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I went gluten free 5 years ago after positive blood work, but a negative biopsy.  (My father is biopsy confirmed)  I had backed off on gluten (but still had some everyday) between the blood work and biopsy, but when I tried to return to "normal" levels after the biopsy, my body rejected it and I started the diet.

Great.  Solved lots of little problems and I have worked hard to try to figure out what I can and can't eat.  In my own home I do just fine.  It's eating out that has become a major issue.  I can walk into just about any fast food chain and order something.  Even McDonald's fries, which I know are questionable at best, but I don't have a problem with them.  No, my problems occur when I go to a "real" restaurant with a menu and wait service.  Then things fall apart.  I can't figure out what I'm doing wrong, but nearly every meal in the past six months has ended with me sick within a half hour of the meal.  Some of them I can guess where I went wrong - maybe it was the bacon on the burger that I didn't check, maybe it was the burger itself?  But others I can't pinpoint - like my recent trip to an Outback that was fine for me last year when I ate there and had the same items.  

The scariest part of everything was the night we went out for Chinese and I decided (and I have never done this before, and I know someone is going to tell me how bad this was), to just order the food and let it come with soy sauce because I was probably going to get sick no matter what I did.  I didn't get sick that night.  Nor the next day when I ate the leftovers.

I don't know what's going on.  I'm second guessing the move to gluten free, yet afraid to really test it with something like flat out eating wheat bread or pasta.  I don't go through a GI because they were done with me after the normal biopsy, but I'm thinking maybe I should go back.

Any thoughts or ideas for dining out would be greatly appreciated.

Tracey

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