Jump to content

Jestgar

Advanced Members
 View Profile  See their activity

  • Posts

    9,196

  • Joined

  • Last visited

  • Days Won

    42

 Content Type 

Profiles

Forums

Events

Blogs

Celiac.com - Celiac Disease & Gluten-Free Diet Support Since 1995

Everything posted by Jestgar

  1. Jestgar
    probably polynuclear lymphocytes or neutrophils Sorry, I can't find what it means either
  2. Jestgar
  3. Jestgar
    Anything with that much sugar and chocolate is bound to taste great!!
  4. Jestgar
    My niece wet the bed until she was 15 or so and started taking a hormone thing. Some people's bodies just are really slow at making the chemical that tells your body not to make urine at night. Don't stress over it.
  5. Jestgar
    Hi Phillip, You may have inherited Celiac, but not yet have any symptoms. Even if all of your tests come back negative, and you decide for whatever reason that you do not currently have Celiac, pay attention to your body so that if you do develop the disorder, you will know sooner, rather than later.
  6. Jestgar
    Hi Laurie, The other option is to just diagnose yourself and completely remove gluten from your diet. You will do yourself no harm and may discover that you feel so much better that you choose never to eat gluten again.
  7. Jestgar
    Hi Elaine, and welcome. There are a variety of tests, and all of them require that you continue to eat gluten. Some of us are self-diagnosed, we stopped eating gluten and discovered that we felt so much better that it wasn't worth continuing to feel bad just to convince a doctor. I know it feels like you're caught in a windstorm and you don't know...
  8. Jestgar
    I don't eat a lot of legumes or soy, although I have been scarfing down those peanut butter cookies. I was gonna try those with almond butter anyway. I'll try the glucosamine/chondroitin. Do you remember how long it took for you to feel an effect? (Days or months?)
  9. Jestgar
    My favorite method is to put a really greasy chicken on the grill, then forget to check it and have the whole inside of the grill catch fire so you have to race into the backyard, pull your chicken out of the flames, blow it out, turn off the grill and wait for all the flames to die down so you can scrape the burned crust off of everything. I'm pretty...
  10. Jestgar
    Wow, thanks for going all through that. (I mean talking about it, not being sick for the benefit of my education ) I was wondering about the connection between length of being really sick and length of time to heal. I had totally forgotten about all the associated issues that also arise from Celiac and constantly damaging your body with gluten. I...
  11. Jestgar
    Actually the ice cream idea sounds great. Soften some ice cream and make up individual servings by scooping and spreading the softened ice cream over the cupcakes in their wrappers and put the whole thing back into the freezer. You've just frosted your cupcakes with ice cream and no one will know they're kind of squishy in the middle.
  12. Jestgar
    I find, that for mild depression, it works for me to sit on the couch, put a blanket or coat over my head, form my expression into the must miserable one I can come up with, and in a dismal voice say "mope.....mope...." over and over. Usually within a few minutes I realize how ridiculous I am being and it helps me regain perspective. It doesn't do anything...
  13. Jestgar
    The answer is Yes, depression and anxiety are related. I've never tried any drugs, but St John's wort has been shown to help with mild depression. It also can interfere with other drugs (like birth control pills) so research what else you're taking and whether or not there is a problem.
  14. Jestgar
    Are you kdding me!!! I would have never considered that!! Thanks for bumping this Pilgrim South, I missed this post before.
  15. Jestgar
    Carla, how long do you think you were sick/really sick before you stopped eating gluten?
  16. Jestgar
    Maybe a mix of corn and tapioca starch? Or maybe any starch, as long as you like the flavor in whatever you're making?
  17. Jestgar
    I think you could be. You can be allergic to any protein. The difference is which cells in your body respond. There is also something called non-celiac gluten intolerance which could very well be not-yet-celiac gluten intolerance.
  18. Jestgar
    Oh, sorry. I didn't recognize it as an exsasperated rant to blow off enough steam to keep you from doing something you shouldn't do. I do remember your job post. Have you figured out how you're going to approach it? Change jobs? Threaten lawsuit? Take two weeks off everytime you get sick?
  19. Jestgar
    One?!?!? Sweetie, every week has a weekend.....
  20. Jestgar
    ...You are THRILLED that you now have an excuse not to go to all those community fund-raiser breakfasts. (For all us introverts).
  21. Jestgar
    The other option is, take some time to teach them how to correctly prepare your food. If you explain that you would like to have a restaurant that you know is safe and you can bring your clients, do catering from, etc, they might be willing to go the extra couple inches in order to keep your business.
  22. Jestgar
    dates are very sweet. You'd have to play with the texture a bit.
  23. Jestgar
    There was a study where they fed potentially Celiac babies gluten starting at different months (3-6 months, 6-9 months) and found that babies who started eating gluten sooner had more of the painful symptoms. Babies who started eating gluten later still developed the damaged villi, but didn't have the gastro symptoms. So Noah could still have Celiac,...
  24. Jestgar
    I just read through a section of an article that reviewd many studies on bone loss in lactating women. Most of them were after 6 months of breast feeding, and all of them returned to normal after weaning. It also said that calcium supplements didn't help, but that was in women with normal absorption, so you are kind of a wild card for this one.
  25. Jestgar
    Hi, I just did a quick search on PubMed for you. Pregnancy and lactation can cause a bone loss of up to 5%. I didn't read the articles, so I don't know how long the women were breast feeding. It reportedly returns to normal once you stop. It seems to me that just correcting your diet by going gluten-free will begin to help your bone density, and will...
×
×
  • 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.