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I think it is just wrong when a doctor encounters a patient with problems outside their normal 'scope' so just dismisses it as 'nonsense' or 'IBS' or whatever else they come up with because they don't want to admit they don't know! I would have much more faith in a doctor who said to me "Look, I haven't really come across this before, but let's look into...

Your haemoglobin levels are not an accurate indication of your ferritin levels (stored iron). My haemoglobin levels (last time I had them checked) were 'on the low side but not too bad' whereas my ferritin levels were virtually non existant.

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Hi Black Sheep The supermarkets here seem to have a lot of gluten-free products in them, though I've never been gluten free, so I don't know what it would be like to be reliant on them. I think the food standards here say that if a product is labelled gluten free, then it has 'no detectable gluten' in it. So there's no need to second guess ingredients as...

I've been trying to do some research on the net about this, since I've had asthma since I was two. But I seem to get a lot of conflicting information, and no one seems to say definitively one way or another. So does anyone here know? I figure here is a good place to ask. Is asthma an autoimmune disease or something else?

Thankyou for letting me know that! That's terrific It does make things easier if I end up with negative test results. I can't wait to try and be gluten free. I'm 99% sure it's gluten that's causing me all this grief at the moment.

I'm not sure if I'm posting in the right section, I hope I am! So, I've yet to be tested, but I've been sitting here thinking about some odd health problems I've had recently and was wondering about this one. About a year ago, I got an abscess on my back. It had been there for years, I'd been told it was just a cyst, it was like a little hard lump...

Hopefully you'll be feeling better soon from going gluten free. I've heard it takes a while before your body starts to heal. I mean, if we've had celiac our whole lives, just not knowing it, who knows how much damage has actually been done! It's a bit scary really.

Thankyou so much! I'm feeling truly horrible today, not looking forward to breakfast when I get back from taking the kids to school. I had stomach pains all night, so I imagine it will only get worse today. I'm looking forward to being able to trial a gluten free diet, but unfortunately unless I'm diagnosed by the 'gold standard' of a biopsy, then...

Hi, thanks for replying That's exactly what I love about this forum, it doesn't feel like I'm the only one, or 'just a hypochondriac' anymore. That the problems I'm having are real, not just in my head. I saw a doctor last year, before I knew about celiac or gluten intolerance, and she just told me to take iron supplements and get more sleep. There...

Hi everyone, I've been reading the forums for a couple of days now, and am sitting here saying 'Yes, yes, YES!' as I read through others experiences and symptoms. It all rings very true for me. I'm going to my doctor next week to have the blood testing for celiac, or at the very least to find out exactly what is wrong with me! I've had 'symptoms...