Anyone in West Virginia, specifically either Charleston or Morgantown?

Hello

I know that Teebs is from W Va. I'm from north of Pittsburgh Pa.... .
Are you new to the group here? Any thing I can help you with I'd be glad too...

mamaw

I spent last year in Morgantown for graduate school...so if you need any help or have questions about the area, let me know!

Would really like to get a hold of anyone else in WV I feel completely alone!!! I am in Parkersburg and it is right on the OH river. I can not find any groups that are not 3hrs away HELP!!

I'm in the Eastern PanHandle, Mineral county.

Sorry guys, forgot about the forum. I'm still in Morgantown, and I've luckily been able to reintroduce some gluten products back into my life on occasion. I've found that Amazon is great with their free shipping, and bulk isn't as big a problem as it's not like I'm not going to eat it.

Hi, Rvberto,

I'm north of you, in Pittsburgh, but come down to Morgantown a few times a year for work.

If you are celiac, then you should know that studies have shown that even small amounts of gluten (1/16th of a piece of bread, for example) does cause intestinal damage even though the person might not feel any symptoms.

If you were diagnosed as gluten intolerant, you should be aware that in many cases, gluten intolerance is actually early-stage celiac; the only difference is that not enough villi damage has YET occurred to make the diagnosis easy.

In both cases, the immune system is triggered to attack YOU (joints, thyroid, pancreas, skin, etc., and, obviously, the intestines). So by eating even small amounts of gluten, you are very likely setting the stage for your immune system to attack.

I don't have obvious reactions to gluten, either. So, unlike most people here, I don't worry too much about cc, because I simply can't tell. But I don't purposely cheat, either. I had too many problems before going gluten-free, and I know too many people with irreversible damage, and too many people with fibromyalgia, RA, MS, lupus, etc., who say they feel so much worse after gluten, but never manage to stop eating it.

I've observed how bad it can get. My life is too valuable to me to risk wasting any of it on stupid gluten.

Thanks for the tips... for me I was just diagnosed as having a mild intolerance, but never really manifested too many symptoms other than small bumps on my arms, and some bloating and stomach uncomfortableness if I ate pasta.

For me it's difficult completely eliminating gluten, as I'm in Graduate School and don't have the monetary ability to purchase all "gluten free" foods at the moment, but I've been doing pretty good.