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    Rusla, what form is this? I haven't heard of it, but obviously need it, too. Where do I get one? That's interesting and amazing, that a doctor will send someone for Celiac testing for a bad back! I have had a terrible back since I was seven years old. By the time I was in my twenties I'd put out my back regularly, and that only stopped when I went off...
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    Patti, I am still pretty new to this. But I know I felt much better when cutting out the lectins. With the rice on Monday, one of the symptoms definitely was that my eyes were tearing badly again out of the outer corners.......something that had been bothering me for years and cleared up since cutting out gluten and lectins. And the eggs made my feet, knees...
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    Another way to find out about intolerances (and it won't detect all of them either, obviously, because it didn't even say that I am intolerant to wheat, never mind a lot of other things) is with a Vega machine. Naturopathic doctors might have them (not all of them do, but German ones are more likely to have them, since it's a German invention). I got tested...
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    ARCHIVED New Doctor...

    Ursa Major replied to Rachel--24's topic in Doctors

    Rachel, I checked out the link, and that place looks just awesome. A chiropractor studies just as long as an MD, and actually has more classes in diagnostics than an MD. And he is a doctor of Chiropractic. They also get more training in nutrition than medical doctors. Sounds like you're in good hands. My chiropractor is awesome, too. I go to him with...
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    Susan, I have a brother who also tested allergic to beef and pork. But it wasn't the meat per se that was the problem, but the hormones and antibiotics the animals are fed, as well as beef being fed grain (they aren't meant to eat grain but grass). He can eat all game (deer, rabbit, wild turkey, goose, duck etc.). You should try either finding these...
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    ARCHIVED Uti?

    Ursa Major replied to num1habsfan's topic in Related Issues & Disorders

    I am glad you went, Lisa. And you know what? It's not likely anybody will even notice you taking the pills. Besides, I am sure you're not the only one having to take some sort of pill at lunchtime! Actually, until the lab results come back, the doctor won't know exactly what you have, either. He just decided that your symptoms look like a bladder or kidney...
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    ARCHIVED Uti?

    Ursa Major replied to num1habsfan's topic in Related Issues & Disorders

    Lisa, I really hope you went to the emergency today. How did it go?
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    Thanks, Dani and Michelle for your support. Dani, I am glad I may have helped you find what may be causing your problems on top of gluten. I don't think I have IC. I have been somewhat incontinent since having a cesarean section in 1981, because the catheter gave me a bladder infection. I've had recurring infections, irritation and stress incontinence...
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    I also have had bladder problems, even though it was never diagnosed as anything but an irritated bladder or bladder infections. Anyway, the reason I am answering the two of you is, that you sound like you might be having an intolerance to salicylates. Here is a link to another thread that might shed some light on this for you. Look at the lists and...
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    I'm sorry about your ongoing problems, Lisa. Really really look at all your options and see if you can't get out somehow. By the way, I got my drivers license when I was 35, because (after being hit by a car at the age of 15) I was afraid of cars coming from the right (it would make me shake). But that fear just disappeared when I started driving! And...
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    ARCHIVED Lectins

    Ursa Major posted a topic in Related Issues & Disorders

    Well, as you can see in my signature, I excluded all lectins from my diet for several months, because I suspected them to be a problem. I decided to test this theory now to be sure. So, I ate rice three days ago. The result was a bad stomach ache, a backache and sleeping until the afternoon the next day (I couldn't believe it when I looked at the clock...
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    Amanda, I'm sorry you got glutened. But I am so glad I read this thread, because I had been using some rice dream lately and have been feeling bad! Now I know why. But I also just found out that rice is a big problem. Now that I've been off gluten and lectins for three months, I decided to confirm the lectin thing, and ate rice last night. My reaction...
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    Good for you, Sally! I am always glad when bad things that happened to me won't happen to somebody else. Lets hope that both your moms will live long and healthy lives! Stef, ich bin von Hamburg, meine sechs Brueder und meine Schwester sind noch immer dort. Ich glaube, du bist auch im Zoeli Forum, stimmts?
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    Hey Stef, that's great! I wished I'd have had the same opportunity as you. But my mother died of liver cancer in 1986, before either one of us ever heard of Celiac disease. She had all the same symptoms as me.
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    Actually, looking back at my answer, it isn't entirely accurate. I got a heavy feeling in my stomach shortly after eating that pizza (doubting the celiac, wanting to know for sure a few days ago). A stomach ache not long after. And the next morning I was wheezing and feeling really tired and apathetic (which lasted all day), before finally, 24 hours after...
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    Rachel, I am sorry you have to have surgery for polyps, but glad that at least your nose and sinus problems have been figured out. Hopefully you'll feel much better after the surgery. Hearing that the polyps made your nose raw makes me think. My nose is always crusted on the inside, and I get nosebleeds. And I always have a headache. I had polyps removed...
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    Well, it seems that my reaction time is getting longer the longer I am off gluten. When I was so ill last summer everything I ate went right through me after about half an hour. Two weeks after going off gluten it was about half an hour before I got pains everywhere, and about an hour before the diarrhea. A little over a month ago, it was almost two hours...
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    I sometimes get awful stomach pains. My stomach was very inflamed just before I figured out what the problem was. I found that taking sepia (a homeopathic remedy found in the health food store) helped with the stomach ache (its supposed to help with inflammation anywhere). I take six of the little pills under my tongue (30C strength), and sometimes repeat...
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    Okay, confession time. Did I mention CHOCOLATE? No, I didn't. I was in denial, I love chocolate. I thought that surely, nobody could expect me to give up EVERYTHING!!!! I did test intolerant to chocolate three years ago, but that's the one I ignored. And now I gave up everything else I like, and thought that just plain, dark chocolate couldn't really...
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    Hi, Danemom, What your kids are experiencing sounds an awful lot like withdrawal symptoms to me. You see, gluten causes addiction, because it acts in your body much like an opiate. So, when you go off it, you'll react as if you are quitting an opiate cold turkey, and therefore you'd expect withdrawal symptoms. Don't panic, give it a few weeks, and their...
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    I've avoided everything white for the past 25 years, meaning white sugar, flour, rice, vinegar, just because those are very unhealthy. Of course, now I avoid the whole grain flour as well. I avoid dairy, it gives me stomachaches and diarrhea. I tried yogourt yesterday, because that used to be okay, and I got an instant stomach ache, so that's totally...
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    I find that the things I liked are irreplacable. I have always hated Canadian bread, and ate only German rye bread all these years. I have never liked eating any bread where you can take it and squish the whole loaf into a little ball. I've always felt that you might as well eat cardboard. Obviously, there are absolutely no replacements that would be in...
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    Thanks for that advice. I am really tired and can't think straight, which I know is because of that pizza. The french fry episode is already about four weeks ago, so can't really effect me any more. But I am sure I got glutened eating at other people's houses over Christmas, because I was feeling worse and worse. But that could also be, at least partially...
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    Actually, I tried the cauliflower that way once, and it was pretty good. The only problem is, that I can't have dairy either, and so can't put real milk and butter in. It doesn't taste as good with substitutes, I'm sure. Still, my husband actually loved it (I liked it better the next day, I heated the leftovers in my frying pan). Thanks for reminding me...
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    I do a lot of meals in my crock pot (slow cooker), and since I can't eat potatoes, I use rutabagas instead, as well as a lot of carrots. My meals don't cost a lot at all. I don't replace anything with gluten, except for the very occasional time I make some brownies (maybe once in two or three months) for a treat. I don't miss those things made out of flour...
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