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I am concerned about possible celiac disease in my 2 year old. I went gluten free with myself and my son in January looking for food allergies (not knowing about celiac disease) and later learned that I have had symptoms of celiac disease or gluten intolerance since infancy. My genetic test was positive for DQ2. After 7 months gluten free (with great results...

Some people (like me!) find that nightshades cause joint pain, in addition to gluten. Pain that I had for years and that I always thought was running-related vanished on a gluten-free, nightshade-free diet. I do avoid soy, corn, and dairy too but with accidental experimentation I've found out that gluten and nightshades are the big problems for me in terms...

My GI doctor recommended "Celiac Disease for Dummies" and it mentions male and female infertility and period problems several times in no uncertain terms. I was skeptical about this particular book but have actually gotten a lot out of it. Might be helpful if you're trying to learn more. Good luck !

Jessica -- those do sound like scary symptoms. I now think I have had celiac disease my entire life, but after the birth of my first child was when my symptoms all of the sudden snowballed. Many were like yours. I later found out that it is fairly common for pregnancy and childbirth to trigger and/or aggravate autoimmune diseases (like celiac disease). I...

That stinks about your joint pain. I have had joint pain since I was 13-14 (33 now). Back as a teenager I was told that I had pain because I was a girl who played sports. Over the years I would occasionally go back to doctors about it and was always told that it was inevitable as a runner. At age 27 I had knee surgery to try to address the pain. Didn't help...

I don't have any real ideas but just wanted to send encouragement. I've been gluten-free since January too and my health is definitely still a work in progress. Anxiety is one of my gluten symptoms. I don't know much about Milk of Magnesia but gluten contamination could be affecting your mental state. Corn causes serious neuro problems for me too. Not sure...

My mom raves about psyllium husks. She gets them in capsules at Whole Foods. They were mentioned several times in the book The Most Effective Natural Cures on Earth, I noticed recently. Good luck! My poop issues vascillated back and forth between the 2 extremes and going gluten free immediately stopped the D but I still have to pay attention to fiber and...

Jakey -- just wanted to say best wishes. Your symptoms sound upsetting and I do hope this path leads you towards health. I am 33 and had decades of GI symptoms including gut pain, irritability and depression, fatigue and joint pain. I went on an elimination diet looking for food allergies in myself and my toddler after his pediatrician told me eczema, diarrhea...

With that list of foods you don't tolerate, I hesitate to ask this but what about soy and corn? Those 2 foods cause me GI and neuro symptoms and it really helped once I got rid of them. Many of my favorite vitamins and supplements had to go. Also, it sounds like you are very careful at home. Do you get to eat most of your meals there? I find that even...

Love my Tom's of Maine toothpaste! I took awhile to get used to the taste but I've been using it for years now. I have a gluten-sensitive toddler, too, so I found California Baby soap, shampoo, conditioner, lotion and sunscreen in the baby aisle and I like their stuff -- very clearly labeled gluten-free. I get Tom's at Whole Foods and California Baby at WF...

It sounds like some of your symptoms are improving but others are not, right? That can be so frustrating. I'll pass on my general chronology of feeling better in case it might help. The basic message is that feeling better on a regular basis took a long time for me. At 2 weeks in I still felt rotten every day, even though some of my symptoms were already...

Ice cream popped into my mind. Maybe because it's 100 degrees where I live! My 2.5 yr old loves the Tempt hemp milk vanilla flavor. It's gluten, dairy, and soy free. At summer camp, we used to have an ice cream night with toppings like "dirt" (crushed Oreos) and worms (gummies). Maybe there are gluten-free/df/sf versions of those? Happy birthday!

Discovering that I have some kind of gluten sensitivity has caused me to look back over my entire health history and say, "Ohhhhhh, that's what that was!" My mom tells me that I had colic and daily projectile vomiting for months as an infant. Is that a symptom for any of your kids? Did your doctors pick up on it? I was born in 1976 so it seems like my pediatrician...

I read on an NIH webpage that GI symptoms are more common in childhood celiacs, while non-GI symptoms are more common in adult celiacs. I have a parent investigating celiac disease and that trend would fit. Would anyone diagnosed after age 60 be willing to share what your symptoms were? Since my parent doesn't have noticeable GI symptoms he or she (who doesn...

My 2 yr old is in the process of trying to figure out a diagnosis (gluten sensitivity vs celiac). He has GI symptoms but the issue that really got me started looking into all this was sleep. He was still waking 4-5 times a night at 18 months. I asked my pediatrician if it could be food-related and he said no, but I felt like I was seeing a connection and...