I've suspected for a few years that I could be celiac. I wasn't having crippling pains or running to the toilet but I often get a stomach ache about 20 minutes after I ate, I always take extra fibre or things don't move, and a few days a week I get painful bloating in the evenings. It's been like that since I was a child. About 30 years ago, I remember my mother taking me to the doctor who said,"she's one of those people who gets a stomach ache after she eats." Even as a child I remember thi
I have so many things I need to check for gluten! Mostly vitamins and remedies. I took a Hyland's Calme/forte tablet in the middle of the night when my son kept waking me up and I was unable to get back to sleep. Within a few minutes I had a stomach ache that kept me awake... the opposite of what I was hoping for. lol
About half of my vitamins are obviously gluten-free. I'll have to look into the rest.
I really gotta look into the bacon... that's killing me. lol
I'm getting les
I'm starting to feel better. Yeah! I think withdrawl was worse for me that how I would feel after a gluten fest. It was no fun at all. My headaches are pretty much gone and I don't feel exhausted anymore; that's probably why I'm not quite as grumpy now.
I have glutened myself already. I had an Estrella Damm Daura beer. It said gluten-free so I didn't read the label too closely until I was half done... It's still made from barley! No wonder it tasted like regular beer. I had been brac
I had my celiac screen test yesterday and I am soooo impatiently waiting for the results! I had a positive tTg home test so I'm pretty sure I have it but I want confirming positive blood tests before I drop so many of my favourite foods!
The celiac screen up here in Alberta is for tTg IgA and EMA and from what I understand, if I get positives on that then I'm in the club.... and if I get negatives then I am most likely in the club... LOL
I'm just not great with sticking with dietary c
I've been lurking around the forum and I gotta say that the idea of being "glutened" after being gluten-free scares me. I'm still waiting for my blood tests, so I'm not even 100% sure I'm celiac yet (just a positive IgA tTg home test), but the symptoms I do have don't seem as bad as the symptoms many people have.
Yes, I get bloated, often to the point of looking 5 month pg again. I get stomach aches a few times a day but I can usually fake my way through them and no one has a clue. I get
I'm bad at waiting. really. I thought since I am going a little nutsy about finding out if I'm celiac, I would buy another Biocard home test and retest my IgA tTg to double check if that faint line really was a positive test. Maybe I somehow did it wrong... maybe I second guess myself too much. Anyway, the store was out of tests! they only had them for a special promotion, probably for celiac awareness month... I dunno.
Ugh. I was counting on that to help me stop obsessing. Instead
I called my Dr's office today because I was starting to strongly suspect that my results were in but they were normal (or very close to normal) so my doctor didn't call me... he's done that before. In fact, that seems to be pretty standard practice for drs around here.
Anyway, I was right and the results were in but they won't release results over the phone. So I had to make an appointment to get them; I go in on Wednesday now.
So since the doctor didn't call me to make an appointment,
Bummer.
I went for my appointment today and I was half expecting the doctor to say I was fine and then I'd have to decide to go gluten-free on my own... but with the back-up plan that I could probably abandon it some day... Nope.
I definitely, without a doubt, have celiac.
The home test I did, with not quite enough blood, gave me a very faint positive after increasing my gluten for about 2 weeks. I wasn't sure I had it but it really looked like I did. I kept saying to myself, w
Today I'm just annoyed. I'm mad that I've had this for 30+ years and didn't figure it out... and that my doctor had no clue even when I went to see him about it as a child.
Grrrr.
Apparently pain is NOT normal for most people! Most people don't have pain moving or eating... I feel quite ripped off!
Grr.
I "think" I went gluten-free yesterday... not sure. This is what I ate:
m1 - 2-3 egg bake w/ red pepper, onion, spinach, spices and rice milk, 2 slices chicken bacon
m2 - no snack - out of house running a field trip.
m3 - 3-4 egg leftover
m4 - apple
m5 - bratwurst, sauerkraut, peas, cottage cheese, yams
m6 - bowl popcorn and spices
Today I double checked the bacon I ate since I was going to have more at breakfast, and it has smoke flavour... that often has gluten! I guess I need to
I took my boys to a kiddie birthday party today, and it was the first time that I felt like I'm missing something. They had a wonderful cheesecake, various bowls of chips (no idea of the brands), a few other snacks, and a plate of veggies. I ate a few carrot sticks.
It wasn't awful passing up on homemade cheesecake... okay, yes it was awful but it was do able. I didn't even pout. But I can see where the limited diet will get really annoying in a year or so when this diet grows tiresome.
I've been gluten-free for just over a week and I'm down about 4lbs. Kind of a nice bonus. If I stopped eating a bowl of popcorn in the evenings, I'd probably be down even more.
I'll cut the popcorn to once a week and see if I can't take advantage of my damaged gut to lose a few pounds before it heals and it becomes harder to lose weight... like everyone else. LOL I guess this is the benefit of being celiac: easier to lose weight... for a while.
It probably helps that I'm not tr
Ugh, I haven't gone bathroom in 3 days and I'm starting to get rather uncomfortable. LOL I wish it would get going again. I'm starting to get quite a distended belly, and it's gross to think about why. That's TMI isn't it?
I just realized that I hadn't checked my fibre supplements to see if they are gluten-free, and one isn't. I haven't really been gluten-free these past... 10 days or so. Just really gluten-lite. Oops. Oh well, I'll get there. It took 38 years to get here so I shoul
I thought i was gluten-free for the first 1.5 weeks but discovered I wasn't. My hummus has gluten and I forgot about checking one vitamin. I was having bad headaches too... thought it was withdrawl. I guess it was pms.
I am almost 100% sure I am gluten-free now, and have been for about 4 days, and I feel just beat! My headache is back and huge and I feel so tired it seems like an effort to open my eyes after blinking. I'm a bit down too so that could be contributing to the fatigue.
