At A Loss

[lilly21]

hi there

can anyone help?

8 months ago i broke from my partner of 10 years. 3 months after i broke from him, i went to turkey and when i got back i had a week of diarrhea. before this i was healthy and fine.

A few weeks later i had pain in my lower right abdomen which then moved to my upper right under my right rib. it felt like a niggle and got worse and worse, it got to a point where it was cramping and burning. Docs did bloods on hepatitis, celiacs, stools,h pylori and then ultrasound and all came back clear.

i was put on colofac for ibs, that did not work. then i was put on 20mg of omeprazole, said it didnt work then increased it to 40mg per day. i stopped taking this last week as i felt so ill from it. parts of my body were going numb and i felt dizzy.

Yesterday i had an endoscopy and colonoscopy, so awaiting results of this.

my general symptoms are:

Pale stools

cramping feeling in stomach

nausea

ive lost 2 and a half stone in 8 months

tired all the time

weird numbness in limbs, not sure if this is related to the omeprazole though.

ive had bloods taken last week, and my doc has found highlevels of anti nuclear antibodies. so has written to the hospital about seeing a rheumatologist.

does anyone who suffers from celiacs have these symptoms?

although my test was negative for celiacs, my doc said it may mean i maybe celiac, but was a bit blasay about it.

My doctor think i maybe stressed/ depressed due to my break up earlier this year. i dont know what to think anymore.

i am eating 3 meals a day but i keep loosing the weight......

[mushroom]

Hello, and welcome to the forum.

When celiac develops in adults it is usually triggered by physical and/or emotional stress, trauma, illness, even childbirth. So yes, your doctor could be right about both the stress and the celiac. Also, it is possible to test negative in both bloodwork and biopsy for celiac disease and still be gluten intolerant. Your symptoms are certainly on the list for gluten intolerance. It will be interesting to see how the biopsies turn out. Regardless of the results, though, I would recommend that you start immediately on a trial of the gluten free diet for three months, and see how it makes you feel. Many people notice the difference right away, for others it takes a week or two. But you have had all the testing done that requires you to keep eating gluten, so there is no reason not to try the diet right away. Let us know how it works for you and what your endoscopy results are.