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  1. CMCM
    Hmmm...let's see. Here are some things which I now link to gluten consumption....they disappeared fairy quickly after eliminating gluten, and re-appeared when I ate it after being gluten free: Muscle & joint aches, especially neck & shoulders nausea bloating/gas/stomach pain heartburn type pain asthma/chronic coughing high BP high cholesterol...
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    Zojirushi appliances are legendary. I bought one of their rice cookers....I do basmati rice and also steel cut oatmeal for my family in it. It's wonderful....worth every penny of its somewhat overinflated price. I'd always heard about their bread makers...years ago they were supposedly the best. I don't know about that since I don't have one....mine is...
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    The GREAT thing about Enterolab is that you do not currently have to be eating gluten to show the antibodies. They say they can detect antibodies up to a year after you stop eating gluten! Just order form the website.....I'd suggest the complete panel for $369, which tests for antibodies, autoimmune reactions, malabsorption, the gene test, and a casein...
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    I was never much of a drinker....but beer used to make me sick...now I kow why. Now I drink red wine and love it....once you get into the various wines you come to really appreciate them. Wine doesn't bother me in the least. Robbin...which genes do you have? This is very interesting....
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    Like anything, Atkins dieters can and have gone way overboard on the fat thing....and that's not good. For myself, I don't eat anything more high fat than I did before, and that's not much. The 2-week induction phase is the most limited...only 20 g of carbs, which gets used up by the 3 cups of vegetables you eat. After that phase you add in more veggies...
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    All I can say about myself is that I went gluten & casein free but still felt terrible, with ongoing D and other stuff like before. Not the great improvement I'd hoped for. Than as a side issue, since I want to drop 15-20 lbs. or so, I remembered being on the Atkins diet 3 years ago, and how shocked I'd been at how GOOD I felt on that diet, plus...
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    Karen, I agree with you completely! Alan....if you had done a very thorough reading of this forum you would see that many many people were desperately ill for many many years (some unable to even work), with doctors barking up all the wrong trees, doing test after expensive test, prescribing entirely inappropriate drugs, and telling their patients it was...
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    In a few places I read about the body's ability to adapt and tolerate (to a certain degree). I believe I experienced this.....I definitely had periods of time where I don't believe gluten was bothering me (much). Other times the reactions were quite strong. For years I was subconsciously limiting gluten (and dairy), so perhaps that had something to do...
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    Bad Experience With Dr.s?

    CMCM replied to a topic in Doctors

    I have questioned doctors over the years, but it was obvious they knew NOTHING....hardly even what test to order!!! A few years ago I had blood tests (not even the correct ones) and a couple of doctor visits and I found out NOTHING...but ended up paying more for this than the Enterolab test cost. The fact is, doctors don't know everything about every...
  10. CMCM
    Actually....I try to look at this in a positive way: Celiac disease has a dietary cure and doesn't require drugs. And on a gluten free diet, celiac disease goes away.....at which point you only have a predisposition to it if the outside stressor (eating gluten) is added. So diet is the cure! You just have to re-focus your ideas about eating...it's...
  11. CMCM
    Another thing...you tested with a celiac gene and a gluten sensitivity gene, like I did. Also, your fecal fat score was in the "normal" range, as was mine. So what does this mean? I am still trying to find out more, but it does seem that neither of us has malabsorption going on. That's good. Perhaps celiac isn't present yet.....but gluten sensitivity...
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    After I got my Enterolab results back and found out I had to go both gluten and dairy free, I was still having lots of digestive upset. I worried about eggs and soy, so later on I got the Enterolab egg/soy/yeast test, which came back negative. (Thank goodness!!). What I realize now is that I can't handle starchy things (potatoes, rice, corn...similar...
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    In all the reading I've done,I don't think I've ever read that "slightly damaged villi" mean you might have a problem in the future....rather, it means you have a problem NOW. Something is damaging your villi. Sensitivities other than gluten can also do that....dairy, for example, if you are casein sensitive. But from your descriptions, it sure sounds...
  14. CMCM
    The human body does NOT need gluten to be healthy. In fact, in my opinion, our bodies were not designed to digest grains and that's why so many people have problems with them. It would not possibly impact your pregnancy to be gluten free....just be sure to eat healthy vegetables, fruits and protein sources and you'lll be fine. And Ursula is right....
  15. CMCM
    You kind of have your answer with how you feel eating vs. not eating gluten. For you at this point, it comes down to being sick enough of being sick....and that will give you the motivation to follow the diet. You just need to be fed up with it all. Your symptoms were pretty similar to all mine....they all seem so unconnected, yet they are all connected...
  16. CMCM
    I'm stilll sorting all this out for myself. BUT...after I went gluten-dairy free in January, I started "testing" all these gluten free crackers, cookies, cakes, etc etc. As a result, my digestive system was a total wreck just like before, for the most part. I finally decided it was due to one or all of these items which characerize these alternate foods...
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    You haven't really said much about your symptoms....but assuming you have zeroed in on celiac as a possibiility, check it out yourself. I'd suggest going directly to Enterolab and order your own test panel, including the gene test. That will tell you a lot that you need to know starting out, it's affordable ($369 for the full panel), and you can decide...
  18. CMCM
    The really important thing to know about a diet is that you should never go into it with the idea that: 1) I'll do this diet and lose weight, then 2) I'll go back to my former way of eating. For a diet to be successful, it must involve a change of view about lifetime eating. You must understand how you used to eat (which put you into an overweight...
  19. CMCM
    To gain weight? Here's how I gain: It's easy....eat carbs....baked goods (go to the Kinnikinnick web site and order bagels, English muffins, donuts, brownies, the various breads, crackers, cookies. Put butter on them, also jelly or peanut butter. Develop a sweet tooth and be a junkaholic. If you can eat dairy....go for the ice cream. Make milkshakes...
  20. CMCM
    I just finished Day 6 on Atkins induction....I'm down 8 pounds!!! I can hardly believe it....I've tried to lose weight for so long and I couldn't lose one friggin' pound no matter what I did. I was totally frustrated. Now with no grains of any kind, no sugar, and limited carbs overall, the weight is just dropping off. It's amazing. It's almost effortless...
  21. CMCM
    The only dairy allowed on Atkins induction is hard cheese such as cheddar, full cream, or cream cheese. That's it. The 20g carb limit gets spent mostly on the 3 cups of veggies (salad mix, plus veggies such as spinach, broccoli, cauliflower, stuff like that). Plus a max of 4 oz cheese/cream etc. Less of this is probably better. When you get into the...
  22. CMCM
    I eat at Changs a lot and haven't gotten sick yet. But I'm careful there...you have multiple servers and the place is always very busy, so your gluten free status could easily get lost. One night I ordered the "Philip's Better Chicken" (which is fabulous and lemony) but when the order came I didn't realize they gave the wrong dish...I ate a bunch of it...
  23. CMCM
    We went to Outback last night....the waitress was great. She took my steak order, and then I ordered veggies with no seasonings as per the gluten-free menu, and she got a yellow highlighter on the order and highlighted the non-gluten stuff over and over (and wrote GLUTEN FREE really big on the order tag and highlighted that). I asked if I could get plain...
  24. CMCM
    I guess the question would be: Does all celiac disease start as gluten intolerance? And what if you don't have the celiac gene but you do have the gluten sensitivity one? And using myself as an example, I have both a celiac gene and a gluten sensitive one....which gene is influencing things, or are they both active? This whole area of understanding is...
  25. CMCM
    I get such pain, it's like being knifed from inside or something. I got it a few years ago on a trip to Hawaii...I was in pain with it for a couple of days, and my poor hubby was out looking for all kinds of things to help it.....heartburn stuff was all I knew to get. And he had to buy me a hot water bottle too, but it didn't really help. For most of that...
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