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  1. michelleL
    (I'm not sure exactly where to put this...) I've just made a discovery... After years of weird cycles of having unbelievable multiple food allergies, going on elimination diets, achieving a state of having good health to a point and overcoming the "food allergies," I believed that I had celiac sprue because I for sure could not tolerate wheat and when...
  2. michelleL
    I was going to add, too, to make sure you have your own colander... (I did get glutened using a colander I had cleaned after draining wheat pasta - it's just impossible to clean all those little holes.) And I designate one cutting board as the one that wheat breads are sliced on, just so that I don't get confused, and start slicing things on a cutting...
  3. michelleL
    I, too, share a kitchen with a gluten, my DH. In addition to having my own toaster, I have my own stick of butter, too. I mark it by writing the first letter of my name on it, or I buy a fancy butter all for meself I also insist that all jams, condiments, etc. be extracted out of their jars with a clean little metal spoons, so there are no bread-encrusted...
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    oops - something went wrong with my editing...
  5. michelleL
    I never never eat popcorn from the theater - just can't be sure what they put on it. It's not like you can read any ingredients anywhere. I always bring my own. I pop it at home, season with real buter and salt, put it into a plastic zip lock bag and stuff it in my purse (I have a big purse....) I betting it was the popcorn.
  6. michelleL
    I pack a sandwich using gluten-free bread, a trail mix with nuts and dried fruits, hard-boiled eggs, cheese, and one time I had baked a loaf of gluten-free lemon tea bread so I'd have a lil' something to munch on for sure without the hassle of scrounging around at my destination and ended up eating some of it for dinner 'cuz my flight got delayed 4 hours...
  7. michelleL
    Thnkas for the D.C. tips - going there next month. This will surely help
  8. michelleL
    sounds like a good simple diet - thanks!
  9. michelleL
    This is a relief - thanks so much for advising me. I was thinking maybe there was latex in the tubing or the bag. I was breakng out in front of their eyes - it could almost look like a burn, very red and swollen. I have swollen red patches on my skin just about everywhere. I'm getting hives, too, and I do get little blisters, with most of them pus filled...
  10. michelleL
    I don't. During a Roman Catholic service, I just remain in my seat and take a mental communion, and for a Greek Orthodox service, I join the others in line to get a piece of bread, and then I give it to my husband to eat...
  11. michelleL
    Just had to respond - I have celiac sprue and alopecia. The only thing that has halted the hair loss was a gluten-free and soy-free diet, although it takes a loooooong time before the hair starts growing back again - like 1 1/2 years. Being on a "gluten-free" diet is not enough, however. I had my hair grow back with a full head of hair, happy on top of the...
  12. michelleL
    I'm not sure under which topic to put this - but has anyone reacted to a saline drip? I had to be admitted to the hospital (in short I had food poisoning, was put in the cardiology section and was diagnosed with a psychological diagnosis (panic disorder - yea, right) makes a lot of sense, eh?) I am reacting terribly now from my stay and I think it is...
  13. michelleL
    I don't think an elimination diet makes things worse. I've been on many elimination diets, and when I can't tolerate something, I can't take a molecule of it. I've been on elimination diets for a bit longer than a year (I want to say 1 1/2 years) and then try to re-introduce foods. The only thing I noticed is that I would react a little bit, with blisters...
  14. michelleL
    I used to react to corn - I don't anymore, not to say that it might come back... - 7, 9, 13, knock on wood. I was also allergic to soy, seemd to have recovered from it and could tolerate it for a while, and now I am sooooooo extremely allergic to soy, it is not a laughing matter.
  15. michelleL
    I've traveled several times now, with all very good intentions of adhering to my gluten-free/soy-free diet, being careful of where and what I eat, communicating with restaurant staff, etc. etc. etc., as well as dealing with family - which is actually tougher to deal with than restaurants..., and still, it is inevitable, I get glutened or soyed. Upon return...
  16. michelleL
    I bought some marshmellow from Whole Foods and reacted terribly - I can't recall the brand name. They come in a clear plastic tub. I think they may be dusted with flour.... and when something is dusted or coated, it's not necessarily considered an "ingredient" per se and may not be listed, as raisins coated with soybean oil do not have soy listed in their...
  17. michelleL
    Does anybody know what those little brown kernels are in the French Green Lentil Beans usually from a bulk food aisle???? I heard that they are wheat kernels, but cannot swear by it... If it is wheat, or other source of gluten, is it OK to eat if one were to just pick out these kernels before cooking?
  18. michelleL
    Hi there, Thanks for your feedback. This notion that soybean oil is tolerable to those with soy allergies is very recent, within the past year. This is a frightening "truth" sadly accepted by the medical community because that means pharmaceutical drugs could be made with soybean oil with the thought that it will be tolerable and deemed not to be allergenic...
  19. michelleL
    Is there such a thing as having a soy intolerance? I cannot tolerate soy at all, besides of breaking out in hives et al, I get periods of extremely jitteriness/have had an anaphalactic attack (I'm sure my sp is off here...)/rapid heart beat/extreme digestive distress. The big key factor is that I react to soy oil, which apparently has now been determined...
  20. michelleL
    Ener-G does do gluten-free wafers - I saw a box of them at my local gluten=free store...
  21. michelleL
    I hard boil some eggs and take them along. I also make a trail mix with almonds I roast myself in the oven (350 degrees oven, about 10-20 min. - keep an eye to make sure they don't brown too much), dried fruits (people with soy alergies, watch out for dried fruits - often are coated with soy oil and not listed on ingredient label, since not really an ingredient...
  22. michelleL
    Never intentionally - the symptoms are too severe (hair loss being one of them is a great motivator...)
  23. michelleL
    Thank you very much again - your suggestion was literally and figuratively a real life-saver. I was a little apprehensive, myself, at first - but wow, is it so easy, and no having to take a pill a day at the same time anymore. It's also nice it has a low hormone level, too.
  24. michelleL
    The best 3 oils to use are: olive, sesame, and almond. The worst 3 are: soy, canola and safflower. Insects won't eat any part of the rapeseed plant (from which "canola" comes from) - it is poisonous to them. It's like a natural pesticide.
  25. michelleL
    I cannot tolerate soy at all. It's gotten so bad, I can't tolerate "regular" toothpaste. First, it was just hives. Now, I'm having attacks where I can't breathe. The most recent one, I really thought I was going to be a goner for sure. (I've renewed my rx for the EPI pen after that one...) And this was a drug reaction, in which I discovered that one of the...
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