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Struck By A Realization About My Pre-Diagnosis Days

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I just had to tell someone.  I recalled today that before I got a horrid case of mono when I was 19, I worked at a bakery.  Perhaps my heavy gluten contact ( both eating and having cleaning sprees) are why my resistance was down.  I remember how I felt so fatigued when I worked in a bakery.  It grew worse after the mono.

 

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I just had to tell someone.  I recalled today that before I got a horrid case of mono when I was 19, I worked at a bakery.  Perhaps my heavy gluten contact ( both eating and having cleaning sprees) are why my resistance was down.  I remember how I felt so fatigued when I worked in a bakery.  It grew worse after the mono.

 

D

...or perhaps the mono was the full on trigger for it.

 

I had symptoms for years that would come and go (a couple of times a month i think). Then i got hit with a nasty case of the flu and it developed into something much much worse.

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moosemalibu
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I agree with shadowicewolf, it may have been the mono that triggered it. I got sick with a nasty bug in April and I think that's what triggered my celiacs (I am suspecting that of course, no real way to know)

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...or perhaps the mono was the full on trigger for it.

 

I had symptoms for years that would come and go (a couple of times a month i think). Then i got hit with a nasty case of the flu and it developed into something much much worse.

Yeah, I had actually been thinking that the mono triggered my celiac. Then I remembered symptoms that came before mono.  My sister thought I looked pregnant at 11 years old.  The enamel came off my teeth when I had braces at 17.  Maybe it was that awful case of chicken pox in 4th grade?  Then again Maybe the chicken pox were "The second worse case" the doctor had ever seen, because of celiac.  After mono, I say, the symptoms did become undeniable, and yet so mysterious that I couldn't describe them.

 

Whatever triggered whatever, boy am I glad to feel better. :)

 

D

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moosemalibu
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I am glad you feel better too, D! We all can probably speculate what triggered us and be spent here bent over pondering for hours. I don't think I have spent so much time in one place reading, thinking since college!

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Pegleg84
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I worked at a pizza/italian restaurant when I started getting real Celiac symptoms (constant bloating despite loosing a ton of weight, feeling like crud after eating anything, etc). I always say (partly joking) that working there triggered my Celiac, but who knows. I definitely ate more pizza/pasta than usual that year. Should have put on at least 10lb, not lost it. Whether it was the trigger or not, it definitely made things worse.

 

In any case, yeah, it's interesting to look back and realise that oh, that low iron I had at 16 was probably a symptom. All those crazy panic attacks were probably symptoms. If only we'd known then.

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