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    I, too, often find myself comparing this huge lack of knowledge on celiac disease to money-making killers of years gone by, things that now make us shake our heads in disbelief--DDT, cigarettes. How could we have not known? How can millions of medical professionals, and suffering patients, not know the insidious, far-reaching dangers that this little protein...
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    I don't want to hijack things, here, but this is a great opportunity for me to clear up a diagnostic issue that has long confused me. How can a clear line always (or ever) be drawn between colitis, crohn's and celiac? If the symptoms of colitis can be alleviated by eliminating gluten, why isn't it considered celiac in this case? I understand colitis as...
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    Yes, I had the opportunity to get an MRI done privately last year if I travelled to Gatineau and paid $800.00. It was no emergency, so I waited the seven months here.
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    Yep, there are down sides with universal health care, for sure. But Doll, I can't believe you Manitobans get ALL of your diabetes supplies paid for??! This is incredible...wow, life is totally different here in Ontario, where health care is the worst in the country. I hear things are also not good just across the river in Quebec, but here we have NO gps...
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    I completely agree...the gluten-free diet is overwhelming at first. Believe me, we ALL felt the same way when starting out. But it really does get much easier, once the huge learning curve begins to descend. One thing that really motivated me was googling "celiac and cancer" and sitting transfixed in front of the computer, taking it all in. These are...
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    It's so nice to hear great, life-altering stories like this! Good for you for finding your way...
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    It is exactly the same here in Canada--socialized health care. It's a wonderful, heartwarming idea in principle, universal care for all citizens, but in reality it just no longer works. There is far too much expensive technology now, too many aging baby-boomers, too many obese/stressed out/smoking Canadians, for the system to hold up like it did, very efficiently...
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    Peter, you hold a special place in my heart. You were the first person to respond to my very first post on here, so long ago. I was a shellshocked, overwhelmed little thing who couldn't imagine how I could possibly combine the diabetes diet and the gluten-free one...and for the rest of my life! You gave sage advice in your pm. Thanks, and HAPPY BIRTHDAY...
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    ARCHIVED Light Bulb Moment

    elye replied to KAG's topic in Coping with Celiac Disease

    Okay, I'm going to get on youtube after this and search MM out. A very effective way to approach this appalling problem of doctors not diagnosing gluten intolerance (due to ignorance, payoffs or whatever), is by addressing and educating the players who would BENEFIT financially from correcting it. One group is the rice industry, who would love to hear how...
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    ARCHIVED Light Bulb Moment

    elye replied to KAG's topic in Coping with Celiac Disease

    I have a number of theories as to why the celiac diagnosis is still not given nearly as often as it should be (people wait on average, what, eleven years to be properly diagnosed? And one in 133 people--I think it's more than that--have it?): Many doctors at every level are: -Uneducated (still!). I'm still digging to find out why that is. Many don...
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    To all my fellow celiac Canadians on here...Have a great, gluten-free Canda Day. Nobody can party on July 1st like us Ottawans--Parliament Hill is absolutely magical all day. Gonna dawn my maple leaf gear, get the red face paint on my kids, and head on downtown. 140 years young!
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    Just had this very cool math puzzle/problem emailed to me. Quite neat: You'll need a calculator for this one. 1. Punch in the first three digits of you phone number (NOT your area code) 2. Multiply by 80 3. Add one 4. Multiply by 250 5. Add the LAST four digits of your phone number 6. Add the last four digits of your phone number...
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    What great advice! Thanks so much, Doll. I have my appt. with my endo in two weeks. Yep, I've been on NPH and Toronto for almost all of my life. I am one of those anomolies who can, for whatever the reason, keep my HbA1Cs at or below 6 with these insulins, only twice a day. Many diabetics look at me like I'm from another planet when I tell them this...
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    A couple of weeks ago I posted with my questions about jetlag. We are travelling to Europe in a month, and I've never done a six-hour time change before. I got some great advice on how to best get onto the new time, i.e., plenty of water, sleeping on the flight, staying out in daylight etc. Now I have a question for any other type one diabetics out there...
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    One thing I can say for sure is that it takes many people who ARE gluten intolerant a few months, perhaps even a year, before they feel significantly better on the gluten-free diet. This is something I've read over and over here in this forum. So even though you have not yet physically responded to the gluten-free diet, you may still have an intolerance...
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    One thing I can say for sure is that it takes many people who ARE gluten intolerant a few months, perhaps even a year, before they feel significantly better on the gluten-free diet. This is something I've read over and over here in this forum. So even though you have not yet physically responded to the gluten-free diet, you may still have an intolerance...
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    I've been a type one diabetic most of my life, and a known celiac for two years. I've maintained tight control of my blood sugars for many years, but once I went gluten-free, things have gotten even tighter--I can maintain non-diabetic readings most of the time, and have stellar haemoglobin A1Cs. Grains, for me and I suspect for many, regardless of their...
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    Yes, I must say that here in Canada things are not perfect with the healthcare system...we still have waiting lists and many places have doctor shortages, but when I hear some of the horror stories from American acquaintances who have stayed sick and in pain due to the complete absence of care for them in the States, I think we've got things pretty good....
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    Wow, I've been a type one diabetic most of my life, and I know how hard it is dealing with my own insulin reactions...how on earth do you keep an eye on a hypoglycemic pet (particularly a cat)? I suppose you must just constantly be watching them for symptoms...but they can't say (like I can, to my husband/child) "whoa! Do I need sugar! Grab me some juice...
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    Way to go, Susan! We were all pulling for Stinker. My big guy Gus is treated just like a third child--but he listens much better...
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    ARCHIVED Am I Old?

    elye replied to JerryK's topic in Introduce Yourself / Share Stuff

    Funny, may dad (and his dad before him) has always had a pot belly, even when he was young and in decent shape. I'm sure now it's the celiac stomach that has made its way down the generations...to me...
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    Well, we Canucks are lucky, because CANADIAN Idol starts next Tuesday! The winner last season, Eva Avila, is amazing. Remember her name!
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    Okay...we wait with bated breath...I've hugged Gus, my big male goofball (st. poodle, not husband) many times in the last few hours, waiting.
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    Hi, Susan, Thinking about you...just lost one of our two standard poodles recently, my beautiful female, Zoe. The pain is still palpible and I feel it piercing my heart as I read your posts. Please keep us posted...
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    For sure, get the celiac panel run, as it can confirm a diagnosis if positive. However, many of us will tell you that there can be false negatives, even if you are eating gluten when the tests are run. Depending on who you listen to, the reasons for this vary, but it does happen for sure. Just something to keep in mind if you get negative results...
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