Celiac?

[Dixie30]

I'm a 30 year old female. All of my life I've had extreme bloating after eating. About 4 years ago I started having upper stomach pain. It's dead center below my rib cage where the diaphragm is located. As the years have passed the pain became more intense and more frequent until it was daily and affecting my ability to function. I had 2 drs say it was gastritis but prilosec did nothing to help. My head got to where it always hurt and I was exhausted constantly. If the pain and head fog wasn't already enough my joints started to hurt and swell making it hard to get out of bed. I'm 4ft 11 inches and was 130 pounds and my blood pressure was staying 160/105. I've always suffered with spells of constipation then episodes of D. I was getting mouth sores and had random rashes and itching mostly on my legs. I've also suffered anemia. When my stomach pain is at its worst I have foul smelling stools. All my liver and pancreas testing have come back normal. I tested negative for h pylori but am currently on carafate for ulcers. I'm going for another gallbladder ultrasound in 3 days as 9 years ago the ultrasound showed sludge so the dr is wanting to recheck. I've done research for a while now on gluten and have cut it out for over a month. I have noticed a significant improvement since stopping it and only have flare ups if I accidently consume gluten. So my question is does this sound like anything you've experienced and been positive for celiac? I also have numbness and tingling in my feet and hands 

[cyclinglady]

39 minutes ago, Dixie30 said:

I'm a 30 year old female. All of my life I've had extreme bloating after eating. About 4 years ago I started having upper stomach pain. It's dead center below my rib cage where the diaphragm is located. As the years have passed the pain became more intense and more frequent until it was daily and affecting my ability to function. I had 2 drs say it was gastritis but prilosec did nothing to help. My head got to where it always hurt and I was exhausted constantly. If the pain and head fog wasn't already enough my joints started to hurt and swell making it hard to get out of bed. I'm 4ft 11 inches and was 130 pounds and my blood pressure was staying 160/105. I've always suffered with spells of constipation then episodes of D. I was getting mouth sores and had random rashes and itching mostly on my legs. I've also suffered anemia. When my stomach pain is at its worst I have foul smelling stools. All my liver and pancreas testing have come back normal. I tested negative for h pylori but am currently on carafate for ulcers. I'm going for another gallbladder ultrasound in 3 days as 9 years ago the ultrasound showed sludge so the dr is wanting to recheck. I've done research for a while now on gluten and have cut it out for over a month. I have noticed a significant improvement since stopping it and only have flare ups if I accidently consume gluten. So my question is does this sound like anything you've experienced and been positive for celiac? I also have numbness and tingling in my feet and hands 

You could very well have celiac disease, but there are 200 symptoms attributed to celiac disease and those often overlap with other illnesses.  You could get tested, but all celiac testing requires you to be on a full gluten diet for 8 to 12 weeks prior to a blood draw (it can take time for antibodies to ramp up and spill into the bloodstream).    You have been off for a month and it is possible that you could have healed.   Consider getting back on gluten and get tested.  Since you have Gastritis, maybe you can get a GI referral and an endoscopy to biopsy the stomach and the small intestine.  Only two weeks on a gluten diet is required for that procedure.      Learn more about testing:

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