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  1. penguin
    Ferritin is different from iron saturation. Iron saturation is also called Transferrin Saturation and it's a calculation of your total serum iron and your total iron binding capacity. The result is a percentage. Here's the formula: Open Original Shared Link TFS = 100 x Serum Iron (ug/dl) / TIBC (ug/dl) Here is more info: Open Original Shared Link ...
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    I disagree with Cissie, here. We've got to have bats! They'll be hair-hating bats and will help pollenate our crops. Um, let's make them purple and glittery, just for a little flair!! They will also never go within 100 feet of Susan. Somebody's got to help the overtaxed geese and dingos Susan, be like batman! Remember why he chose a bat? Because he...
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    I'm a classic case except for the weight issue, also. I'm about 50 lbs overweight right now (I gained 20lbs in a month when I went back on gluten for further testing). It's like our bodies can grab the calories out of food, but nothing else. It's really frustrating.
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    Yeah, absolutely NO SPIDERS or I'm leaving! We should have bats to control the bad bug population. Bat's love to eat spiders I got bitten by a spider on the face when I was little. Looked like I had been punched in the eye. My mom was afraid to take me to the dr. thinking they'd call her in, but luckily, there were fang marks. All I remember...
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    Uh oh! Karen said the "A" word! Run for the hills!!! The full moon isn't even until the 8th! ( )
  6. penguin
    Claratin and benadryl don't interact, they work on the body differently
  7. penguin
    I'm a lt. governor and one of the chefs (baking, I believe)
  8. penguin
    The active sleepy ingredient in nearly all of the OTC sleep meds (nyquil, excedrin pm, simply sleep, tylenol pm, etc) is benadryl. Seriously, check out the labels. It's ALL benadryl
  9. penguin
    They may also sometimes use the scientific names for wheat and oats. Trictum Vulgare - Wheat Avena Sativa - Oats
  10. penguin
    OK - Here's what I ended up doing: I rubbed the meat (skirt steak) on both sides with garlic salt, lemon pepper, chili powder, and ground cumin. Then I put that in a pyrex dish and mixed about 1/4 c. lime juice, 1/4 c. water, ~1 tsp lea & perrins, a few drops of tabasco, and some olive oil, and put that over the meat and covered and refridgerated...
  11. penguin
    I pray that the doctors hands move quickly and precisely, and that Meg will pull through like a champ. Good luck tomorrow.
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    Well, I got a reply from the smaller (and I imagine more able to accomodate) school in town .... Chelsea, Since we are a traditional culinary school, it would be very hard for us to teach you here. Whether in culinary or pastries, we teach with and use lots of wheat flour and products with wheat in them. I am familiar with your diagnosis and...
  13. penguin
    Patti- I'm the same way with vitamins, I can't tolerate ANY OF THEM, not even centrum. Ever since I got mono, my body's not having it. I found a liquid food based iron that I can take, but that's it right now. I'll worry about vitamins later. Meredith- Have a safe incredibly long flight! I wish you many memorable adventures and delicious pavlovas!! Made...
  14. penguin
    So, I guess our organic, non-GMO, auxigro-free vegetables are also capable of pollenating themselves?
  15. penguin
    Yeah, tried that I'm already taking some surprisingly tolerable iron with b-vitamins. I think her logic is that any effort is better than no effort, and she'll REALLY start pushing the issue once I'm gluten-free again. Ever since I got mono, I can't seem to do vitamins, they make me sick. At least she believes me, I guess. Hopefully my bone density...
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    I hate Texas. I'm actually making fajitas Does anyone have a good marinade for skirt steak for fajitas? I'm thinking some lime juice, garlic salt, pepper, cumin, and chili powder.... I'm a bit of a snob and don't like using pre-blended seasoning packets. Any ideas?
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    Holy crap, where did my moons go?!?! I only have them on 3 nails now! What does a lack of moons mean?
  18. penguin
    I have to be eating gluten for 3 months before the biopsy. My regular dr diagnosed me with celiac based on inconclusive bloodwork and dietary response, but she has also made some comments about celiac being a "faddy" diagnosis right now and something about "real" celiac and it kind of freaked me out. I mean, if this is going to be on my record forever, I...
  19. penguin
    The ferritin tests from the lab my dr. uses (and everyone else in town) says the normal range is 10 to 220, FWIW.
  20. penguin
    I've been on the pill since I was 14 (I'm now 22). I had regular cycles, but I had terrible acne, so that's why I went on them. There are a few reasons they may not be working for her. Celiac prevents you from absorbing medications correctly, and the pill info inserts actually say that effectiveness is greatly reduced when D is present. For us it probably...
  21. penguin
    Two other people already beat me to it, remind me every few pages to post the link again so nobody is in the dark when we refer to spoons All of you already know this, but gluten challenges suck. I just have to make it to Aug. 21st. My mom is visiting this weekend, and I think she'll probably be shoving vitamins down my throat, as she is wont...
  22. penguin
    I've waited 4-6 hours on more than one occasion, at more than one hospital, with excruciating stomach pain (I could have been bleeding to death internally ). The only time I got treated quickly was when I had mono and they thought I had meningitis (so I got to wait for 2 hours in isolation.) It's a crapshoot
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    I don't know how y'all go outside during the summer. And dig in the dirt. In the sun. And enjoy it. Crazy people. Can you tell I have a black thumb and keep in the 68 degree A/C all day? Celia, way to think! Good job! That sounds a lot like what my allergist told me. I asked how I was ok with my cats and my house, but if I stay anywhere else...
  24. penguin

    ARCHIVED A Must Read:

    penguin replied to trents's topic in Related Issues & Disorders

    My own gastroenterologist, who gets much of his celiac knowledge from Dr. Green, whom you yourself quoted, uses the term gluten intolerance. It simply means that people have all of the symptoms of celiac disease, and are relieved by the gluten-free diet, but are not clinically proven through current testing methods to have the villous atrophy of celiac disease...
  25. penguin
    Sorry, I had 10 pages to read and they all ran together so I'm not sure I caught everything....that'll teach me to leave the cult farm Other than the pernicuous anemia, that's me! Curioser and curiouser... Maybe it is the histamine! You are out of your flippin' mind!!! Really? I was like, 4+ on...
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