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I have considered being sick, but the rest of me feels fine. It is really just my GI track that is having problems. I would make an appointment w/ my doctor, but I worry that they would just say that my guess as to what is wrong is as good as theirs.

I have been dealing w/ Celiac for almost two years. I had gone almost a year without a major glutening. I got glutened the Saturday before last. I'm still having diarrhea (more the urgency than anything else). It has been really bad today after not being as bad the last couple of days (only causing problems in the morning). I have also started to throw up in the morning. How do I make this stop? I need to go to school and work. This evening (after being confined to my home all day) I have taken some pepto-bismal to see if it helps at all. I have a test tomorrow morning. Please help me. I've never had a gluten reaction last this long.

Hello,

How do I know if the digestive problems I am having are from being glutened last week, or from a stomach bug. I thought the symptoms from my glutening had gotten better, but now I'm having digestive problems again. However, the usual gluten symptoms that I would expect from a new glutening have not re-occured. However, It has been a year since I was glutened before that, so I don't know what to expect.

Any advice would be welcomed.

Thanks.

I was wondering if anyone knew why symptoms change and/or last different amounts of time. This last time I got glutened was a lot different than it was a year ago. (different timing, new symptom.)

Thanks.

That would be a good thought, except i got glutened Friday night, and threw up on Monday while I was having other digestive problems.

Why does it seem like every time (or almost every time) I get glutened I add a new symptom? I had gone a year (until this weekend) since last being glutened (wow!) and now I've added throwing up to the mix. Why?

Well, no more cadburry cream eggs for me .

Thanks for the information.

I have some of the symptoms that I get from getting glutened: muscle and joint aches, fuzzy brain, insomnia (but not the usual digestive issues). However, I don't know what I ate that did it. Can cc build up over time to a point that it bothers you? The only thing I ate that was new was cadburry cream eggs. Now that I think about it I don't know if it is gluten free, but I feel like I checked last year (yes, I know i should check every time). My brain is fuzzy to the point I don't really remember what I ate yesterday (much less what I did) so I can't provide a list. I also realize as I write this that I'm not really sure what the point of the thread is, but I blame the fuzzy head for that.

Thanks. I didn't want to have to give up corn.

Should I worry if it seems like the corn I ate was not getting completely digested? I also had more bms than I usually do. It was whole corn. I know people have said that people sometimes have trouble w/ corn. I haven't noticed any trouble w/ corn products.

Thanks for any help.

Favorite quote of me (mom) in the house... "Is anyone else hot in here?" They all make fun of me, and at 44 I don't have a family history of early menopause, so it is the gluten. I am convinced after reading the other posts too.

The people I worked w/ made fun of my hot flashes as early menopause when I was only 24. Luckily went away w/ ending the gluten.

Before going gluten free I was always too hot. I would sit right in front of the air conditioner so that I was cool enough without freezing everyone else in the room. When I went to see the GI for the first time she asked if I was hot a lot. I said I was always hot. I was actually in a tank top at the time and she had a sweater on in the hospital. She asked if I was hot then and I said "yes" I would also sweat like crazy at night. Good luck at finding out what is causing your heat.

I live in the midwest (don't know if this makes a difference). There was just a commercial on TV (TNT) for Chex and it was all about how there were five flavors that were gluten free and it made it easier for the mom w/ a child who needed to be gluten free. I am so surprised/impressed/amazed.

Thank you everyone. I'm sure I will come with more specific questions when we get closer to move in time (end of April.) We both will have our own dishes as we both have our own apartments right now. We talked about me possibly keeping some of my stuff in my bedroom (right across from the kitchen). I know my friend will be really careful. I just hope we can train her boyfriend who she just started seeing.

One more question: What about hand washing dishes in gluten containing water? We wont have a dish washer so everything will be done by hand. Is that going to contaminate my dishes?

Thanks.

Hello.

Because of finances I am moving in with a gluten eating fried into her apartment. Her kitchen is really small (like 3ft x 5ft). I was wondering if you could give me advice on how to keep me gluten free. She has very little counter space. We want to keep me healthy. What are your suggestions. Let me know any questions that would help you to give me advice.

Thanks.

I had an appointment today (after a year and a half at school) with dissability services. I went in once before but the guy somewhat wigged me out and worry about backlash from my profs. The person I talked to today was great and seemed to know about celiac and cc and everything. She was really nice and talked to me about what it has been like for me w/ celiac, and how hard it is to be a student and to deal with this. Also about why I didn't register before and my problems I'm having with my department. Also we planned out how to deal with it when I have my practicum. It was really helpful and the person was sooooo nice. We are meeting again in 1.5 months to see how everything is going. Yay for me.

I'm 5'7" and the shortest in my immediate family. Wish I was taller.

I was looking at a bag of candy hearts yesterday because I always liked those and they were out for valentines day. I noticed that none of the ingredients have gluten in them (mostly sugar) but then I also saw that the product was manufactured in another country. It said that the product was made on shared lines with wheat and other ingredients. I wouldn't trust it as I don't trust some companies that manufacture their products inside the US to have clean lines. But this brought up a question for me. How much of our food is manufactured outside of the country? How does this affect the likelihood for cross contamination? Do I need to pay attention to where a product is made? Please don't just tell me not to eat any manufactured products because they are cleaner and then I don't have to think about things like this. That isn't going to happen. Okay.

I've noticed that whenever I get glutened I start getting cravings for bread again. It makes it so hard to go past the bakery in the grocery store for a few days after the glutening. When most of the time I can go past it now without even noticing that it is there. I try to stay away from people eatting bread and such after I'm glutened because it looks so good.

I don't have any suggestions to add. But I wanted to say that I hope you are feeling better soon.

I haven't read through all the responses tonight, so someone might have already suggested this. A good thing to do would be keep track of exactly what she is eating and how she is feeling. This will make it easier to find out if there are other foods that are causing problems. Good luck.

Contrary to most people with GERD, for me it is not at all problematic when I lie down. It is actually better then. My doctor thinks it might be stress related, and so when I lie down, I usually am able to relax. So hopefully I wont have to adjust my sleeping position (I love sleeping on my stomach). I started the meds today. I hope that after being on them a couple of weeks it will all go away and then I can stop taking them. (wishful thinking probably, but I can hope.)

I just got a new prescription and needed to decide which pharmacy to send it into based on cost and gluten-freeness. So I called the Costco pharmacy to see if the generic medication they carried was gluten free as the name-brand was more than $150 more expensive. I got transferred to a pharmacist who was of no help what so ever. I ended up asking for the name and phone number of the pharmacutical company that made the drug and the phone number they gave wasn't even correct! She was asking me what things I could take and sent me to a website to check (after which I told her that wouldn't work unless I knew what company they were using to supply them with the drug.) She said that some of the companies will say they have gluten in them because they contain sugar alcohols that sometimes reacts the same way as gluten. Does anyone know what she was talking about and the veracity of her statement? It just left me very confused. So in the end I am going to a more expensive pharmacy, but one that seems to know how to check if drugs are gluten free.

So I went to the doctor today and they said I have GERD and should take antacids. So I will start doing that. They also said I should give up spicy food, and caffeine, and maybe tomatoes.Ugh. Within the last few months I just added tomatoes back in. I don't want to have to give them up again, but I guess I need to. I don't know how giving up caffeine is going to work. I might just cut back to start.

I have a doctor's appointment with student health services for tomorrow. I hate going to the doctor. I'm worried they are going to tell me they don't know what is wrong and to just go away. Ugh.