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  1. cristiana
    Hi Carol You can search through this forum and you will find quite a lot of advice on how to deal with gastritis and/or reflux through diet and may help your symptoms of bloating, if these conditions are causing it. There is a thread I started on slippery elm which might help. https://www.celiac.com/forums/topic/118711-gastritis-or-glutening-slippery...
  2. cristiana
    Sorry, it must mean something different in American English! If someone in England says they've eaten a curry, this is what is meant. From the Cambridge Dictionary: a dish, originally from South Asia, consisting of meat or vegetables cooked in a spicy sauce.
  3. cristiana
    It can certainly take a while to recover from glutening, but I have taken a couple of weeks in the past to get over an upset stomach caused by drinking a very large iced drink in Spain which we call slushies here in the UK, not sure what they are called in the States. I expect there was something dodgy in the water. I couldn't get rid of it, until one day...
  4. cristiana
    Hello Carol and welcome to the forum! I have bouts of this myself - in fact, at the moment, I'm there too! I have come to the conclusion that in my own case I suffer from mild gastritis, which can be caused by inadvertent gluten consumption but also by eating too much fatty or rich food and certain medication such as NSAIDs and antibiotics. When...
  5. cristiana
    Hi Sparechange I wonder if you have altered your diet at all, or are taking any new medicines which might have this sort of effect? I understand when you say you are scared. I am a terrible worrier when it comes to health. I spend a lot of time debating should I/shouldn't I pick up the phone to fix a doctor's appointment but in the end, I pluck...
  6. cristiana
    Is the elevation very marked for the ast and alt ranges - can you provide the numbers? Sorry... I'm making you work hard here!
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    Ginger... I get a cough and tickle in my throat when I get reflux, which in my case can be triggered after glutening, or after taking certain medication (NSAIDs and antibiotics primarily) or by just eating too much rich food. I've noticed these past two or three years it starts up after my birthday - too much cake! Just a suggestion for you in case you...
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    Hello Linny Well, I guess the good news is that your TTG is still at very low levels, compared with your diagnosis. I've struggled with higher levels than I'd have liked but my consultant has never been particularly concerned. He says to me that even if I were to just drink water and eat rice all year round I'd probably have slightly elevated levels...
  9. cristiana
    You are very welcome. I seem to remember there was a thread on this forum some years ago about dishwashers and the general consensus was that dishwashers were good at removing gluten - I don't think one necessarily has to spend a fortune on a top-end one, just one that actually works as it should would be fine (unlike our dodgy one!)
  10. cristiana
    Hello Lynda I do have a granite chopping board which I put in the dishwasher - but obviously that's not something you can do with an entire work top! I suspect the answer is lots of hot soapy water, then more, and more again. You may find it easier just to get a separate chopping board that you can put in the dishwasher if you are worried? I had...
  11. cristiana
    Hello Linny I wonder if you could post your numbers - it would be really helpful to know what your TTG readings were before and now, if you have them? Also, which liver enzymes have gone up? Without knowingly changing your diet, one explanation could be that the ingredients of something you are eating that was previously gluten free may now include...
  12. cristiana
    Thanks Emjean, Happy Christmas to you too. Let's hope Omicron is milder as some experts seem to be suggesting!
  13. cristiana
    Thank you. I love Christmas but Omicron has put paid to our Christmas Dinner plans with wider family already. We're not sure where things are going with this locally but being a hypochondriacal pessimist, I prefer to err on the side of caution. Thankfully there is a lovely outdoor Christmas event nearby which hopefully is slightly lower risk, we're hoping...
  14. cristiana
    Yes... sorry, I had to have a scope for reasons other than coeliac disease - don't worry! Coeliac friends who were diagnosed the same time as me have never had more than the one!
  15. cristiana
    Hello Emjean and welcome to the forum I'm a British coeliac and I can imagine the waiting times for an endoscopy must be pretty long at the moment. I'm afraid you will need to go back to eating gluten prior to the endoscopy. You could give it up for a while and then go back to it, but something to bear in mind: some people do find that...
  16. cristiana
    Hello Emjean and welcome to the forum I'm a British coeliac and I can imagine the waiting times for an endoscopy must be pretty long at the moment. I'm afraid you will need to go back to eating gluten prior to the endoscopy. You could give it up for a while and then go back to it, but something to bear in mind: some people do find that...
  17. cristiana
    I find that if I eat a lot of gluten-free bread it has a mildly constipating effect. But the idea to do exercise three times a week is a great one, I find even a daily walk of just half an hour helps enormously with these sort of issues.
  18. cristiana
    No, I just forgot on that occasion - ridiculous really, I was just very busy and wasn't drinking enough water.
  19. cristiana
    I think I react quite strongly to magnesium supplements - although they always help with constipation (brilliant!) they make me thirsty and last time I took some the dehydration they caused set off some really irregular heartbeats. Ironically I took them to help improve my palpitations! 😄
  20. cristiana
    Continue to drink a lot of water if you take a magnesium supplement.
  21. cristiana
    That's really interesting, I didn't realise that about the 20 ppm. I wonder if that is the same in the UK? Anyway, I always have rated myself as an extra sensitive coeliac so perhaps that's why it does tend to affect me.
  22. cristiana
    I try to avoid that, I've occasionally eaten something by mistake though. It happened last week and I wondered why I felt so ill, and then saw the warning, which appeared much further down the packaging than the main ingredients list. What one has to watch out for in my country (the UK) is that food labelling that says "may contain" can be located in...
  23. cristiana
    If anyone in the UK is reading this and misses the Lindor milk chocolate truffles I've found a wonderful substitute which doesn't contain gluten from M&S which tastes, to my palate, anyway, exactly the same. https://www.ocado.com/products/m-s-swiss-milk-chocolate-truffles-512498011
  24. cristiana
    I hope the original poster will see this, it will be quite an encouragement to get some positive feedback.
  25. cristiana
    I have a very complicated time with oats. Before I was first diagnosed and went on a gluten-free diet, I ate them for England. Soon after diagnosis I reintroduced them (the pure variety) and it felt like the area just under my ribs, where the stomach is, was on fire, after a day or so after consuming them, so I stopped eating them. I tried to reintroduce...
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