While I can't relate to your family not understanding, I'm SO happy for you feeling better. I haven't quite even reached that point of feeling better myself! (JEALOUS, haha).
Sometimes what kind of helps me cope with feeling "left out" is turning to some of my friends with similar problems. I have a friend who is VERY lactose-intolerant, and has been...
I live in Canada, so the cost didn't matter to me much. However I would still recommend investing in taking tests; it would be worth it to know what's really going on. Just don't avoid gluten before your tests, as I believe was mentioned above. I have a test on Wednesday and I've been eating gluten...thus I've been confined to the bathroom . Anyway, I kind...
So last week, after about a year of symptoms including bowel irritation, nausea, vomiting, fatigue (which I now know is caused by iron dificiency), bloody stools, weakness, headaches, and dehydration (Geez, was it really that bad, then?), my doctor called me back with the results to my tests done a few weeks ago. I've done the generic stool samples and blood...