Symptoms

[Jillybeanmi]

I have not been formally diagnosed with celiac disease, however, I spent a few months in severe pain with gas and bloating. Gurgling intestines and severe constipation. I also then alternated with diarrhea, foam and mucus. I'm not trying to be graphic, but I've not read a lot about symptoms from real people and I'm curious. My digestive specialist said i have IBS, but I put myself on a gluten free diet and increased my fiber and feel better than ever. I read that in order to get tested for celiac I would have to go back on gluten and I'm not about to do that anytime soon. This is all very new to me and nobody once suggested I get tested for it. I learned everything through my own research. I had noodles one day after being on this diet for a while and had another attack. If I steer clear, I feel so much better and bathroom habits are back to normal. Any insight??

[heidi g.]

If you feel better stay on the diet. My blood test came back negative and my biopsy came back positive. And my genetic test came back positive. My symptoms were: extreme bloating, constipation, some diarrhea, lactose intolerant (which I have never been before until I got sick) extreme nausea, gas, indigestion, acid reflux, and basically every symptom of gerd.

[Candicep]

I havn't been formally diagnosed either but these are the symptoms I am experiencing:

Since I was pretty young i've had GERD, fatigue, depression/anxiety, lactose sensitivity, and diarrhea off and on. Just in the past couple of years (im 29 now), new symptoms have developed including: bloat/stomach swelling, shortness of breath after eating sometime, foggy brain/memory issues/ irritability, white spots on skin, numbness in hands/joint pain in fingers, bladder pain/pressure, and extreme menstrual cramps (never had issues with that til the past year. I literally passed out/went to the ER bc of the pain/pressure). The menstrual issues might be something different all together but i've read it could be a symptom.

I can't wait until I can get some form of medical insurance. Ugh.

[addis001]

First 6 months--SEVERE fatigue (had trouble waking up)

Next--Unexplained nausea, sometimes even vomitting, constipation and back aching like I had a gallstone attack (I have no gallbladder), and the feeling of not wanting to eat, along with unexplained weightloss.

Next-Pain under right rib, shooting through to back almost like a kidney stone or gallbladder attack, I've been scanned for both multiple times.. No stones, no gallbladder, no stones in bile duct

Then---Irritable, depressed, sleeping all day long, pain, no energy, nausea, diarrhea (this one hit last), Diarrhea comes after very intense pain and its a horrible smell, Horrible gas, horrible smelling poop, but when I pass gass or burp I feel better..