Lex-
-
Posts
28 -
Joined
-
Last visited
Content Type
Profiles
Forums
Events
Blogs
Celiac.com - Celiac Disease & Gluten-Free Diet Support Since 1995
Everything posted by Lex-
-
I appreciate your point. However, constancy of my celiac symptoms indicates that I have had the disease for at least three years - while I have never experienced any food allergies in that time. Although I will keep an eye on any emerging allergies, I believe my current fatigue is due to nutritional deficiency, because the only exogenous change in my life...
-
Thank you Gail for your response. Of course one should be mindful of the possibility of food allergies but I don't think that's the case with my current situations. Save for gluten containing product, everything I eat now I used to eat before with no reaction whatsoever. I think my issue is more likely to be deficiency in minerals and such.
-
Posterboy, thank you for your response! Regarding magnesium, do you think relying on food sources like fruits, bananas in particular, is not enough? Just out of curiosity, when you started taking Magnesiums Citrate supplements, did you already consume enough fruits?
-
Ennis_TX, thank you for your response! I will take heed of all your nutritional pieces of advice, one by one. And yes, I am aware that a gluten marathon is on the horizon soon. Before doing the test, however, I shall try to fortify my diet with the nutrients you mentioned, and report back in a week or two. I think adding some iron...
-
I am not diagnosed yet. Have been gluten free for almost 4 months. Felt incredibly good for the first couple of weeks. Eczema disappeared. Fatigue disappeared. Gastrointestinal discomfort disappeared. Then I had a couple of inadvertent gluten exposures with terrible symptoms ensuing - the common celiac symptoms. As the symptoms subsided, I started to feel...
-
Thank you for your response, GFinDC. I agree that buying from a local producer is a safe bet.
-
Thanks for the insight but I did already search the website with the 'honey' tag word before posting my question. Problem is that like most other topics, I found conflicting statements, so I thought I would take the safest bet and ask if someone has tested honey via Nima.
-
Actually I read about this on other threads in this very same forum. The tag word was honey - whether or not honey can contain gluten. I did not notice any scientific reference, nor have I found any legitimate study on the matter. Then again, the overall amount of research on gluten and gluten related issues is limited, so I thought I would take the safe...
-
Since honey, raw or processed, may contain wheat dust due to the wide presence of wheat fields everywhere [possibly close to any bee hives anywhere], I was wondering if honey should be categorically categorised as a gluten containing food. Wondering if anyone who owns Nima has tested it?
-
Thank you for the response and the link, Ennis_TX. It seems I have an arduous journey ahead of me.
-
Thanks for your response, ravenwoodglass, I do have DH. Apparently DH is my most immediate symptom, setting in before the rest of the symptoms appear. The tuna I consumed is not plain. It's packed in olive oil and garlic. Is iodine something I should worry about too? If so, does it include iodine added to salt as well?
-
I am aware what "less than 20" means. It could be zero or 19.99999. Can you be certain it's zero?
-
It could be something else, of course, but I have not reacted to soy before. As far as I can tell, soy agrees with me.
-
Ah yes, my immediate symptom is the itching too.
-
I looked up the product on their website. And milligram per kilogram is the equivalent way of saying parts per million. They are the same.
-
I am new to the gluten free world, and still learning. I have kept a food diary, avoided gluten religiously, and yet had a reaction without knowing the source - until I l realised the tuna fish I was using under the guise of "gluten free" actually contained a little gluten (<20 mg/kg). Could this have been the culprit? Any thoughts?
-
Thanks for your response, cyclinglady. I do feel better after going gluten free. It's been about a month and a half. My digestive system functions better. My joints pains have diminished. And the little eczema I had on my face has disappeared almost entirely. But as you said it takes a while to get the hang of the diet. I have already accidentally...
-
Thanks for your response. Well, I am screwed then!
-
I know that going gluten free before getting tested means the blood test is going to yield a false negative, but the same can't be true of biopsy, can it? Especially if you have had undiagnosed celiac for a few years, I assume enough damage is caused to the intestines to show in biopsy. Am I right or wrong?
-
Portable Gluten Tester?
Lex- replied to Lex-'s topic in Post Diagnosis, Recovery & Treatment of Celiac Disease
Thank you guys for your responses. -
Hi everyone. I was wondering if anyone has had any experience with portable devices that claim to test accurately whether a piece of food contains gluten? Does this actually work or is it a scam?
-
Hi Matt, Thank you very much for a thorough response. Your link seems to cover pretty much all the questions one might have in my current situation. I appreciate it. Have a wonderful day, Lex
-
Unfortunately it's too late for the blood test unless I go back on gluten again, which is not something I want to do. Thanks for the link you shared. It is instructive.
-
Hi Jmg, and thanks for your response. 2 weeks ago I went gluten free without having tested for celiac. I know now that that was a mistake but unfortunately I did not know at the time. As I have been informed, to do a blood test one have to be on gluten for at least 6 weeks prior to the test. In any case, by the end of the first gluten...
-
Hi everyone. I was just wondering if anyone knew of an easy way to determine whether one's gastrointestinal reaction is to gluten or to fructan. Cheers, Lex