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#1 Kylie

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Posted 02 December 2008 - 04:50 PM

OK so this is for the girls only. I was diagnosed with celiac when I was 16 years old but was very sick for about a year leading up to it. Before I was diagnosed I stopped going through puberty. My period became very irregular after being regular since I was 12. I stopped growing breast tissue, stopped gaining weight, the whole nine yards. Once I was diagnosed, the doctors told me that puberty should return. I am now almost 20 and the years of normal puberty are pretty much over, and nothing has changed in the last 4 years. I did grow a few more inches, my hips got slightly wider but nothing else. I still have the bone in the middle of my chest that was supposed to go away, the baby face, and I'm not too sure how regular my period is because I take birth control now after being so irregular and getting annoyed. Did this happen to anyone else? Am I doomed to look like a 12 year old forever?

~Kylie~

Positive Blood Work- 9/05
Positive Biopsy- 10/05
Gluten Free since 10/05
Positive Lactose Breath Test
Lactose Free since- 4/07
Diagnosed with RSD (Reflex Sympathetic Dystrophy)- 11/07

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#2 minton

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Posted 03 December 2008 - 06:58 AM

you may want to talk to your doctor about switching birth control. maybe a higher level of hormone too. i had to do that at first because my body was so screwed up it didn't absorb the low hormone pill. it helped after only a few months and i was able to switch to low dose afterwards.

Thyroid goiter, ADHD, illness induced depression, Celiac disease, DH, migraines, Nonverbal Learning Disability (Autism Spectrum Disorder), fertility problems (cause unknown)

gluten-free since October 2006, Nonverbal Learning Disability symptoms gone since May 2007

#3 Anna and Marie

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Posted 11 December 2008 - 08:51 AM

I've been there too. I'm half out and half in, sort of. I don't have muenstral periods(I skipped 39 consecutive months, had one day of spotting, skipped two more months and had one tiny little spot, and now I'm going on three months without one). The odd thing is that while my horomones aren't exactly right, my chest is growing. It is so weird. I'm used to like half an A cup, and half is pushing it!, now I'm up to a B. I dunno. It doesn't make sense and doctors don't always know either. Good luck,
~Anna

Have had Celiac knowingly since June 2005 and have since been adapting to a gluten, casein, soy, peanut, and egg free diet. fave quote: 'Experience, that most brutal of teachers but you learn my God, do you learn.' C.S. Lewis.
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#4 mommida

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Posted 13 December 2008 - 09:01 AM

I have noticed taking Biotin has been helping with the girls. I started taking it for hair and nail growth and noticed a firming up. I've never had much to work with. :ph34r:

I've had two kids and I BF. The girls thought it was time to retire down south after that. :blink:

Now they're at least two or three states up from Florida.

Michigan

#5 MySuicidalTurtle

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Posted 13 December 2008 - 07:13 PM

I did finish puberty and all but stopped growing height-wise at age 12. The advice about a different hormone level in your birth control sounds like a good idea. Good luck!