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  1. Karina
    I have this problem too. I have been to the RE and to other docs. For me, I think it is just messed up hormones that I have been trying to treat herbally. I may start myself on Progesterone cream in the next couple of months if things do not respond to my current regimine. My docs have prescribed the oral Progesterone, which I am not taking. I would...
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    You know what's wierd, is that my FIL gave me his liquid B from GNC since I was out of mine...and it does not have nearly all the B vitamins that my Liquid Health B's do...but it has lots more B 12 and I have been taking that faithfully everyday until I can get my regular Liquid Health again. The GNC has 1000mcgs in it of B12, so I have been getting more...
  3. Karina
    I wonder if this is why my numbness and tingling has come back lately? I will get it if I have been glutened like on vacation or something and it will last a couple of months or so! But you know, I improved when I was taking a liquid B-Complex with mega doses in it, and I have been off of it for like a month because the HFS where I get it was out and it...
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    Well I hope the OP has been able to get some good info from all of this. The only thing I would add is that if you havn't already had kids, you may want to wait. For one thing, you may not be able to BF with implants. Also, pregnancy, hormones, all that can change a persons body a lot and some people are bigger after having babies....even if they BF. ...
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    OK. So I am not exactly brand new to this, but I think I am realizing you can't be too careful with this disease. I am trying to really get a handle on any possible sources of gluten in my everyday life. I feel OK, but I have a lot of weird symptoms still that come and go and unfortunately I am probably too relaxed about accidental glutening. I really...
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    ARCHIVED Reflux?

    Karina replied to chrissy's topic in Related Issues & Disorders

    I would call the company about the malt ingredient. I once took enzymes that were not gluten-free, but they were wheat free (duh--it said it right on the bottle ), and I got sooooo sick for days, because I kept popping more enzymes, thinking they would help!!!! When I called they explained the ingredient that contained gluten and it was a malt product...
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    Beezlebubble, I dont really feel my heart pounding...if I am really still I can feel my aorta pulsating (I think), and I think that is what I see "beating" in my chest, right below the sternal notch. Sometimes the "beating" looks like pounding and other times it is more subtle--like it beats harder after a hot shower or climbing the stairs. I do experience...
  8. Karina
    I am skinny. I guess for as long as I can remember I could see my heart beating right below the breast bone and kind of down my abdomen. I once asked a doc about this (I am a nurse, and didn't want to have an abdominal anurism sp? go undiagnosed ). Anyway, it seems like it is way more noticeable now lately (last week or so). I kind of feel this tightness...
  9. Karina
    My doctor told me a couple of years ago that I have costochondritis--this dx came before my celiac disease dx. It has been really unnerving as I'll start having chest pain and have to remind myself, I am probably NOT having a heart attack! Mine is usually on the left but migrates sometimes to the right, and I don't have it all the time. It's like it will...
  10. Karina
    Now since I have been gluten-free for awile, I am thinking that my "recovery" has reached a plateau with regards to simply being gluten-free. I have been doing some research and have found that there are a few diets and supplement ideas for people with chronic digestive disorders such as Celiac Disease. I have not seen many other "diets" talked about here...
  11. Karina
    I can't take hormonal BC anymore. We use FAM here. I don't know if it was a pregnancy or the BC that triggered my celiac disease but I blame something like that. Now I may have had this my whole life, but I started having symtoms after baby #2. i got better going gluten-free and then still better when I went off of the BC, still have some issues but I...
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    ARCHIVED Cd & Exercise

    Karina replied to rmmadden's topic in Sports and Fitness

    I am going to hop on the exercise train again soon here. I have osteopenia and the doc said I need to do weight bearing exercise. I have since heard that lifting weights is the best thing to get bone growth--muscle grows the bone has to grow with it. I think I am going to start my am yoga stretches again too as I am very inflexible and really need to...
  13. Karina
    This is in a lot of things, so it is important to know. Has anyone heard this is NOT always gluten-free? Someone told me today that they have a friend who cannot have citric acid as it is sometimes from a gluten-containing source. This was news to me. Anyone heard about this?
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    Ok, so I have been gluten-free for about nine months with accidents in the early months of course, but I know what I am doing now. I think . Anyway, I still bloat. I started the Maker's Diet in hopes of regaining really good health and I think I started to detox really fast. I started allowing myself some things like Buckwheat waffles and gluten-free...
  15. Karina
    So, I am trying to find a green superfood supplement that is gluten-free. Now the research I have done so far indicates that wheat grasses and barley grasses are gluten free they are the young plant before the gluten protein "berry" forms--they are cut young. Various manufacturers are all claiming that this is gluten free. The natural health pharmacist...
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    Ok, I did a google on gluten free green super food. I got a lot of links, and they all said (different super food brands) that the wheat and barley grasses are gluten free that they are cut before the berries are produced by the plant and that it is the berries that have the gluten--not the plant itself. Basically, these grasses are vegetables. Now I...
  17. Karina
    Kandee, Can you tell me how you make homemade kefir? I had not even heard of it until I read The Makers Diet--by the Garden of Life Guy....then I met some ladies online who are doing Nourishing Traditions--which they say is like TMD and they drink Kefir too. Anyway, I don't know many people and none IRL who drink this stuff--do you follow a special...
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    Hey there! I have been struggling with the same ? I have emailed them but have not gotten a response--the health food pharmacist lady called them once and she "thinks" they told her the barley grasses are cut when they are very young, thus not producing gluten? There are several products I would like to try, but I am not going to pay that kind of $$ to...
  19. Karina
    I was diagnosed last May and have been gluten-free since. I was on birth control and that kept some weight on me as well as more frequent pain and constant bloating. That has improved since being off of birth control for approx. 3 months...BUT I am now down to 102lbs, and I am 5'4". My appetitite is not as great since being off the BC, but I eat. I need...
  20. Karina
    She told me the oat flour package said that the oats were grown in a dedicated field, so she assumed they are safe. I tried the bread when I got home and I don't know......I certainly have not had a violent reaction like I have had from eating at a restaurant, but I feel a bit rumbly right now. Yet I have hardly eaten anything today and had some coffee...
  21. Karina
    Thanks Richard. I really appreciate your response as one parent to another. It is good to know there are others who have similar situations. And I am with you, I don't want my kids to have to be gluten-free unless it is for sure necessary--I will at least need more than what we currently have to go on to keep them gluten-free. So we shall see what happens...
  22. Karina
    Thankyou everyone for your responses. Richard, Thankyou for clarifying the Igg thing for me. I thought that was the case but then when this ped. GI said differently I was confused. In fact, he says that they are talking about throwing the Igg out of the celiac panel alltogether! Still, I am left not knowing what I should do about the kids. The ped...
  23. Karina
    Missy, I have been trying to get my mom to get an endoscopy. Only one of her antibodies on the celiac panel was out of whack and it was a different one than on mine, but she has very textbook symptoms. I think if I knew she were celiac it may help me to accept my own diagnosis. It's just that to me, it is a really big deal to have this or to think you...
  24. Karina
    Hey everyone! I was diagnosed with celiac disease in May, and I have been gluten-free since (with some stumbles along the way of course). In order to understand why I am confused, I have to tell you how it happened that I got diagnosed. I started having a lot of abdominal pain, some chest pain, diarrhea (more than usual), and lots of headaches and respiratory...
  25. Karina
    Wow!!! I am soooooo excited!!! I have learned how to have fun without food, if you know what I mean, and I know you do. So to hear that I am actually going to be able to eat yummy food at Disney is so very exciting to me! My kiddos are not gluten-free yet, as they have not had a confirmed diagnosis, but it is good to know that if they do have to end up...
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