ar8's Blog

I have had so many different problems in the past three years. They started from running too hard, when I would get diarrhea while running, and after which I would feel nauseated and sick, as though I were coming down with a virus. I would go to sleep, then wake up feeling fine. After about a year of this, my health seemed to not recover from the running sessions. I would feel sleepy, foggy minded, and had a lot of digestive problems whether or NOT I went running. My doctor ran blood tests for hypothyroid, anemia, B12, and some other things, and everything was normal except my IgG gluten antibodies were elevated. She recommended a gastroenterologist and a gluten free diet. Well, I went off gluten and had a biopsy, which came back normal so Doc says "eat wheat!"

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I was happy about that, but I still wasn't feeling better. When I got hungry, I would get HUNGRY, and it always seemed like I had borderline low blood sugar. It was hard for me to put on any weight despite overeating at meals and going on binges because of extreme hunger (granted I ran too much). My "IBS" seemed to be getting worse, despite eating tons of soluble fiber, trying to eat healthy and exercise.

Fast forward a couple years, and suddenly I developed chronic fullness and burping on top of the other things, and a gastric emptying scan showed significantly delayed motility. The doc diagnosed gastroparesis. Still, biopsies and endoscopies were all normal.

So I did a test through enterolab, showing an antigliadin IGA score of 11 (where 10 is positive) and an anticasein score of 9 (also where ten is positive)....

So they say, avoid gluten, possibly avoid casein.

I tried the diet for a month (only removed gluten), and got discouraged because I didn't feel better. My doctor says I should feel better in about a month, three months at most....so two days ago i did a "test" with a piece of bread, and nothing bad happened, then I was just confused.

I call a nutritionist and she says it will take more like 6-9 months to remove gluten from the body. That makes more sense, now I am just furious that I gave in and "tested" bread like that. Now I have to start all over, I guess.

AHHHH!