Oh I’m so glad to read this update! Praise the Lord! Continuing to send prayers your way for a complete healing and speedy recovery.

Praying.

My daughter is finishing up her AA at a community college and her classes have been mixed-some great, some simply awful! We choose each class and professor as carefully as possible but sometimes all of the options seem bad. Overall it has been a positive experience though and she has had some great professors! Her math professor has been exceptional! We will see how her future University classes compare.

Thanks so much for taking the time to respond! I really appreciate your input! 💙

Thank you so much! I need all the information I can get! 💜

None that we know of. I’ve wondered about long COVID as I’ve heard of people having Covid with weird symptoms and not knowing it was Covid. I honestly can’t remember the last time she was sick. It’s been quite a while, probably over a year. Thanks again for taking the time to respond! I really appreciate it. 💜

Thank you! I will definitely mention this to her dr! And I will bring it up in the manner you advised. I’ve noticed doctors don’t like it when we mention looking things up online!🙃

Thanks So much for taking the time to respond! I’ve wondered that but felt like it would show up in gastro symptoms as well since those were her symptoms with wheat. The only possible place for cross contamination would be pots and pans and utensils as our house is now almost completely gluten free and I never prepare anything with wheat products at our house but I didn’t dispose of old pans and utensils. We eat mostly at home. Do you think that could still be the issue?

Thank you so much for taking the time to respond and share this info! Her b12 level was actually too high and the dr said it was because of the supplement I was giving her and to take her off of it. That was her GP. I had started her on vitamin d, b 12 and a low dose of iron as I’d read that those were the most common vitamin deficiencies for celiac patients. Could these blood results be possible with pernicious anemia?

Hi y’all! I don’t post much but have been lurking here for two decades. I so enjoy reading the CHAT forum posts every morning. 😊 My daughter has been having some strange health issues and I’d love any input or shared experiences that you guys can offer. She is 22 and about 6 months ago suddenly seemed to develop a problem digesting wheat products. She refused to continue eating them so she could get an accurate celiacs test as it caused her so much pain. She experienced immediate relief when she quit wheat products. She accidentally exposed herself to wheat on a few more occasions and was in terrible pain for hours afterwards. A few weeks later she started to experience symptoms again, though they were less severe. We researched and discovered that oats are often cross contaminated so she cut out all oat milk and oat products and felt better within days. Even certified gluten free oat products made her ill. Then she was fine for several months. No health issues whatsoever. About 3 months later, she noticed that she was pulling muscles really easily. Then it progressed to her being really sore for days after more strenuous activity, like house cleaning for a couple of hours. It wasn’t unbearable at all, just uncomfortable and strange. At this point I made her an appt just to get her vitamin levels checked as I thought maybe she had a vitamin deficiency which I read could be common if she did have celiacs. Her bloodwork came back fine. Meanwhile, her condition worsened considerably. To the point that she couldn’t do simple things and just doing her college assignments would put her in a lot of pain; on a heating pad and having to rest completely. Her muscles all became very tight and all of her joints began to pop like crazy doing the simplest of movements. During this time, she also began experiencing some numbness and tingling in her extremities after taking a short walk or driving for 30 min. She was at the point where it hurt to even wash her hair! It’s been so hard to watch her go through this. She is an artist and hasn’t been able to paint or draw, she can no longer do her yoga or workout. She is able to walk about a mile. It hurts a bit but if she keeps the activity mild and short, the pain will go away once she can rest. She can’t go shopping much at all, but is limited to a couple stints of about 30 min each with a break in between. Her newest symptom is hot flashes, pretty bad ones-they rival my perimenopausal hot flashes. She has seen her GP twice and a really bad rheumatologist once and had lots of bloodwork that all keeps coming back fine. We didn’t return to the last rheumatologist for the follow up appt as he was awful! She is seeing a new rheumatologist tomorrow. I apologize for the short book I’ve written here. If anyone has taken the time to slog through all that, I thank you from the bottom of my heart!💜 If you have any insight or similiar experiences I would love to hear from you! This has been going on at this level for two months now and we are getting desperate for some answers! Oh and she has had her thyroid tested and been tested for lupus, rheumatoid arthritis and Lyme disease to name a few. She has had back X-rays and knee X-rays. They can see the muscle spasms on her x rays but everything else looks fine. She was a perfectly normal and active young adult before all of this started. She did yoga, worked out and went on daily long walks. She also eats fairly healthy and is a healthy weight.

My Aunt gave me this nativity set many many years ago when she bought, or was given, a new one. She passed away several years ago so I especially treasure it now.

My father in law was a terrible father in many, many ways but has been a great grandfather to my children. My son has a hard time understanding why my husband’s relationship with his father is a bit strained and blames my husband since he sees his grandfather as amazing. I’ve tried to tell him that grandpa wasn’t always this way but I also don’t want to spoil his view of his grandpa so I just leave it alone. I too feel better about life if I can find a way to think the best of people. I think that’s ok. I just choose to dwell on the good and not focus on the bad even though I know it’s there. I’m not denying reality, just choosing what I want to keep the focus on.

Thank y’all so much for the recipes!

This is our first holiday season with my daughter being gluten free. Any great gluten free dessert recipes to share? I usually make spritz cookies and thumbprint cookies and peppermint chocolate cookies at Christmas time. So far I’m thinking peanut butter blossoms as they don’t call for much flour and no bake cookies as they don’t call for flour at all. I’ve read that it’s better to start with recipes that call for less flour when swapping out the flour for gluten free flour. We made a gluten free apple crisp for Thanksgiving and it was very good.

Ok, I want all your recipes for this meal as all of this sounds amazing! I saw you already posted the rice dish recipe. Would love to have the others! Layered vegetable casserole was a hit as always. Gluten free apple crisp was great! Pumpkin pie was amazing. Homemade cranberry sauce delish! Gluten free corn casserole was just ok for me but everyone else enjoyed it. Those were our contributions to the family feast.