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  1. penguin
    Why not scratch with the real food? All the serum is that they prick you with is concentrated allergen. The skin pricks are really unreliable for foods, you get a lot of false positives AND false negatives. Seriously, the elimination diet is the thing to do, but if you're worried about a reaction, make sure your allergist knows you're doing an elimination...
  2. penguin
    Remember when flour was flour and you didn't have to know what xanthan gum was or what it does?
  3. penguin
    Tapioca starch and tapioca flour are the same. The confusing one is potato. Potato starch and potato flour are different. Bette Hagman's flour blend calls for potato starch, not flour.
  4. penguin
    Mine said something along the same lines, and that the IgE blood testing is more accurate than the scratch test, but they weren't 100% accurate at all. He said the only way to know for sure is to do an elimination diet. To quote him, "the proof is in the pudding". Or clams, or crabs, or nuts, or wheat....
  5. penguin
    Here in the US, all of the Lindt packages I've read have barley malt in them, or they have the disclaimer that the chocolate may contain traces of wheat. I would have bought it otherwise, I like Lindt! A lot of the cadbury chocolate is gluten-free.
  6. penguin
    Someone tell me how to convince my husband that the Nuva Ring is a good thing? I don't start it until Sunday, but he doesn't think it'll work, or that he'll feel it, or that it will fall out. I've explained it to him six ways from Sunday and he's still against it. I was thinking of putting it in a few days early and then, erm, proving he couldn't feel it...
  7. penguin
    I'm a bridesmaid in a wedding next month, and the bride is a close friend and is very concerned about gluten (she even surprised me with a cookbook!), but I'm not planning on eating at the reception. I'm going to nurse a boost before the wedding and sneak one after the ceremony. I could techinically call the place the reception is going to be, and I know...
  8. penguin
    My family's good old-fashioned remedy for everything ear, nose, and throat related are Hot Toddy's. Tea, honey, lemon juice, and a healthy shot of whiskey Tastes like lighter fluid but works like a charm!
  9. penguin
    I wish, too. The other things are just annoying little things that are wrong with me though... Like being allergic to air and tree nuts... and the roadmap of vericose veins on my legs... I wish the gluten-free diet would fix everything
  10. penguin
    I second the yogurt, my mom, ever the mama lion, made us eat lots of yogurt and garlic (thankfully not together) during cold season, and then gatorade, chicken soup, and more yogurt when we were sick. In February my neices flew out to see her and one of them had a stomach bug. When I talked to my neice a few days later she said, "I was sick, but Nana gave...
  11. penguin
    I'm sorry you feel so awful, I hope you find relief soon. My stomach has been screwed up lately too, as I'm writing this, my stomach feels like it's trying to eat itself again, and it's not making me real productive at work. My stomach has been messed up ever since a course of antibiotics. Have you taken any new meds or anything lately? I've started...
  12. penguin
    I know that people with an anaphalactic allergy to peanuts can't be in the same room as them, but honestly, if I had such a severe allergy, that would keep me from flying. If they have to accomodate peanut allergies, they have to accomodate every other allergy as well. I think people with dogs and cat's should have to wear a hazmat suit on planes so...
  13. penguin
    I had to take a 5 day course of Tequin (butt-kicking antibiotic) and a 7 day course of Prednisone to get rid of a nasty cellulitis infection from allergy testing (talk about your insult to injury...). I ended both a week and a half ago. Anyway, I've gained about 5-8 lbs in a 2 week time! Freaking me out! I fluctuate a pound or three day to day, but that...
  14. penguin
    I've had that happen a lot, too. Now I realize it's from gluten, since I generally feel flu-ish when I get glutened. Achey and tired and cold and crappy feeling. Chalk it up to YET ANOTHER thing related to celiac...sheesh
  15. penguin
    Given that you're a doctor, I would say that number three is a strong contender.... As an example, my "second mom"s late husband was a world renound orothopaedic surgeon, and yet both he and his wife (a teaching nurse) had a somewhat reckless concern for their health at times. Sure, they ate right and exercised, but they rode around without seatbelts...
  16. penguin
    My husband's advisor has Celiac also, but he was misdiagnosed with MS. He was actually on MS meds for a couple of years as I understand it before they figured out it was Celiac. So yes, Celiac symptoms can mimic MS symptoms!
  17. penguin

    ARCHIVED New York Fries

    penguin replied to Rusla's topic in Gluten-Free Restaurants

    LOL!!!!! That is hilarious. Funny how that stuff works. I've never seen one at Southstree seaport and I've been several times, my mom lives in NY
  18. penguin
    I'm going to pretend that I didn't read that... One crisis at a time, people!
  19. penguin
    It's a shame I'm so shy and reserved, eh? True, it's ok for Atkins I guess...especially since I now have all of their carb info! Other diets, not so much. Deep fried chicken fat can't be good...
  20. penguin
    Bob's Red Mill is on my "not my friend" list, along with Amy's, WingStop, Central Market, my local asian market, and McDonald's (fries be damned, their food still makes me sick) Gluten me once, shame on you. Gluten me twice, shame on me. As for flour, I'm in the market, as it were.... I'm thinking I'll go with the enerG stuff, no reactions from any...
  21. penguin
    EXACTLY! Who eats wings on a diet anyway? Duh, that one little paragraph is going to make me avoid you like the plague, no matter how low-carb your food is. BAH! Even if they were gluten-free, I'd probably stay away because they're so effin' stupid! Hello, it's an allergy, not a diet. Dum basses
  22. penguin
    About the Jello, BELIEVE IT!!!! If it doesn't say wheat, barley, rye, or oats, it's gluten-free! I've never had a problem. You'll come to nealy worship Kraft for allowing an iota of normalcy into your life! I'm in the zero-tolerance camp, mostly because I get sick as a dog from a molecule of gluten since being gluten-free. I also feel lots better, generally...
  23. penguin
    I emailed WingStop to see if they were still gluten-free, since I noticed a breaded item sneak on to their menu, and I didn't know about their oils, fryers, etc. I guessed they were no longer gluten-free, but what the heck. I gave them a brief description of Celiac and gluten, and they give me primarily LOW CARB INFORMATION and toss in gluten-free at the...
  24. penguin
    I was on the late end of normal, but it also depends on the calendar year you got your first period. Over the last 50 years, the average age of menarche has gotten younger and younger. The average age is now 12, as opposed to 16 a hundred years ago...
  25. penguin
    I know you're in Canada, so I don't know what your disability laws are, but at my university in the states, people took notes for the disabled (mostly blind and deaf) or those who were too sick. Every university here has a disabilites office, I imagine Canada is the same, talk to them and see if you have any options from that angle. Other than that, the video...
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