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  1. Angelica
    I understand, trust me, I understand. I was diagnosed in March. I was a famed cook and baker among my friends. I also felt like sh%t because of the celiac. Let me give you some hard advice-- my best friend, who is a doctor (pediatrician) but who also has celiac gave me this advice, and it was the best advice I got, although it was like having a pail of...
  2. Angelica
    This doesn't surprise me at all-- I had an severe allergic reaction to a bee sting some years ago-- after the ambulance got me into the ER the first thing they did was shot me up with Benedryl and put a drip bag of Zantac into my IV, along with a steroid. They said that the combo works really well for bee stings. I also took the zantac for 2 weeks after the...
  3. Angelica
    In about a week I will travel to San Francisco for an academic conference for four days and then on to Los Angeles to visit family for Thanksgiving. This is my first trip since being diagnosed. My family has been supportive of the celiac diagnosis, so I know my mom and dad are already planning to have a gluten-free Thanksgiving. My mom is diabetic and eats...
  4. Angelica
    I am Catholic, and after I was diagnosed it was actually very easy to sort out. My church gets has the low-gluten wafers and its no biggie. I just spoke with the ministry coordinator and the priest. When I get to church I get the wafer from its place in the fridge in the main office, place it in its own plate and hand it off to the ministry coordinator...
  5. Angelica
    So I've been gluten-free for almost four months and I feel great, but some evenings I come home late and all I want to do is eat something fast (eggs, beans and gluten-free sausages are a favorite dinner of mine), but I often can't because I always cook a "double dinner" in order to have food for lunch, which can take time, and sometimes I am too tired to...
  6. Angelica
    I went gluten free two weeks ago and have been having the same problem-- I want to eat everything! (And like you, I have mainly been eating lean meats, veggies, and fruits). I have learned to curb this by drinking lots of water-- it is an old dieter's trick I learned from a few super-skinny friends-- drink sparkling water with a meal (that is, if carbonation...
  7. Angelica
    Wow- I read all this and I feel pretty lucky. I am a college professor, so I don't have the office environment to deal with all that much. My department is pretty cool and autonomous. When I went gluten free (about two weeks ago)- I told a few select people. They encouraged me and reacted positively. One of the older members of the department sent me a...
  8. Angelica
    Thank you all so much- I am so new to all of this that I have been feeling overwhelmed. It is just good to get some feedback on brands to look for and ideas to try out. I am going to buy some small boxes of different mixes and try them out before I buy in bulk-- I figured as much but your advice was really super helpful. And I had never heard of Better...
  9. Angelica
    This is a two-part question, since I have just gone gluten-free about a week and a half ago. I (was) a huge baker- kept a mess of flours on hand and famous for my breads and muffins (my colleagues would fight over them-- think on that-- college professors fighting over blueberry muffins.) Anyway the whole baking thing is for me the hardest thing about...
  10. Angelica
    Thanks! The pain eased today. I feel better today and I finished clearing out my pantry-- my neighbor (who is a friend) got four large paper bags of gluten containing groceries (lol). All good stuff-- as I tended to eat whole grain so lots of organic, multigrained pastas, good soups, flour, etc. She was amused, but commented that it would help them save...
  11. Angelica
    So I just went gluten-free four days ago. So far I am not finding it too hard (I live alone so its easy to control what comes in and out of the apartment)-- my stomach issues are quiet for now (except for gas, but I am chalking that up to eating more veggies than usual), and my energy and mood feel better than they did before. But yesterday I woke up with...
  12. Angelica
    I have just gone gluten free, and as I live alone and have always been a big cook (i was already on an unprocessed, whole-grain diet before the gluten-free one) it hasn't been a rough adjustment... I didn't eat junk food already. But here's some advice that my best friend (who is celiac) gave me (she's a doctor) Because my friend is a hospitalist pediatrician...
  13. Angelica
    Thank you all for your advice. I have spent a lot of money on dental work (totally unrelated, but thousands) in the last three months, so I am desperately trying to avoid the doctor at the moment. The bills are threatening to sink me, so I won't be pursuing any more tests unless the pain comes back. At the moment there is no pain, and I am trucking along...
  14. Angelica
    They did not do the HIDA scan-- the doctor was adamant that nothing is wrong. She said that they would only do more tests if the problems "escalated" and seemed mildly annoyed. So I didn't press the issue (I had known about the HIDA-- my secretary had one when she had stomach pain.) Given that they don't seem to want to deal with me, I am not going to deal...
  15. Angelica
    Okay so I woke up this morning and decided to give gluten-free a go- I mean, as the other poster said, I have little to lose. So I went through my pantry- I keep a well-stocked pantry btw-- and moved everything with gluten out of the main pantry-- the unopened boxes of pasta, crackers, etc went into cupboards over the fridge (if this works I will haul...
  16. Angelica
    So here's my story. For years I have been told that I have IBS- lots of stomach pain, cramping, diarrhea, you know the drill. We figured out that I was lactose intolerant when I was a kid so I haven't had milk products in years. My IBS symptoms were so bad that in grad school the joke was that I lived on miso soup and green tea. In more recent years my...
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