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  1. eleep

    ARCHIVED Celiac Sprue & Doctor Too!

    eleep replied to RKB-MD's topic in Doctors

    Welcome! If the general groan-inducing title of this thread is any indicator, you'll be a great addition to the community! eleep
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    ARCHIVED Anxiety

    eleep replied to meggy's topic in Coping with Celiac Disease

    Therapy is great for dealing with anxiety -- don't overlook exercise as well, however. Even when I'm dealing with really giant life-stressors, I'm a whole lot calmer when I workout -- even if it's only gentle yoga and walking, which is about all I can do when I've been glutened. Meditation is also a very powerful way of dealing with anxiety, although it...
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    It must be particularly tough when you're in cooking school and have to deal with gluten-containing foods on a regular basis. I know that I didn't really feel like I "missed" pizza until my roommate ordered take-in pizza from the best place in town! If that stuff were in front of me all the time, I might be tempted to cheat too! eleep
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    Yep, I know that. This guy went through a lot with me over the past few years, however, with my mother's long decline towards death, my health stuff, his degree and jobsearch and a union-organizing campaign that we both busted our butts for to the detriment of our personal stress levels -- and I can't fully blame him if it's been hard for him to tell me...
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    ARCHIVED Up All Night

    eleep replied to elonwy's topic in Coping with Celiac Disease

    Ergh -- sorry to hear about that. I know how you feel -- I'm so jealous about the foods I can eat and my healthy-time now that I get super-frustrated when I have a setback because of something I'd previously thought was okay! eleep
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    ARCHIVED Dizziness

    eleep replied to jesscarmel's topic in Related Issues & Disorders

    Ear stuff, sinus stuff, hypoglycemia or withdrawal could all cause this. I had the same thing -- I have noticed that my sinus stuff is totally gone now and it was with me for years before going gluten-free. eleep
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    Well -- my life is about me right now, the guys can wait. If they're still around when I've got the time for them, then I might need more advice -- you've given me so much that's been useful already! Frankly, I may even be outgrowing the need for advice as I get healthier! I find that listening to myself is the best advice I can get. My therapist seems...
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    I watched my mother die a very hard and lonely death from lung cancer a few years ago. It really changed my life -- although I wasn't fully aware of it at the time. It was less the lung cancer than the fact that the rest of her life had been so hard -- and, I suspect, she wasn't actually bipolar or schizo-affective or whatever they argued she was. She...
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    Ha -- actually, this might be the place to confess that I'm pleasantly surprised at some of the attention I've gotten since the breakup. That ex-boyfriend from my 20's I mentioned above has been very attentive to me on the phone and, when I mentioned to him that I was coming up North and was considering heading over to visit him at his parents' summer camp...
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    Yeah -- you're right. One of my worst habits is to think I haven't made myself clear and then I over-communicate or second-guess myself! I also don't want the "I'm still dating and dateable" thing to mis-translate as "I'm fixing to go out and find someone better than you, so NYAH!". I may be dating, but I'm not playing games. eleep
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    Yes -- I really think we need to communicate better. We made the mistake of trying to do this over email and it went really really bad really fast. I was also unable to not send him email for a while which he felt was an effort to pursue the relationship exactly as it was before -- things got so tangled up that I ended up telling him all this stuff about...
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    My acute withdrawal symptoms lasted about a month or so. If you're serious about seeing how this works, I'd give it a good 4-5 months. I feel for your child as I had quite a few tantrums myself after going gluten-free -- upsetting, because I thought this was something that would instantly "fix" everything -- I wasn't prepared for the withdrawal and it nearly...
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    I am doing well. I've been teaching and working on getting myself through my Ph.D. qualifying exams -- there have been some hitches with funding and such that have kind of made me stressed at times, but they are things I can deal with -- although they may mean that I don't finish this degree in the long run, I'm trying to get myself into a position where...
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    Ha -- not right now! Ask me in three years, though. I doubt it. eleep
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    Yes, I should add that my father has had Type I diabetes since he was three -- he's now 71 and otherwise in perfect health with none of the complications one would expect to crop up for a lifelong diabetic. When we were growing up, I completely chafed at having to adhere to his strict meal schedule and the fact that I always felt he was overly critical...
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    I've only had time to scan through this thread, but I agree that sometimes friends and family may be trying their best to be supportive but their own self-destructive issues get in the way sometimes. I've really noticed that my celiac has become kind of a lightening rod for some of my friends' own anxieties about their health and behavior -- in some...
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    Grrrrrrrr. That's just making me mad! We need them to say "gluten"! I think I need to go for a run.
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    The very first night I went gluten-free, my boyfriend had promised to make dinner, but I was trying to lie down because I'd come off a week of eating a lot of bread and felt miserable -- not to mention the fact that I'd returned that day from the GI doctor with totally inconclusive test results and no support or advice other than "see if it makes you feel...
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    I have to second that last post -- the Ore-Ida tater tots are on Heinz's list of gluten-free products, but I did have a slight reaction after eating some last night (not too debilitating, but definitely a reaction and definitely from the tots). I think they must be produced in a facility which also processes things containing gluten, so it's a cross-contamination...
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    ARCHIVED Stress

    eleep replied to flxmanning's topic in Coping with Celiac Disease

    Yes, I can attest to the fact that stress makes it worse as well and that it's really important, when healing, to have de-stressing techniques, methods, etc... at your fingertips. I went through a personal crisis just as I went gluten-free and the ensuing chaos has, I'm pretty sure, delayed my healing quite a bit -- too much new stuff was going on at once...
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    I use Armour turkey breakfast sausages. My heart goes out to your daughter -- she's lucky to have you -- potstickers are one of my favorite things as well! I don't have a recipe, but, when I've got some time, I intend to do some work on finding/concocting one! eleep
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    Local health food store -- the brand is Country Life -- says "no gluten" on the label, which I'm pretty sure I trust because charcoal and gelatin are the only ingredients.
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    I can't remember who posted about this stuff initially, but it really seems to have helped take a bunch of the horror out of getting glutened. I had a cross-contamination issue yesterday when my roommate and I got our mayonnaise jars mixed up (I'm still learning -- I should have labeled mine more clearly -- I knew there was a risk and I just used the stuff...
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    I switched to Science Diet indoor catfood -- because I didn't want to gluten myself, not my cat! There's too much catfood dust and such flying around every morning when I feed her. However, my cat's litterbox seems much more pleasant to empty out these days! eleep
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    ARCHIVED Rough Time

    eleep replied to Chrisser's topic in Coping with Celiac Disease

    Now that tuna comes up again, it reminds me that one of my favorite things to do lately has been to go to the really good fish market and get sushi grade tuna. I don't have time to roll out sushi right now, but I do make a spicy tuna tartare thing by chopping it up with a little mayo, tabasco, sesame oil, soy sauce, rice vinegar, salt, pepper and . Don...
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