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Skin Colouring

Kaycee

By Kaycee
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Kaycee
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When I was a lot younger, my relatives were always telling me to go outside and get more sun, as I looked pale. I did think I got enough sun, but didn't go out looking for it. But I at times thought that maybe I did look a little yellow, Doesn't that mean jaundice? Nobody commented on that, so I thought it is just me, and I must be okay, (A bit like all the coeliac symtoms I had and thought it was just me). I was born to be an ostrich, with my head buried in the sand.

I've had blood tests throughout my life, and my doctor hasn't been concerned about my colour, no mention whatsoever.

Now that I am gluten free, I noticed a couple of weeks back, after being glutened that I looked a bit yellow. I asked huybby, and he said, yes, a little yellow. And yesterday after another glutening I thought, I feel hung over and I don't look too well with a bit of a yellow tinge. I think this is probably the gluten, and does anybody else get it? So I think I have been coeliac all my life, as I have had symptoms on and off for ever.

It could be jaundice, but I don't think so, as that is meant to make the whites of your eyes yellow as well, and I only notice it now when I have had gluten. I am fair without any Asian in me, just European. If anything I should have an olive complexion with being part Croatian. The Englishness in me brings out the fair skin.

Just a thought.

Sorry about my humour. I use it probably to hide my true feelings, which I have always found hard to disclose to people, but I am learning. I am acutally quite a serious person. And I am just apalled at the fact that two twin 3 month old boys in my country were murdered by a care giver this week. How can somebody do this? It is so shocking! I weep for them.

Cathy

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CarlaB
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I have had comments that my color is much better, then the comment is followed by the fact that they never thought I looked bad before, but looking back, I look better now. I'm noticing I look darker than I used to. Fair skin could be my English heritage (25% English).

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When I was a lot younger, my relatives were always telling me to go outside and get more sun, as I looked pale. I did think I got enough sun, but didn't go out looking for it. But I at times thought that maybe I did look a little yellow, Doesn't that mean jaundice? Nobody commented on that, so I thought it is just me, and I must be okay, (A bit like all the coeliac symtoms I had and thought it was just me). I was born to be an ostrich, with my head buried in the sand.

I've had blood tests throughout my life, and my doctor hasn't been concerned about my colour, no mention whatsoever.

Now that I am gluten free, I noticed a couple of weeks back, after being glutened that I looked a bit yellow. I asked huybby, and he said, yes, a little yellow. And yesterday after another glutening I thought, I feel hung over and I don't look too well with a bit of a yellow tinge. I think this is probably the gluten, and does anybody else get it? So I think I have been coeliac all my life, as I have had symptoms on and off for ever.

It could be jaundice, but I don't think so, as that is meant to make the whites of your eyes yellow as well, and I only notice it now when I have had gluten. I am fair without any Asian in me, just European. If anything I should have an olive complexion with being part Croatian. The Englishness in me brings out the fair skin.

Just a thought.

Sorry about my humour. I use it probably to hide my true feelings, which I have always found hard to disclose to people, but I am learning. I am acutally quite a serious person. And I am just apalled at the fact that two twin 3 month old boys in my country were murdered by a care giver this week. How can somebody do this? It is so shocking! I weep for them.

Cathy

Hi Cathy, Has your doctor run a liver panel on you? Please ask him to just to be on the safe side. Celiac can wreck havoc with all systems including the liver. In early stages of problems you might not notice any yellowing of the eyes. Until your doctor checks your liver I would avoid all alcohol and any meds that are metabolized by the liver like Tylenol.

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CarlaB
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Hi Cathy, Has your doctor run a liver panel on you? Please ask him to just to be on the safe side. Celiac can wreck havoc with all systems including the liver. In early stages of problems you might not notice any yellowing of the eyes. Until your doctor checks your liver I would avoid all alcohol and any meds that are metabolized by the liver like Tylenol.

Good point ... and NEVER take Tylenol when you've had alcohol!! Our young priest started having liver trouble years ago ... he was wearing braces and taking Tylenol, with just the little wine at daily Mass and an occassional beer during a weekend game, he started getting ill.

Kaycee Collaborator
Kaycee
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Good points. I will take note talk to the doctor about it. I thought it was all in my head, as nobody else comments. But they do all say I looke better, but then never told me I looked terrible before dianosis.

Cathy

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TCA
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My daughter was soooo pale before going gluten-free. She's now rosey. This was because she was severly anemic. My son's color is better too. I didn't realize how bad he looked until he got better! He just looked kind of sallow before. He's working on a nice tan after being out all the time playing (with sunscreen, of course)

jerseyangel Proficient
jerseyangel
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My color is so much better now--I used to be very pale. When I was very sick, prior to diagnosis, my husband said I went from pale to transparent! :D

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I'm very fair and Ive always had a yellow tinge to my skin. Im Italian..i didnt get that Olive complexion either. But also, my liver enzyme tests have been high for the past two years (pre-diagnosis..im hoping after being gluten-free for awhile they will normalize). No hepatitis or cirrhosis..just unexplained high levels.

Anyways, about the skin thing..I always thought I looked more 'yellow' even tho no one else noticed or thought so...especially in pictures. And now that im getting older..if i go in the sun i get terrible brown sun spots..even with sunscreen..ugh.

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CarlaB
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I get those sun spots, too. I read recently that they will go away with vitamin B2 supplementation for 6 months because it's due to a deficiency. Don't know if that's true, but I hope so because I started supplementing B Complex for other reasons a couple days before I read that!! A happy coincidence!

I also never had anyone tell me I looked bad before, but I have had many comments on how much better my color is now. Then they add, but I never thought it looked bad before. I guess people just get used to how you look.

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debmidge
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Husband's skin had grey tone to it for years....about 6 weeks gluten-free everyone commented on how much better he looked. So going gluten-free improved his coloring significantly.

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