Jump to content

Laura

Advanced Members
 View Profile  See their activity

  • Posts

    103

  • Joined

  • Last visited

 Content Type 

Profiles

Forums

Events

Blogs

Latest Celiac Disease News & Research:

Everything posted by Laura

  1. Laura
    What I told is pretty much the full story, albeit bare-bones version. I was in the hospital for what they were thinking was violent food poisoning (which it probably was, they just didn't yet know it was complicated and made more extreme by celiac), and the nurse on shift was a pretty abrupt, unpleasant person. She'd already yelled at me about several...
  2. Laura
    Jacksmom, It sounds like both you and your son should be tested for celiac disease and/or go on a gluten-free diet. Definitely when your son goes to the doctor, ask about testing for celiac. I know how hard it can be to be assertive with a doctor, so if it helps, print out a lot of information and bring it with you, or write down your questions in advance...
  3. Laura
    Ok. I have completed my experiment. You can freeze these cookies. Straight from the freezer they're cold (duh) and crunchy but they taste fine. The microwave and the toaster turn out to be about equally good ways to warm them. They retain a little crunchy/chewiness but they also get soft and melty in the middle. I am very full now. But happy...
  4. Laura
    I think this really gets to the question raised in another thread about can you keep celiac disease a secret. And more broadly, how do you talk about it to people. I think that like many things about people, celiac disease can look like a MAJOR problem or it can look like a pain in the neck but not a huge deal. In fact, I think you can use it to show...
  5. Laura
    You know what I do with chocolate chip cookies? I freeze them and then when I want one, rather than defrosting it in the microwave, I put it in the toaster. It kind of gives it that warm-from-the-oven taste and texture much better than the microwave. So I froze a few of the peanut butter cookies and I'll try defrosting them each way and see what if anything...
  6. Laura
    My secrets are all just fattening foods. And they're mostly only secret from my mom. Oh, well, I really like egg creams. Chocolate syrup, milk, and seltzer. I guess I almost always have that when I'm by myself. I read that up to two ounces of oats a day was probably ok, but that cross-contamination might be an issue. So I don't know quite where...
  7. Laura
    Ohmigosh. I just made these -- the first recipe, but then I thought the vanilla in the second recipe was a good idea so I added some vanilla -- and they were SO good. I can't stop eating them. Do they freeze well? If they do, I'm totally going to keep a batch in the freezer at all times so I can just pull one cookie at a time out to snack on, rather than...
  8. Laura
    I didn't have anxiety, but I had depression, which I know is a condition often related to anxiety. It never occurred to me it was related to anything physical, until after I'd been gluten-free for 3 months suddenly I was happy all the time. I had weight gain, gas, constant colds, sinus infections, and when I got food poisoning or a stomach flu, I got...
  9. Laura

    ARCHIVED Need Good Gi In North Jersey

    Laura replied to sarahnaser's topic in Doctors

    If you're willing to go to central New Jersey, I really love Dr. Anne Swedlund at Princeton Gastroenterology. I've said it more than once around here, but I consider myself so lucky to have a doctor who tested me for celiac disease the second time she saw me come in sick. I had no chronic GI symptoms, but she was seeing me for the second time with a sudden...
  10. Laura
    Hi Sharon, Welcome! It sounds like you have so many different things going on that it's hard to know what symptoms a gluten-free diet might help with and what are caused by other things, but I do know of people who have found that their joint pain lessened on the gluten-free diet, and my own experience was that things I had always thought were just the...
  11. Laura
    He has a very nice website at Open Original Shared Link, with pictures and nutrition information. Some of their foods is also casein-free, lactose-free, corn-free, soy-free, if that matters. My grocery store had the cinnamon-currant english muffins, which I'm definitely getting next time I shop, to hold me over until I can make the trip to Mahwah.
  12. Laura
    Last night I made the mistake of grocery shopping while hungry, only it turned out not to be such a big mistake because I looked in places I hadn't before and I found these Foods by George brand "English Muffin Buns" in the freezer section. They are definitely the best gluten-free bread I've had. Foods by George is located just an hour or two from where...
  13. Laura
    neRdz, If you can eat corn, corn tortillas are really helpful. I make cheeseburgers, tuna salad, chicken breast, just all kinds of things, and eat them wrapped in corn tortillas. And obviously there's all kinds of mexican food you can make that way. One of my favorite easy lunches is quesadillas -- I put cheese in a tortilla and microwave it for 45...
  14. Laura
    Not that it won't be terribly difficult for your son, but he won't have a chance to develop favorite foods that have gluten in them, so it'll be a different kind of difficulty. I guess it's like, would you rather be blind from birth and not know what you were missing or would you rather have the memory of sight so you know what other people are seeing? ...
  15. Laura
    I'm assuming that since you're being careful to read ingredients you've checked out the chicken you're eating -- I know some chicken has broth injected into it or something like that, and the broth could be a culprit. Other than that, all I can say is I hope you figure it out and feel better soon!
  16. Laura

    ARCHIVED Leaving

    Laura replied to a topic in Board/Forum Technical Help

    The doctors at the health center I grew up going to had a real commitment to prevention and education. They got dumped by several HMOs through the years -- they had a desirable patient base so HMOs would contract with them, thinking it could be hugely profitable, and then the doctors would insist on doing things the way they thought was right and the HMO...
  17. Laura
    You might want to look into fibromyalgia -- what you're describing sounds similar to some of my friends who have fibro.
  18. Laura
    Kathleen, Here's a dessert recipe I posted in another thread recently. I've found versions of this recipe in several places, and I particularly like it because it doesn't involve any substitutions -- this is actually a recipe that people who can eat gluten can have. Not that I don't love cake made with gluten-free flour, but sometimes it's nice to just...
  19. Laura

    ARCHIVED Depression

    Laura replied to pogirl1786's topic in Related Issues & Disorders

    I always thought I was depressive until I went gluten-free and suddenly I was happy all the time. When I told my mom that I really thought the two things were linked, she didn't want to believe me. She did come around when she read some things that supported what I said, but it's still nice to see that I have company in this.
  20. Laura
    I've definitely had less cramps since I've been gluten-free. I also used to have the kind that just sent me to bed for a day at least. My leg muscles would spasm so badly I could barely stand. And it's a really good thing the cramps got better since I've been gluten-free, because I get my period two or three times as often (because of malabsorption I...
  21. Laura
    I actually make a flour mix that includes potato starch flour AND potato flour (and tapioca flour, and brown rice flour and white rice flour...basically everything I can find). I think that the Gluten-Free Pantry mixes are pretty good -- my favorite is actually the chocolate chip cookie/cake mix, following the directions for the cake. Here's a flourless...
  22. Laura
    If you're willing to cook fresh fish, I've been on a big tilapia kick lately. It's a pretty cheap fish, and very quick and easy to cook. I usually squeeze some lemon juice on it and roll it in cornmeal and pan-fry it, but if you can't have corn, I'm sure that whatever kind of flour you have would work fine. It cooks really quickly, just a couple minutes...
  23. Laura
    I have friends who can't remember what I can't eat. Some of them just canNOT remember what has gluten in it and what doesn't. And I don't mean they can't remember that salad dressing or something might not be gluten-free. I mean things like pizza. Drives me nuts. I've actually started mentally categorizing my friends by who can remember and who can't...
  24. Laura
    I hate those days! I get them when I go grocery shopping when I'm hungry. I learned not to, but not until a couple times in the grocery store where I just about cried when I went past the frozen foods aisle, with all those pizzas. Now I've learned to shop when I'm not as hungry, and instead of crying, I stick my tongue out at things I can't eat. ...
  25. Laura
    I told my friends, especially because I often stay over with a lot of them and you really can't stay at someone's house and not tell them. I thought I wouldn't tell, like, strangers about it, though. But I pretty quickly decided that I'd rather not have people like waiters and stuff think that I was on Atkins when I asked for no bread. I think you just...
×
×
  • Create New...

Important Information

NOTICE: This site places This site places cookies on your device (Cookie settings). on your device. Continued use is acceptance of our Terms of Use, and Privacy Policy.