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ARCHIVED Does Anyone Feel Better?
Laura replied to SteveW's topic in Post Diagnosis, Recovery & Treatment of Celiac Disease
Count me as a success story. Going gluten-free was like trading in a Honda Civic with 90,000 miles on it for a brand-new Accord. I felt so much better in so many ways that I was surprised when I realized it hadn't cured the ligament damage in my ankle or my fear of heights. -
My doctor was the one to say celiac. She thought of it only the second time she saw me come in sick. The first time I was sick it looked like just really bad food poisoning, but the second time she said you just don't get this sick twice without an underlying condition. My immunoglobulins were low, so she checked my IgA, and when that was low she said...
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I definitely recommend the Annie's Naturals salad dressings. For baked stuff, all the Gluten-Free Pantry mixes are good, though my best is the chocolate chip cake and cookie mix, I make the cake and it's excellent. Sometimes I find gluten-free baked goods a little dry, but not that cake. Also, if you go on epicurious.com, there's a recipe called something...
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Did your diet get worse in some other way? It can be hard to maintain a healthy diet when you have to eliminate so many things. Is there some nutrient that you got mostly through foods containing gluten or through something you ate with a food containing gluten that you didn't get on a gluten-free diet? You don't say if you were diagnosed celiac with...
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I've had lifelong insomnia, but since it was from the first day my parents brought me home from the hospital, I don't see how it could be related to celiac disease since I'd not had any gluten then. (Before you feel too sorry for my parents, know that once I did get to sleep I slept through the night.)
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In Princeton, at Princeton Gastroenterology, Anne Swedlund is my doctor and she diagnosed me really quickly and is super nice and informative. I'd definitely recommend her to anyone.
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ARCHIVED After 14 Months
Laura posted a topic in Post Diagnosis, Recovery & Treatment of Celiac Disease
This is my first time here, but I was diagnosed 14 months ago. And I suspect I'm going to go on a bit, for which I'm sorry. I just feel this really deep need to assess where I stand right now, and I actually originally was going to go see a therapist but then I thought I'd try this first, since maybe the thoughts of other people who've gone through the...