Crohn's Disease?

[Nantzie]

A friend of the family was just diagnosed with Crohn's. I'm almost positive they didn't do any testing for celiac. She just had a baby a couple of months ago. I'm not sure how long she's had symptoms

I've seen several people on here mention that they have Crohn's as well as celiac, or were misdiagnosed with Crohn's and then found out it was celiac.

On the NIH's fact sheet they say that celiac can be misdiagnosed as Crohns.

Any info / insight?

Nancy

[lorka150]

Hi there,

I knew I had read this a bunch of times so I searchd "Crohn's" in this thread and came up with this:

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I hope that helps a bit!

[num1habsfan]

I'm sure it is related, just read back to my posts when I started getting sick again this year ... Thats what the doctors are suspecting, thats what I am suspecting I have ... The docs think Celiac has triggered off Crohn's (but since I dont get my results until the 14th, i dont know if we assume right...)

~Lisa~

[mythreesuns]

Well, the symptoms are certainly the same. My dr is convinced I don't have celiac ("passed" the tests) and since I was still having symptoms gluten-free he's testing me for Chrone's and ulcerative colitis.

I figure its worth ruling those things out, but more and more I'm thinking gluten is my issue. I keep waiting for a good time to "test" myself with a slice of pizza or something, but I'm afraid to! LOL

Plus, I'm not sure I've actually made it a whole week truly gluten-free (eating out, etc.) so I'm waiting for a good week or so before I "test" myself...maybe. Then again, maybe I'll just skip the test and stay gluten-free! LOL