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  1. Ursa Major
    Liz, since celiac disease is hereditary, and you have become so much healthier on the gluten-free diet, it is very likely that you do have celiac disease. There is still one option for diagnosis that is going to work, and that is testing through Open Original Shared Link. It will still be accurate up to about a year on the gluten-free diet. If your parents...
  2. Ursa Major
    Char, you've heard it from the previous posters, but it won't hurt if you hear it again: YOU'RE A GREAT MOTHER! You would only be a horrible mother if you would purposely gluten your child to torture her. But this was an honest mistake, which you will learn from. Emmah will survive, kids are tough.
  3. Ursa Major
    Yay, I LOVED that show segment, it is awesome! That is a great fun way of making people aware of celiac disease and gluten-free living, without making it sound depressing.
  4. Ursa Major
    JUDY, INSTEAD OF SENDING IT TO YOUR EMAIL, JUST COPY, OPEN YOUR MICROSOFT WORK, OR WORD, WHICHEVER IT IS YOU HAVE, AND PASTE IT IN THERE. YOU CAN CHANGE THE SIZE IN THERE, TOO, AND YOU SAVE YOURSELF ONE STEP. And Lisa, I agree. It is awfully hard to read those long paragraphs, and to keep your place while reading them.
  5. Ursa Major
    I've done a cruise a year ago, which was all inclusive. And there they only have what is on board already. You may have to do what I did. Email them, explain your dietary needs, make absolutely sure they understand, and make them promise that they'll look after you and do their utmost to keep you gluten-free. Make sure that you explain to them what...
  6. Ursa Major
    I wouldn't mind some of your snow! I am in Canada, we are supposed to have tons of snow and ice right now, and it is so warm (the warmest winter in recorded history) that our maple tree in the backyard is actually BLOOMING! So, since I am allergic to maple pollen, my nose is all stuffed up, and this is not supposed to happen until April! I just hope that...
  7. Ursa Major
    Geoff, click on 'options' in the right upper corner of the first post of a thread, and then click on 'track this topic'. Since I've never done it, I don't know what happens then, and how you know when there is another reply.
  8. Ursa Major
    I hope you feel better soon. No matter what they say about the chocolates, you better avoid them from now on.
  9. Ursa Major
    I am glad you're feeling better. Good luck with the cheese!
  10. Ursa Major
    Jerry, for your information, Pennsylvania Dutch is a misnomer, as it should be Deutsch. Somehow when those people came over from Germany, English speaking people couldn't pronounce Deutsch, and pronounced it Dutch, and it stuck. Some of them stayed in Holland for a while after fleeing Germany (because of persecution), before sailing to America, which could...
  11. Ursa Major
    Jerry, not getting enough fat is NOT a good thing. Your heart and brain can't function without enough fat, and really, neither can any cell in your body. The myelin sheath around each cell is made from fat, too. You still mistakenly believe (as do most of those ignorant doctors and the majority of people, having been brainwashed all these years) that...
  12. Ursa Major
    Char, some people have tried deducting their foods, and found it wasn't worth the time and effort. You can only claim the difference between what regular food costs, and what gluten-free food is. So, then for every loaf of bread, every pack of cookies, every pizza, you'd have to go and find the prize of the normal item, and deduct it from what you paid for...
  13. Ursa Major
    Kelly, just be aware that most doctors still mistakenly believe that milk and soy are healthy, and that most people are fine with it. Which is a far cry from the truth. Your doctor may just tell him that it couldn't be the dairy. Really, eliminating it to see what happens is the best test. Also, I didn't think about this earlier. But have you really...
  14. Ursa Major
    Jerry, maybe you are not getting enough fat. Your body absolutely needs enough saturated fat. The fat to avoid like the plague it is, is hydrogenated fat, and partially hydrogenated fat (trans fat). The healthiest saturated fat is coconut oil (make sure it's not hydrogenated, it's best bought in a health food store). If you don't get enough fat and protein...
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    Terri-Anne, when I look at what you say about your kids in your signature, I see four kids with symptoms of celiac disease. I think you would do well to have ALL of them tested. And to have yourself and your husband tested as well. The reason your son's tests came back negative when he was initially tested was probably because he was off wheat for four...
  16. Ursa Major
    Hi Kelly, and welcome to this board. It sounds to me that, rather than being glutened, he might be intolerant to dairy as well. A lot of people with celiac disease can't tolerate dairy or soy either. Try eliminating dairy and soy for a while, to see if it improves things. But I hear the gluten guard is an excellent program, that really helps with shopping...
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    I take a multi by Open Original Shared Link, that is guaranteed to be hypoallergenic. It is called 'Super New Thera, hypoallergenic capsules'. It says right on the label that they are casein and gluten free. But in smaller print it says that it does not contain casein, gluten, soy, wheat, corn, milk, sucrose, artificial flavor, flavorings, preservatives or...
  18. Ursa Major
    Well, obviously your doctors don't know what the heck they're talking about. Your Enterolab results clearly show that you have the celiac disease genes, are intolerant to gluten, have malabsorption due to villi damage (meaning, you have celiac disease), are intolerant to dairy and soy. Meaning, you need to eliminate gluten, all dairy and soy for life....
  19. Ursa Major
    Elizabeth, I am sorry to say this, but it isn't like you don't really know already anyway. It appears that your dairy intolerance is back in full force. Eating cheese can't be worth getting sick all over again, when you had been feeling so well. Plus, with all the many glutenings you had over the holidays, I expect that it will take a little longer to...
  20. Ursa Major
    Here are my thoughts: I don't believe that your dairy intolerance can be gone this quickly, it usually takes much longer. Your symptoms are quite typical of dairy intolerance. I also felt a ton better within two weeks of starting the gluten-free diet (and after a couple of weeks I eliminated all the other lectins besides gluten as well). All my aches...
  21. Ursa Major
    Those blood tests are quite unreliable. Many here had negative blood tests, and even negative biopsies (these are known for false negatives, too) and had positive tests with Enterolab, and a very positive diet response. I say your next step should be to try the diet. If you see positive changes and still want an official diagnosis, you can still do Enterolab...
  22. Ursa Major
    How do you feel? Are you making progress in your healing? It is really impossible for us to make that call. If you are feeling bad, and think that something else might be wrong, then a doctor might be able to help you (and I say might, as there is no guarantee). On the other hand, if you feel like you are getting better on your own, why bother with doctors...
  23. Ursa Major
    Patti, I'll be praying for a quick recovery, too. Take good care of yourself!
  24. Ursa Major
    Geoff, with eating gluten light for quite a while, and gluten-free for over a month might cause you to have a false negative biopsy. Eating lots of gluten for one week won't change that fact. So, don't be surprised if your doctor claims you definitely don't have celiac disease. It will be pretty useless to eat lots of gluten now, and will make you sick...
  25. Ursa Major
    I am sorry it ruined Christmas and New Years for you. I hope you'll feel better soon.
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