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ARCHIVED Dealing with Celiac
AmandaWiggin replied to AmandaWiggin's topic in Coping with Celiac Disease
I was lucky and had a good GI doctor who referred me to nutrition and I now also use an app on my phone called the gluten free scanner. Life is certainly not easy, I don't eat out and most times we have to prepare two meals in my house... sadly I don't know where in my fam the celuac came from.... my grandmother has no want in being tested... -
This year has been a very trying year for me. In October 2015 a blood lab was done that had shown me as Celiac positive.... due to having no gastrointestinal issues at the time it was told maybe it was a false positive to go about my life, unless symptoms showed. then the weekend before Easter 2016 I went to NYC for a show and after a 3 hour drive home...
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ARCHIVED How much is too much gluten?
AmandaWiggin replied to jkittyberry's topic in Coping with Celiac Disease
The way my GI doctor explained too me was that it depends on how advanced your Celiac is. For example some people can tolerate a small amount of gluten and so it would take longer to have any effects. but someone whose advanced and cannot tolerate any gluten, not even traces (me for example) I can't go out to eat because even something that says gluten...