diapason05
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Alright. Here we go. I'm going to give a brief overview of me.. I've been hanging out here for a few weeks and I want to finally post something. Please read. Many of you are very knowledgable about this subject and all of its possible complications.
Me:
Age 3- Chronic Sinus/Ear Infections- Tonsils OUT
Age5- Appendix BURST
All Ages- very bad allergies (runny nose/sneezing kind.. anemia.. lots of colds..)
Age 15- Hodgkin's disease- 4 months of chemo and in remission
AGe 21- Did allergy test FINALLy- tested positive for all kinds of wild grasses, dust mites, wheat and soy. I do realize a wheat allergy reaction does not mean I'm intolerant of the gluten in wheat tho.
Age 22- period stopped/shingles/grew white hair on my head!! DIAGNOSED MYSELF WITH HYPOTHYROIDISM. did all the research and my oncologist ran tests for me and confirmed that I have auto-immune HASHIMOTO'S disease. Started 88 mcgs levothroid. period came back, hair grew under arms, boobs grew! whoa, amazing what that little thyroid hormone is capable of.
Mom has rheumatoid arthritis and symptoms of what I think are thyroid problems. She is eastern european.
Dad is Irish/Swedish- HAS hypothyroidism. His sister/ My aunt has CELIAC. evrybody has melanoma and my grandma and her sister had breast cancer and died of it ;(
I'm currently a 22/f.
5/13 I started being gluten-free. I immediately felt better and lost weight. I totally screwed up about a week ago and ate SUNCHIPS- definitely had some sort of um bowel reaction. I ate quite a few of them and gained about 3 lbs overnight. (this is common with me. I always gain an obscene amount of weight after eating these sorts of things.. bloated from gluten?)
I have been drinking half n half every day in my coffee and have not noticed any problems.. I've had yogurt and fat free lattes and while the coffee may seem to hurry along any bowel stuff that is going to happen..
Today I had a lot of Cocoa pebbles because I was sick of eating what I've been eating. I had these with a lot of 2% milk. This was a BAD IDEA. My guts rumbling now and I believed that these things were gluten-free.
Is it all the milk maybe????
Either that or I switched the type of food going into my body too fast.. It was used to a lot of protein, I guess.. and veggies.
I know most of you might say I ought to get tested first, but i dont have health care at the moment and If you noticed.. No one diagnosed my thyroid disease- I was given prozac and birth control pills to manage the symtoms. I had to do my own research to fix it. I figure that if a gluten-free diet (and milk free?) can help me, I'm going to do it. I am sick of being so sick!
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I'm a 22 yr old female.
When I had allergy testing I had huge wheals form for every type of wild grass- and also for dust mites.
smaller wheals formed for roaches, soy and WHEAT.
They told me that it's FINE to keep eating wheat and that the only reason I tested positive for wheat is because I have an allergic (read:sneezing) reaction to all the wild grasses and they are very similar.
First of all- from a purely scientific standpoint- if my body recognizes the wild grasses and something to FIGHT- and it recognizes the wheat to also be a grass to fight- then wouldnt it also recognize the wheat as something to fight if i INGESTED it????
OK.
also- i have some symptoms of celiac disease - im slightly anemic, constipated etc. no weight loss tho and i never had trouble with my bones or anything.
BUT- when I was 3 I had my tonsils removed due to terrible allergies and constant infections.
When I was 6 my appendix burst (one cause of appendicitis could be a swelling of the lymph tissue in that area--
WHen I was 16 I was diagnosed with Hodgkin's disease (a type of lymphoma- rebel lymphocytes multiplying and causing tumours.)
Two weeks ago I was diagnosed with Hashimoto's disease. Which is where lymphocytes attack my thyroid. Which means I'm hypothyroid. SOme of the symptoms of hypothyroidism are the same as celiac disease.
Celiac disease is linked with an increase risk for autoimmune diseases and also lymphoma in the small intestine.
I seem to feel a bit better when I stop the wheat and I definitely get a puffy lower abdomen when I start eating wheat/carbs again.
any advice/help/viewpoints would be appreciated.
there seems to be a connection here...
my aunt on my dads side also has celiac disease.
my dad and his twin have hypothyroidism but have never been tested for hashimoto's disease.
Mucous In Poop (sorry! )
in Post Diagnosis, Recovery & Treatment of Celiac Disease
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!!!! Wow. I have felt like such a weirdo, with the occasional ahem. muc. poop. ;D It came back today after eating a lot of cocoa pebbles with 2% milk. Im looking incredibly bloated right now.
I also have a ridiculous amount of the post nasal drip. I think it's gotta be milk because it hasnt gone away just by going gluten-free. I havent been tested for any of this. only for allergies and I was really allergic to all kinds of wild grasses, dust mites, mold, wheat and soy. but i know being allergic to wheat isnt the same as being allergic to gluten....