What Are the Symptoms of Celiac Disease?

I am just amazed at the wide rage of symptoms. For our son it was mostly his going from a calm, easy going child to an aggressive, angry child. Also, his concentration, especially for learning to read was very up and down. I'm not calling down doctors but they kept saying his blood test were fine. 'It's just his age.' Due to my wife's education, we started checking him through a kinesiologist. Wow, what she picked so fast! Well worth looking into.

You need to have daughter drug tested. It's likely she is going through withdrawals and her eating gluten may only be a coincidence. Gluten consumption should not have anything to do with her anger. Drug withdrawals, even nicotine, can cause a very moody or angry person.

That is not true. My children can become very irritable and impulsive after getting glutened. In fact I would say emotional reactions are their strongest symptom.

Wow... I'm just at the start of learning about this. I have so many symptoms its not funny. I look forward to learning more - hopefully NOT the hard way. I also have a disease much like Muscular Dystrophy called Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease... I wonder what to co-relationships are!

Very informative and I think the comments helped me.

I am so glad that I was led to this website. I have had some of these symptoms for years and just started to have the stomach pain,cramps,nausea, etc. for the last 14 months and its almost daily for the last month.I thought it might be caused by something emotional because my daughter had breast cancer and asked for the family to be together for maybe the last time last Sept. 12th.,2009 and my stomach problems started that day one hour before they were to arrive and just have not stopped since for long. It was the last time the whole family was together and she passed on June 22nd.,2010. I will start the gluten free diet and see if it helps.

Oh my gosh! I finally have a name for all my symptoms!! I cannot thank you enough for creating this site! Now I know what I can safely eat and can begin to heal, thanks to you!! What a God-send you are. Thank you from the bottom of my heart.

I suffered with gut aches for 30 years and mystified doctors in Boston, where it started, then continued  in New York, Toronto and Los Angeles. Finally, a doctor in Australia or New Zealand identified the bug, Hector Pylori, and my doctor in L.A. was certain that this is what I had, but I was unwilling to concurrently take 2 antibiotics. A few months later, however, a more persuasive doctor in Toronto bullied me into it and in 10 days I was cured. That experience has given me hope that perhaps I'll live long enough for medicine to solve the Celiac mystery.  My history began when a very young and angry doctor in Toronto told me I wasn't absorbing calcium and that he'd contacted a specialist and to let him know if they took too long to see me. I felt fine but my various tests mystified and worried them.  The angry young doctor told me he was leaving medicine. With some difficulty in Canada's socialized medical system I found a sweet, older lady family doctor who at one point had me take a blood test which the Provincial Health Care System would not cover - it cost about $125.00 and the result was that I had Celiac.  That was about 12 years ago. I don't recall my doctor mentioning any diet or gluten and I carried on as before. For several reasons I switched to another group of doctors and noted, happily, that I had lost nearly 40 pounds in a 2 year period. But, still, neither I, nor my new doctors had concern about this or related it to Celiac. About 2 years ago, however, tests showed I had osteoporosis and anemia, some of my poops would resemble rabbit and horse buns and I would develop terrible hives - foot-long welts that turn a deep red and itch mercilessly - the main and only real suffering to date. I've stuck to a strict gluten free diet for the past two years but suspect I won't live long enough to beat the disease because of the buildup of gluten in my 90 years of a love affair with Italian pastas and Ciabatta, Jewish Rye, Challah and Bagels, German Pumpernickel and Pretzels...I must stop listing these or I'll break down in tears.  If I were diagnosed with terminal cancer I would celebrate by devouring tons of gluten and then die with a grin from ear to ear.  

I had many of the symptoms not aware until last year that I had an autoimmune disease called Hashimoto. I thought i was going crazy my mind and body was out of control. I felt so sick and depressed for so long. until they found antibodies on a blood test done by an endocrinologist. Did some research and changed my eating habits including gluten, soy, corn, dairy...What a difference! It’s been a year since I changed my diet. I feel like a new person! Thank you for this website! 

On 1/21/2008 at 5:48 AM, Guest Leah said:

This site has been a god send. I am a physician struggling with this disease and multiple other food allergies. It is nice to know that I, as a medical professional, do not feel as if I have to come up with all of my own answers. This disease definitely has been education for me in so many ways. Please keep the information and articles coming. By the way anyone looking for a great physician in Boston, I have been a patient of Dr. Catherine Cheney's for a while and she is top notch!

 

I'm sorry to hear that you are struggling.  If after going gluten free you still have symptoms, you may have starch intolerance.  Please read the book "The IBS Low Starch Diet" by Carol Sinclair (2006).  This book saved my life.  

On 3/2/2008 at 10:03 AM, Guest Vanda said:

I broke out 15 years ago and no one could tell me what was wrong. I broke out again last spring still no answers. My oldest daughter has been having problems and was diagnosed with celiac disease and was told it is hereditary. My youngest is also having the same symptoms so I will be scheduling an appointment to find out if I have celiac disease.

I broke it with hives & angioedema about 30 years ago. It lasted 5 months $ I broke out twice a day & suddenly stopped. Five years later they came back & lasted 9 months. I took all kind of meds to keep it down to two outbreaks per day, but nothing would clear it up except steroids & that was only a temporary relief.  Fast forward ten years & I was being treated for fibromyalgia & the more meds they gave; the more pain I had.  Then I was diagnosed with a thyroid disorder.  Eleven years ago I was diagnosed with breast cancer & celiac disease at the same time. After demo, I got hives again, twice a day for 4 1/2 years.  About went crazy & thought it would never go away, when my GP wasn’t available & I saw another Dr in the practice & she prescribed an old drug that I added a vial to water 4xdaily & I got my life back.  I can’t remember the name of it, but could find it in old record.  Turns out I had Hashimotos.  It’s now been 6 years w/o hives, I never cheat on my gluten free diet, & am in good health except for osteoarthritis.  I can live with that.  Celiac & Hashimotos are common together.  I recommend having it tested.  Good luck  

So basically the main symptom is being whacked out of your cord.  

After seeing violence and homeless on the streets.  Everyone should be tested for Cediac/Gluten allergies.  The CDC/Regional Health should be taking a more proactive or preventive care solutions in testing everyone at a young age. 

I had several absent seizures. They lasted only 10 to 15 seconds. But when one came as I was landing my airplane. I ended up side down next to the runway. I was extremely lucky to be able to walk away from the crash with only a scratch. Some time after I was diagnosed with celiac disease and went on a gluten free diet. I was given medicine to treat my seizures. About two years ago I stopped taking the anti seizure medication, without any recurring seizures. I feel very strongly that the gluten free diet has stopped the seizures. Then I learned that the Keto kenicty diet was very similar to the gluten-free diet. Has anyone else experience with seizures?