Hey i have celiac too! 1. yes its celiac not coeliac that spelling is retarded some people also call it sprue. 2. its an intollerance not a allergy 3. the 365 gluten free bread mix from whole foods is really good :) 4. and people who are telling them to stop whining, just shut up! you have no idea what its like to lose all your favorite foods, and sit right next to your freinds and whatch them eat your favorite food so just shut up!!!!!

It's either celiac of coeliac, no matter. When your friends try to piss you off by eating food you can't eat in front of you on purpose and taunt you about it, the only solution is to bang their girlfriend. Repeatedly.

198, I guess its because you aren't familiar with the MRI's but you don't need to specify they were checking for MS - any MRI scan does that. Saying you had an MRI to make sure you didn't have a brain tumor or MS is like specifying you had an X-ray of your arm to make sure you didn't have a foreign object lodged in your arm or a broken bone Gluteny has alot of good cakes and breads (very strange name for a place that specializes in gluten free products isn't it?)

Alright, 200. Of course an MRI of your brain automatically checks for a brain tumor or MS. The point is they SUSPECTED MS. That's the part that matters. Sheesh. You're trying to be all cocky, but you just ended up sounded like a dumbass. Congrats.

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No, LaineyLove, I wasn't trying to be cocky. I was making a comment that would keep you from sounding like a dumbass when you made further statements about your MRI. It goes without saying that they suspected MS or a brain tumor when you have an MRI- Just like it goes without saying that they are checking for both foreign objects and broken bones when you have xray. You look just as an idiotic telling someone that you had an MRI to test for MS or a brain tumor as you do when you tell someone that you had an X-ray to check to make sure your bones weren't broken. Any time you are suspected of a brain tumor they are also going to check for MS- it goes without saying. its plain common sense and blatantly obviously that you were being tested for it if you had an MRI. Congratulations for not only being a dumbass once, but going above and beyond to hold on to being a dumbass when someone points out to you that you are saying something so obvious any idiot on the street corner knows what it means instead of taking two seconds too think about how much of a dumbass it means - maybe you do have a brain tumor. that would explain your irrational anger at someone pointing out your blatant stupidity regarding such a common test

Oh goodness........ they also SUSPECTED MS! That was the point I was trying to make. They could have been looking for a lot of other things that show up on a brain MRI, but they were checking for tumors and MS. That's it. Those were on two separate occasions, further proving my point. They can x-ray your arm looking to see the location of a break even if they aren't looking for a foreign body. They weren't looking for a hemorrhage, atrophy or anything else, but specifically for MS lesions and a tumor. Of course a brain MRI SHOWS those things. The point is what they suspected and the subsequent fear it caused me. The point is also how sick I was since people on this forum were telling me it wasn't a big deal. I wasn't just sick to my stomach. I was so horribly ill that the doctors suspected very serious disorders. Once again, I am a pre-med student. I know what a damn MRI shows. Give this argument up. Oh, and since you're being such an ass, I'll point out the you need to learn the difference between "too" and "to". I mean, any idiot on the street corner knows that.

LaineyLove you should post an FML about how easily you get butthurt over not knowing what an MRI is - it would definately be a good one.

I agree. And ignore the people that can't speak or spell in proper English. They're stupid, uneducated, ignoramuses. Good luck with the diet by the way! Oh! and M&M's, Hershey's bars (with and without almonds), Snickers bars, Skittles, Reese's Cups, Hershey's kisses (Almost anything made by hershey's really) and Starbursts are all Gluten Free!!

#184 - I think you have some other condition that means you can't have gluten. Coeliacs isn't an inability to break down gluten, it is believed to be when the body confuses gluten protein for the markers on a virus and has an immune response. For example in my case I had the genetic predisposition to coeliacs in that my body confused gluten with the markers on rotovirus. But, I could still eat wheat fine till the age of 4, when I contracted rotovirus. After that when my body saw gluten it went "OH NO its that awful bug I had. Quick, I'm going to attack everything that protein is attached to" which unfortunately wasn't an invading virus but rather my bowel! Then I had stomach aches, was malnourished etc. I think. PS. I'm going to call it Coeliac not Celiac for those of you who are getting antsy about it because in my country the spelling is Coeliac :) PPS. Be careful about your weight. While the fact that you have more limited food options, can't just take a slice of cake when offered one etc. might mean you are eating more healthily, it is also easy to go "omg! A gluten free muffin! I can eat that!! nom nom nom" without thinking "Yeah but ... it's going to be like 400 calories." When I was first diagnosed I was really underweight, but then I actually got fat because I had never had to restrict my caloric intake before. Took a lot of swimming to get rid of it. PPPS. A lot of people don't get just how much stuff contains gluten. This is why it's important not to trust friends who say they've made you "gluten-free" food. For example... m&ms (the glaze contains gluten, at least in the m&m's produced in NZ, may be different elsewhere since #208 has listed them), baking powder, icing sugar, salt, stamps (yes, some really sensitive people can get a reaction from licking the back of stamps), fries (often are coated with flour when prepackaged, or for example mcdonalds fries are fried with their apple pies or something), free-flow nuts and seeds (the bin may have been previously used for flour etc, or sometimes flour is added to stop the contents sticking), oats (technically don't contain gluten but are almost always milled with barley or wheat and therefore when tested almost always contain traces of gluten), sports drinks (barley again), cornflakes and cornflour (yes, these often have wheat flour mixed in!), rice noodles (often made with wheat flour added, this also goes for a lot of stuff from countries where labelling laws are lax and they DON'T HAVE TO TELL YOU about the wheat), and modified maize starch, despite the fact that maize generally means corn! So be very paranoid.