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  1. DingoGirl
    Melzo..... You've said it so well I don't even know what to add. My life, I belive, would have turned out QUITE differently had I removed gluten so much sooner. It's been nothing but pain and frustration for nearly 40 years....I have been sad, literally, and felt empty, scared, and in deep psychic pain since early childhood. Medidcated since my early...
  2. DingoGirl
    I think that's what it was.....those really HOT Cheetos - I call 'em Devil Cheetos and I could eat an entire bag of the orange junk-puffs. But I was among friends and didn't want to scare them......
  3. DingoGirl
    I read the labels on the bags last night and ate two different kinds of Cheetos at a friend's....the allergens were distinctly listed (soy, milk) but I am having intestinal issues this morning. I'm sure there's no gluten, is it just because they're so artificial and processed? Adn I haven't been eating any processed foods? If so what a testament...
  4. DingoGirl
    Very good stuff to ponder. I agree, AA is really more of a support than something which addresses the issues, but it can be helpful. I drank very heavily from the age of 16 to age 21, from Thurs. to Sunday. My parents didn't really try to stop it or even address it....they either didn't care that much, didn't know how MUCH I was drinking, thought...
  5. DingoGirl
    And THAT is precisely why I take Seroquel every night, 100 mg. and I am out within an hour, for eight hours. I guess I don't even care if I have to take it the rest of my life, because it's better than NOT sleeping at all..... I plan to continue to lower my dose (used to be 300, then 200) and get down to 50, then evaluate at a later time.
  6. DingoGirl
    HI LINDA....great screening test, BTW. Good for you for quitting.....but it sounds like it's still hard after all these years. I suppose I'll always miss the "party in a bottle" and the extra fun it provided, the ritualistic part of a great meal....I am stopping for six months and then evaluating then. I can't at this point think of it as the REST of my...
  7. DingoGirl
    Yup, I know all that already....fortunately or unfortunately I come from a long line of Southern drunks with a VERY high tolerance for drugs/alcohol. And, Norwegian on my mother's side (geographical predisposition). Klonepin I use for emergencies, maybe twice a month but when the boyfriend broke up with me A-G-A-I-N - - that's when I took three or four...
  8. DingoGirl
    Oh Taz, I am so sorry. that is a terrible way to go, and just proves what an awful and very powerful grip alcohol can have on our brains and bodies....to be that sick and continue to drink....boggles the mind. Hope you're doing okay. Hugs -
  9. DingoGirl
    That makes sense.....but alcohol doesn't have anywhere near the same effect gluten does on me. But you know, since going gluten-free, I crave alcohol even more, I think. The cocktail hour USED to start at 6, and was getting earlier and earlier. And how about this, on weekends out of town or holiday weekends w/ friends, whatever, it could start at NOON...
  10. DingoGirl
    Bien, mais vous habitez EN FRANCE et c'est la.....j'ai oublier (sp?) la mot....that's what everyone does! Vraiment la belle cuisine....ah, to be a Celiac in France, je pense que c'est plus facile? Ooops - still don't quite know how to do those quotes in between like you all do..... don't bother explaining, my brain is feeble......
  11. DingoGirl
    Yup, gorgeous cat....I miss my fat, healthy, Cookster kitty....17 pounds, tortie-point Himalayan (not purebred).....quite the huntress and lived an amazing life, only sick the last two weeks of her 14 years (liver failure)..... When one of my dogs dies I am getting a kitty....so much easier than dogs. I disagree GFP, I'd rather open a can (for dogs...
  12. DingoGirl
    Are you in the military? and citizen of what country? Yup, definitely quite a life for that cat....but oh, the poor budgie. That must have been an elusive and tasty treat. As for that Libyan German Shepherd....wow, what a diet....it's just SO much easier to scoop the food out of a bag, isn't it?
  13. DingoGirl
    Oh boy...is this a timely topic. I am going through the same stuggle myself and have decided I'm an alcoholic already. My drinking has seriously increased and becoming at minimum a four-day-a-week habit. Every single person on my dad's side is or was alcoholic/addict.....they're either dead now or just not drinking/using if they are still alive. So...
  14. DingoGirl
    I know...my best friend came up wtih it as she watches me spiral continually into this mental self-flagellation .....it's SO unhealthy and we've all got to work to stop this! And it IS work to break these patterns, but it can be done. I pray a lot too, and hang around wtih wonderful people, read the Bible a lot, and just ask God to extend His grace...
  15. DingoGirl
    Hi Robbin, Boy do I know what you mean about the stinky farts....Tika's could clear a room, and she doesn't have them AT ALL any more - unless they've been naughty and gotten into something. Bil Jac is dry food, a little more expensive but worth it. And, not as expensive as the Canine ID (intestinal diet) that STILL made her have D. It IS crazy...
  16. DingoGirl
    thanks guys! .....abd you know what else....I don't have to scrape liquid poop out of the grass any more.... Such nice, formed normal stools now....another bonus! p.s. love DoctorJ and didn't know about him, thanks GFP!
  17. DingoGirl
    That's right folks..... My Stinker (real name: Tika) - in avatar photo, the difficult one on the left - she's had minor D to explosive, pure liquid poops for at least seven years. That is exactly the time she finished chemotherapy, as a matter of fact (two years of vincristine injections for lymphoma - - don't make fun of me, it was only around $2...
  18. DingoGirl
    Yes, do let us know if there will be another date! I'm SO far from being a teenager.....actually approaching menopause is more like it.... But had to read this as when I recover from the post-traumatic stress of my last boyfriend, I"ll be dating again someday. I am frequently in social situations wtih new people who don't know about my Celiac, and...
  19. DingoGirl
    Oh.....my.....gosh......THIS IS ME EXACTLY!! My friends call it "emotional cutting" - - I am beating myself up internally and one girlfriend said, WHY do you do this to yourself when you would NEVER do it to another person? And she is so right......I would never extend the kind of condemnation focused on myself to others, wouldn't even think that way. ...
  20. DingoGirl
    What? My teeth are WORSE. There are molars I can't even touch as I think there is no longer any enamel on them at all....just went to the dentist and he sort of dismissed it. Can anything be done about this? My teeth are killing me! Gums have been receding for years and continue to recede. I think one day my teeth will fall out of my head, when I'm...
  21. DingoGirl
    Must be the weather....I am in Central CA where it's so hot and feels like a wet blanket is hanging over the Valley - dangerous air quality and kids can't go out to recess - but I think it's really hot and muggy all over the country, from what weather reports look like... How sad is this, I'm going to eat dinner, clean the kitchen, throw in some laundry...
  22. DingoGirl
    Hi Thomas, That is most interesting. I, too, have catastrophic thinking, since childhood due to circumstances and family relationships, and it has carried into adulthood. Scary snowball-effect thinking....something happens and I go from zero to crazy in about 30 seconds. Very unhealthy and am trying to re-learn my thinking and my reactions to things...
  23. DingoGirl
    I got mine two weeks ago, have eaten them three or four times, and no problems! This made me pretty happy!
  24. DingoGirl
    People just don't seem to know or care, sometimes, about what gluten, or whatever the poison it, will do to them. I sometimes think people have to literally hit bottom and reach a particularly acute sense of misery to want to do anything about it. I, too, would have made the rat poison comment and will use it in the future if needed.
  25. DingoGirl
    Hi Henry, and welcome. Ditto to what the above foks said. I felt better - amazingly better - after about a week gluten-free. And then plummetted so deeply I had to go back on an antidepressant. Had ups and downs but now it's pretty stabilzed, five months in. Keep at it! You'll go through interesting physical and emotional changes, but press on...
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