GF Update

[kalyx]

Yesterday, as I was about to leave for work, my phone rang. My new primary care physician was calling me first thing, to try to catch me before I left for work. My blood work was in and she wanted to discuss it

Comments

[rm]

1. It is common for people with celiac to have severe vitamin deficiency's. as you stay gluten-free this will probably improve.

2. While people with celiac disease are often sensitive to dairy, lactose intolerant or have trouble digesting it near to consuming gluten, dairy won't cause permanent harm to your body the way that gluten will. Consider this an annoyance you need to figure out, not "OH SHIT I HAVE TO GIVE UP CHEESE.

3. Udi's: told you so!

[kalyx]

3- Sorry for doubting you. I really thought everything would be sandy, especially now that I've looked over the kinds of techniques that are used to bake without gluten.

2- I'm not too worried about needing to give up cheese. I thought for the last 5 years that I've been dealing with a whey allergy and haven't had cheese in years, well until recently. I'm less attached to cheese than I am to sukiyaki and onion pancakes.

Also, have you tried daifuku? I've heard that it is an acquired taste, but I love the stuff. Red bean paste wrapped in mochi. And from the label, everything in it is from rice.

[rm]

I'm not a red bean paste person, but am very much the fan of mochi things.

Also, I noticed in another post about this some stuff that's bugging you out about food and thought the following info might be helpful:

There's lots of stuff that if cooking in the traditional way it's safe for you to eat (tempura, for example) because it should be made only with rice flour. However, in the US (and increasingly in Japan) it's made with a mix of wheat and rice flour. This makes eating out annoying, but it does mean you can cook your own correct versions of these things.

Additionally, remember that despite the name, you can eat buckwheat, which means proper soba noodles are fine (although many are a mix of wheat and buckwheat these days and you can never assume).

Also, there will be some point in this, when you're feeling a lot better, when you are going to get very, very angry. For me, it was because I was sick for your whole life, and no one told me I was anything but difficult and unattractive. It passes, but that's a bad week.

[rm]

The anger and grief is already there. First, because I obviously had this disease as an infant and throughout childhood. And I'm pissed at my parents for constantly calling me a baby because I complained of stomach aches