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Honestly, I've been kind of a career graduate student while I've been struggling with this stuff -- lucky to have found consistent sources of funding through research/teaching assistantships and the occasional student loan to get me by. A few years ago, a therapist suggested that ADD was the problem, and I did take Adderall for a while -- which helped somewhat...
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ARCHIVED My Blood Test Results.
eleep replied to lemonade's topic in Celiac Disease Pre-Diagnosis, Testing & Symptoms
I'm another one of those "doesn't eat much gluten" negative blood test results people. I had some anxiety and uncertainty after I got the results back as well, but I'm pretty certain that my symptoms correlate with eating gluten -- I also have a father with Type I diabetes (so there's a possible genetic susceptibility link) and I can definitely look back... -
Funny, I was training for my first half-marathon when I caught on to the celiac thing myself. My diet was actually pretty un-gluteny (for someone with no knowledge of celiac or gluten), but I needed to consume extra calories to support the training and I started eating a lot more carbs from wherever I could find them -- it was a box of Mac and Cheese that...
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I've found that meditation works for me when I don't have the energy to fully workout or do yoga -- oddly enough, I'd always assumed it was the physical exercise before the "corpse pose" in yoga class tha calmed me down, but I stumbled into a meditation class last fall in a period when I was overcome with exhaustion and I realized that regular meditation...
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ARCHIVED Test Results Negative
eleep replied to eleep's topic in Celiac Disease Pre-Diagnosis, Testing & Symptoms
Thanks, That helps a lot. I guess I'm going through that emotional uncertainty about whether this is all in my head or not -- but my body knows it isn't. The confusion I'm feeling now is emotional, the confusion I felt a week ago was a foggy brain, achey kind of confusion that made it impossible to think straight or get any writing done on my dissertation... -
ARCHIVED Test Results Negative
eleep posted a topic in Celiac Disease Pre-Diagnosis, Testing & Symptoms
Well, I dunno. My blood test results showed no nutritional malabsorption problems, and the celiac panel results were as follows: IGG <3 IGA 3 TTG, IGG <3 TTG, IGA <3 I also have high levels of beta-carotene (although I think I was supposed to have fasted before that particular test and I didn't) and some test called LD was flagged as... -
ARCHIVED Daughter's Depression And Meds
eleep replied to ERA's mom's topic in Parents, Friends and Loved Ones of Celiacs
Cognitive Behavioural Therapy can be a very good way to get healthy emotional/life habits and structures in place to help her weather all this stuff. It won't "cure" seizures or anything like that, but it can help make her more resilient. -
ARCHIVED Somebody Whack Me On The Head Please!
eleep replied to CMCM's topic in Coping with Celiac Disease
Even before the possibility of having celiac came up for me, I'd radically changed my diet over the last few years in an effort to deal with my fatigue and foggy brain symptoms. So, I went through a long process where I was eliminating things from my diet -- or cutting back a whole lot. Dairy was one -- I love cheese, but I was eating way too much of it... -
I don't know about how to deal with a reversal of cortisol patterns, but I do know that regular exercise (especially aerobic exercise) can help to manage high cortisol levels. Basically, anything that's good for dealing with anxiety -- meditation, exercise, etc.... will help regulate cortisol levels. Maybe this will also help you to reset your natural rhythms...
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I have an on/off again twitch in my left eye which tends to show up at times when I've been eating a lot of gluten -- these also tend to be higher-stress times because that's when I've been more likely to grab sandwiches and cook pasta than put on a pot of bean soup. In the process of getting tests done and whatnot, I've been eating a bit more gluten ...
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ARCHIVED gluten-free Backpacking Food?
eleep replied to eleep's topic in Gluten-Free Recipes & Cooking Tips
Thanks! This is very helpful -- I had the trail mix thing covered, but we also go on long trips and pack weight/whole meals/nutrition are a big issue. I guess that the extra dehydrated meals will all have to be consumed by my boyfriend when he hikes the Benton MacKaye trail this summer for six weeks. This is the first thing that's made me start to cry... -
Ummmm, We're about to head out on a hike next weekend and I just looked into the box of Enertia trail foods dehydrated stuff we got for Christmas (two sampler boxes) and realized that I probably cannot eat any of it. So, before I go do some yoga and calm myself down over this one, I thought I'd post to see if there are any other gluten-free backpackers...
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2nd -- perhaps 3rd the beans thing -- any legume really helps fill me up and I know it's high fiber and plenty nutritious. I've got a great recipe for lobio -- which is a kidney bean/walnut vinaigrette salad thing -- actually, I got it from the Moosewood Cafe _Daily Special_ cookbook -- which isn't gluten-free, but does have a ton of gluten-free recipes...
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Most beer definitely isn't gluten-free -- it generally has barley malt (as you mentioned above). I know this because my fiance is a homebrewer and we're in despair of my ever being able to taste his beer again (let alone the fact that we may need to ban his brewing supplies from any other kind of kitchen use).. e.
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My boyfriend and I had already switched to Barilla Plus for our dry pasta before this whole gluten-free thing became an issue. It's a wheat pasta -- but also with lentils and flax seed. He was wondering if we could find a recipe for lentil pasta dough that was gluten-free -- he wants to use the pasta machine. Anyone got a recipe?
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Oh wow -- I'm new to this -- haven't been officially diagnosed yet, but I became aware of _some_ kind of gluten-related issue recently because I'd already cut a lot of gluteny carbs out of my diet two years ago. Things went pretty downhill after holiday eating. I'm making myself sick now eating just a peanut butter sandwich every day while I wait to have...
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I've just posted on some related stuff in the thread about anxiety -- one thing I said there that I think really relates here is that brain chemistry can change over time in response to long-term, un-dealt with anxiety, depression, etc.... -- that is, anxiety and depression that aren't managed earlier on (perhaps through lifestyle changes, perhaps through...
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Just a note to people wondering about taking "anti-depressants" for anxiety -- most of the serotonin-influencing antidepressant pharmaceuticals and supplements (the SSRI's and the 5-htp, etc...) are used to treat anxiety because there's _some_ connection between serotonin, a few other neurotransmitters and the cortisol/adrenaline systems (these are the ones...
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ARCHIVED Questions About Testing/biopsy And Low-gluten Diet
eleep replied to eleep's topic in Celiac Disease Pre-Diagnosis, Testing & Symptoms
Thanks everyone! Yeah -- it's been difficult to keep eating as I usually do lately without feeling somehow that I'm really poisoning myself, but having grown up with a Type I diabetic father, I know how much of a commitment making really definitive dietary changes can be. I can say that -- now that I'm keeping a food diary and logging GI symptoms -- I can... -
ARCHIVED Questions About Testing/biopsy And Low-gluten Diet
eleep posted a topic in Celiac Disease Pre-Diagnosis, Testing & Symptoms
Hi all -- I'm new to this forum and the whole idea of celiac -- I stumbled across the disease when I was researching what appeared to be a bad reaction to holiday eating and, in particular, a white pasta experience that really threw me off. I'm 36 and have had a lot of the celiac symptoms in somewhat manageable form for most of my life since college (oddly...