Celiac in 20 year old and very light periods

[Sammy7]

Hi 

Does any teenager or someone in their 20s have really light periods with celiac disease. 

Is it something to worry about? 

[Scott Adams]

We've had similar reports, this thread may be helpful:

 

[Wheatwacked]

Hi Sammy7

One of the effects of Celiac Disease is malabsorption of essential vitamins and minerals.  Unfortunately it seems that most doctors are happy with, "You have Celiac Disease. Don't eat gluten. Goodbye".  Even on a nutritionally complete gluten free diet, most will still have vitamin D deficiency.  It is more of a cultural thing.  We are advised to avoid sun and when not possible to use sunblock.  Even if you eat liver, beef liver has 42 IU vitamin D in 3 ounces. You would have to eat 30 ounces a day to reach the minimun daily requirement.  Tthough very rare, almost every discussion of vitamin D includes the dire warning of hypervitaminosis.

Find out your 25(OH)D blood concentration to get your baseline.  If you are low maybe the doctor will start you off with a 50,000 IU shot of D2.

Vitamin D is only one of many things that can cause your symptoms.  I understand that some athletes get it from hard training.  Supplementing vitamin D is cheap and easy and safe. It will help, not hurt no matter what your current status.  10,000 IU of D3 a day will eventually get you to 80 ng/ml (range is 30 ng/ml to 150.).  You may be pleasantly surprised to find it was that simple.

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In the Low D group [25(OH)D concentrations below 30 ng/mL],  40% of participants reported menstrual disorders, 27% were classified as having oligomenorrhoea, and 13% as having amenorrhoea. In the Normal D group ]25(OH)D concentrations equal to or above 30 ng/mL] , only two subjects reported menstrual cycle disorders of which one had oligomenorrhoea and one had amenorrhoea.Lower concentrations of 25(OH)D were associated with long cycles (oligomenorrhoea or amenorrhoea). Women who were below the recommendation of 30 ng/mL of 25(OH)D had almost five times the odds of having disorders in menstrual cycles than did women who were above 30 ng/mL.  The Relationship between Vitamin D Status and the Menstrual Cycle in Young Women: A Preliminary Study