kari

okay, long story short... a few years back, when i was away at college, i came down with a 'cold' that lasted for months. when i finally went to my university health office, i was exhausted and miserable all the time and was constantly dizzy and depressed. i wasn't going to class, or leaving my room. i slept all day. they tested me for mono more times than...

I noticed the change too, and stopped buying them just because the price had gone up so much. But the 123 calories before was definitely not 'per crust', but 'per serving', which no doubt is smaller than one of those crusts. also, I haven't tried the new crusts (again, because they're just so damn expensive, and I usually just use one then the rest get all...

wow - if I hadn't known better, I would have thought that I had written that myself!! You're probably... 17 or 18? and you probably don't realize it but you are very fortunate to have figured this out at this time. You have your whole life ahead of you, though you may not realize it. And believe me, there is life beyond high school. I also dropped down to...

argh. i've been trying so hard to live gluten free. i'm not overly paranoid about it though, i want to live my life. but it's seeming more and more like this disease is the most horrible unfair torture out there and i hate living this way. before i knew i had celiac disease, i spent years not wanting to get out of bed. being depressed, irritable, anxious...

i should hope you're not eating sour cream that was on the shelves before jan 2006! if that's the case, i'd say any resulting sickness would be from the over a year old rotten sour cream, not from modified food starch!

I can't believe i've never heard of this product before. I work in a restaurant and when i'm pms'ing, the only thing in the world that i want is a big plate of french fries. I know ours are pure potato, but they are not cooked in a dedicated fryer, but around that time of the month I usually snag a couple and hope for the best, which is usually just a minor...

i'm just getting over being glutened twice in the past week and spent the day in the hospital yesterday for a nasty kidney infection that honestly came out of nowhere and i suspect had something to do with my immune system being under a great deal of stress. normally, in social situations like this i'd bite my tongue and deal with the possibility i might...

vodka does not have to be potato vodka to be gluten free. as far as i know, there really is no reason for vodka to have gluten in it. also, every bar i know of has a separate cutting board behind the bar for cutting fruit and only fruit, and it is washed every time it is used. there is no other use behind the bar for a cutting board, so there isn't really...

it is my understanding that for the most part, liquor is gluten free. it is distilled. when i drink, i go for whiskey, vodka, or margaritas and have never had a problem. then again, i've only ordered margaritas from the restaurant where i work and we don't use any of those processed mixes, just juice, etc. but the tequila, vodka, and whiskey have never been...

powderprincess, which restaurant are you talking about? i'm in ma also and yes, nancy m... i think i've officially decided chefs are appealing as dates. i'll have to stick to chefs from now on in my dating endeavors

a lot of these posts have mentioned that if you eat at a nicer restaurant, you're more likely to have a good experience and get out of there un-glutened. i agree with the fancy restaurant thing. so much so, that i had to post a new topic about it. i've worked in restaurants for years, waitressing and bartending, and with the schedule you keep in that business...

i'm confused now. i happened to have a packet of it in my cabinet, and the ingredients: maltodextrin, salt, monosodium glutamate, onion, garlic, parsley, buttermilk, spice, and calcium stearate - are not on the "forbidden ingredients list". where's the gluten? the only possible gluten i could even see heree would be maltodextrin, and we've all been told...

my symptoms started as i was going though a breakup with my boyfriend of three years and was failing out of college due to severe depression (which i know recognize was one of my main symptoms of celiac). my diagnosis came two weeks before my brother died of cancer. i've heard that celiac symptoms in adults can come up in times of severe stress and...

i eat tons of green veggies. that does contribute to having really really dark stools, though i wouldn't necessarily say they're exactly black.

i've been a waitress for.... probably about 8 years now? until the couple of years of doctor's apptmts, etc. leading up to my being diagnosed this past february i had never ever heard of celiac disease or gluten before, and had never met anyone with celiac disease up until today. well i just worked a double shift at the restaurant i've worked at for the past...