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The famous saying is that specialists "are a special breed." I found that true on dental specialists also. They are a breed of their own. Most of the ones I have met have no manners either and they think they are royalty. I have met a few who were just terrific but most seem to be like the one you met.

  miamia said:

I do what everyone else said. I use the food for life sprouted corn and keep them in the freezer- nuke them in the microwave between 2 paper towels- Ii find if you use some sort of a paste or thicker spread this prevents them form crumbling.

I also do what everyone else does.

Welcome to the forum. Being gluten-free is not bad and if more restaurants will get on board with it, it will become easier. The biggest problem you or any of us will have is accidental glutenings and being glutened by others.

Happy Birthday, Lisa! You have a good one. Lots of gluten-free cake and rum.

What doctors should do and what they do, do are two different things.

I cut the nails last night on these hands, even with my finger tip. This morning the little nail that is left is alreayd curling down. For awhile my ridges were gone but now they are back, and they are huge.

As for fatigue I am very fatigued lately. I am a person who is used to being up at 0330 and now this morning I was in bed till 1100. I am so tired and exhausted. I think they need to put me back on the synthroid.

I found this and it mentions low B-12 and Celiac.

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  georgie said:

I've heard of this. Trying to think where. Is it Thyroid or Pernicious Anaemia?? Spoon fingernails.

Just found this.

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Noticed your signature. What do you take for Hashis & PA ?

I was on synthroid for the Hashis and for PA I take sublingual B-12, when I am a good girl. I usually forget because I am bad at meds. I was on the shots but did not want needles the rest of my life.

  dlp252 said:

Yep, I have lots of vertical ridges on my fingernails...with some of the white "clouds". They are brittle and chip and flake very easy. I can only see the moons on my thumbs and the pointer (index??) finder of my left hand.

My toenails have both vertical and horizontal ridges.

I, like you, have the huge ridges and moons only seen on the same two fingers.

I am so sorry this is happening to you. I know this is supposedly the brides day etc. You would think being a life long friend and all she would have more courtesy for you than that.

She sounds like a spoiled self-centred little brat who needs a good spanking. I would have been inclined to say,"no problem, I will just run out in the middle of the ceremony to the bathroom 1000 times because you want to poison me." I would have told her if she wanted to be that way it would more beneficial to everyone if you were not in the wedding party. Why people have weddings I will never know. Every time someone goes to have a wedding the crap that happens causes so much grief. The mother and MIL fight the parents fight, the bride and groom sometimes never make to the altar.

Sounds like this bride has become a Bridezilla. Tell her to elope and get it over with. I know I have not been much help but I don't know how you do it but I have no tolerance for prima donna's and their snooty entourage's.

In the last few years the nail on my baby finger left hand would start to curl under when it gets slightly long, like over the tip of the finger. Now, it is not just the baby finger, but the middle finger and the one next to the baby finger that are doing it on the left hand. Yet, the right hand is alright.

Now I am just trying to figure out if anyone else has this, or if I am just that much stranger than everyone else. The only other person who has this and it is just the baby finger of that hand is my sister.

I am wondering if there is any significance to this nail curling thing.

I have a friend that gets hives just when his teeth start to decay, before they even get real bad or painful, he gets them everywhere. By the time his tooth starts to hurt a litte or get sensitive his hives are horrible. Perhaps it is a dental or infection reaction to teeth or something else. I would have it checked out for things like that.

Yup, it sounds like some of my symptoms and yes Celiac can cause all of that and more.

Now some people don't want to know because they believe if they hide their head in the sand and they can't see you then you can't see them. So he figures if he ignores it and does nothing about it then it will go away. He is so wrong, it will only get worse. He should get tested because not just being your brother but your twin makes him highly probable to being Celiac.

Tell him not to be such a chicken and get something done before this disease leaves him with as little teeth as I have or worse, kills him.

I have read conflicting stuff to do with msg. Outside the fact I have a severe allergy to it and it makes me killer sick. I have read that sometimes it is gluten-free and sometimes not. So, why take the chance not only that, but my personal feelings are that the darn stuff should be made illegal.

Now to go with your punk new hairdo where are your leather clothes? You will need those and multiple piercings, before you head out on the weekend to the rave and the mosh pit.

I think that is a great idea and the card demands attention with it's bright color.

To everyone on this list; without you I would have been no where at all. I would have been lost, if not for all of you. Your support means everything and has meant everything to me. All of you are the most wonderful people. I will not mention names because I would likely miss someone and then I would feel like a bum. Just know that in just over a month it marks my one year gluten-free and all of you helped me through it whether you knew or not.

Hogs and gluten-free Quiches to all!

Welcome Aaron to the forum.

I will parrot what the others have said and will now add my parts.

You may not think it matters but believe me I would give anything more than 30 years ago to have known what you know now. If I had a diagnosis then I could have kept most of my teeth instead of the disease taking them. I could not have osteoporosis, I could have lived with less pain and debilitating headaches and medical problems. I could not have lived most of my life in the bathroom with horrendous diarreah and gas. Nothing is worse than trying to work and not sure whether you will make it to the bathroom in time or not. All it takes is a few crumbs and I am sick enough to not be able to go to work.

This is not a life I would want you to have. Believe me it will be easier in the long run for you to adjust now than later in life. I have adjusted better than some because I know how sick I get from gluten. Do not let it fool you into thinking you can get away with this in the long run.

I haven't seen Radman for quite some time.

But it is true uhmanduh, we are doing this because if one person does not have to suffer the way most of us have then it is worth saying this. I wish I would have known about this when I was your age. Better still I wish the doctors would have but many are still not well versed in this disease.

It is sad how many have to suffer because doctors can't think outside of the cracker box. I never had DH until 2 years ago. But now my DH reaction got worse instantly. Every time I get accidentally glutened it is worse than the time before. Please don't wait for big symptoms to rear their ugly faces by and consider yourself so lucky you found out now.

I was sure the real stuff was gluten-free however, I do not know about generic brands.

Is it the generic or the real stuff?

First, have your B-12 checked if it hasn't been. Now on the maybe allergic to do. If it was someone else allergic to them I would say get rid of the person and keep the animal. However, as it may be you then you either have to get rid of yourself or have shots. However, have allergy tests first.

I have never liked the cold, never liked winter, hate anything to do with it and believe me we can get it real cold here. I don't ski, see no sense in it. I want green grass and flowers all the time. From Oct - April I also have SAD. I am always cold and my work is sometimes colder than being outside, like today.

So anyone going to the convention here next Saturday Oct. 28, besides lil' ole me?

uhmanduh, I would definitely go gluten-free and the one who forced me to get on the doctors cases and literally force them to do the skin biopsy for my dh was my sister. Her questions to me were "how soon do you wish to die? Would you like to have cancer of the stomach or colon? and Do you want to walk around with your bowel movements in a bag for the rest of your life?" As my sister had Celiac friends on who is walking around with a bag due to colon cancer. She scared me to death and then I researched Celiac disease extensively before my diagnosis. I can pretty much pinpoint the time Celiac raised it's ugly head was when I was 19 years old...a very long time ago. You have a diagnosis now and it isn't that awful to be gluten-free, it does take adjustments. However, if I can do it at my age which is much older than you then you can do it, unless of course you wish to kill yourself in this manner. If you stick with this forum you will get plenty of information, support and good recipes. Consider yourself special and embrace what you are and learn to live with it.

Have them check your B-12 and folic acid. I would stand in the shower and watch my hair flow down the drain. I could fill up a brown paper bag with my hair. They picked up on my very low B-12 (pernicious anemia) but never picked up on the Celiac until last year...only because I yelled and screamed for tests.

You should be happy with big icons Susan, many women pay thousands of dollars to get big icons.