Adrenals. How to avoid wheat at resterauntsts, tips from an expert.

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I probably would not have a thyroid problem if my celiac disease had been caught

in toddlerhood.

Tips for eating out.

Restaurant personal are so ignorant, I want to horse whip them sometimes, even

managers who should really know better. I could tell you horror stories.

But there are ways to minimize the risk. Number one. Motivate them. Tell them

you throw up sometimes when you eat wheat and waiters have had messes to clean

up. So, its a white lie. I had a case where if I hadn't had made a purchase at a

mall once and had a bag to throw up in, this would have been true. If you tell

them that, servers who just insisted a minute ago all their food is, " wheat

free " will go back and " double check. " Yeah, right. Many of them are ignorant

about allergies and will give you the " what she doesn't know won't hurt her "

lie. Letting them know they could have a clean up job if they don't tell the

truth. This really motivates them to be more careful.

Tip number two. Defeat ignorance. Waiters and sometimes Managers have to be

taught, " wheat, gluten, white flour, enriched flour, whole wheat flour " and

sometimes, " modified food starch are all wheat. " If you just tell them you are

allergic to " wheat, " 80 percent of them will go back, look for that word and

that word only and miss all the other words for it. Managers have been known to

do this too. I once kept getting sick eating hamburger patties at Morison's. I

kept asking and asking because I couldn't figure out what food was doing it to

me. The manager finally came over and in a huffy voice because he considered me

a pest, " I assure you for the tenth time, we do NOT put wheat flour in our

hamburger patties. We use yesterdays muffins to soften them. " It is a real shame

inexcusable ignorance is not a jail crime.

Tip 3 Don't bother eating at Mcs. They lied about their French fries

having gluten in them for decades, insisted they didn't. Now they come clean

after who knows how many folks were getting sick from them.

Tip 4 If you call a food company up to ask them if there modified food starch

is wheat or corn, do not tell them which one it is you are allergic to, or many

times they will tell you its the one you are allergic to rather it is or not,

just to get you off the phone. This is the " Everything has wheat in it, get out

of here, " lie. Make them really find out. The exception to this is roast beef at

cafeterias. There it is your best choice and sometimes your only choice. Don't

expect the servers at cafeterias to know a thing. I have been zapped by wheat

more often there than anywhere else.

Tip 5, Be careful if you order mashed potatoes. Make sure the servers know they

can NOT use the same spoon to serve the mashed potatoes that they use to pour on

the gravy. The gravy has wheat in it. If they then put the spoon down into the

mashed potatoes, they have now transferred wheat from the gravy into the mashed

potatoes. Watch this at all you can eat buffets especially. Careless people will

use the same spoon. Ask the servers to bring you fresh mashed potatoes from the

back if you have to. Be nice about it. Explain why. Use the, " I might throw up

so I'm only trying to save you from a big mess. " explanation.

Tip 6 Beware of eating beef at certain restaurants. Meat tenderizer can have

wheat gluten in it. Chicken, fish and pork are your safest meat choices.

Tip 7. I've had congregation members at church rebuke me for my " lack of faith "

because I refused to eat the communion wafer. I have no answers for this

problem, except it is not God's will for you that you eat something that will

make you sick. He understands even if the congregation doesn't.

Hensley <>< 8-)

Re: Daily Headaches & Weepiness

Regarding the GF diet. I know 2 months sounds like a long time, but for many

people it

takes a lot longer than that to resolve symptoms. Also it's extremely

difficult to totally

remove gluten unless you completely cut out any processed foods and are

cooking totally

from scratch. There are that many hidden sources of gluten. There's a lot of

controversy

regarding the testing for Celiac. There's some good info at the Celiac.com

website on

different types of testing that are more reliable. My daughter was tested for

Celiac when

she was first diagnosed with Type 1 diabetes and serum antibody testing came

back

negative. Two years later her symptoms became more pronounced and with further

investigation we found out she is not only actually positive, she's probably

had this since

she was a toddler. We've been able to resolve her thyroid symptoms and she no

longer

requires meds. In fact it resolved so quickly that while taking Armour she

became hyper

quite quickly, just within a few weeks time. There some good info on

Celiac.com

regarding Hashi's and Celiac also, might be worth investigating.

Linn

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> > >>I'm at 8 grains of Armour per day already. I still have all of my

> same

> > hypo symptoms...plus these two new ones since starting Cortef. Is

> it

> > possible that I could need more than 8 grains of Armour? My FT3 and

> FT4

> > are over lab ranges and my TSH is < .01.<<

> >

> > On this much Armrou and with high labs I would suggest getting RT3

> tested. This is where I was going a year ago and up and down wiht

> thyroid or HC did not seem to be makign much difference and though I

> had alot of resolution o bad hypo symptoms many still remained. What

> happens is RT3 is bound to the same receptors that are needed for T3

> to enter the cells. and the only way to clear out RT3 is ot stop

> taking ANY T4 containing meds then use supressive doses of T3 only.

> but an RT3 lab will tell you for certain if this is the problem.

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