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Thanks squirmingitch.

I wanted to come back and give an update. I decided to have my rash biopsied when I got home from vacation and the results thankfully came back positive for DH. What really prompted me to go ahead with that was how reliably the rash would worsen within mere hours of eating gluten. I figured it would be the easiest way for me to definitely know and since I...

Thanks zenjess1980 and to you too. I see you have been through a lot of challenges yourself. Hopefully we both start feeling better now.

Thanks SLLRunner. This seems like such a nice and welcoming community! I just got home from a 5 day trip out of town and noticed that compared to just a couple years ago there seems to be more gluten free options even at unexpected places like the gas station! I reinstalled my find me gluten free app and so far so good. It's been incredibly easy to get...

It is such a relief squirmingitch! We went out for gluten-free Pizza tonight to celebrate. I'm glad I can continue to participate and thanks for helping me feel welcome here.

I actually just had a heart to heart conversation with my husband about my gluten concerns and shockingly he doesn't think I should necessarily bother with the testing. I figured he would really want that after everything that's happened but he basically agrees that something hasn't been right since I went back to eating gluten and thinks if it's that obvious...

Thanks for your reply zenjess1980. It's so nice to hear from someone else recovered from ED!!!! It seems to me that food intolerance could cause or at least contribute to the development and/or continuation of an eating disorder. I've read the opposite as well that the stress of starvation can contribute to food intolerance. Since I didn't overcome my lactose...

Somehow I will get tested. There really are just too many clues that something autoimmune is going on because the same digestive and skin problems keep cropping up. The doctor that put me on gluten free about 4 years ago instructed me to get my blood work done and then stop eating gluten until I heard back from her. It took 2 months for me to hear back because...

Thanks SLLRunner, As much as I don't look forward to eating it everyday for that long I would definitely rather do the test correctly! We are in the process of selling our house and relocating so I might wait to do the test properly once we get moved in June. Since we are downsizing in part because I've been too ill to work much for the last couple...

Thanks squirmingitch. I'm copying this down so I get it right. I last had gluten this past Monday so hopefully that won't mess up my results too much if I start eating it again right away and wait another week or two for the test. I wouldn't have gone so long without eating it but I wound up with the flu so I just wasn't able to eat much period for a few...

Thank you cyclinglady.

Thanks for the warm welcome SLLRunner. I will keep you posted. GFinDC and RMJ, You both must have read my mind! I've been researching some different lab companies that don't require a doctor's order to get the ball rolling on the testing. I've done that in the past with other issues when I was between insurance so fortunately it is perfectly legal...

Thanks for your reply GFinDC. I think I will go ahead and get tested. I realize I probably should never have started eating gluten again but I got myself in such a pickle from falling into the viscous cycle of not eating enough in general that I wasn't thinking clearly. My husband was not supportive of my gluten free eating style because I didn't have a Celiac...

Hi everyone, I just joined because I'm wondering again if I might have Celiac Disease and thought getting some opinions from people with experience would be the best place to start. Back in 2012 a holistic doctor prescribed a gluten free diet for me based solely on symptoms (CFS mainly) as my blood work came back negative for antibodies to gluten (I...