Tiferet

I was diagnosed with celiac disease by anti-tTG blood test on 20 January 2011. They still haven't told me if they are going to do a biopsy or not, but they told me to go ahead and stop eating gluten. It was apparently sufficiently high that they didn't want me to wait.

I probably started to develop symptoms 30 years ago, but as a teenager with an eating disorder, I accepted that it was probably just that the 'greasy dorm food' didn't agree with me. I have developed serious depression, chronic fatigue, attention problems, IBS, dental problems, chronic pain and finally had a few episodes of gluten ataxia that scared me half to death. I've also had severe fertility problems and nearly died of eclampsia; my daughter did die. I was looking for answers to the fibro that I thought I had when I read about celiac disease and saw that almost everything that could possibly go wrong with that fit my profile, and the rest of them I didn't want to wait around for. I started paying attention to my symptoms and what I was eating and concluded that gluten might well be a problem.

It took some convincing to get my doctor to test me, as I am 'overweight' and even though I have had problems since I was a semi-anorexic teenager, they were convinced it was just my weight and my depression causing my aches and pains and stomach problems...

Being gluten free is the best ever. I feel so much smarter and more together and am looking forward to breaking up with my 3 pain meds and my 4 psych meds.