Celiac Disease and Diabetes

Forum Post: Re: Favorite Gluten Free Brands

alexg0911 — Wed, 23 May 2012 16:50:00 GMT

Schar's has become my favorite, followed by Udis. Having Celiacs, T1D and food allergies has also taught me how to put together a lot of different recipes. I have started blogging about them recently at www.beyondavoidance.wordpress.com if anyone is interested!

Forum Post: Re: Insulin Resistance - Please Help!!!

jennagrant — Fri, 20 Apr 2012 14:52:00 GMT

Caroline-

How old is the person with insulin resistance? What was his/her dose and what has it increased to?

Forum Post: Re: Carb Counting

alexg0911 — Wed, 18 Jan 2012 16:42:00 GMT

Thanks for your help! The app where you can save your "favorites" sounds like it would be helpful for me.

I have considered making a gf carb counting app, but the $99 posting fee for the iTunes store is a barrier. If I come up with one that is good enough, I would though, because I know there are probably a lot of people that could benefit from it!

Forum Post: Re: Gluten Free Cookies!

sarahz — Wed, 18 Jan 2012 01:25:00 GMT

I like Glenny's, they come in choclate chip and oatmeal rasin. I found them at Ocean State Job Lots and Hannafords. They do have them on Amazon too

Forum Post: Re: Does Gluten Affect BS?

alexg0911 — Fri, 16 Sep 2011 02:16:00 GMT

There actually is a connection between the two. Individuals with T1 Diabetes are significantly more likely to get Celiac Disease, and they share a lot of genetic markers. 1 in 10 individuals with T1 have Celiacs, as compared to 1 in 100 without T1.

Here's the link to the info on the JDRF main site: www.jdrf.org/index.cfm

Hope this helps!

Forum Post: Re: Endoscopy

Jaclyn — Thu, 08 Sep 2011 19:34:00 GMT

thanks!

Forum Post: Re: So it's not celiac sprue?

Hannah — Tue, 06 Sep 2011 23:35:00 GMT

Yes, food is defiantly more expensive and over time you will learn what "normal" food you can eat that is also gluten free. More and more companies are making a point to label their products if they are or are gluten free. Two really good websites for recipes that use more normal foods is chex.com (look for the gluten free recipes page) and also glutenfreely.com. Going out to eat can also be hard. I had a friend who didnt seem to understand that gluten was something I couldnt eat, not becuase I just didnt want to eat it, but because it made me sick. But yes life does get funnier and funnier!! It just makes us stronger.

Forum Post: Re: Celiac NON diagnosis ???

Maus — Sun, 28 Aug 2011 13:20:00 GMT

The doc probably didn't want to say "go ahead and do the GF diet'" because she didn't want to "prescribe" something as restrictive as GF when there were no tests backing her up. But she probably mentioned "anything to help" to say, if he feels better without gluten, it helps his quality of life. Doctors have to be very careful about what they endorse, as they can be sued for a simple thing. It would have been nice for your doc to make sure you understood her comments about the DQ8 allele and the seeming double talk.

Forum Post: Re: Getting Diagnosed

LeahMarie — Thu, 21 Jul 2011 22:04:00 GMT

I don't officially have celiac. Both my parents have gluten intolerance and our family doctor told me that it would help if I didn't eat is as well. Since I don't even have a gluten intolerance I "cheat" when I'm with friends but at home, everything is gluten free. There's a lot of stuff out there that's gluten free. Heads up, there's also a ton of stuff you wouldn't think would have gluten but it does. Spices, soy sauce (there is a gluten free version), canned soups, and some other canned products. Hope you feel better and let us know how it goes.

Forum Post: Re: how to ask

veggie1962 — Fri, 06 May 2011 15:54:00 GMT

It has just been "officially" determined that there is another classification of gluten intolerance called "gluten sensitivity". You have similar symptoms as a celiac but your tests come back negative. I think that's where I fit in as I have all the symptoms listed in gluten sensitivity but my blood tests came back negative. All I know is that my worsening GI symptoms went away every time I cut gluten out of my diet and they returned once I started eating it again. It finally all went away when I decided to finally go gluten free last Dec. I figured eating something with gluten once in a while shouldn't be a problem but boy was I worng. Had a piece of rye bread at a diner and the symptoms came back in full force and took several days to clear up. No more cheating for me!

Forum Post: Re: Introducing myself

Veronica Peterson — Wed, 13 Apr 2011 20:46:00 GMT

Hey, that must be frustrating! My husband is actually the type 1 and our daugther, Deanna (non-diabetic) was muscle tested for gluten intolerance as well. It was the best thing we have ever done for her!!! She is really affected neurologically by the gluten. We have not been tested but my husband has gone gluten free with her. I understand how hard it is to find kid friendly GF food - we have found an italian place that actually has gluten free chicken fingers!! She LOVES this!! At this point, we cook GF entirely. I'd love to hear some of his favorite foods????

Hope all is well.

Veronica

Forum Post: Re: celiac and type1

Veronica Peterson — Wed, 13 Apr 2011 20:38:00 GMT

Hey! Just came across this- my husband (type 1) and nine year old daughter (non-diabetic) are gluten intolerant. I JUST found Amazon has a gluten free section and it has these "care packages" and all your favorite items you can buy in bulk. I can't give you any reviews on it personally, going to try it this week but it looks like a great combo of all the things they snack on all week. Check it out. I am going to actually order a package to be shipped to my husbands hotel when he travels the end of May. It should alleviate him having to try to "find" Gluten Free snacks in Vegas and hopefully help keep his blood sugars stable.

Hope it helps!

-Veronica

Forum Post: Re: Diabetes & Celiacs

sarahz — Tue, 07 Dec 2010 23:15:00 GMT

If your daughter wants sandwiches, a really good pre-made bread is Udi's. I like it because it is good either toasted or not and people can't tell it's gluten free. I first found it at a gluten free market but you can order it online as well. Amy's also has some really good gf frozen dinner options.

Forum Post: Re: might have allergy??

Brooke — Fri, 13 Aug 2010 21:20:00 GMT

Yahh myy moms making me stay on the diet only because myy blood is alottt better!!! they never did a byopsy (idkk how you spell it) all they did was the blood test and it showed positive but they said it could be wrong but my mom had me go on the gluten free diet before they ever did the byopsy soo its too late now but o well... && about the symptoms they said that they might have caught this early enougph so that I never got symptoms soo that might be why me && you never got symptoms!!

Forum Post: Re: inspiration for the overwhelmed

movy — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 05:16:00 GMT

Hi,

My 8 yr. old son was diagnosed with T1 and Hypothyroidism in 03 (age 2) and was diagnosed with Celiac in Dec. Hard. We all went Gluten Free. Being so new to this we still need to work out some kinks. I found an excellent blog by the name of " Gluten Free Steve". At this site I discovered the Triumph Dining web site which has these beyond helpful books. Gluten-free shopping Guide, Gluten-Free Dining Guide and the Dining Cards which you present to chefs/cooks when you decide to dine out. His blog has lots of helpful information so please visit. I discovered it by accident when I googled to see if Smuckers jelly is GF in tears. Also Facebook is a good place to check out reviews on which GF brands and whatnot taste good and general information about Celiac. I stay calm with my son and REALLY listen to his likes/dislikes with this food so HE is in control of this. I feel I don't I will bring on anxiety and really compound this situation when all I need is creativity and patience. Hope this helps. BTW I was told to keep a strict food log for at least a couple weeks because insulin will need to be adjusted.

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