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Hi - I am new here and fairly new to gluten-free diet (6 months) and still trying to deal and still making mistakes here and there. I need to rant so thank you whoever started this!!

My supposed best friend is making me crazy. I am trying to vent to her about how difficult eating this way is and she makes it all about her... telling me how healthy she eats and now I have to be like her and eat that way now (admitedly, a little bit of a fast food junkie once). She tells me she has whole grain bread with sandwiches, um hello? Bread? and all wheat pasta all the time... I AGAIN expleaing that it's not a matter of not WANTING to eat healthy, it's that I can't eat whole grain or wheat anything!! Then she suggests veggies... gee, why hadn't I thought of that? She has no concept that I pretty much can't go out to dinner with my boyfriend...or anyone else! she replys that that is good, I'll be healthier now since Ii have to make my own food. I want to smack her. What also bother me a lot is that I am in pretty good shape (size 4-6) and she is, well... not... to say the least (the very least).

Thanks... it's just SO fustrating that people don't get the emotional part of this diet.

A Dr. told me that I was wheat intolerant and to go on celiac.com for more information. I got the awful biopsy done and do not have celiac, though. I've had some dr's tell me that I can have bread, as long as it's not wheat and that non-wheat beer is ok too. I did my own research and decided to be gluten-free altogether and have been for 6 months. Now, if I accidentially eat something (usually flour hidden in something) I get really itchy all over and sneezy - a symptom that has never happened before. Before, it was stomach and bad bowl problems and horrible heartburn (is that related, or is that something else?) Even though I do feel better for the most part, I still have a bloated stomach (I am very thin everywhere else) bad heartburn (I'm on two different prescriptions) and have embarrassing gas almost all the time. Another thing I noticed within the past year is that I can't remember anything... turned into a real dope.

Any of this sound like Celiac or is there something else wrong with me? Isn't wheat intolerant the same as gluten intolerant? Any feedback would be appreciated.

Thanks!