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  1. penguin
    DH said I'm sick enough without being around sick people all the time. Even though most hospice patients are not contagious, he has a point. I need to get myself straightened out before I can care for others... So it is something I REALLY want to do, but it will probably have to wait until I've got my own health back... I do think it'll give me...
  2. penguin
    Holy spit, Batman!!!! Hypoglycemia is easily fixed, just eat more often
  3. penguin
    Snopes.com did a piece on this chain email: Of course these claims are false...you can read about it here: Open Original Shared Link
  4. penguin
    Mayo clinic to the rescue! Open Original Shared Link
  5. penguin
    Normal ranges (I'm reading) for TWO hours after a meal is below 120, wait an hour and see how you are I just did my 2 hour test (OW! Darn finger prick!) and it was 93 I'll defer to the diabetics who know what the hell they're talking about.
  6. penguin
    I have to say I disagree with Tiffany about bringing up non-diabetic hypoglycemia. I will emphasize that I drink coke, juice, syrup, whatever just to bring me out of the crash. I stress that eating something with carbs and protein immediately after coming out of the crash is essential. It's not that I'm against eating mid-crash, I'm just not able to....
  7. penguin
    I'm telling you, a coke or a juice box is your best friend during a crash. Eat the peanuts and (the amazingly sugary) envirokids bars after you get your sugar levels up a bit, but you're going to find it a challenge to eat ANYTHING, mid-crash. If you're testing the crashing tomorrow morning, go to sonic first and get ye a coke JMHO
  8. penguin
    I ask them to change gloves most of the time, although I've never been glutened there. I only get the bol, not the tacos, so it doesn't make a huge difference. If I got the tacos I'd definitely make them change gloves. They also use their hands to serve up lettuce and cheese, so there is a cc risk there. I always get mine without lettuce or cheese. As always...
  9. penguin
    Drink more cold water with lemon and unsweetened green tea than you think you can stand, that definitely helps take the weight off! a gallon a day!
  10. penguin

    ARCHIVED Is This Dh?

    penguin replied to schuyler's topic in Dermatitis Herpetiformis

    I had a similar situation on my face last week and it was impetigo! It's a staph skin infection and is very contagious, usually found in children. When the blisters break, it spreads as well, and looks ugly. It clears up pretty quick with a prescription antibiotic cream, though. I'd look into it...
  11. penguin
    I'm thinking of trying to volunteer for the local Hospice, and I was wondering if anyone else had experience with that kind of volunteer work, or even experience with a hospice in general. It's not like I have a lot of free time (definitely don't ) but it's something that for some reason appeals to me. I took a class on death and dying a year ago and...
  12. penguin
    Eat sugar babies for breakfast and wait an hour. That'll do it. It may be harder to have a hypo event this late in the day. Of course, you could just skip dinner, but I wouldn't reccommend it. Hypo episodes can be scary, especially if you're creating one for testing, don't want to terrify Tymber...
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    I do agree that any publicity is good publicity, but did they really have to go with craziest case scenario? Couldn't they just have somone starving to death? I've watched House on and off, and I'm just not a fan. There are better written medical dramas out there (not in terms of accuracy, but in terms of good scripts), IMO. I may be biased in...
  14. penguin
    Veggies cause the loud, non-smelly gas and meats cause the silent but deadlies. In celiacs, we're just bad off all around gas wise. I think I read somewhere that the average person has about 2 liters of gas to expell out the back end each day... Don't quote me though, I'd do a google on it, but I'm at work
  15. penguin
    Well, there goes THAT excuse for my not buying one years ago Sticking myself gives me the willies
  16. penguin
    I get little red dots that are usually due to a burst capillary vein. I get them around my eyes when I throw up, and I have some on my arm right now from scratching near a vein too much.
  17. penguin
    mission corn tortillas are gluten-free, and say so on the label!
  18. penguin
    I don't know about any other hypo folks, but things like larabars don't do an effin thing for me. They're raw fruit and run through the bloodstream really fast.
  19. penguin
    Here's what I eat for breakfast, without keeling over at my desk by 10:30... - Hot dog roll ups (hot dog, american cheese, ketchup in a corn tortilla) It's toddler food but I love it, 2 roll ups do the trick. I usually drink some v-8 also with this. - Omlette with cheese and spinach. (if you can get away with eggs) - Grilled cheese sandwich...
  20. penguin
    There's no gluten in injections, and even if there was, it has to be ingested and in the intestine. I didn't get that part either. Did they have a feeding tube in him? And why was wheat starch a binder in something injected or given through feeding tube? Why were they giving drugs like that orally anyway in a baby that little?
  21. penguin
    Even if they did, it has to get into your intestines to have an effect. Steroids are awful drugs, I would say it was a steroid reaction.
  22. penguin

    ARCHIVED Brain Fog

    penguin replied to shellhoo's topic in Coping with Celiac Disease

    I turn into a stoned goldfish. I feel like I'm stoned (no other way to describe it) and I have the 3-second attention span of a goldfish. Really. I would have a lot of blonde moments. A lot. For example: Once I spend half an hour looking for my keys. I looked high, I looked low, and I was half an hour late for work. You know where I...
  23. penguin
    Some people have a yeast problem and they react to distilled alcohols and vinegars. Distilled liquids (regardless of their grain of origin) are gluten-free because the gluten protein is too large to make it into the steam that makes up the liquid. It's not possible for the gluten to make it in. Unless they add some of the mash back in, it is by definition...
  24. penguin
    Yes, I understand the shock value. Yes, I understand going to extremes. Yes, I understand the need for good television. I *do not* like how Celiac was made akin to schitzophrenia and other psychological diseases. Yes, there is a link, a big link, but now we all look nuts. Imagine that you or nobody you know knew anything about Celiac. What would you...
  25. penguin
    Aside from the fact that the storyline was hastily run together, there are huge flaws. When did they give her gastritis meds? She complained of stomach pain once, seconds before vomiting blood. As one with celiac and gastritis, I know the meds don't work as well on gluten, but it further confused the issue. As long as they were throwing random things...
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