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  1. gfp
    Really hard.... Its just not that easy I found.... You go to a country where people are actually starving on the street and start explaining you can't eat this because... Half the time they will wonder if you think they are dirty and unhygenic and making excuses etc. its just a minefield. Sorry to be so negative...Ive been there and done that......
  2. gfp
    This might sound tough but its unfortunately what most of us have discovered..... It could equally be called "what they don't tell you when your diagnosed". Having gluten in the kitchen at all is a serious risk... having flour is practically guaranteed, as is sharing a toaster ... The problem is with her current "cheating" she's never going to feel...
  3. gfp
    OK sorry - Im being over direct but great news for who? You or him? I was a math whiz at 5-6, my father is a scientist and used to socialise with engineers, scientists and mathematicians (he worked for the atomic research people) .. He thought it was cool to have over friends and me do tricks ... often racing me against a mathemetician to solve complex...
  4. gfp
    Yep and on top of that if he is travelling with school the teachers can actually intervene if he does decide to cheat... Peer pressure is really hard for a kid even for something as common sense as not smoking yet lots do ... including smart ones because ultimately everyone wants to be accepted, even if they don't fit in. Being on a special diet has...
  5. gfp
    That the irony... it will cost me nearly as much to send it recorded as just pay! And why waste my time over $20? Its all to trivial to be angry .... I just think its beautifully ironic... Another one is my cell company, the main thing I don't like is they keep calling me with offers.... I keep explaining I don't want the offer... indeed I want...
  6. gfp
    An excellent reply from Tarnalberry .... I honestly think I need examples...because you can stick to the truth in many ways... My last job I quit for multiple reasons ... I mentioned some but not others.... Reasons They were dishonest with me.... when they moved me to Paris they promised amongst other things a house and a French course .. (I spoke...
  7. gfp
    I can't add anything ursa didn't say... I'm sorry you suffer so bad, I do too... and for just as long... BUT it gets better.... Sometimes people here think Im OTT on gluten risks.... I won't drink grain liquor or McDo's fries etc. and this is exactly the reason why.. along with neuro complications... I know I react and even if the glutening is so...
  8. gfp
    Talk to the ped and ask that they do it..... Yes scare him silly... but the ped telling him will IMHO carry more weight then you can alsways refer back to "the doctor said ...."
  9. gfp
    when you switch just put back some pee soaked stuff for the first few days... and gradually replace it ... you know cat's .. it's all about them
  10. gfp
    Funny thing, because of a refund onthe same card I had 20.something in credit for 3 months. Again not a lot of money but I guess they didn't send me a cheque because of all the reasons I found sending a 27p cheque stupid?
  11. gfp
    Ok, now this cracks me up Visa add some charge to my card, it was 27p (about 40c) but I have no other transacations that month on that card. I forget what is was a currency transaction... some surcharge they added the followingg month. it costs me about 50% more to post a cheque (standard rate) and about 20x more for a guaranteed delivery.....
  12. gfp
    Happygirl already explained that. I just want to add a little.... If you are making the antibodies then you have a sensitivity.... full blown celiac disease or gluten intolerance doesn't really matter...as far as treatment.... You can't just pop a sandwhich before the test... you have to be eating gluten for a reasonably* long time and in reasonably...
  13. gfp
    You can if you have room (in a dry place not a garden shed) buy bentonite in bulk... for a few $ a ton.(or just buy a 100lb sack).. this is the major deodoriser and adsorbant part.... I found you can cut it 50/50 or even 25/75 with sand...
  14. gfp
    techo asnwer Actually it has a negative milk correlation.... IgA is transferred in breast milk wheras IgG is only transfered across the placental barrier once blood is transferred after several weeks... celiac answer... How that matters is pretty much unknown... the exact reason the TTG IgA is high but the IgA is low? could mean something but you...
  15. gfp
    Deb, I know this is the internet and all but trying to guess without your reasons is a shot in the dark ...
  16. gfp
    I don't know Van's waffles but I'd definately question anytihng that is a staple. Same for dairy or soy... If you are eating anything often and that product from time to time gets contaminated or just bad QC then the chance is you will get it... and if you buy in bulk, probably quite a few.. it might just be a slight amount of CC (even CODEX gluten...
  17. gfp
    That might well do the trick In general the problem is not just husbands, many of us have family members who only half beleive us or think we are going over the top and why can't we just shut-up about it... However in most cases its just overload and thinking its an excuse... One of the biggest problems IMHO is that the lethargy and depression...
  18. gfp
    You can additionally ask to have someone accompany you and make sure your not streamrolled.... ITs much easier for a MD to steamroll one person than when you have someone to back you up... Remember its close to 1:100 people have it... so don't get fobbed off with "but its so rare" or "I don't think you have it" like Jestgar says either this or something...
  19. gfp
    This might sound extreme but .... Firstly put it in writing.... Secondly insist on a celiac panel... it seems a good idea anyway to rule out the fever being from gluten.... but if not you can have a before and after... Secondly, buy some sample bags (little ziplocks or something) and tell the hospital all the food they provide will be tested if the celaic...
  20. gfp
    I doubt he'll read it.... it will just be considered more pressure/nagging... Better to buy the book for yourself and leave it somewhere not too obvious....
  21. gfp
    That makes complete sense... its like before I quit smoking (the 1st time) I thought I just couldn't do it... impossible etc. etc. Somehow I ended up smoking again 2 yrs later... but the 2nd time was much easier... I knew it was possible and I knew after a while I'd feel "normal again" A friend who smoked 60 a day has recently given up and he said he...
  22. gfp
    Non taken, the older I get the more I realise we are all just bigger boys... Yep exactly, think about it the other way.... if you only bring the subject up when he does something wrong he's going to associate the subject with blame, nagging, etc. Each time you bring it up its a little cringe...what did I do now... Men do make efforts but...
  23. gfp
    its something on my mind too. Just to set the scene I come from a obsessively sterile environment ... when I was growing up meat had to be really dead... not just "mostly dead" (as Billy Cristal might say)... by which I mean if there was any slightly pink part it was recooked... Milk, cheese you name it, everything was sterile... blue cheese never entered...
  24. gfp
    Yes but do they have gluten-free beer! Now you say the name yep, that was it.... a real life saver for me... I honestly think hunting down gluten-free resto's I saw more of Melbourne than most people... my girlfriends family we were stopping with who lived their whole lives in Melbourne hadn't been to some of the burbs we went to for gluten-free food...
  25. gfp
    Dave they all fit depression too. All I can say is when I was at my worst I didn't even notice lack of sexual desire until I climbed out the other side. Looking back I definately did have it but at the time I was pretty much so out of it that it was the last thing on my mind. My worst times post diagnosis were when I was getting "micro-glutened"...
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