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Jan Kaay joined Michelle Curtis's group
Celiac and Diabetes
Well, since Celiac Disease (Gluten Allergy) is such a prevelant disease with diabetes, I figured we needed to have a group for it. Let this be a group for questions and suggestions.
July 2
Jan Kaay joined Manny Hernandez's group
US - Northern California Diabetes
If you live in California, north of San Luis Obispo, Kern or San Bernardino and you are touched by diabetes, this group is for you.
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Jan Kaay is now a member of TuDiabetes - A Community for People Touched by Diabetes
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Hometown (where you come from):
Sunnyvale
Do you have diabetes?
Yes
Type of diabetes
Type 2
Date diagnosed
June 15, 2009
How did you find out about us? What were you searching for?
from another blog
What do you do for a living?
educator

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At 6:26pm on October 30, 2009, Manny Hernandez said…

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At 5:21am on September 25, 2009, Aja Fernengel said…
Hey Jan, I saw your post on the Diabetes & Celiac group wall, and idk if anyone has answered them or not, but there are no degrees of celiac disease. You either have it or you don't. Also, you cannot tolerate any amount of gluten - it doesn't really matter how little. The only exception i've found to this is i used to buy cereal that had oats or malt in it and i can eat a bowl and not get symptoms, but if i do it for multiple days in a row, my stomach gets really distended, so i just stopped trying to cheat =\ also, yes, children at very young ages can have this. one of my coworkers daughters had it before she was 2!
At 7:26am on July 3, 2009, Stacey :0)~ said…
Hi Jan. :) So did you have the biopsy to confirm the celiac or did your Dr have blood work drawn? My mother had the biopsy but when my daughter had the symptoms I took her in and all her bloodwork came back positive. One test was supposed to be 99% accurate for celiac so between that, her symptoms, having family history with celiac/T1 D's etc. and her symptoms going away after going going on a GF diet the GI Dr. agreed with me that a biopsy would probably be stress my daughter didn't need to go through. Yes, I do believe there is some correlation between stress and celiac myself. I think I read something about that as well at some point after my daughter got it. I know both my mother and daughter had stressful things going on at the time of their diagnosis as well. What about you? I see you were just diagnosed with D's so I'm sorry to hear you got a double whammy diagnosis(if the celiac was confirmed). Even though my blood work came back negative for celiac I believe I have a sensitivity to gluten myself. I feel better when I eliminate it out of my diet. Anyway, if you need any celiac info. and/or resources I will be happy to send them to you. I'll send you a friend request so I can send you an email here with some information and links if you 'd like.
At 1:24am on July 3, 2009, Gerri said…
Hi Jan,

Welcome to the community! Great that you found us so soon after being diagnosed. Wonderful people here to share with & learn from. Don't be shy about asking whatever you need to know.
At 8:27pm on July 2, 2009, Linda Gauvin-Miller said…

Welcome to the family Jan...see if you can upload a photo when you get a chance! I too am an educator!
At 7:03pm on July 2, 2009, Stacey :0)~ said…
Hi Jan and welcome! I just noticed you joined the celiac group. Do you have celiac too? Both my daughter and mother have celiac.
At 4:14pm on July 2, 2009, Christina said…
Welcome to tudiabetes =]
At 4:12pm on July 2, 2009, Manny Hernandez said…
Hello Jan!


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