caitlynmariah
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Hi & thank you for your reply! Ironically, our stories do sound strikingly familiar! I'm sorry you have to ride this struggle bus also - I know how much it can suck!! Unfortunately, I am in the process of heavily considering doing the gluten challenge because I've already sustained further damage from whatever disease or illness it...
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The upper endo had him taking six biopsies & my colonscopy was only biopsied three times, and ONLY my colon was biopsied.. NOT my terminal ileum (the portion he could scope, anyway), which I had basically requested because I thought I had Crohn's. He was under the impression I had Colitis, even microscopic, which suggests why he only took samples from...
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Pieces of your story sound harrowingly familiar. Please let me extend my heartfelt empathy that you still have symptoms - if anyone knows what that feels like, it's me. When you were tested for Celiac, did you have to blatantly ask that your biopsies be sampled and examined for this disease? Prior to my upper endo, my GI doctor speculated I had...
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Cyclinglady, First of all - thank you SINCERELY for your thorough & kind response. I apologize it's taken me quite some time to generate my own response, however, I've just been busy with work. As I've mentioned in an above response to another's post, I currently do not maintain a "Celiac" kitchen space. For example, my family...
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No, my kitchen is NOT Celiac safe/friendly. Although I do maintain a gluten free diet and use only gluten free products in my cooking/backing, there is high risk for cross contamination with toaster use, other appliances, butters, sauces, etc. Same goes for the rarer occasion that I'll dine out - I eat gluten free & only from a gluten free menu, but I...
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Hi to any & all who read my post, and an advanced thank you to those who reply, My post may be kind of robust & lengthily, but please read until the end if you are able. To give a sort of "back story" here, I'll explain my situation in a nutshell. In November of 2014 I was diagnosed with a gluten intolerance by my allergist after...
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Gluten Free On Royal Caribbean? Anybody?
caitlynmariah replied to caitlynmariah's topic in Traveling with Celiac Disease
Wow, thank you so incredibly much, CyclingLady! Your reply has been very helpful and I really appreciate the thorough manner in which it was composed. Thank you, thank you! I have already thought of a few more questions that I hope you wouldn't mind answering (and I'm sure more questions will come in future days!). As I stated above, I am definitely bringing... -
Hello, all! I will soon be setting sail on Royal Caribbean's Liberty of the Seas (yay!) for a ten day cruise. While this is by no means my first cruise, it is my first time traveling with a severe gluten intolerance, and on this specific cruise line as well. I have a few questions & really just wanted some personal testimony from others who have...