ShirleyGFD

When I first self-diagnosed (a couple months ago), i didn't care if I got an official diagnosis or not. Later (a couple weeks ago), I met with a nutritionist who stressed that getting the diagnosis was really important in regards to follow up care. In other words, I guess, some insurance or doctors might deny certain tests without the dx. I just met with...

I started noticing stomach problems with uncooked green peppers many years ago, long before any of my other symptoms came to the forefront. I put garlic in lots of foods and have never noticed anything that removing gluten didn't help (caveat - not cure, so far, but helped massively) but I'm still cautious about green peppers. Maybe cooked, it's not as problematic...

Fortunately, I have a toaster oven, but I haven't cleaned the wire rack. I guess I need to look around my kitchen with new eyes. I've found that with my heartburn, Prilosec/etc. or even Maalox actually makes me feel more sick. It's weird because it feels like heartburn/acid reflux type thing that I used to get only when I was under major stress, except...

Exactly. IBS is just sort of a junk box term for "We don't know why your intestines hate you but we know you are sick." and that's usually followed by "now eat more fiber and run along" or other such dismissal because they don't have answers. I'm in the process of self-diagnosing celiac because I've been on so many wild goose chases with doctors over the...

Heather, I don't blame you for taking it out of your kids life. From everything I've read, lots of people have this with no symptoms, and it's genetic. Assuming it's what I have, I didn't just wake up with it last year - it's been coming on for years (and I can look back and see so many times where I had digestive problems I wrote off as stress, something...

Hi, all, new here... I've been sick for months - daily diarrhea, heartburn (painful and comes in waves), sometimes vomiting, but I refused to believe it was celiac because I have good skin. Meanwhile, even though food shoots through me, I'm gaining and gaining weight. I'm the biggest I've ever been in my life, and very unhappy. Well, I finally knew I had...