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I am so pissed off. So I am at my brother's house for Christmas. I brought a little food and a two pots and a griddle to be able to cook while I'm here and a wooden spoon and a spatula. They know I'm gluten free because  of celiac. They didn't ask me anything about what I needed, and the last time I visited them (2 years ago- for 3 days their  wedding) I brought all the food I needed for my trip. So me bringing what I need to eat is nothing new to them. This time I'm supposed to be here from Sunday to Friday. So i get here and bring my stuff in. I took my bag (everhthing not food and cooking stuff) to the room they had for me. I asked where I could put my food and my brother said in the cabinet. The griddle didn't fit in the cabinet so I asked if there was somewhere I could put it. His reply was "If you need to bring all that sh*t you can keep it in your room." He said he didn't want it making his kitchen messy. He kept a clean house and my griddle would ruin that. And now I'm being told that it is unreasonable for me to be upset that he called my stuff "sh*t". Apparently my stuff is so awful. I am so pissed. I regret even coming. It would have been so much easier just to stay at home.

Hi.

I'm visiting famiy in the Urbana/Champaign IL area and I am sure people will want to eat out at least once. I was wondering if anyone had recommendations for the area. Thanks.

Thank you both for your advice. i'm nervous about being gone from home for so long.

So this is the first year that i am going to be traveling significantly for the holidays. This will be my longest travel yet, before this only overnight and one three day trip for school. I am going to my brother's house for about 5 days. I am going to be doing my own cooking while i am there. I am driving by car so pretty much whatever I want to take with me is a possibility. I was wondering if people think that I should take my own pots/pans etc to my brothers to reduce the chance of cc. This will be my first time at someone else's house except for when i lived with a roomate (who was almost never there). I don't want to get sick while I am there, but I don't want to go overboard. Suggestions?

I have these dreams, but they end up more being nightmares with me trying toget the food I've eaten out of my mouth. Then I wake up and have to figure out if I really ate something I shouldn't have. I've been gluten free for 4 years, and the dreams happen about every six months or so.

I registered with my universitie's students with dissabilities office for protection. My department was insane and I actually had a professor ask me if I should be in our area of study given that I was asking how to bring up my Celiac with my internship. It helped because I had someone to talk to about my trials around dealing with my professors incase anything came up. Luckily that was the worst of it. I was worried most of all of getting sick during class and needing to leave possibly in the middle of something important (like a test or presentation). Luckily I made it through all 3 years of classes. I only had a few problems at my internship where I had to leave for a short period of time to get more Imodium as I had run out of what I had with me.   My internship was actually really awesome about it.

I had something like this. It drove me nuts. I could never figure it out and what caused it. Finally after a month or two it just stopped. I was never able to figure out what caused it or made it go away. Good luck.

I had a really good experience at the pharmacy today. Before I was using the school pharmacy and they were great. They checked everything for me. Then I went to one pharmacy after I graduated and they didn't seem to understand my questions about gluten. I have had problems with other pharmacies before. But today was awesome. I was picking up a prescription and maybe only have filled 4 or so there. The pharmaciist asked me if the one I was picking up today was the one I needed from a specific company. She wanted to make sure that I diidn't go away with a medication I couldn't take. It wasn't this medication as they always get the same manufacturer with this one. But I was so happy to have them care and ask to make sure I was safe.

Thank you pharmacist!

It took 3 years for my GERD to go away completely. I had to avoid all acidic foods during that time as they would set it off. I still get it sometimes when i get gutened. But mostly I can eat what I want that is acidic, though if I get glutened best to stay away from the acidic stuff. So it can take a lot of time, but worth it to feel better.

Thank you everyone for your replies. Sorry for takinig so long to get back to your responses. I am working way too much right now and am just exhausted when i get home. I hate the idea of having to give up dairy, but I think I am goinig to have to get up the motivation to try it, but after I eat the cheese and drink the milk in my fridge. Ugh, I hate food issues.

So I think i might have a problem with dairy that has developed. But I'm not sure if it is just getting glutened or dairy. If I am lactose intollerant am i susceptible to the same problems that I get with gluten? IE: Bone and joint pain, insomnia, emotioin dysregulatiion with dairy problems that I have with being glutened or would it only be digestive problems with dairy?

Thanks.

dear Googles, spasms diarreha is my thing as well after a glutening. I mean: first the diarreha then the spasms diarreha. I took an Imodium too last week: of course it is better to stay home and let it run its course and not mess up with medication, but sometimes one has to. I have no answers other that we must wait for it to pass...

Thanks so much. This is a totally new symptom for me. I DO NOT like it. My problem is that if I don't work i don't get paid and i can't afford not to get paid.. So I usually have to deal with meds unless it is a weekend. I did not even know this was possible. I'm sorry that you get it too, but nice to know I wasn't just going totally crazy and it wasn't my imagination.

I think that I got glutened, or something else got me. I'm having back and forth diarrhea and constipation. The diarrhea is just like muscle spasms not full fledged runny stuff. What do I do? I had two bouts of diarrhea with constipation in between them earlier this week.  I had to take imodium for the diarrhea earlier this week because I was 45 minutes from home and had to drive myself and there wasn't anywhere to stop between where i was and home. But since then I haven't been able to go at all. This is the first time I have had this problem. Either the spasam diarheaa or problems with constipation. I think that the trouble was gluten because I have gotten all the other gluten symptoms I usually get. Any advice would be helpful.

I asked my uncle this question. He worked for a number of years at a prison. He said that they were required to provide gluten free meals for inmates with celiac because of the ADA. If not they could be sued. So they were very careful to attend to dietary needs because of medical disorders. It might vary by state or jurisdiction. I worked with juvinile offenders in a residentail treatment facility and we provided gluten free meals for those youth who had celiac.

They know I have celiac and can't eat anything at the party that I don't bring. And it is a required party. It is scheduled durng our staff meeting. I guess I just get pissed about having to provide food for other people who can eat whatever they want when I have to think about every piece of food that goes into my mouth. I'm fne with going and brining my own food, but I didn't want to have to be exepcted to suplement every else's food intake when they all make more than I do. I hate having to provide other people with food when I can't partake. And that isn't the only time I will have to pay for people to eat. My aparents are coming for Christmas. They will be here for 5 days. Since I don't allow gluten containing food iin my house (I live alone) I will have to provide them with gluten free food to eat too.

So when I was a kid it was my understanding (and still is) that potlucks work/are fair because people all bring food and then are able to eat what others provide. There are some situations where people may be vegetarian so they wont eat a specific dish. However, overall, everyone brings and everyone partakes. However, with celiac, I don't feel comfrotable eating food that is provided by other people, espcially at something that can be chaotic as an office event. However, today I was pressured by co-workers to provide food/supplies for a party I can't participate in. I don't make a lot of money so budget accordingly. I feel uncomfortable saying no to my coworkers and causing them to think I'm stingy or mean spirited, but I don't think given that I can't eat anything that is provided, I should be expected to provide food for my co-workers to eat. I don't think I should be expected to subsidize their eating when I can't participate. I was wondering what other people's thougths are on this situation. As this was brought up in a staff meeting, there wasn't any way for me to gracefully decline after saying that I wasn't going to be participating in bringing food because of my diet and then being told I should bring paper products. Help?

I make people describe to me what they are eating when they are eating something that would be yummy before I went gluten free. Then I get all specific with questions. I feel I am just helping them be more mindful of their eating. When I first went gluten free I would have cravings for gluten filled goodies when I got glutened. It made going by the bakery section at the grocery store pure torture. Luckiily that stopped after a couple years. Now I can see gluten filled food and 99% of the time I have no problem just passiing it by. That other one percent makes me search out my gluten free goodies.

Thanks everyone. the ones I found (the only ones I've seen in my area-I will have to look more) were rice based. I didn't even think that there might be corn soft ones as the only corn ones I've seen was hard tacos. Thanks everyone.

I was wondering if anyone has found good gluten free taco shells. I found one brand (can't remmeber what it is) but the taco shells are all stiff and break up when you try to heat them up. Has anyone found good ones? I really want to be able to haver caseadillas again. thanks.

I find my problem is that I tend to have a problem of being on an emotional rollar coaster when I get glutened. It makes it harder for me to deal with things like the physical reaction to getting glutened. When I get glutened I can end up crying at the drop of a hat. It actually hits before the digestsive problems do. It is learning how to deal with the stress and anger that is important. For me it is easier if I realize that the anger is being triggered by the glutening. That makes me reevaluate whether my anger is justified and be able to respond in a more reasonable way.

Another thought, drink things out of waterbottles or something of that sort to help keep it out.

Thanks,

I hadn't even go to the point of when I need to drink. Hopefully since I will only be there a couple hours tomorrow it wont be a problem. I hope they can keep me out of the office til they are done.

This wont help with the clarity of diagnosis, but Crohn's can happen anywhere along the digestive system not only in the large intestine. Just a FYI. My brother has it and they tested me for it to make sure I didn't have it when I got diagnosed.

Thank you both for those suggestions. I was wondering about the face mask idea. They said that the construction is going to last another week. Hopefully I can spend most of the time at the other location. My boss already knows about my issues, so it wasn't a big deal for her today.

I just started a new job (YAY!) The thing is that they are expanding into a new unit at my home base work location which means construction is happening as they tear down walls and put up new ones. I feel lucky that I have worked with my supervisor before (at a different place) so she already knows about my celiac and is willing to work around it. I'm wondering how much I need to worry about the plaster dust and dry wall dust in the air at work. I have heard other people talk about sealing up really well and not using central air when they are doing construction in their homes. How much do I need to worry about work? They let me do some of my work from a different location today, but I will need to be back there on Thursday for training. How much should I worry. Is it enough to have a door between where I am and where the construction is going on? If not, what type of things should I do to decrease the chance of getting gluten in me.

Thanks.