Candida Or Celiac Need Help! My Short Story

[phoenix99]

This might get a little long first off I want to say I am new here so hello all. Anyways on with the story I have been suffering from ibs like symptoms for some time like 10 years, and they evolved into more diarrhea problems in the last 5 years. I would have stomach cramps everyday and about diarrhea once a week and a really bad episode like once every couple of months, not horrible but enough to make you uncomfortable. Well I became used to it and I learned to cope with it like I forgot what it was like to feel normal. Until I started dating my girlfriend this was 2 years ago now but I remember it just like it was yesterday, at the time she was really into me and I was kind of so and so and I debated on getting involved with her because of my condition. But I did it anyways well right after we got together I had two surgeries that where seperated by about a month one for wisdom teeth and one for toncils. After I recovered from my second surgery and got through the withdrawals I felt great I mean like brand new like I had so much energy no symptoms(they reduced by easy 80% and I figured the other 20% was brought on from bad stuff I was eating) but just amazing for at least 4 months I felt great, until one night they all came rushing back for some reason I remember that night vividly I hate fried chicken at my friend's house and no more then an 3 hours later I had a major attack. Something I didnt have forever it was so long I forgot what it felt like and I remember thinking to myself I hope my symptoms dont come back and ever since that day they where back. Before that brief time of pure heaven I was always tired, always had sinus problems like sore throat and excessive mucus. Is that normal for your symptoms to come and go like that if you have celiac?

The reason I asked is I talked to my instructor today and she said it sounded like I had more of a yeast infection thats why my symptoms are coming and going I never have steady symptoms they come and go. I ask because I just had a blood test done for celiac about a month ago now, and it tested positve but just barely like 3 points over 17 and out of the 3 only one tested positive. So I ask because I read somewhere that if you have a yeast infection it also can give misleading results on tests done for allergys like wheat. I really need some great opinions here thanks.

[wowzer]

I have read posts on here about getting candida after going gluten free. I keep fighting that battle. I took a diflocan on Wednesday and didn't wake up with so much of that yucky mucous. It just seems it never ends for me.

[Centa]

Welcome to the site, Phoenix

There's a tremendous amount of information on the site, in various threads. People do talk about their symptoms and what sets them off, and what makes them better. Plus they do talk in detail about the medical tests they've had, and how those tests related to their symptoms (the sufferer, of course is the expert on the symptoms)

I can't answer your question about the numbers on your test but there will be other site members who can.

One thing I would say about the details of your life is that it sounds like you yourself have noticed that you had a sudden onset of problem after eating something.

I would presume that a yeast infection is a build up kind of thing, that it builds up and stays at a certain level.

With celiac disease or non celiac gluten intolerance or wheat allergy, there's very often a BAM reaction to taking in gluten. The intensity of the reaction will vary depending on a lot of things, from person to person: some people get knocked out for a month after a reaction to gluten, some for considerably shorter time...people's insides are in better or worse shape, and so the hit hits them differently. But it's a trigger reaction

I'd say watch extremely carefully what you eat, noting whether you get another fast extreme reaction to what you ate, and what it was that you ate.

I hope someone else writes to help you make sense of the medical test results you got.

Do a site search for candida (top of the screen, righthand side), too.

All best,

Centa