celiac3270

Updated May 22, 2005

You might be celiac if...

1. The centerpiece on your dining room table is a bread machine.

2. Your bread looks like a moon rock and tastes like dried out Play Doh.

3. Your bread weighs more than any moon rock could possibly weigh.

4. The only way you will eat your bread is toasted.

5. You've paid over $5 for a loaf of bread.

6. You make your own pizza

7. You visit a health food store at least twice a week.

8. You buy most of your food on the Internet.

9. One of your primary goals in life is to create "Fake Oreo Cookies" (and/or Cheerios)

10. There are Garage Sale stickers on all your kitchen food containers.

11. You have argued about and read articles about distilled vinegar and oats.

12. You've disinherited loved ones for putting their knife in your mayo.

13. You've ever been caught licking a discarded Twinkie wrapper.

14. At Christmas, visions of guar gum dance in your head.

15. You are a strictly brand name shopper

16. You've ever had to give a doctor a crash course in Celiac 101.

17. You weep at picnics, parties, receptions and fast food joints.

18. You weep at breakfast, lunch, and dinner.

19. You've ever "brown bagged it" to an elegant dinner party.

20. You have written "contaminated" on jars of peanut butter.

21. You have become friends with the customer service representatives at every company.

22. The customer service representatives at every company recognize your voice.

23. You know the difference between an allergy and an intolerance...and you care.

24. You have two of everything in your kitchen (pots, pans, wooden spoons, etc.).

25. You are afraid of spices and in restaurants, ask for your food "naked."

26. You are afraid of and have nightmares about bagels, pizza, and cake.

27. You make many phone calls from the supermarket.

28. You know what disodium phosphate, tartaric acid, and quinoa are...and care.

29. You know who Danna Korn, Peter Green, and Anne Lee are.

30. You bring many, many lists with you to the supermarket.

31. The first thing you do, upon reaching an unfamiliar location, is pinpoint the location of the nearest bathroom.

32. You have ever tried to explain to a waiter that "it is necessary to use clean pans for you food" and he stares back at you in disbelief.

33. You ordered a salad with no croutons and the entire time its being made you wish you could go back to the kitchen and watch them prepapre it but were afraid to ask.

34. You have taken a poop at all of your friends and relatives houses, even if you just met them...

35. You have explained to people the difference/similarities between Modified Food Starch and Modified Corn Starch at least 50 times (or you know what disodium phosphate is -- celiac3270)

36. You ask Asian restaurants if they have baked or mashed potatoes

37. You ask every restaurant if they have baked/mashed potatoes

38. You've kissed someone who just drank beer and wonder if you will get sick

39. You've kissed someone who just drank a beer and you really wanted their beer instead of your vodka/tonic, wine, spritzer, ......

40. You've responded to someone's post on a website about bowel problems and were brutally honest about your own "issues with bowels"

41. You read this post and laughed because you've "been there"

42. People think you're on the Atkins diet

43. You've asked for a bunless burger...and been looked at as if you have three heads.

44. You've asked about the ingredients of shampoo

45. You post on this board...that's not funny, though

46. You've washed your telephone after your child/spouse has answered it while eating.

47. You've checked all cups in a coffee shop for crumb residue.

48. You can say Kinnikinnick 10 times fast without making a mistake

49. With just one quick whiff, you can pinpoint the brand name and fragrance of every air freshener on the market!

50. You have had to leave the room because someone else was eating Pizza Hut's breadsticks and they smelled TOOOOOOO good!

51. Someone else complains of IBS, and you tell them to quit eating gluten!

52. Or you know someone that was dx with diverticulitis and you tell them to stop eating gluten!!!

53. You don't know what a "normal" bowel movement is.

54. You thought of (or started) a topic called "you might be a celiac if...."

55. Eating out is a "death sentence" not an enjoyable event!

56. All you eat at the church pot luck dinner is jello

57. Your tears compete with your drool when you pass a Krispy Kreme!!!

58. Carry some type of medication with 24/7 (ie Immodium)

59. At least once a day smile and say, "Sorry, I can't have that"

60. Have been lectured on your crazy dieting and told to just forget about your weight

61. Have survived for some period of time solely on rice or peanut butter

62. Physically flinch at the feel of bread or similar product

63. Feel nauseous at the sight of some gluten filled food

64. Have mastered the art of passing gas in public

65. You read this list to your SO (who doesn't have celiac) and they laughed right along with you.

66. You have ever thought you might explode from holding in a fart too long while in public

67. You have ever had nightmares about being trapped in the bread aisle in the grocery store

68. You have ever had a meltdown from actually BEING trapped in the bread aisle in the grocery store.

69. You call a dream about eating pizza and chocolate cake a NIGHTMARE!!

70. You read a topic called Cheating and you just KNOW it's not about her husband and her best friend!!

71. Your answer to this joke: "Why did the lion spit out the clown?" is something like... "Because the lion had celiac and as his fangs began to clench down he saw out of the corner of his eye that the clown's hand was holding a slice of pizza ?" When the real answer is: "Because the clown tasted funny!"

72. You pay $1.59 for a 12 oz bottle of rootbeer!

73. You

Go to my controls, then EDIT AVATAR OPTIONS... you went to "personal photo" probably, which you can't do, but the avatar is what shows up next to your post. Try that

Celiac disease can be the same thing as gluten sensitivity...it's not celiac if it's "non-celiac gluten sensitivity"

I don't know if they mean celiac disease on this or not... Maybe someone who has used Enterolab before can help you.

I can't help you on that one, I've never been to TCBY...I just searched for it and regurgitated the information

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LOL ...yea, that was my dry humored side. Hey, I don't have new messages either. You usually read them as soon as they come in, so they once they're read, they're considered old.

You can't delete a topic. If you wanted to delete a post you made or accidentally posted twice or something, hit the report button next to the post by the "quote" button and explain why you don't want it there, etc. You can also ask Scott or Open Original Shared Link to move a topic if you post it under....coping, for example, and then decide you'd rather have it under the teens section. Oh, and you can ask all these things by PM or e-mail...and then you'd have at least 1 new message

BTW, sorry I took so long to respond...the topic must've slipped through somehow because I'm on multiple times a day.

The baked aren't made on dedicated lines...though I can say that I haven't reacted to the wavy lays, which also are not made on dedicated lines. The ones on separate lines are Lays Potato Chips (Classic), Ruffles, Lays Stax (all flavors), and Fritos

I never tried the pizza one because it didn't say gluten-free on the container and because just hearing the word pizza draws immediate suspicion, the way it would if you saw...brownie or cookie.

I'm eating stax right now ...on the sour cream and onion kind it says "this product is naturally free of gluten" right below the back label where it says 0 grams trans fat and to the right of the nutritional facts label. It has it in different places on each flavored container, but always on the back.

The original stax says it in the same place as the sour cream, but the others do not.

Paula, sorry, could you remind me of your address? I have so many, now, that it's hard to find

Yea...I was thinking that after I posted it, but it's an unfortunate truth... Dr. Green brought it up at a celiac conference he spoke at this year when asked why celiac disease isn't as well-known as it should be.

Welch's Juices Welch's (800-340-6870 ) (vp= 2/28/03)

All Welch's juices are gluten-free

As of 2003, gluten-free...and I doubt that it's changed. The grape soda, though, used to contain gluten (that they make)... the orange soda, or Sunkist is gluten-free. Dunno if it's still gluten-containing.

But juices are gluten-free, unless the status has changed since then.

This is the exact place to download it. You probably don't want the Yahoo toolbar, though, so uncheck that box further down the page.

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I sent it.

One thing I want to mention to everyone who I e-mailed it, too, though, is that you need Adobe Reader. You probably have it and won't need to download it. If you can't open the file, though, you can download it free at their homepage: Open Original Shared Link

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On a small scale, you can raise awareness, but that's only with individual doctors. The only large scale way to increase awareness is to create a drug that does something for celiacs (allow them to eat gluten, minimize effects of accidental ingestion, etc.)...if there's a drug--a way for the pharmeceutical industry to make money--soon-to-be-doctors will suddenly be learning a lot more about celiac disease in medical school and such...

Oooh... as much as you wouldn't want to throw it out, I wouldn't use it. On your body, I guess, it's all right, as long as you don't react to it, but on the face, I definitely would not--right around the mouth.

The article's okay except for two things, one of which is that it's supposedly a disorder of Caucasians. Although Caucasians are most commonly diagnosed, Dr. Green has said and I have read in other places (don't have links now) that the prevalence of celiac is thought to be highest in portions of Africa, where it reaches a prevalence of about 1/50.

The other thing is, the article says that we think it's 1/2000 in NA. Really, though, estimates were 1/5000 (which is about the current diagnosis rate) and it's now thought to be 1/133 Americans...don't know about Canada, but I suspect it's a similar figure.

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Good points. Definitely get your mom and sister tested-- 1/22 first degree relatives have it and they show symptoms, so it would be good to test for it.

There are many tools, though, to make it more efficient. First off, if you click more options, you can search by date range, user name, etc. Second, go to search and click advanced usage. If you want to find out, for example, if a peanut butter is gluten-free, but you don't want to get results about peanuts, but a + in front of it...that means that they won't give you a result unless it has butter in the post. So you might do:

+peanut +butter

There are others, just read it and you'll see what I mean

The ones you would probably use are gluten-free: Skippy and Jif. Reese's pb is also gluten-free.

The delphi list has an older entry:

Motts (Motts Cadbury Schwepps) (800-426-4891) (Open Original Shared Link) (vp=06/19/03)

Apple Juices (all varieties)

But I've verified within the past four or five months--gluten-free.

Here's the Irish ancestry topic:

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1/4 Swedish, 1/4 Swiss (Mom's side), and then a mix of Irish, Scottish, English on my Dad's side.

I'm your quintessential celiac...obvious symptoms and Northern European descent.

Brown hair, brown eyes, umm...don't know how to describe face shape and stuff... I'll put myself in an avatar this summer

Yes...many won't accept that you have it even with the test results. The only thing is, if you got a diagnosis (even anonymous) you would have an even more "valid" reason from their perspective...also give them so literature, maybe...print off some articles about symptoms, diagnosis, how many it affects, etc.