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Thank you! yes, I've read that. last week was unavoidable as I was maid of honor in a wedding and had several days of events but it was a good lesson. I plan to stay away from restaurants if at all possible this summer (my dad is even asking the restaurant where we are having my bridal shower if i can bring in my own food since they got poor ratings on the...

Hi everyone, just wanted to give you an update - my biopsy was positive and I was diagnosed with Celiac's on Thursday. I started eating gluten-free the day of my endoscopy and got much better at first but then had a lot of events at restaurants and even though I told them I needed gluten-free meals, I started getting even more strong reactions to gluten....

I received the Zojirushi BB-PAC20 Home Bakery Virtuoso for Christmas this past year. I asked for it because I thought I could make gluten-free bread occasionally for friends with Celiac's. This was before I knew anything about cross-contamination, so I've been baking regular bread in it for the past 6 months. Now that I have to go gluten-free I'm not sure...

I hear you!! I am also getting married in September and am having an outdoor tented reception where I have to bring in each thing separately... meaning the cake is not provided by a venue. I also cook and bake a ton so I'm very sad about this whole gluten thing. I originally wanted a really specific flavor that i was dictating to a friend who was going to...

Well the endoscopy and colonoscopy came back normal except for some hemorrhoids (I'm 28 so I feel like I'm a little young for those?). I'll find out the biopsy results on the 18th. The doc said to keep eating normally/gluten for now. I questioned how the endoscopy could look normal with my blood tests and he said to just wait for the biopsy results and if...

I'm very nervous for my biopsy tomorrow. Not so much that I'll be diagnosed with Celiac, moreso that I WON'T. It would actually be somewhat of a relief to have an answer to my symptoms and a plan for how to get better. I'm scared that if I turn out to be biopsy negative, I'll seem like a hypochondriac if I go gluten-free based on serology. From what I read...