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oceantheorem) wrote2010-10-02 01:38 pm
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Ooookay... time for another Catching Up post.
I saw a GI specialist at the beginning of September. He explained my blood test results to me and declared he was absolutely certain I don't have Celiac and should have no trouble at all eating gluten. He prescribed fiber to help solve my issues. Yeah. Fiber. That's it.
I started taking fiber and stopped avoiding gluten. After about two weeks I started a food diary. I kept track of what I was eating and how I felt. Pretty much the only trend I could see is that I felt like crap all the time. So I stopped taking fiber (and I started forgetting to write in the diary) and I actually feel better again. I'm so confused. I don't know what is up with my body. I don't know how to make it better. Jim is still convinced it's linked to stress. It could be. I don't know. If it is, I don't know how to solve that.
Work has gotten busier. Managing the lab has been going really well, and I feel pretty on top of things now, but I've gotten the "you're not doing any science" and the "you seem to spend a lot of time not doing anything" talks... so now I'm doing lots of science, and have very very little downtime. Which is good, and awesome, and I want that - but it's wearing me out. I feel like I'm moving into the "old" category. I'm not 19 anymore. My body just doesn't seem to have those great reserves of energy it used to have. Especially considering I feel like crap most of the time.
Knitting has been going well. I made a pair of fingerless mittens, so I can knit or use my phone at the bus stop in the mornings. It's gotten awfully cold over the last week or two.
They sparkle! They're alpaca! They only took me two days to make!
My knitting goals for October are to finish Emily's freakin' hat, seam up the hat I made for my Dad in January, finish something for Mom, and try not to buy very much at Rhinebeck.
Rhinebeck is in two weeks. For those of you who don't know, it's a huge sheep and wool festival in New York state, held every year in October, and I've never been. I have been meaning to go since 2007, and finally committed to attending this year's after being severely sad about missing last year's. So I'll be driving to Connecticut and meeting up with some Yale friends, then driving up to New York for the festival. There will be a TON of people there from my Harry Potter knitting group, so it'll be awesome to see and hang out with them. I anticipate this will be the best five days of 2010.
Of course, I've been saving (little tiny amounts of) money for several months now so I'd be able to spend without worrying and buy lots of fun things without guilt. And then Jim's job fell through for a full week (if there isn't work to be done, he doesn't get called in), and thus he didn't make any money that week, and suddenly we're in financial trouble and all that money I saved up is needed to cover our bills. I'm still going on the trip, but I don't think I'll be able to buy very much at all. The main point of the trip is to see friends and hang out, but the secondary point was to cut loose a little at the festival and get some nice stuff, and I'm kind of upset that now I won't really be able to get anything. And I will be stressing about money the whole trip instead of relaxing.
Sigh. I hate this stupid economy. I hate being poor.
...I was actually trying to write an upbeat post. I swear. I blame the gray clouds and the rain.
Oh wait! Did you see the yarn shelf Jim built for me?
I'm still working on getting everything into it and organized the way I want. Actually, that sounds like the perfect thing for me to go finish doing right now. :-)
I saw a GI specialist at the beginning of September. He explained my blood test results to me and declared he was absolutely certain I don't have Celiac and should have no trouble at all eating gluten. He prescribed fiber to help solve my issues. Yeah. Fiber. That's it.
I started taking fiber and stopped avoiding gluten. After about two weeks I started a food diary. I kept track of what I was eating and how I felt. Pretty much the only trend I could see is that I felt like crap all the time. So I stopped taking fiber (and I started forgetting to write in the diary) and I actually feel better again. I'm so confused. I don't know what is up with my body. I don't know how to make it better. Jim is still convinced it's linked to stress. It could be. I don't know. If it is, I don't know how to solve that.
Work has gotten busier. Managing the lab has been going really well, and I feel pretty on top of things now, but I've gotten the "you're not doing any science" and the "you seem to spend a lot of time not doing anything" talks... so now I'm doing lots of science, and have very very little downtime. Which is good, and awesome, and I want that - but it's wearing me out. I feel like I'm moving into the "old" category. I'm not 19 anymore. My body just doesn't seem to have those great reserves of energy it used to have. Especially considering I feel like crap most of the time.
Knitting has been going well. I made a pair of fingerless mittens, so I can knit or use my phone at the bus stop in the mornings. It's gotten awfully cold over the last week or two.
They sparkle! They're alpaca! They only took me two days to make!
My knitting goals for October are to finish Emily's freakin' hat, seam up the hat I made for my Dad in January, finish something for Mom, and try not to buy very much at Rhinebeck.
Rhinebeck is in two weeks. For those of you who don't know, it's a huge sheep and wool festival in New York state, held every year in October, and I've never been. I have been meaning to go since 2007, and finally committed to attending this year's after being severely sad about missing last year's. So I'll be driving to Connecticut and meeting up with some Yale friends, then driving up to New York for the festival. There will be a TON of people there from my Harry Potter knitting group, so it'll be awesome to see and hang out with them. I anticipate this will be the best five days of 2010.
Of course, I've been saving (little tiny amounts of) money for several months now so I'd be able to spend without worrying and buy lots of fun things without guilt. And then Jim's job fell through for a full week (if there isn't work to be done, he doesn't get called in), and thus he didn't make any money that week, and suddenly we're in financial trouble and all that money I saved up is needed to cover our bills. I'm still going on the trip, but I don't think I'll be able to buy very much at all. The main point of the trip is to see friends and hang out, but the secondary point was to cut loose a little at the festival and get some nice stuff, and I'm kind of upset that now I won't really be able to get anything. And I will be stressing about money the whole trip instead of relaxing.
Sigh. I hate this stupid economy. I hate being poor.
...I was actually trying to write an upbeat post. I swear. I blame the gray clouds and the rain.
Oh wait! Did you see the yarn shelf Jim built for me?
I'm still working on getting everything into it and organized the way I want. Actually, that sounds like the perfect thing for me to go finish doing right now. :-)
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2. You can still have issues with gluten and not have Celiac and have them manifest with the same symptoms as Celiac. I had an interesting discussion with my old allergist about this. The short of it was that Celiac disease, gluten allergy, gluten intolerance, wheat allergy and wheat intolerance can all present with exactly the same symptoms.
3. If you feel better eating gluten free, why not continue it? Thats been pretty much what the past 7 years has been for me. It took this summer with my dad reminding me that he has been diagnosed Celiac to finally start saying that I have Celiac disease. If he has it, likely I do too.
Either way, I really hope you find something that helps you feel better. I know what its like to constantly feel shitty, and not want to do much at work because of it, and it REALLY sucks.
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I'm sorry your body is crap. Clearly you need more sushi.
Utah sushi.
And I'm sorry about monies. I hate monies personally. They suck. I'm totally bummed that you don't get to play more. Maybe you'll win the lottery soon. I'll keep my fingers crossed for you :)