' get enough fat! Your body needs fat, and it's a myth that fat makes fat. Avoid hydrogenated fats like the plague they are (ALL margarines are to be avoided), but animal fats are NOT the bad thing they're claimed to be, and...
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    Well, I saw my doctor today, to get the results of the bone density scan, which was done three weeks ago. They sent her a graph, to show exactly where my results are at in comparison to the norm. And my bones appear to be just great. My hip bones are extremely normal (right in the middle of normal), and my lower spine was still in the normal range, but...
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    Well, I'm not Canadian, but I'm in Canada, about an hours drive north of Toronto.
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    How did your doctor's appointment go yesterday? I will also be praying for you. Last September, after being extremely ill all summer (and being very unwell all my life, with asthma as well), my pastor and my husband (who is an elder) prayed for my healing, annointing me with oil. And two days later God showed me that Celiac disease was the problem. I...
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    Amanda, I used to get so dizzy that if I'd turn my head I'd vomit! It would either hit out of the blue in the middle of the day and last a few hours, or I'd wake up in the morning, unable to get up, and it would last up to three days then. I haven't had that problem since going gluten (and many other things) free. I hope it stays that way! Hoping for...
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    German on my father's side (but his mother had a French maiden name), German on my mother's side (her mother and grandmother fled from Upper-Silesia from the Russians, but they were of German descent and spoke a strange German dialect). I have auburn hair (was strawberry blonde as a little kid), no grey hair yet, fair skin, blue eyes. My Silesian grandmother...
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    Okay, here goes: grapes, wine, cranberry and apple juice (or any juice for that matter), raisins, mints, tea are some of the worst things you could be having when sensitive to salicylates. All of those have extremely high levels of them. PEELED pears have none (the peel is the problem here), bananas have none, pork should be fine (but may not, everybody...
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    Marcia, I have had what I thought was fibro all my life, but really, it was Celiac disease and other food intolerances that were causing the symptoms. When I stopped gluten containing foods in October, initially all the pain stopped (and I was on codeine 24 hours a day just to barely manage), and I stopped all painkillers. But when my intestines healed...
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    SuzieQ, you can have a skin biopsy next to one of the blisters of your rash, and if you're definitely diagnosed with DH, you obviously have Celiac disease and won't need the intestinal biopsy. For you, that would be the best and easiest way to go. I would suggest you go to a dermatologist, unless your regular family doctor is willing to do the skin biopsy...
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    Aaawwww shucks, and I was actually excited about having a twin! Oh well. Well, I'm sure I'll be safe on the cruise. The five days we will be staying somewhere in the keys are another matter. Originally, when I asked Ken to get me into contact with the cruise representative, to make sure I was safe during the trip, Ken said, "Don't worry, I'm...
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    Thanks everybody for your good wishes and prayers. Karen, I hate the taste of alcohol (and get drunk from the smallest amount), and will stick with water and chamomile tea. I guess I have a twin then (it is said that everybody has one somewhere), because I never had a baby in Toronto, and my two youngest kids are 14 and 20 anyway. Strange, though, that...
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    Well, we're leaving home at 5:00 AM tomorrow morning (driving to Toronto, flying to Montreal, and from there to Miami), and will board the cruise ship in the afternoon. We're going from Miami to Fort Lauderdale, then to Cozumel, Mexico and back to Miami. It's a four day cruise, that my husband's work is paying for (his group of executive personell recruiters...
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    Well I got the results for Susie's blood tests. She is 14 and claims she is fine, and I had to force her to go, because she has a lot of gastro symptoms. Plus, all my kids should get tested anyway. I can't force the other four (they're 20, 22, 24 and 25), but I can force her. The doctor's office called and said all her tests are in the low normal range...
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    I like my current doctor. I do the research and tell her what my problems are. Then I tell her what I'd like her to do about it (like which things to test for, or what to prescribe) and she does it. And I have to do all that without her noticing that I am obviously my own doctor and I am just using her to get what I want. After 52 years of doctors treating...
  15. Ursa Major
    Interesting, codetalker, because the package here in Canada doesn't list aspartame, the rules of disclosure must be different here. Even the pharmacist didn't know about it (he also read the ingredients list, and it definetely wasn't there), and was visibly upset after calling for me that they put aspartame into something like that. He thought that people...
  16. Ursa Major
    Just a note of caution here, for anybody who uses metamucil: I had the pharmacist call the 1-800 number to find out what they sweeten it with (since it says 'no sugar added') and it's actually sweetened with Aspartame! That stuff is pure poison. I put it back and didn't buy it, even though my doctor advised me to use it. Psyllium may not taste good, but at...
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    Karen, what is the Clonidine supposed to be doing? It seems rather illogical to use it. Especially because low blood pressure is already slowing you down. And despite people claiming that low blood pressure is no problem, it can be a concern, too. And then to lower it more seems very irrational to me! By the way, did you know that apples lower your blood...
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    Hi Karen, your hemoglobin appears to be 114, and normal is between between 140 and 160. Every time mine went below 120 a few years ago, I'd be so weak that often I was unable to get out of bed, because my legs would simply buckle. Your ferretin is 10, normal is between 50 and 300 (under twenty is definitely anemic, mine has now gone to 94, from a level...
  19. Ursa Major
    I am in my fifties, too, with four grandchildren (soon six). I just found out I have celiac disease, plus other severe intolerances. I am doing the research, reading the books, learning all I can. Before I knew about my celiac, I knew that my grandchildren have food intolerances (which aren't as severe as Celiac disease, so you don't have to be quite...
  20. Ursa Major
    I doubt that dyslexia is CAUSED by gluten, but I'm sure being glutened isn't exactly helpful to somebody with dyslexia. So, in that sense, I'm sure somebody with dyslexia can think more clearly and do somewhat better on a glutenfree diet, if they are intolerant to gluten. I have dyscalculia, and there is no doubt that numbers aren't as confusing to me...
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    Wow, Nini, thanks for the picture! Right now I'm a size 20 (down from 22 three months ago), but had several setbacks that stopped the weightloss. Now that I figured out the other intolerances, I am losing weight again. I hope to show a picture of me being skinny in a year (or at least a size 14).
  22. Ursa Major
    Bridget, you might want to try stevia. It's a herbal sweetener, completely natural and you only need to use a very small amount. You find it in health food stores.
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    I disagree whith this quote. Celiac disease is a misnomer, in my opinion. It isn't a disease at all, but an extreme intolerance to gluten. You don't consider people with a peanut allergy or a pollen allergy diseased, do you? When they get in contact with the allergen, they get sick, or might die (as in peanut allergy), but they are healthy people who react...
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    My only son is also 22. He says he doesn't care, he doesn't want to know, he says he feels fine. He is the most scatterbrained person I know, definitely ADD (not officially diagnosed), and I told him that there might be a link, because gluten affects the brain. Oh well, I can't make him, he is supposed to be grown up and is married with his own house.
  25. Ursa Major
    Hi Nicole, I used to get the same problem. I'd something pretty much go into shock and lie down after, because I would be so ill and faint. Without gluten that doesn't happen. Potatoes will cause a reaction almost as bad, but it isn't quite the same.
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