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Is This Finally A Set Diagnosis?


Sin3str0

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A little background first,

A couple of months ago my Doctor suggested that I may have celiac disease. I went Gluten Free but at the same time had moved out of my home and started to feel better actually. I was so relieved that I could have finally have found what was making me ill all this time.

Fast forward 5 months later, I move back home and ALL of my symptoms return with a vengeance, even though I had been gluten-free for 6 months now. I was still gluten-free, so I was baffled at would could possibly be making me sick. Not only baffled, but frustrated and heart broken.

So I begin to do some detective work and I find a disgusting looking garden of Mold in parents AC unit, because I figured that whatever was making me sick had to be related to their home. I move out and symptoms improve, but not fully.

I go back to my doctor and get tested for Celiac's via a basic allergy panel, it came back negative, so I had no clue what else it could be.

I decide to do the A.L.C.A.T allergy test and behold! It comes back that I have a severe reaction to gluten! I stop eating gluten again, feeling somewhat better...

( Thank some kind of God! )

So my question to you, my gluten-free family, is that it? Seeing that I am reacting to Gluten based off my Allergy Panel results from A.L.C.A.T and that I do feel a difference when I avoid it, can I finally be sure that I have Celiac Disease?

Why would mold affect me so severely? I mean, mold is terrible as it is, but could I have such a strong reaction to it because of Celiacs or another Autoimmune problem?


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If you feel good off gluten then that is a big sign that you shouldn't eat it. You may have a gluten intolerance or Celiac Disease. As for the mold thing, I don't know, but a lot of people get sick from mold.

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