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Could it be Celiac disease?

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Hi everyone! For years I have had digestive problems and I have always try to make modifications in my diet in order to get better. My problems are constipation, sometimes I get very bloated due to it, and my stools definitely don't look healthy the majority of the time. A couple of days I was really bloated and I don't know how I came to the idea of eating less gluten. During two days I didn't eat any gluten at all and I felt really well. Not only my belly wasn't bloated anymore, but my general health improved as well. I wasn't tired all the time, my vision improved (I always have blurred vision with a lot of black spots, the doctor said it was normal, but after one day without gluten almost all of them disappeared).

I also felt more relaxed and my body didn't feel heavy as usual.

Other symptoms that I have are pain in my joints, photophobia, with minimum effort I get tired, mental fog, I have lactose intolerance, and since I got my period I have never had a regular menstruation (I got my first period with 14 and then I lost it and came back once when I was 16 and 18. Now I am almost 21 and I just get my period every 6-7 months.

After the two days without eating gluten I started eating it again and I could feel that I was a little tired again, and my stomach did hurt a little, I got cold sweat and I lost my appetite. But I have been keeping eating it for four days in really big quantities and now my stomach don't and I am not bloated. And I don't feel that bad like I normally did. Yesterday I ate fruit and I felt really bad, but not with bread.  Now I don't know if I was being Paranoid or not. I don't want to go to the doctor and that he tells me everything is normal like all the doctors do.

Could this be Celiac disease? Did some of you experience something similar? Sometimes I feel healthy and other times not. 

 

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3 hours ago, Pandora said:

Hi everyone! For years I have had digestive problems and I have always try to make modifications in my diet in order to get better. My problems are constipation, sometimes I get very bloated due to it, and my stools definitely don't look healthy the majority of the time. A couple of days I was really bloated and I don't know how I came to the idea of eating less gluten. During two days I didn't eat any gluten at all and I felt really well. Not only my belly wasn't bloated anymore, but my general health improved as well. I wasn't tired all the time, my vision improved (I always have blurred vision with a lot of black spots, the doctor said it was normal, but after one day without gluten almost all of them disappeared).

I also felt more relaxed and my body didn't feel heavy as usual.

Other symptoms that I have are pain in my joints, photophobia, with minimum effort I get tired, mental fog, I have lactose intolerance, and since I got my period I have never had a regular menstruation (I got my first period with 14 and then I lost it and came back once when I was 16 and 18. Now I am almost 21 and I just get my period every 6-7 months.

After the two days without eating gluten I started eating it again and I could feel that I was a little tired again, and my stomach did hurt a little, I got cold sweat and I lost my appetite. But I have been keeping eating it for four days in really big quantities and now my stomach don't and I am not bloated. And I don't feel that bad like I normally did. Yesterday I ate fruit and I felt really bad, but not with bread.  Now I don't know if I was being Paranoid or not. I don't want to go to the doctor and that he tells me everything is normal like all the doctors do.

Could this be Celiac disease? Did some of you experience something similar? Sometimes I feel healthy and other times not. 

 

Hi!  There are over 200 symptoms for celiac disease.  All that you mentioned could be celiac disease, a gluten sensitivity, cancer, SIBO, lupus, whatever!  The only way to know if it is celiac disease or not is to get tested, but you have to be consuming gluten daily or the tests will not work.  Learn more:

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