Camille'sBigSister

I agree with Rachel that a lot of intolerances to foods other than gluten arent from the foods themselves but the chemicals sprayed on them or leached out from the soil in the form of fertilizer, or lime, etc. Espically plants, I have problems with plant foods. All the healthy stuff.

Funnier yet, I even have sensitivies to vitamins and minerals.

I bought a bottle of Bolthourse farms mango juice called C-boost, "immune support" from the store, and it contains like 1200% vitamin C, 200% zinc, 100% vitamin A, 640 mg of potassium and right now after drinking it, (it was good tho) I have the worst headache, more worse than if I ate gluten. It has no added sugar, but 36g carbs per serving. So its comming from fruit sugar. Ohh it says 30g sugar. too.

I cant really tolerate juices and smoothies, or sorbet, anything sugary. But I think it has more to do with the fact

it also has a lot of potassium in it, my jaw pain gets worse when i eat high in potassium like banannas, and other potassium rich foods.

This may sound weird but they make me get cotton mouth, really dried up.

So, I react to a lot of vegitables and fruit juices. Which kind of confuses me, but not really because mainly I get cotton mouth from these foods. Initally I get a lot of saliva, then after 20 min I dry up and get cotton mouth, and the headache insues.

Im pretty dry right now.

does anyone know about potassium?

need your prayers!

Okay, Christine, you have my prayers. I'm trying to catch up on new posts, and thought I'd answer yours before going on. If someone far more knowledgeable than I has already addressed your issues, oh well.

I don't know beans about potassium, but the cotton mouth and headaches you mention are exactly how I react to msg. ?????????? It's so confusing!

Cissie

Celia and rinne, I'm so sorry you all are in so much pain tonight. Damn these horrid diseases!!! May God ease your pain and give you a good night's sleep.

Cissie

PICARD - Congratulations to you and your wife!!!

JULIE - Thank you for your kind words. For my part, I'm so glad I found you all!!! I feel so comfortable among you, as if I've found long-lost friends!!!

To answer your question about the state of our health in Rachelville: You can bet your tiara we are all well here! We can eat and drink anything and everything our hearts and tummies desire. We have fought the good fight, and we have won! If I may quote Alfred, Lord Tennyson,

One equal temper of heroic hearts,

Made weak by time and fate, but strong in will

To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield.

CHELSEA - Did the phenergan help? Were you able to get some sleep?

ANDREA - Amazing! Don't know how you do it, but I'm in awe!

SUSAN - Oh yes, tell the girls there are oodles of squirrels. Hey, that rhymes! The squirrels are actually quite fond of dingo dogs, and they do SO enjoy playing "Catch Me if You Can!" Jolly good fun for all, you see!

DINGO DUTIES:

To guard The Miraculous, Protective, Auxigro-Detecting Geese.

To assist said geese in the performance of their duty to herd the grass-filled cows and to prevent their straying from Rachelville.

To assume the above-stated herding and stray-preventing duty of said geese when said geese are on Gluten and Auxigro seek-and-destroy mission(s).

CELIA - Give that baby some sugar for me!

Cissie

Julie has a regal beauty and a regal grace in her postings, definitely Queen material. I agree but does this mean we are going to be looking for a King? I'm definitely leaning in the direction of a matrilineal succession.

I'm definitely leaning in the same direction!!!

Cissie

Hi, Y'all!

I'm all caught up on the posts, and trying to remember who said what, without quoting your individual posts.

PATTI - Is your Poland Springs water flat or with bubbles? (I can't remember what the fizzy water is called.) The only kind I've found here in Georgia is the bubbly kind, and I don't like it.

RACHEL - I think you're absolutely right about ice cream!!! I used to think I was lactose intolerant, but after I learned about MSG and all the other crap that's in ice cream, I found some that's junk-free. Yea! Thanks to this incredible string of yours - No problems!!

JULIE for Queen - I vote aye!

DONNA - I'm so happy to hear your good news about benign biopsies!!! You must be on Cloud Nine!

CHELSEA - Hmmm . . . Flushing and spots? Reaction to MSG, red wine, niacin, or anti-biotic? My niece has the same symptoms if she drinks red wine. I think the butterfly rash of lupus goes across the bridge of the nose, and you said you didn't have that. Oh, and how about rosacea?

Cissie

Wow....busy night here in RVille

First off...Geese would make LOUSY cattle gaurds. They would keep flying away, and are obviously WAY too busy keeping us all safe to guard the cows!!

No, no, NO, darlin'! You must understand: Our geese are miraculous and multi-talented!!!!! They LOVE guarding our cows, and would never dream of flying away unless their charges were safely ensconced in our barn!!!!! SEMPER FI - That's our geese!

Cissie

Minister of Defense, in charge of The Miraculous, Protective, Auxigro-Detecting Geese

RACHEL! How absolutely fabulous about the ice cream!!! I was on my way to bed, but stopped to read your looong post. I'll say an extra prayer for you now.

Cissie

Cissie - - I think time moves somehow at warp speed, and yet not at all, in R-ville - - it's magic....but as you can see, lots of reading required...I'm just glad I type 82 WPM (recent typing test).....

Um, your last paragraph is just so, poetically hilarious.....soaring above the masses....right, we will NOT be living any sort of pedestrian lives in our geese-graced utopia!

where do you live? I am sensing a southern-belle-ness here....

the exact sentence is this, I found it: "The Cambridge ladies live in furnished souls, ... They speak of God and Longfellow, both dead." E. E. Cummings - a Harvard wit and professor, but not ee cummings of the small letters and no punctuation

happy to oblige, ma'am....er, Little Lady

Ah, yes, R'ville IS magic

I live in Lilburn, Georgia, but was born and raised in Memphis. We talked (about 100 pages ago) about Elvis, and JLL, the pianist.

I had forgotten about E. E. Cummings. Thanks ever so much for coming up with the line. LOVE e.e. cummings! I have a rather good collection of his works. "Humanity i love you because you are perpetually putting the secret of life in your pants and forgetting it's there and sitting down on it...Humanity i hate you" Well, something like that. I'm too tired to look it up. It appealed to me during my Bohemian period. When we have a lovely spring rain, I always think of mud squishing delightfully between children's toes, though that wasn't exactly the point of the poem. "in Just-spring when the world is mud-luscious...." Oh, and "how should contented fools of fact envision the mystery of freedom?...."

I've gone off on a tangent again. It's way, way, WAY past my bedtime, but guess I have insomnia tonight. I hope I haven't accidentally ingested MSG.

I'm worried about my computer; some of the letters look weird, and there are little sprinkles of debris everywhere. ?????

Pleasant dreams!

Cissie

ROBBIN, I just found this recipe of yours. It sounds delicious! I'll fix this one day next week, if the dingos will watch the geese.

Cissie

Minister of Defense, in charge of the miraculous, protective, auxigro-detecting geese.

Penguin, kiddo, (oops, sorry) -Does the pain feel like bruises in different places on your body? I hope not, but I think it really, really sounds like fibromyalgia. Many of us have that lovely condition to put on our sigs here. You should check out one of the fibro sites and look up trigger/tender points and see if you have the same type of thing. Staying gluten free will certainly help it as I am finding.

Ryan--YAY!!! A HANDYMAN!!!Geez, I wouldn't know how to act if I had a man around who could fix things with tools other than a hammer. Everytime something needs fixing, dh gets a hammer, whether it NEEDS a hammer or not. I have learned just go for the phone book or fix it myself, 'cause it will cost twice as much to fix it after hubby fixes it . He's a dear though . Does need a fashion intervention though, I doubt it would do any good at this point. The person intervened upon has to WANT to change for change to occur.

Thanks, Robbin. I'll check it out. But I don't WANT it to be fibromyalgia! Boo!

See there! I knew your husband was my husband's twin! Bad dresser and inept handyman!

Cissie

Cissie, I didn't see your original question (I'm sorry, I'm trying to keep up, but I am Long-Thread-Challenged!), but it sure sounds familiar! I can't stand it when my arms are touched. This has only been for the last 5 years, and it doesn't bother me at all if I touch my own arm, but if one of my kids touches it, my skin reacts the way my ears react to fingernails on a chalkboard. I never put it together with the gluten thing, but it makes sense, doesn't it--my arms are where my DH (or whatever horrible thing it was) appeared in all its oozing blistery glory. One arm was also where my shingles appeared, too.

Holy Rashes, Batman, I think we're on to something!

Did you see Robbin's answer? I didn't have the foggiest idea what fibromyalgia was. I'm like you; I can touch my legs without a problem. A few years ago I had a hysterectomy, and I put on my own anti-embolism stockings before leaving home. No way was I going to let a nurse do it!

BTW, one of my grandsons plays viola beautifully, and another grandson plays a mean clarinet and other instruments. He'll be a music major next year in college. And my niece! Honey, can she ever play a piano!!! She also has a beautiful voice, and I sing a bit. Also have one daughter and at least three of my sons who sing. I understand perfectly what you mean about playing by ear. I can't read notes very well, but, once I've heard the melody several times, I'm fine.

When my family comes to visit Rachelville, we'll have our Social Organizer plan a concert in the pavilion on the square. I have a feeling LOTS of R'ville residents have musical talents!

Cissie

YOU GUYS ARE LITERALLY KILLING ME........

Um, one thing I want to know, as I don't have time to read 100 pages back, is just exactly HOW These geese were hired as security? Not saying that it doesnt' make sense, because of course it does, just kind of wondering from whence it arose...and yes, the geese are in other threads now....call them back with the random song, somebody.....

I brought the geese, because Rachel was worried about our cows straying.

Cissie, you are NOT 73, you are just a goofy "young lady" aren't you???? I thought you were our age....yet my brain is so addled, I get confused about who's got what and with whom and what issue(s) and you know... I'll get the poem for

us, don't worry...

WOW! Thanks, Susan, you old flatterer, you! This afternoon I emailed one of my daughters, and I told her a little bit about Rachelville. I never got a reply. What do you think -- stunned silence perhaps? She probably forwarded to all her siblings, and I can imagine computers clattering all over the South: "We simply MUST do something about Mama!!!"

Who asked if the dingos bark? oh yes they do, the autistic one, Tika, really does (is it Donna who had one named Teaka! what a hoot!), to the point that my neighbors almost hated me, until I found geese to patrol them - - but Annie is kind of my basenji dingo, and hardly ever barks.....I will check to see if their teeth are rubber, will this impede their chances at security? I don't think it should....

Guilty again. It was I.

Cissie

P.S. How did dinner go?

Sort of back on topic: Did anyone come up with an answer to the can't-stand-to-be-touched questions? Sometimes my legs, from just below calves to ankles, feel like that. Both my sisters have the same sensations, except all over their bodies. Is this celiac-related? They are way more sick than I am. I've sent them reams of info about gluten intolerance/celiac disease, so now they're in the process of digesting it all. Oops! No pun intended!

Cissie

Do we have a geese caller?

Found them... they're here...Random Songs Stuck In Your Head

Did you get my reply? If not, I'll send again.

Cissie

Umm ummm Dingo took them over there ---->

Thanks, Celia. I'm on it.

Cissie

<<<raising hand>>>>> I know the answer.... NOPE she can't.

Yeah... our geese are even flying to other threads and now they are non-pooping geese

Ooops! I totally forgot (brain fog) to tell y'all that they only poop when in Gluten Land. They never poop in Rachelville!

So where the heck are they now?

Cissie

LOL Sorry I can't help it. I laugh out loud every time I read about the miraculous, protective auxigro-detecting gesse. They are awesome. I think I even saw that they were being discussed in another thread earlier. Gosh, our geese are becoming popular.

HOLD EVERYTHING!!!!! I'm Minister of Defense in charge of our miraculous, protective, auxigro-detecting geese, and the dingos and I have been looking all over Rachelville for them! We're a bit miffed this evening. We don't mind sharing them, but they should have had the courtesy to let us know where they were going!

Cissie

NIKKI, I'm allergic to latex, so I buy unpowdered vinyl gloves from a company in New Jersey, George Glove Company. I use a lot of them when I'm painting.

Ma'am and Miss Firstname are fine with me; it's a custom here in the South. But just wait until you're old (I'm 73.), and some stupid, middle-aged, male (It's always a male!), sales clerk calls you "young lady." The idiots think I'm stupid and senile enough to be flattered!!! A couple of years ago I decided to stop giving them a polite smile, and began a campaign to re-educate them. Now, when an idiot calls me "young lady," I say, "I know you think you're flattering me, but you aren't. I'm old, and you're insulting my intelligence."

Cissie

I took the day off, and now I'm annoyed with myself. I've gotten so far behind!

I still have a couple of pages left to read, but in the meantime: CELIA, how wonderful about your grandbaby! I have 18, but only one lives in Georgia.

EVIE, so happy for you about the good report on your husband! PTL indeed!

EVERYONE, I'll be happy to teach our new vocabulary to our miraculous, protective, auxigro-detecting geese. The dingos don't need rubber teeth, as Susan has them well-trained. However, I do hope they bark; that's how they can intimidate the geese.

ROBBIN, yep, your husband would fit very well in my husband's world!

By the way, CELIA, the real crazies in the world are boring, pessimistic, humorless folks totally devoid of imagination. We, the people of Rachelville, soar above the masses, accompanied by our miraculous, protective, auxigro-detecting geese, of course! I'm thinking of a line from a poem, "Cambridge ladies live in cloistered souls ...." Help me out here, SUSAN.

Maybe I'll have time to catch up with y'all after dinner.

Cissie

Exactly! If they didn't think we were nuts before this would really do it.

I think everyone is so funny and I can't believe some of the stuff everyone came up with. It makes me laugh

I had a vision of myself as the "Rachelville Greeter" standing on a float, you know like one of those parade floats, and it had been hitched up to the back of one of Andrea's husband's trucks, driving me back and forth through Rachelville, and I had one of those beauty pageant perma-grins and a robotic hand wave. The geese would fly over head and I would say don't worry don't be scared, those are just the protective auxigro detecting geese. Hello, and Welcome to Rachelville.

And has anyone considered the fact that we all belong in a looney bin?

Okay, I'm really shutting down now.

Cissie

LMAO...Oooops that was a typo.

I meant to say "testing".

That would be pretty damn gross if I had to taste my samples!

I knew it was a typo, but I just couldn't help myself. It was too good to pass up!

This would be the perfect time for a new person to randomly read the last page of this thread.

Protective auxigro detecting geese....THE SECRET TO EATING DAIRY AGAIN!!!!

OMG! ROFLMAO!!!

Cissie

I have to go to bed now. Y'all have worn me out. G'night to all.

No....not today. I think its been about 5 months since they told me I had it but I just never retested after the antibiotics....mainly because the stool test is kind of a PIA.

I just started the test this morning but its one of those ones where you have to give about 5 different samples over that many days...so I wont even be done with the tasting until around the weekend. Then I'll have to ship it the lab and I just scheduled my Dr. appt. For Aug. 4th. So...thats when I'll hear the results. They'll be looking for alot of stuff....not just the C.diff.

Good Lord, girl! They make you taste it? What the h*** kind of doctor do you have?

Cissie

Oh, Susan, I'm so sorry! Grief over the death of someone you love is so painful, whether it's expected or not! My prayers are with you and your family!

I send you love.

Cissie

CELIA, I'm so glad you're feeling better! What did the doc say about the cafergot?

RACHEL, what is C. Diff? Yucky, hateful old stool tests. Does a local lab do the testing, or do you use EnteroLab?

Has anyone had a problem with pickup by DHL? I'm having the complete workup offered by EnteroLab, IF my specimen ever reaches them!!! After I received the kit, I had to wait three weeks before I could use it, for valid reasons too boring to mention. Finally made my "deposit" last Wednesday; called DHL and was given a pickup time for that same afternoon. No one showed up. Called again - pickup date was set for Monday (yesterday). No one showed up. (Mind you now, the entire, 3-layered-hermetically-sealed package was sitting in my freezer. Shudder, shudder!) Called their customer service office this morning and raised cain. Success at last; package was picked up half an hour ago. HALLELUJAH!!!!!

I've been on completely gluten-free, msg-free diet for a week, and already feeling much better. I didn't need to be hit over the head to figure this thing out, but wanted to wait until after I had my specimen before going on the strict diet.

Needed to vent, so thanks for being there. (My daughter L. says there's a fine line between venting and whining!)

Cissie

Ok, whose hubby is being left behind in his seventies world? Can my hubby stay with him? They can eat tv dinners and wear goofy clothes all they want.

Celia, migraines are the worst- I hope you feel better. They can be such a nightmare, I know. I hope you can get relief. I used to take cafergot and regularly got the phenergan shots when they were so bad. Also demerol -good stuff

It's my husband, Robbin. He's stuck in the 1940s, but may have one foot in the 70s because he LOVES those horrid, ugly paneled walls! Certainly your hubby can move in with him! Does your's also wear polyester, double-knit pants? I just adore going out all dressed up and looking chic and sophisticated, but guess what he wears! A short-sleeved sport shirt (He's partial to the Hawaiian ones.), double-knit pants, and scruffy brown boots!!! His poor little ol' mama, rest her soul, used to BEG him to wear a suit and tie when we went to a restaurant, to no avail. When he and I are out, I usually pretend we're not married - just friends.

Have your migraines gone away?

Cissie

Oh, by the way, Susan has suggested that we do an intervention on my husband. Don't know if it would help, but it's worth a try!