afitgirl

Hi guys. I'm less of a spazzzz about it now... I think. I appreciate all the time and thought so many of you put into helping me cope one week into this diagnoses. Now I found myself thinking, this is a huge deal!! Wait, maybe this isn't a big deal after all. I'm confused. Is it what you make of it? The food at home is not a problem for...

Well it was normal red blood. Not platelets then.

Do low antibodies mean you aren't eating gluten? Or "too much gluten" to do harm? Does it mean your intestines are healed or "healed enough."

This is a huge issue for me. I don't know what is okay and what isn't? I'm not worried about whole foods but how do I know what products are okay? I was excited to discover loads of stuff labeled gluten free and although I cried at the store, I at least brought home stuff to try. But now I read that nothing is safe? How do I really know? Calling...

Do I need a diagnoses? I feel like my scores and this forums' opinion is my diagnoses, right? I'm still seeing the GI, but won't they tell me what you do?

I had a postive on endomysial Antibody IGA and a TTG score of 17. The blood transfusion came out of nowhere! I was on day 1 of my period. (Which I bleed through a tampon in less than an hour for 2 full days at least and have this cycle every 17-23 days). Hyper and excited to teach a new boot camp class in that area and suddenly got dizzy and dropped...

I'm sorry if I offended you.. No, I just don't understand it all yet and I'm really scared. Like really, really, really scared. It is confusing to me because I read about "being gluten" and horrible damage secretly going on in the body. It would seem that everyone would live in fear. Always. I'm just trying to find out what is true. I'm fine...

So 19 days probably mostly dead then. Is it possible I'm producing antibodies to their blood that could show up on the test? My doctors were so confident that the anemia was heavy period related. When I didn't have a period (pregnancy and breast feeding) my numbers were fine. I'm the one that pleaded for this test for peace of mind. I do need...

I'm sure to you guys its obvious I'm in denial. But I'm looking for any hope I can. I felt great! Amazing and then one day dropped to the ground. No iron, low hemos were my problem. I do have extremely heavy periods (think: crime scene) that they said were the problem. I needed two bags of blood (which I assume were from two different donors) ...

Is it okay to wait? I imagine my intestines are exploding right now!~!!!!!! I feel like the uterine ablation and recovery would me more important?

Is this not a death sentence? Isn't or complications of it slowly killing me? I am so confused how I'm allowed to take it slow and learn as I go and that be okay? Don't I have to stop now and get serious or else??? I'm appreciate your help. I really really really do. I'm just so blind slighted with it all. I will get my kids tested. They are...

I'm confused at when to start. I have positive blood result (big panel) and set up to see a GI (referred today). I'm trying to change my big food items to gluten-free already because I'm know I'm still getting gluten from a ton of other sources. I'm scanning things with an app but not overly reading labels. I live in a totally glutened house right...

I guess having three young kids I feel like If I make a mistake I could just die. I also wonder how people have blind faith that it's "working?" How do I know without real symptoms that I wouldn't just keel over. It's hard. I have soooo much energy. I love love life! I teach 25 fitness classes a month. I swear I feel soooo healthy aside from...

You're right, that is not what I want to hear. I just don't understand it to be true. I feel like it has to be impossible for people to be 100% all the time. There has to be errors in there just living life. And then I don't understand how they are alive. Honestly, I don't. I would think I will need to be in a bubble forever. People that eat...

I'm new and still very bitter. I am trying to understand as much as I can. I have read conflicting information about cross contamination. I'm pretty sure I can make gluten free choices for food. I'm not overly worried about that (although I am sad). But I don't understand the cross-contamination thing at all. People take such different approaches...